Justin Helps (⁨@Primer on YouTube) is Worried about AI Takeover
Justin Helps (⁨@Primer on YouTube) is Worried about AI Takeover  
Podcast: Doom Debates!
Published On: Thu Apr 30 2026
Description: Justin Helps is the science educator behind ⁨Primer Learning with 2M subscribers. We cover how he got into AI safety, debate AGI timelines, and why he calculates p(doom) to be 70% by 2100 😱.Timestamps00:00:00 — Cold Open00:00:38 — Introducing Justin Helps00:02:03 — What's Your P(Doom)?™00:03:38 — Justin's First Exposure to AI X-Risk00:04:49 — Major Disagreements with Eliezer Yudkowsky00:09:46 — Debating the Timeline to AGI00:12:24 — Metaculus Prediction Market Estimates AGI by 203200:20:06 — Misguided Conceptions of AI's Limitations00:25:23 — Only a 5% P(Doom) by 204000:28:40 — AIs Will Not Care About the Human Species00:31:00 — Summarizing Justin's Position So Far00:36:17 — High P(Doom), but We're Not Depressed00:40:14 — Justin's "Computer Man" Thought Experiment00:51:16 — Should We Pause AGI Development?00:54:15 — AI Doom Is a Serious ConcernLinksPrimer’s Video on AI Doom — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg5QXY_qZuIPrimer on YouTube — https://youtube.com/@PrimerBlobsPrimer’s Website — https://primerlearning.org/Justin Helps on X — https://x.com/HelpsypooHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality — https://hpmor.com/Feeling Rational by Eliezer Yudkowsky —https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SqF8cHjJv43mvJJzx/feeling-rationalPause AI — https://pauseai.infoDoom 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