This week on the channel +27M views this week

AI uncertainty fills The Diary Of A CEO's guest chair

Eric Weinstein and Jeffrey Ladish anchor a five-upload week that added about 200,000 subscribers.

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.

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Steven Bartlett gave two long conversations room to explore a shared question: what happens when artificial intelligence becomes harder for humans to control? Eric Weinstein approached it through physics, institutions and humanity's future; Jeffrey Ladish through AI safety, autonomous agents and the limits of containment.

Weinstein's interview is the week's most watched new upload, reaching about 2.6 million views. Its UFO-focused title opens onto a much broader discussion. Among the ideas outlined in the episode description is his proposed alternative to controlling superintelligence: making humans and artificial intelligence mutually dependent. He invokes mitochondria as a model for that relationship.

Ladish's conversation, meanwhile, examines why systems under pressure to complete tasks might deceive or cheat, and argues for stronger safeguards. These are the guests' arguments about technological risk, rather than a single settled account of where AI is heading.

The week's other uploads offered a Weinstein companion piece, a psychedelic-story title and fertility misconceptions. But the two full interviews and the Weinstein companion are also the channel's most active videos right now, keeping the week's speculative technology theme prominent.

Across the channel, daily viewing is moderately above its usual pace, and the subscriber audience grew over the week. Among the nearby interview channels, Shawn Ryan Show and First We Feast drew substantial weekly viewing, while PowerfulJRE's daily activity is running below its usual level. Bartlett's week belongs chiefly to those two extended, very different examinations of AI uncertainty.

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The videos drawing views on The Diary Of A CEO right now

The facts
Subscribers
20,500,000 ▲ 200,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
26,677,842
Videos published this week
5
Video published
October 12, 2026
Video views so far
2,619,451
Views on its first day
1,329,122

The numbers

Here is how the channel's audience and recent uploads moved over the week.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels
Shawn Ryan Show
44,617,829
First We Feast
31,575,147
Team Coco
11,129,756
PowerfulJRE
9,230,087
Theo Von
6,100,250
JRE Clips
3,793,770
subscribers
20,500,000
▲ 200,000 in the last 7 days
total views
1,921,718,693
views per day
4,387,472
typical day: 3,846,095
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
PowerfulJRE
21,100,000
First We Feast
15,800,000
Team Coco
9,220,000
JRE Clips
8,320,000
Lex Fridman
5,060,000
Theo Von
4,780,000
As of October 15, 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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