"Last Friday Night" AI apocalypse parody (Last Year Alive)

Summary
This video is a satirical musical parody of Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" titled "Last Year Alive," created and performed by Josh Thor and friends. The song humorously laments rapid artificial intelligence progress, shortened AGI timelines, and the threat of catastrophic AI risk while advocating for an AI pause and coordination to prevent human extinction.

What is shown

• [00:04] Thor lying on the floor surrounded by copies of Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares' book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Will Kill All Humans.
• [00:08] Thor presenting a flower to and interacting with an actor wearing a vintage CRT computer monitor over their head portraying "Claude."
• [00:32] Friends and actors dancing together along the roofline and deck railing of a house.
• [01:18] On-screen graphic mock headline: "OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack".
• [01:52] A man drawing an accelerating exponential curve labeled "METR TIME HORIZON" on a whiteboard, which eventually climbs straight up onto the wall [02:00].
• [02:43] Group of actors laying on artificial turf to physically spell out "STOP".
• [02:53] A man wearing an "IF ANYONE BUILDS IT, EVERYONE DIES" t-shirt playing a saxophone solo.
• [03:07] Real-world protest footage displaying banners reading "STOP THE AI RACE" and "OCCUPY ANTHROPIC", followed by archival footage of Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev signing a treaty [03:09] and an AI safety street march [03:18].
• [03:28] Headlines regarding UK parliamentarians and Canadian cross-party groups urging regulation of superintelligent AI systems while actors pretend to call lawmakers on their phones [03:30].

Claims & numbers

• The singer states he lost his job last week to AI and "lost my girlfriend to Claude" [00:02].
• The singer notes that three years prior he believed humanity had "30 more years" before artificial general intelligence, but recent timeline updates shortened expectations [00:33].
• The singer claims Eliezer Yudkowsky ("Yud") anticipated these existential concerns back in 2005 ("'05") [02:11].
• The video displays a headline reporting "Scores of UK parliamentarians join call to regulate most powerful AI systems" and a cross-party call in Canada [03:28].

Notable quotes

• [00:33] "Three years back I had no fears, thought we had 30 more years, timeline updates bring in tears, last year alive."
• [02:11] "Yud thought this back in '05, I wish AI labs would stop."
• [02:46] "If we don't stop the AI race, we are all gonna fucking die!"

Assessment
This is a comedic community-made musical parody and activist advocacy video rather than a tech demonstration or product review. The video relies on staged, humorous performances, mock headlines, and symbolic props (such as monitor masks and book displays) to dramatize AI safety and alignment debates.

Described by gemini-3.8-flash on 2026-09-29 from the video's audio and frames.