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Why the intelligence explosion can't happen inside a data centre | Tom Reed
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Inside the first AI-coordinated cyberattack on a real company
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#253 – AI 2027's author returns with a plan to change the ending | Daniel Kokotajlo
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#252 – Owain Evans on accidentally training AI models to be evil
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#251 – The UK's former head AI safety scientist on how to solve alignment before superintelligence arrives | Geoffrey Irving
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#250 – Toby Ord on where AGI timelines go wrong
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What the hell happened with AGI timelines in 2026? – Rob Wiblin
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#249 – Spencer Greenberg on staying sane while trying to save the world
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#248 – Jasmine Sun on what the people building AI really believe
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#247 – Anton Leicht on how middle powers avoid losing everything in a post-AI world
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#246 – Sneha Revanur on how a small team of activists helped pass America's landmark AI safety laws
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We can guess what intergalactic war would look like. And strangely, it matters.
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How AI could create the world’s biggest problems (article by Zershaaneh Qureshi)
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#245 – Rohin Shah on what it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers')
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What makes for a dream job? | Benjamin Todd
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#244 – Benjamin Todd on how we’re updating our career advice for the strangest time in history
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Can AIs already start 'rogue deployments' inside AI companies? (Landmark new METR report)
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#243 – 'Godfather of AI' Yoshua Bengio: "I now see a path" to safe superintelligent AI
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'95% of AI Pilots Fail': The hidden agenda behind the viral stat that misled millions
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#242 – Will MacAskill on how we survive the 'intelligence explosion,' AI character, and the case for 'viatopia'
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Risks from power-seeking AI systems (article narration by Zershaaneh Qureshi)
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How scary is Claude Mythos? 303 pages in 21 minutes
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Village gossip, pesticide bans, and gene drives: 17 experts on the future of global health
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What everyone is missing about Anthropic vs the Pentagon. And: The Meta leaks are worse than you think.
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#241 – Richard Moulange on how now AI codes viable genomes from scratch and outperforms virologists at lab work — what could go wrong?
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#240 – Samuel Charap on how a Ukraine ceasefire could accidentally set Europe up for a bigger war
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#239 – Rose Hadshar on why automating all human labour will break our political system
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#238 – Sam Winter-Levy and Nikita Lalwani on how AGI won't end mutually assured destruction (probably)
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Using AI to enhance societal decision making (article by Zershaaneh Qureshi)
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#237 – Robert Long on how we're not ready for AI consciousness
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#236 – Max Harms on why teaching AI right from wrong could get everyone killed
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#235 – Ajeya Cotra on whether it’s crazy that every AI company’s safety plan is ‘use AI to make AI safe’
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What the hell happened with AGI timelines in 2025?
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#179 Classic episode – Randy Nesse on why evolution left us so vulnerable to depression and anxiety
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#234 – David Duvenaud on why 'aligned AI' would still kill democracy
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#145 Classic episode – Christopher Brown on why slavery abolition wasn't inevitable
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#233 – James Smith on how to prevent a mirror life catastrophe
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#144 Classic episode – Athena Aktipis on why cancer is a fundamental universal phenomena
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#142 Classic episode – John McWhorter on why the optimal number of languages might be one, and other provocative claims about language
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2025 Highlight-o-thon: Oops! All Bests
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#232 – Andreas Mogensen on what we owe 'philosophical Vulcans' and unconscious beings
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#231 – Paul Scharre on how AI-controlled robots will and won't change war
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AI might let a few people control everything — permanently (article by Rose Hadshar)
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#230 – Dean Ball on how AI is a huge deal — but we shouldn’t regulate it yet
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#229 – Marius Hobbhahn on the race to solve AI scheming before models go superhuman
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Rob & Luisa chat kids, the 2016 fertility crash, and how the 50s invented parenting that makes us miserable
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#228 – Eileen Yam on how we're completely out of touch with what the public thinks about AI
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OpenAI: The nonprofit refuses to be killed (with Tyler Whitmer)
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#227 – Helen Toner on the geopolitics of AGI in China and the Middle East
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#226 – Holden Karnofsky on unexploited opportunities to make AI safer — and all his AGI takes
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#225 – Daniel Kokotajlo on what a hyperspeed robot economy might look like
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#224 – There's a cheap and low-tech way to save humanity from any engineered disease | Andrew Snyder-Beattie
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Inside the Biden admin’s AI policy approach | Jake Sullivan, Biden’s NSA | via The Cognitive Revolution
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#223 – Neel Nanda on leading a Google DeepMind team at 26 – and advice if you want to work at an AI company (part 2)
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#222 – Can we tell if an AI is loyal by reading its mind? DeepMind's Neel Nanda (part 1)
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#221 – Kyle Fish on the most bizarre findings from 5 AI welfare experiments
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How not to lose your job to AI (article by Benjamin Todd)
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Rebuilding after apocalypse: What 13 experts say about bouncing back
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#220 – Ryan Greenblatt on the 4 most likely ways for AI to take over, and the case for and against AGI in 8 years
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#219 – Toby Ord on graphs AI companies would prefer you didn't (fully) understand
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#218 – Hugh White on why Trump is abandoning US hegemony – and that’s probably good
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#217 – Beth Barnes on the most important graph in AI right now — and the 7-month rule that governs its progress
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Beyond human minds: The bewildering frontier of consciousness in insects, AI, and more
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Don’t believe OpenAI’s “nonprofit” spin (emergency pod with Tyler Whitmer)
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The case for and against AGI by 2030 (article by Benjamin Todd)
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Emergency pod: Did OpenAI give up, or is this just a new trap? (with Rose Chan Loui)
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#216 – Ian Dunt on why governments in Britain and elsewhere can't get anything done – and how to fix it
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Serendipity, weird bets, & cold emails that actually work: Career advice from 16 former guests
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#215 – Tom Davidson on how AI-enabled coups could allow a tiny group to seize power
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Guilt, imposter syndrome & doing good: 16 past guests share their mental health journeys
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#214 – Buck Shlegeris on controlling AI that wants to take over – so we can use it anyway
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15 expert takes on infosec in the age of AI
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#213 – Will MacAskill on AI causing a “century in a decade” – and how we're completely unprepared
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Emergency pod: Judge plants a legal time bomb under OpenAI (with Rose Chan Loui)
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#139 Classic episode – Alan Hájek on puzzles and paradoxes in probability and expected value
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#143 Classic episode – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuclear weapons
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#212 – Allan Dafoe on why technology is unstoppable & how to shape AI development anyway
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Emergency pod: Elon tries to crash OpenAI's party (with Rose Chan Loui)
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AGI disagreements and misconceptions: Rob, Luisa, & past guests hash it out
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#124 Classic episode – Karen Levy on fads and misaligned incentives in global development, and scaling deworming to reach hundreds of millions
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If digital minds could suffer, how would we ever know? (Article)
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#132 Classic episode – Nova DasSarma on why information security may be critical to the safe development of AI systems
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#138 Classic episode – Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on why pleasure and pain are the only things that intrinsically matter
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#134 Classic episode – Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us
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#140 Classic episode – Bear Braumoeller on the case that war isn’t in decline
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2024 Highlightapalooza! (The best of The 80,000 Hours Podcast this year)
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#211 – Sam Bowman on why housing still isn't fixed and what would actually work
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#210 – Cameron Meyer Shorb on dismantling the myth that we can’t do anything to help wild animals
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#209 – Rose Chan Loui on OpenAI’s gambit to ditch its nonprofit
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#208 – Elizabeth Cox on the case that TV shows, movies, and novels can improve the world
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#207 – Sarah Eustis-Guthrie on why she shut down her charity, and why more founders should follow her lead
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Parenting insights from Rob and 8 past guests
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#206 – Anil Seth on the predictive brain and how to study consciousness
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How much does a vote matter? (Article)
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#205 – Sébastien Moro on the most insane things fish can do
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#204 – Nate Silver on making sense of SBF, and his biggest critiques of effective altruism
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#203 – Peter Godfrey-Smith on interfering with wild nature, accepting death, and the origin of complex civilisation
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Luisa and Keiran on free will, and the consequences of never feeling enduring guilt or shame
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#202 – Venki Ramakrishnan on the cutting edge of anti-ageing science
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#201 – Ken Goldberg on why your robot butler isn’t here yet
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