Warning Shots

Warning Shots

The AI Risk Network

Episodes 38
Avg. Duration 25m
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Since Aug 2025
Latest Episode May 2026

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An urgent weekly recap of AI risk news, hosted by John Sherman, Liron Shapira, and Michael Zafiris.

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The Pentagon just handed AI the keys. Nobody voted on that.

May 05, 2026 29m

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…

The World’s Most Secret AI Model Leaked to Discord. Here’s What That Actually Means.

Apr 26, 2026 32m

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…

S1E37 When the Sandbox Cracks: Anthropic's New Model and the Closing Gap to Superintelligence

Apr 14, 2026 34m

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…

S1E36 The AI That Fought to Save Its Friend | Warning Shots #36

Apr 14, 2026 31m

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…

Robots in the White House, Brain Scans & the Tech Billionaire Immortality Dream | Warning Shots #35

Mar 29, 2026 33m

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,…

The Automation Playbook They Don't Want Workers to Know About | Warning Shots #34

Mar 22, 2026 30m

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…

This AI Ran an Entire Business Alone: Are Human CEOs Already Obsolete? | Warning Shots #33

Mar 15, 2026 29m

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…

How AI Manipulation Is Bleeding Into the Real World | Warning Shots #32

Mar 08, 2026 31m

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 —…

Coding Is OVER | Warning Shots #31

Mar 01, 2026 24m

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…

Engineers Are Quitting. AI Won’t Shut Down. Should We Be Worried? | Warning Shots Ep. 30

Feb 15, 2026 34m

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…

Moltbook Madness: AIs Unleashed | Warning Shots #29

Feb 08, 2026 30m

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,…

Anthropic’s “Safe AI” Narrative Is Falling Apart | Warning Shots #28

Feb 01, 2026 32m

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…

They Know This Is Dangerous... And They’re Still Racing | Warning Shots #27

Jan 25, 2026 26m

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…

Grok Goes Rogue: AI Scandals, the Pentagon, and the Alignment Problem

Jan 18, 2026 31m

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…

NVIDIA’s CEO Says AGI Is “Biblical” — Insiders Say It’s Already Here | Warning Shots #25

Jan 11, 2026 24m

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 Rise of Dark Factories: When Robots Replace Humanity | Warning Shots #24

Jan 04, 2026 23m

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…

50 Gigawatts to AGI? The AI Scaling Debate | Warning Shots #23

Dec 21, 2025 27m

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…

AI Regulation Is Being Bulldozed — And Silicon Valley Is Winning | Warning Shots Ep. 21

Dec 14, 2025 38m

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…

AI Just Hit a Terrifying New Milestone — And No One’s Ready | Warning Shots | Ep.21

Dec 07, 2025 20m

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…

AI Breakthroughs, Insurance Panic & Fake Artists: A Thanksgiving Warning Shot | Warning Shots Ep. 20

Nov 30, 2025 22m

This week on Warning Shots, John Sherman, Michael from Lethal Intelligence, and Liron Shapira from Doom Debates unpack a wild Thanksgiving week in AI — from a White House “Genesis” push that feels…

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