They’re Making AI Doom Cool! Ft. AELLA, Brangus, Avalon Warren, Avisha NessAiver & Josh Thor of PlzDontKillUs

Come with me into the world of PlzDontKillUs, a bold new AI x-risk communication accelerator program that just finished its first cohort.

PlzDontKillUs took the influencer-house formula and moved it to Berkeley, giving creators personal mentorship from AI safety experts like Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. With 57 people making daily videos for a month, the program racked up over 100 million views.

Find out how Aella, an independent sex researcher, and Ronny Fernandez, a generalist at Lightcone Infrastructure, teamed up to run the largest ever creator bootcamp focused on AI x-risk reduction.

Then meet three of the program’s top creators: Avalon Warren, Avisha NessAiver, and Josh Thor.

We do a post-mortem on PDKU and ask: Was it effective? What are creators taking from it, and do they have complaints? And does doomerism really boost view counts? PlzDoEnjoyOur special episode on PlzDontKillUs!

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPsjMCG7Ic8

Timestamps

00:00:00 — Cold Open

00:01:19 — Introducing PlzDontKillUs & Aella

00:09:33 — Aella Being Early to AI Doom

00:14:45 — The Origin of PlzDontKillUs

00:19:08 — How It Went