80,000 Hours Podcast
Rob, Luisa, and the 80000 Hours team
EN500 episodes
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Unusually in-depth conversations about the world's most pressing problems and what you can do to solve them. Subscribe by searching for '80000 Hours' wherever you get podcasts.Hosted by Rob Wiblin and Luisa Rodriguez.
Episodes (500)
'Godfather of AI': I Now See a Path to Safe Superintelligent AI | Yoshua Bengio
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May 7, 20262:33:20pending
'95% of AI Pilots Fail': The hidden agenda behind the viral stat that misled mil...
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Apr 28, 202610:03failed
#242 – Will MacAskill on how we survive the 'intelligence explosion,' AI charact...
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Apr 22, 20263:09:12failed
Risks from power-seeking AI systems (article narration by Zershaaneh Qureshi)
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Apr 16, 20261:29:32failed
How scary is Claude Mythos? 303 pages in 21 minutes
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Apr 10, 202621:27failed
Village gossip, pesticide bans, and gene drives: 17 experts on the future of glo...
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Apr 7, 20264:06:50failed
What everyone is missing about Anthropic vs the Pentagon. And: The Meta leaks ar...
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Apr 3, 202620:37failed
#241 – Richard Moulange on how now AI codes viable genomes from scratch and outp...
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Mar 31, 20263:07:51failed
#240 – Samuel Charap on how a Ukraine ceasefire could accidentally set Europe up...
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Mar 24, 20261:12:06completed
#239 – Rose Hadshar on why automating all human labour will break our political...
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Mar 17, 20262:14:08failed
#238 – Sam Winter-Levy and Nikita Lalwani on how AGI won't end mutually assured...
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Mar 10, 20261:11:03failed
Using AI to enhance societal decision making (article by Zershaaneh Qureshi)
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Mar 6, 202631:28failed
#237 – Robert Long on how we're not ready for AI consciousness
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Mar 3, 20263:25:40pending
#236 – Max Harms on why teaching AI right from wrong could get everyone killed
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Feb 24, 20262:41:20pending
#235 – Ajeya Cotra on whether it’s crazy that every AI company’s safety plan is...
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Feb 17, 20262:54:37pending
What the hell happened with AGI timelines in 2025?
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Feb 10, 202625:34pending
#179 Classic episode – Randy Nesse on why evolution left us so vulnerable to dep...
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Feb 3, 20262:51:17pending
#234 – David Duvenaud on why 'aligned AI' would still kill democracy
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Jan 27, 20262:31:48pending
#145 Classic episode – Christopher Brown on why slavery abolition wasn't inevita...
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Jan 20, 20262:56:17pending
#233 – James Smith on how to prevent a mirror life catastrophe
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Jan 13, 20262:09:40pending
#144 Classic episode – Athena Aktipis on why cancer is a fundamental universal p...
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Jan 9, 20263:30:30pending
#142 Classic episode – John McWhorter on why the optimal number of languages mig...
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Jan 6, 20261:35:05pending
2025 Highlight-o-thon: Oops! All Bests
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Dec 29, 20251:40:17pending
#232 – Andreas Mogensen on what we owe 'philosophical Vulcans' and unconscious b...
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Dec 19, 20252:37:15pending
#231 – Paul Scharre on how AI-controlled robots will and won't change war
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Dec 17, 20252:45:17pending
AI might let a few people control everything — permanently (article by Rose Hads...
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Dec 12, 20251:00:10pending
#230 – Dean Ball on how AI is a huge deal — but we shouldn’t regulate it yet
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Dec 10, 20252:54:15pending
#229 – Marius Hobbhahn on the race to solve AI scheming before models go superhu...
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Dec 3, 20253:03:18pending
Rob & Luisa chat kids, the 2016 fertility crash, and how the 50s invented parent...
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Nov 25, 20251:59:09pending
#228 – Eileen Yam on how we're completely out of touch with what the public thin...
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Nov 20, 20251:43:24pending
OpenAI: The nonprofit refuses to be killed (with Tyler Whitmer)
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Nov 11, 20251:56:06pending
#227 – Helen Toner on the geopolitics of AGI in China and the Middle East
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Nov 5, 20252:20:02pending
#226 – Holden Karnofsky on unexploited opportunities to make AI safer — and all...
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Oct 30, 20254:30:19pending
#225 – Daniel Kokotajlo on what a hyperspeed robot economy might look like
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Oct 27, 20252:12:01pending
#224 – There's a cheap and low-tech way to save humanity from any engineered dis...
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Oct 2, 20252:31:11pending
Inside the Biden admin’s AI policy approach | Jake Sullivan, Biden’s NSA | via T...
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Sep 26, 20251:05:58pending
#223 – Neel Nanda on leading a Google DeepMind team at 26 – and advice if you wa...
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Sep 15, 20251:46:49pending
#222 – Can we tell if an AI is loyal by reading its mind? DeepMind's Neel Nanda...
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Sep 8, 20253:01:11pending
#221 – Kyle Fish on the most bizarre findings from 5 AI welfare experiments
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Aug 28, 20252:28:53pending
How not to lose your job to AI (article by Benjamin Todd)
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Jul 31, 202551:25pending
Rebuilding after apocalypse: What 13 experts say about bouncing back
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Jul 15, 20254:26:38pending
#220 – Ryan Greenblatt on the 4 most likely ways for AI to take over, and the ca...
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Jul 8, 20252:50:32pending
#219 – Toby Ord on graphs AI companies would prefer you didn't (fully) understan...
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Jun 24, 20252:48:22pending
#218 – Hugh White on why Trump is abandoning US hegemony – and that’s probably g...
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Jun 12, 20252:48:42pending
#217 – Beth Barnes on the most important graph in AI right now — and the 7-month...
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Jun 2, 20253:47:09pending
Beyond human minds: The bewildering frontier of consciousness in insects, AI, an...
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May 23, 20253:34:40pending
Don’t believe OpenAI’s “nonprofit” spin (emergency pod with Tyler Whitmer)
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May 15, 20251:12:04pending
The case for and against AGI by 2030 (article by Benjamin Todd)
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May 12, 20251:00:06pending
Emergency pod: Did OpenAI give up, or is this just a new trap? (with Rose Chan L...
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May 8, 20251:02:50pending
#216 – Ian Dunt on why governments in Britain and elsewhere can't get anything d...
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May 2, 20253:14:52pending
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