80,000 Hours Podcast

Rob & Luisa chat kids, the 2016 fertility crash, and how the 50s invented parenting that makes us miserable

#228 – Eileen Yam on how we're completely out of touch with what the public thinks about AI

OpenAI: The nonprofit refuses to be killed (with Tyler Whitmer)

#227 – Helen Toner on the geopolitics of AGI in China and the Middle East

#226 – Holden Karnofsky on unexploited opportunities to make AI safer — and all his AGI takes

#225 – Daniel Kokotajlo on what a hyperspeed robot economy might look like

#224 – There's a cheap and low-tech way to save humanity from any engineered disease | Andrew Snyder-Beattie

Inside the Biden admin’s AI policy approach | Jake Sullivan, Biden’s NSA | via The Cognitive Revolution

#223 – Neel Nanda on leading a Google DeepMind team at 26 – and advice if you want to work at an AI company (part 2)

#222 – Can we tell if an AI is loyal by reading its mind? DeepMind's Neel Nanda (part 1)

#221 – Kyle Fish on the most bizarre findings from 5 AI welfare experiments

How not to lose your job to AI (article by Benjamin Todd)

Rebuilding after apocalypse: What 13 experts say about bouncing back

#220 – Ryan Greenblatt on the 4 most likely ways for AI to take over, and the case for and against AGI in <8 years

#219 – Toby Ord on graphs AI companies would prefer you didn't (fully) understand

#218 – Hugh White on why Trump is abandoning US hegemony – and that’s probably good

#217 – Beth Barnes on the most important graph in AI right now — and the 7-month rule that governs its progress

Beyond human minds: The bewildering frontier of consciousness in insects, AI, and more

Don’t believe OpenAI’s “nonprofit” spin (emergency pod with Tyler Whitmer)

The case for and against AGI by 2030 (article by Benjamin Todd)

Emergency pod: Did OpenAI give up, or is this just a new trap? (with Rose Chan Loui)

#216 – Ian Dunt on why governments in Britain and elsewhere can't get anything done – and how to fix it

Serendipity, weird bets, & cold emails that actually work: Career advice from 16 former guests

#215 – Tom Davidson on how AI-enabled coups could allow a tiny group to seize power

Guilt, imposter syndrome & doing good: 16 past guests share their mental health journeys

#214 – Buck Shlegeris on controlling AI that wants to take over – so we can use it anyway

15 expert takes on infosec in the age of AI

#213 – Will MacAskill on AI causing a “century in a decade” – and how we're completely unprepared

Emergency pod: Judge plants a legal time bomb under OpenAI (with Rose Chan Loui)

#139 Classic episode – Alan Hájek on puzzles and paradoxes in probability and expected value

#143 Classic episode – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuclear weapons

#212 – Allan Dafoe on why technology is unstoppable & how to shape AI development anyway

Emergency pod: Elon tries to crash OpenAI's party (with Rose Chan Loui)

AGI disagreements and misconceptions: Rob, Luisa, & past guests hash it out

#124 Classic episode – Karen Levy on fads and misaligned incentives in global development, and scaling deworming to reach hundreds of millions

If digital minds could suffer, how would we ever know? (Article)

#132 Classic episode – Nova DasSarma on why information security may be critical to the safe development of AI systems

#138 Classic episode – Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on why pleasure and pain are the only things that intrinsically matter

#134 Classic episode – Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us

#140 Classic episode – Bear Braumoeller on the case that war isn’t in decline

2024 Highlightapalooza! (The best of The 80,000 Hours Podcast this year)

#211 – Sam Bowman on why housing still isn't fixed and what would actually work

#210 – Cameron Meyer Shorb on dismantling the myth that we can’t do anything to help wild animals

#209 – Rose Chan Loui on OpenAI’s gambit to ditch its nonprofit

#208 – Elizabeth Cox on the case that TV shows, movies, and novels can improve the world

#207 – Sarah Eustis-Guthrie on why she shut down her charity, and why more founders should follow her lead

Parenting insights from Rob and 8 past guests

#206 – Anil Seth on the predictive brain and how to study consciousness

How much does a vote matter? (Article)

#205 – Sébastien Moro on the most insane things fish can do