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AI anxiety meets business advice on Diary Of A CEO Clips

Jeffrey Ladish, Alex Hormozi and Eric Weinstein feature among six new excerpts from Steven Bartlett's interviews.

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

The REAL Reason The People Building AI Are TerrifiedThe REAL Reason The People Building AI Are Terrified

Jeffrey Ladish's AI conversation has given The Diary Of A CEO Clips two different kinds of staying power. His new excerpt, "The REAL Reason The People Building AI Are Terrified," was the week's most-watched upload, reaching roughly a quarter-million views. Another Ladish clip, posted just before this week's batch, remains the channel's busiest video right now.

These are excerpts from Steven Bartlett's podcast, rather than separate interviews made for the clips channel. In the new upload, Ladish discusses why some AI researchers fear superintelligence and why giving increasingly capable systems the right goals is so difficult. The comments turn that into a philosophical question: how can humans align machines when they struggle to agree among themselves?

Alex Hormozi supplies a more workaday counterpoint in "The REAL Reason AI Can't Replace You," arguing against outsourcing your thinking and considering where human value remains when intelligence becomes cheap. It finished close to the Ladish upload, as did Eric Weinstein's "The REAL Reason Someone Is Visiting Us," which explores Weinstein's belief that Earth may have extraterrestrial visitors.

The rest of the week moved between Weinstein's warnings about technological upheaval, Chris Koerner's business-testing methods and Dr. Sahar Yousef's focus-sprint approach. Koerner's newest excerpt is already among the channel's busiest daily draws, though the older "The REAL Reason AI Is Already Escaping" continues to bring in the most views each day, with more than three million accumulated.

The channel added subscribers over the week, despite daily viewing running below its usual level. Nearby in the interview world, Shawn Ryan Clips is drawing more than twice its typical daily audience, while Theo Von is close to his normal pace. For Bartlett's clips shelf, the distinctive mix remains big questions about machines alongside smaller, practical questions about getting work done.

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What viewers say

  • Alignment is not primarily a scientific problem. It's philosophical, spiritual and psychological, ethical. In my view, we don't stand a chance with that. We are not even aligned with ourselves, let alone each other, let alone these entities we have created.
    @sugarfree1894See it on YouTube
  • it's the humans that are out of alignment.
  • Insane stuff! We need more of this, discourse!
    @LinusNapoleonicShipyardSee it on YouTube

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The facts
Subscribers
2,830,000 ▲ 20,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
10,648,021
Videos published this week
6
Video published
October 10, 2026
Video views so far
250,261
Views on its first day
177,200

The numbers

Here is the week's audience picture for The Diary Of A CEO Clips.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels
Nightcap
13,928,229
Theo Von
6,166,400
PBD Podcast
4,355,944
subscribers
2,830,000
▲ 20,000 in the last 7 days
total views
417,274,164
views per day
1,449,392
typical day: 1,708,993
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
Theo Von
4,780,000
PBD Podcast
2,980,000
Nightcap
2,140,000
Tim Ferriss
1,790,000
As of October 17, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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