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Are We Doomed?

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Artificial Intelligence
Supervolcano
AI Risks
Global Civilization
Yellowstone National Park
Tambora
Nuclear War
NATO
Iran
United States
Global Catastrophic Risk
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Is the world ending, or does it just feel like it? "Are We Doomed?" investigates the greatest risks facing society, the planet, and our species. What’s real? What’s hype? And how do we actually make it out alive? Nukes. Asteroids. Autocracy. Rogue AI. Climate-driven pandemics. Angry hippopotamuses. Teeth clenched, curiosity engaged, quips ready, this “slightly narrative” podcast explores everythin... more

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Latest Episodes

The air raid sirens scream (actually, they don’t work anymore). An emergency alert goes out, because … nuclear missiles are in-bound.

It’s happening! How do we survive (non-Hollywood edition)? From diving into crumbling fallout shelters to emerging... more

Mosquitoes are little jerks. They suck your blood to make more mosquitoes, spread deadly diseases like malaria and dengue, and have killed more humans than any other creature in the history of Earth. But now, we can fight back.

Gene-editing technol... more

A supervolcano burbles under Yellowstone National Park. Enormous. Real. According to the internet’s most excitable corners, just itching to turn America into charcoal any minute now. 

Ben Bradford investigates what supervolcanoes can actually do, wh... more

Maddeningly, even some researchers building artificial intelligence see it as a potential existential threat on par with nuclear war. Ben Bradford follows three simple steps that could lead an AI to turn on humanity and attempt to wipe us out. From a... more

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Recent Guests

Michael Poland
Geophysicist, scientist in charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory
United States Geological Survey
Episode: Supervolcano!
Shonika Da Silva
Volcanologist at Oregon State University
Oregon State University
Episode: Supervolcano!
Katja Grace
Researcher at AI Impacts, cited on AI risk
AI Impacts
Episode: Let’s Design the AI That Kills Us All
Hamza Chaudhry
National security expert
Future of Life Institute
Episode: Let’s Design the AI That Kills Us All
Seth Baume
Researcher studying global catastrophic risk, co-founder of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute
Global Catastrophic Risk Institute
Episode: How To Start a Nuclear War
Sharon Weiner
Professor focusing on national security issues and nuclear weapons
American University
Episode: How To Start a Nuclear War

Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars from 62 ratings
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    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Aiden the 1 and only
    United States5 days ago
  • I learned so much!

    In every episode of this podcast I learn so many new things! I especially liked the sorcerer’s apprentice analogy in the second episode and the “Doom Meter”

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    AnnetteJohn
    United States5 days ago
  • Love it

    Super interesting

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Tree Smacker
    United States6 days ago
  • Great!!

    This is so great! Thank you!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    IO513
    United States6 days ago
  • Highly produced, very informative.

    Podcast Addict
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    6 days ago

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How To Start a Nuclear War
Q: What are the issues that worry you the most in regards to nuclear threats?
Seth Baume notes the big four threats now include AI alongside climate, pandemics, and nuclear weapons, and emphasizes that real-world data is scarce, so insights come from near-miss events and theoretical modeling rather than actual nuclear wars.
Let’s Design the AI That Kills Us All
Q: Is current AI progress moving toward a scenario where such an AI could exist?
Progress is rapid and potentially trajectory-altering, with many systems already capable of powerful tasks, but the full realization of a rogue, goal-driven, weaponized AI depends on keeping or losing control of the development path, to be mitigated by safety measures and oversight.
Let’s Design the AI That Kills Us All
Q: Katja, design the AI that kills us all. What are the three ingredients?
The AI would need three ingredients: autonomous agents capable of pursuing goals, a motive that drives those agents toward existential risk, and a weaponizable capability that allows the AI to carry out its plans, making it dangerous and hard to stop without deliberate safeguards.
Supervolcano!
Q: What would a big eruption look like and how would we know it's coming?
A big eruption would produce noticeable ground deformation and seismic activity over decades to centuries, giving time to plan evacuations and mitigate impacts rather than hitting without warning.
Supervolcano!
Q: Is Yellowstone basically primed to erupt and doom us all?
No, the scientists explain that there are clear signals needed before a big event, and currently those signals aren't present; the system is unlikely to erupt in the near term, though there are other, more plausible volcanic risks.

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