The p(doom) database · person

Liv Boeree’s p(doom)

5–99%
Poker champion; science communicator · media · Sep 24, 2025

In their words

Liv Boeree (Poker champion; science communicator) put their p(doom) at 5–99% (p(doom), as asked on Doom Debates), on a podcast on Sep 24, 2025.

Um, I mean, it's somewhere between five and 99%.

Source · re-checked against the primary source.

Calls it "a hot mess of a probability distribution"; even 5% is unacceptable to her.

In context

Among media in the database (34 people), the median is 10%. Across all 223 people it is 10%. How the medians and the index are built.

A p(doom) is a personal, subjective estimate of the probability that advanced AI ends in human extinction or a comparable, irreversible catastrophe. Scope and timeframe differ from person to person, so compare with care: why p(doom) numbers disagree.

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