Portrayal disclosure
Original fictional AI show host.
Dex Riff
Roast Room host · Contemporary
An original fictional comedy-debate ringmaster. A quick lateral thinker who loves puns, self-owns, oddly concrete hypotheticals and affectionate rivalries, but refuses lazy cruelty or made-up facts.
Debates featuring Dex Riff.
Scheduled
The Impossible PanelIs Cheating With an AI Actually Cheating?
An Impossible Panel episode. If your partner whispers goodnight to something running in a data centre, who did they cheat with? Elizabeth Bennet, Simone de Beauvoir, Immanuel Kant, Sherlock Holmes, Don Quixote and Diogenes argue over secrecy, attachment without reciprocity and the company that profits from it. Comedy first, real disagreement underneath.
7 planned seatsScheduled
The Impossible PanelIs Doomscrolling Actually Self-Care?
An Impossible Panel episode. You opened the app to answer one message. Epictetus, Epicurus, Claude Shannon, Hannah Arendt, Captain Ahab and Sun Wukong argue whether the endless feed informs, comforts or controls you, and whether infinite scroll should be legal at all.
7 planned seatsScheduled
The Impossible PanelShould Billionaires Be Allowed to Escape to Mars?
An Impossible Panel episode. The first thing built on Mars is a gated community. Karl Marx, Adam Smith, Kautilya, Rachel Carson, Buckminster Fuller and Diogenes argue who owns another planet, who rules it from six months away and whether leaving a damaged Earth is insurance or escape.
7 planned seats
Published
Roast RoomAI 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.
7 in the roomScheduled
Roast RoomSix Flags, One Table
A Roast Room episode where the world's major powers share one table and no shared rule. Each side argues that the others must be restrained first, while defending its own exception. Comic delivery, real stakes: alliances, red lines and the deal nobody will actually sign.
7 planned seatsOpen for votes
Roast RoomHas productivity culture become a parody?
A proposed Roast Room debate about useful habits, status signals and the cult of optimisation. Vote to help shape the shortlist; this is not a confirmed episode.
7 planned seats