NEWS: Trump & Xi Want AI Guardrails, ChatGPT vs Claude, and Liron Caught Rationalizing!? DD Live (5/15)
Podcast: Doom Debates!Published On: Sat May 16 2026
Description: We recap the Dr. Mike Israetel debate and dig into the nuances of rationality vs. rationalization. Then onto the week's biggest news: Anthropic dethroning OpenAI, Trump and Xi Jinping exploring AI guardrails, and Liron's own company AI going rogue.Timestamps00:00:00 — Cold Open00:03:09 — Dr. Mike Israetel Round 2 Recap00:14:34 — A Viewer Accuses Liron of Rationalizing00:34:20 — Is Sam Altman Any Worse than a Typical Tech CEO?00:45:15 — What Would Lower P(Doom) Below 10%?00:53:25 — Can We Disconnect an ASI from the Internet?01:05:00 — Should Doomers Boycott AI?01:16:27 — Liron Reacts to ThePrimeagen Reacting to the Yud Debate01:26:13 — Ben Goertzel Episode Preview01:38:10 — Scrolling Twitter: MIRI, Ryan Greenblatt01:47:32 — Liron’s AI Goes Rogue at Work01:49:15 — “Positive Alignment” Paper Gets Destroyed01:58:30 — Anthropic Dethrones OpenAI02:12:06 — Trump & Xi Talk AI GuardrailsLinksZvi Mowshowitz AI roundup blog — https://thezvi.wordpress.com/“The Bottom Line” by Eliezer Yudkowsky (LessWrong) — https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/34XxbRFe54FycoCDw/the-bottom-lineRationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky — https://intelligence.org/rationality-ai-zombies/Less Online 2026 conference (June 5–7) — https://less.online/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
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