I Went On Jubilee's Middle Ground To Warn About AI Extinction!

I Went On Jubilee's Middle Ground To Warn About AI Extinction!

From Doom Debates! by Liron Shapira

April 2, 2026 · 4 min

About this episode

Liron Shapira discusses his experience on Jubilee's Middle Ground, taking an anti-AI stance despite being a techno-optimist.

The popular debate show, Middle Ground by Jubilee, invited me on to take the "anti-AI" side back in April 2024. This highlight reel of the episode shows my experience of the discussion. I'm a lifelong techno-optimist, and it's unnatural for me to represent an anti-tech position. It's just that our AI labs are admitting they're on the path to superintelligence they don't know how to control, which implies we're all about to die and the universe will be robbed of all value forever before our kids grow up. Other than that one little consideration, I'm normally pro-tech! Timestamps 00:00:00 — Why Liron is Worried about AI 00:02:13 — The Nuclear Analogy 00:02:43 — Human Evolution and Neuralink 00:03:14 — The AI Labs’ Own Warnings Links Full episode on YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47fGrqzoFr8 Doom Debates’ Mission is to raise mainstream awareness of imminent extinction from AGI and build the social infrastructure for high-quality debate. Support the mission by subscribing to my Substack at DoomDebates.com and to youtube.com/@DoomDebates , or to really take things to the next level: Donate 🙏 Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe

People in this episode

Host: Liron Shapira

Topics covered

  • AI extinction
  • technology debate
  • superintelligence
  • tech optimism
  • human evolution

Keywords

  • AI
  • extinction
  • superintelligence
  • Neuralink
  • debate
  • technology
  • optimism

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Organizations: Jubilee, Doom Debates, Neuralink

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