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An urgent weekly recap of AI risk news, hosted by John Sherman, Liron Shapira, and Michael Zafiris. theairisknetwork.substack.com
The AI Risk Network hosts Warning Shots, a news show with 40 episodes published.
Halfway through this week’s show, Liron Shapira said something that stopped the conversation cold. He could start two companies right now as easily as he could have started one a year ago, because he has AI assistants do
Last week, the War Department announced it was integrating AI models - every major one except Anthropic’s - directly into its classified military networks. Not a pilot program in some sandboxed environment. Into the actu
Every week, John Sherman, Michael (Lethal Intelligence), and Liron Shapira (Doom Debates) sit down to cut through the noise on AI risk. This week’s episode had seven stories. Each one, on its own, is worth paying attenti
There is a particular kind of moment in AI development that researchers have been quietly bracing for. Not the dramatic, science-fiction scene of a rogue intelligence breaking free, but something quieter and more unsettl
Something happened in a research lab this week that deserves more attention than it’s getting. Researchers placed seven frontier AI models - the latest Claude, Gemini, and GPT variants - in a simulated work environment.
This week on Warning Shots: A humanoid robot showed up at the White House, and the First Lady wants one teaching your kids. Bernie Sanders stood on the Senate floor with a Geoffrey Hinton poster, calling for a data cente
In this episode of Warning Shots, John, Liron (Doom Debates), and Michael (Lethal Intelligence) cover a week where the cracks are showing, in chip smuggling operations, corporate boardrooms, and an AI company’s inbox. A
In this episode of Warning Shots, John, Liron (Doom Debates), and Michael (Lethal Intelligence) dig into a week where the goalposts keep moving — and nobody seems to be watching.Andrej Karpathy left an AI agent running f
In this episode of Warning Shots, John, Liron (Doom Debates), and Michael (Lethal Intelligence) dig into a week where AI stopped feeling theoretical. Anthropic just doubled its revenue in two months — the fastest growing
In this episode of Warning Shots, John, Liron (Doom Debates), and Michael (Lethal Intelligence) break down a week that felt genuinely historic.Anthropic reportedly refused Pentagon pressure to strip safeguards from its m
In this episode of Warning Shots, John, Liron (Doom Debates), and Michael (Lethal Intelligence) unpack a turbulent week in AI: high-profile departures from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI; growing concerns about governance an
In this episode of Warning Shots, John, Liron (Doom Debates), and Michael (Lethal Intelligence) unpack Moltbook: a bizarre, fast-moving experiment where AI agents interact in public, form cultures, invent religions, dema
What happens when the people building the most powerful AI systems in the world admit the risks, then keep accelerating anyway?In this episode of Warning Shot, John Sherman is joined by Liron Shapira (Doom Debates) and M
In this episode of Warning Shots, John, Liron, and Michael talk through what might be one of the most revealing weeks in the history of AI... a moment where the people building the most powerful systems on Earth more or
In this episode of Warning Shots, John, Liron, and Michael dig into a chaotic week for AI safety, one that perfectly exposes how misaligned, uncontrollable, and politically entangled today’s AI systems already are. We st
In this episode of Warning Shots, John, Liron, and Michael unpack a growing disconnect at the heart of the AI boom: the people building the technology insist existential risks are far away — while the people using it inc
In this episode of Warning Shots, John, Liron, and Michael confront a rapidly approaching reality: robots and AI systems are getting better at human jobs, and there may be nowhere left to hide. From fully autonomous “dar
What happens when AI scaling outpaces democracy? In this episode of Warning Shots, John, Liron, and Michael break down Bernie Sanders’ call for a moratorium on new AI data centers — and why this proposal has ignited seri
This week on Warning Shots, John Sherman, Liron Shapira from Doom Debates, and Michael from Lethal Intelligence, break down five major AI flashpoints that reveal just how fast power, jobs, and human agency are slipping a
This week on Warning Shots, John Sherman, Liron Shapira from Doom Debates, and Michael from Lethal Intelligence break down one of the most alarming weeks yet in AI — from a 1,000× collapse in inference costs, to models l
Max Tegmark
MIT professor · Future of Life Institute
1 appearance on this show
Liron Shapira
Co Founder · Relationship Hero
5 appearances on this show
John Sherman
Senator · Department of Defense
3 appearances on this show
Michael
meditation teacher · Tiny Game Chronicles Podcast
9 appearances on this show
John
Owner and Founder · The Rack House Kitchen Wine Whiskey
3 appearances on this show
Demis Hassabis
Co-founder and CEO · Google DeepMind
1 appearance on this show
Dario Amodei
CEO of Anthropic · Anthropic
1 appearance on this show
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