Lowering the P(Doom)

Names and terms

P(doom)

Slang in AI safety circles for your estimated probability that AI ends in catastrophe for humanity. The original song is about raising it; this sequel keeps singing that it is going down, and the video shows a thermometer falling from 99.9% to 20%.

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

Book by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares (2025) arguing that building superintelligence with current methods would kill everyone. The first line paraphrases the title, and the video shows the book discussed on The View and on Steve Bannon's show.

Holy See

The government of the Catholic Church. Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas (2026), is about AI and human dignity and uses the image of a new Tower of Babel, hence the line about Babel's tower.

Jacob Coxon

AI researcher who worked at OpenAI and then Anthropic and resigned on 8 September 2026 with a widely shared X thread saying neither company acts responsibly. The song casts him as Paul Revere and counts his post's views (76 million).

Dario, Sam

Dario Amodei (Anthropic) and Sam Altman (OpenAI). In September 2026 Amodei published the essay We Must Pace the Frontier, and Altman said he agreed. The song asks both to take it slow.

Navier-Stokes

The Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the Clay Millennium Prize problems. In September 2026 OpenAI said an internal AI system had solved it; the proof was not yet verified. The song treats it as a reason to want to live to see more.

Orthogonality

The orthogonality thesis (Nick Bostrom): any level of intelligence can be paired with almost any goal, so a smart AI need not share human values. The paperclip maximizer is its classic example; the song answers the original's paperclips and orthogonality blues.

Neuralese

AI safety term for reasoning a model might do in its own opaque internal code instead of readable text. The bridge asks to keep chain of thought, the model's written-out reasoning, in plain view so humans can check it.