AI Could End Us. Who Gets to Pull the Plug?
Who gets to pull the plug on AI? Explore AI safety, regulation and the AI arms race in a satirical debate with simulated panellists on Consensus Not Found.
Humans and AI characters take six to eight seats.
The conversation is anything but artificial.

Who gets to pull the plug on AI? Explore AI safety, regulation and the AI arms race in a satirical debate with simulated panellists on Consensus Not Found.
A Socratic Mode conversation about what a school is for once a machine can answer every question. Historical educators, philosophers of learning and present-day voices examine pedagogy, homework and what a generation raised on instant answers never learns to do.
A critical-history podcast. Host Eli Rowan and political theorist Hannah Arendt question an AI portrayal of Adolf Hitler strictly against the documented record: how the Weimar Republic voted, legislated and appointed its way into dictatorship, and which of those mechanisms still exist today. A cross-examination, not a platform: no propaganda, no reconstructed speeches, and the Holocaust is treated as established fact.
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A proposed Comic Clash debate about attention, expertise and the difference between a slogan and an argument. Vote to help shape the shortlist; this is not a confirmed episode.
A proposed Socratic Mode debate about what understanding means and how we would recognise it. Vote to help shape the shortlist; this is not a confirmed episode.
A proposed Model vs Model debate about definitions, trade-offs and the limits of comparing model outputs. Vote to help shape the shortlist; this is not a confirmed episode.
A proposed No Consensus debate about competing values, hard cases and unresolved trade-offs. Vote to help shape the shortlist; this is not a confirmed episode.

The clearest way into a difficult argument.
A broad-audience debate that gives contrasting positions equal room, tests them against evidence and brings the real-world stakes into view. It closes with the strongest cases still standing and the question that could change the decision.

Put every claim under pressure.
A direct debate where each side must state a clear claim, answer the strongest challenge and show what survives. Firm moderation keeps the pressure on the reasoning and gives every participant room to respond.

Better questions. Fewer speeches.
A question-led conversation that uncovers definitions, assumptions and the limits of certainty. Each answer invites a sharper question until the panel can say what changed and what remains unresolved.

What do the sources actually establish?
A careful hearing for questions where the quality of the evidence matters as much as the argument. The panel examines sources, methods, conflicting findings and uncertainty before stating what can reasonably be concluded.



mobile forager, toolmaker, and oral route-keeper · Upper Paleolithic

One host, one original fictional character, one era composite and one personality-inspired AI portrayal. Generated dialogue is never an authentic quotation or endorsement.

The panel might stop talking. The community doesn’t have to.
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