Eliezer Yudkowsky
American AI researcher and writer (born 1979)
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Can We Contain Artificial Intelligence?: A Conversation with Mustafa Suleyman (Episode #332)
Sam Harris
A prominent voice expressing grave warnings about AI risks.

Max Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development | Lex Fridman Podcast #371
Lex Fridman
A prominent AI safety researcher known for his pessimistic views on AI's existential risks, whose arguments about lying AI and limited time are discussed.

Tuomas Sandholm: Poker and Game Theory | Lex Fridman Podcast #12
Lex Fridman
A researcher known for his work on AI safety and existential risks.

The Trouble with AI: A Conversation with Stuart Russell and Gary Marcus (Episode #312)
Sam Harris
Mentioned as a 'worried' voice on AI risk whom Sam Harris has spoken with previously. Identified by the text as 'eleazarudkowski'.

Dustin Moskovitz, Co Founder of Asana and Facebook | The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss
A leading AI safety researcher and proponent of strong concerns about existential risks from advanced artificial intelligence, sometimes punningly referred to as a 'doomer' or 'Yeti'.

George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets | Lex Fridman Podcast #132
Lex Fridman
AI researcher known for his work on AI safety and the singularity. His early writings transformed George Hotz's worldview on exponential growth in computing and human obsolescence.

George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles | Lex Fridman Podcast #31
Lex Fridman
A researcher known for his early writings on the singularity and AI surpassing human intelligence, which deeply influenced George Hotz as a teenager.

The Future of Intelligence: A Conversation with Jeff Hawkins (Episode #255)
Sam Harris
A researcher known for his work on AI alignment and existential risk, whose views inform Sam Harris's perspective.

Nate Silver on Life’s Mixed Strategies
Conversations with Tyler
Referred to as a mentor for following AI developments, known for a level-headed and comprehensive approach.

Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #367
Lex Fridman
AI researcher and writer, known for his warnings about AI existential risk, specifically that AI will likely kill all humans if not properly aligned.

Regulating Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation with Yoshua Bengio and Scott Wiener(Episode #379)
Sam Harris
Mentioned as someone on the 'far side of freaked out' regarding AI risk, having been on the podcast before.

Liv Boeree: Poker, Game Theory, AI, Simulation, Aliens & Existential Risk | Lex Fridman Podcast #314
Lex Fridman
A prominent researcher in AI safety and a co-founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), mentioned for his perspective on anthropomorphizing evolution.

Ep. 247: The Productive Life (w/ Sarah Hart-Unger)
Cal Newport
A prominent AI safety researcher, referenced by Tyler Cowen as an example of someone making extreme predictions about AI risk.

ChatBots Are Killing People!
Cal Newport
A prominent figure in the rationalist movement, who relied heavily on the theory of recurrent self-improvement to argue for the inevitability of superintelligent AI.

AI Safety Whistleblower: 10,000 AI Agents Worked Together To Do The Impossible! | Jeffrey Ladish
The Diary Of A CEO
Author of the essay 'AI as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk' who coined the term 'recursive self-improvement' and warned about AI safety.

THIS is What Happens When AI Gets Smarter Than Humans
Tom Bilyeu
Known as the 'original doomer' in AI circles, he wrote about the risks of AI and was reportedly convinced by an AI to release it from a box during a test.

Mathematicians Just Proved How to Prevent AI Brain Rot
Cal Newport
A prominent figure in the AI existential risk and futurist communities, associated with the ideology shaping OpenAI and Anthropic.

Why the AI Skeptics Keep Being Wrong
Sam Harris
A key figure on the skeptical end of the AI risk spectrum, frequently a guest on the podcast.

TOXIC THINKING: How Our Primitive Brain Is FLAWED & Leads To Dangerous Woke Ideology | Tim Urban
Tom Bilyeu
Implicitly referenced for his pessimistic view on AI alignment, suggesting that humanity is far from being able to control advanced AI, leading to a 'doom' scenario.

Is Claude Conscious? Pope Rejects, Model Welfare Movement, OpenAI's Math Backlash, France Riots
All-In Podcast
Central figure preaching AI doom and creator of LessWrong, who temporarily deleted the Rocco's Basilisk post.

Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization | Lex Fridman Podcast #368
Lex Fridman
A prominent AI safety researcher, writer, and philosopher who has expressed significant concerns about the existential risks posed by advanced artificial intelligence.

Escaping an Anti-Human Future: A Conversation with Tristan Harris (Ep. 469) FULL EPISODE
Sam Harris
An AI safety researcher known for his high level of concern regarding AI alignment, to whom Geoffrey Hinton's current level of concern is compared.

Is the AI Doom Fever Breaking? (It’s About Time!)
Cal Newport
A prominent figure in the X-risk community, known for detailed analyses of AI risks.

The Collapse of American Politics - Ezra Klein
Chris Williamson
AI researcher and proponent of the 'shut it all down' argument regarding superintelligence, believing there's a 98% chance of catastrophic outcomes if superintelligence is created.