Piers Morgan

AI position

Aware of x-risk

His show has run multiple segments explicitly framed around AI existential risk (e.g. an October 2025 panel titled "Does AI Mean We're DOOMED?" featuring Roman Yampolskiy discussing AI deception/blackmail risk, and a 2023 "AI Special" and Harari debate), but Morgan himself has not staked out a personal, sustained position on x-risk.

Why influential

Builds a direct, recurring relationship with audiences through long-form or personality-led media; guests and clips can quickly alter candidate incentives and issue salience. Primary policy lanes: elections; culture; foreign policy; free speech.

Who pays attention

U.S. and global politicians, campaign media teams, free-speech audiences, diplomats and digital news consumers

Work samples

• "Only a Question of Time" Does AI Mean We're DOOMED?

  Oct 31, 2025 · podcast

  Panel on AI existential risk and job losses featuring Dr Roman Yampolskiy, Dr Michio Kaku, Alex Smola, and Avi Loeb; references the 2023 AI pause letter Elon Musk signed.

• Piers Morgan vs Yuval Noah Harari On AI | The Full Interview

  Oct 2, 2023 · podcast

  Extended one-on-one debate with Harari on AI's threats to democracy and society; outside the 24-month window but a representative AI-focused long-form interview.

• LIVE: Artificial Intelligence Special | Piers Morgan Uncensored | 25-May-23

  May 25, 2023 · podcast

  Dedicated AI-themed special episode.

• Elon Musk, DOGE & Government Waste! My Uncensored Debate with Scott Galloway

  Jun 9, 2025 · podcast

  Panel debate about Musk/DOGE with Scott Galloway; not primarily AI-focused.

• Neil deGrasse Tyson GOES NUCLEAR On Elon Musk's LIES — Piers Morgan STUNNED

  Jun 1, 2025 · podcast

  Panel segment on Musk's Mars claims, not AI-specific.

AI-world contacts

• Roman Yampolskiy — AI safety researcher, professor of computer science, University of Louisville

  • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified — Guest on Piers Morgan Uncensored discussing AI existential risk, deception, and blackmail scenarios (Oct 2025 episode).

• Yuval Noah Harari — Public intellectual writing on AI and information networks (author of Nexus), Author/Historian

  • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified — Extended one-on-one debate with Morgan specifically about AI's societal and democratic risks (2023).

• Alex Smola — ML researcher, Boson AI (formerly AWS AI)

  • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified — Panelist on the same AI-doom themed Piers Morgan Uncensored episode (Oct 2025).