Every Student is CHEATING with AI — College in the AGI Era (feat. Sophomore Liam Robins)
Every Student is CHEATING with AI — College in the AGI Era (feat. Sophomore Liam Robins)  
Podcast: Doom Debates
Published On: Mon Jul 07 2025
Description: Liam Robins is a math major at George Washington University who recently had his own "AGI awakening" after reading Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness. I met him at my Manifest 2025 talk about stops on the Doom Train.In this episode, Liam confirms what many of us suspected: pretty much everyone in college is cheating with AI now, and they're completely shameless about it.We dive into what college looks like today: how many students are still "rawdogging" lectures, how professors are coping with widespread cheating, how the social life has changed, and what students think they’ll do when they graduate.* 00:00 - Opening* 00:50 - Introducing Liam Robins* 05:27 - The reality of college today: Do they still have lectures?* 07:20 - The rise of AI-enabled cheating in assignments* 14:00 - College as a credentialing regime vs. actual learning* 19:50 - "Everyone is cheating their way through college" - the epidemic* 26:00 - College social life: "It's just pure social life"* 31:00 - Dating apps, social media, and Gen Z behavior* 36:21 - Do students understand the singularity is near?Show NotesGuest:* Liam Robins on Substack - https://thelimestack.substack.com/* Liam's Doom Train post - https://thelimestack.substack.com/p/my-pdoom-is-276-heres-why* Liam’s Twitter - @liamrobinsKey References:* Leopold Aschenbrenner - "Situational Awareness"* Bryan Caplan - "The Case Against Education"* Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten* Jeffrey Ding - ChinAI Newsletter* New York Magazine - "Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College"Events & Communities:* Manifest Conference* LessWrong* Eliezer Yudkowsky - "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality"Previous Episodes:* Doom Debates Live at Manifest 2025 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=detjIyxWG8MDoom 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 Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe