80,000 Hours Podcast
Rob, Luisa, and the 80000 Hours team
EN517 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 (517)
#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 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, 20251:48:33pending
#222 – Can we tell if an AI is loyal by reading its mind? DeepMind's Neel Nanda...
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Sep 8, 20253:02:48pending
#221 – Kyle Fish on the most bizarre findings from 5 AI welfare experiments
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Aug 28, 20252:34:35pending
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, 20252:54:27pending
#219 – Toby Ord on graphs AI companies would prefer you didn't (fully) understan...
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Jun 24, 20252:53:33pending
#218 – Hugh White on why Trump is abandoning US hegemony – and that’s probably g...
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Jun 12, 20252:53:36pending
#217 – Beth Barnes on the most important graph in AI right now — and the 7-month...
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Jun 2, 20253:57:40pending
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, 20251:11:59pending
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
Serendipity, weird bets, & cold emails that actually work: Career advice from 16...
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Apr 24, 20252:18:41pending
#215 – Tom Davidson on how AI-enabled coups could allow a tiny group to seize po...
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Apr 16, 20253:16:31pending
Guilt, imposter syndrome & doing good: 16 past guests share their mental health...
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Apr 11, 20251:47:10pending
#214 – Buck Shlegeris on controlling AI that wants to take over – so we can use...
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Apr 4, 20252:18:34pending
15 expert takes on infosec in the age of AI
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Mar 28, 20252:35:54pending
#213 – Will MacAskill on AI causing a “century in a decade” – and how we're comp...
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Mar 11, 20254:08:06pending
Emergency pod: Judge plants a legal time bomb under OpenAI (with Rose Chan Loui)
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Mar 7, 202536:50pending
#139 Classic episode – Alan Hájek on puzzles and paradoxes in probability and ex...
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Feb 25, 20253:41:31pending
#143 Classic episode – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuc...
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Feb 19, 20252:40:52pending
#212 – Allan Dafoe on why technology is unstoppable & how to shape AI developmen...
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Feb 14, 20252:49:01pending
Emergency pod: Elon tries to crash OpenAI's party (with Rose Chan Loui)
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Feb 12, 202557:29pending
AGI disagreements and misconceptions: Rob, Luisa, & past guests hash it out
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Feb 10, 20253:12:24pending
#124 Classic episode – Karen Levy on fads and misaligned incentives in global de...
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Feb 7, 20253:10:21pending
If digital minds could suffer, how would we ever know? (Article)
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Feb 4, 20251:14:30pending
#132 Classic episode – Nova DasSarma on why information security may be critical...
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Jan 31, 20252:41:11pending
#138 Classic episode – Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on why pleasure and pain are the o...
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Jan 22, 20252:25:43pending
#134 Classic episode – Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us
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Jan 15, 20253:40:53pending
#140 Classic episode – Bear Braumoeller on the case that war isn’t in decline
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Jan 8, 20252:48:03pending
2024 Highlightapalooza! (The best of The 80,000 Hours Podcast this year)
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Dec 27, 20242:50:02pending
#211 – Sam Bowman on why housing still isn't fixed and what would actually work
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Dec 19, 20243:25:46pending
#210 – Cameron Meyer Shorb on dismantling the myth that we can’t do anything to...
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Nov 29, 20243:21:03pending
#209 – Rose Chan Loui on OpenAI’s gambit to ditch its nonprofit
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Nov 27, 20241:22:08pending
#208 – Elizabeth Cox on the case that TV shows, movies, and novels can improve t...
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Nov 21, 20242:22:03pending
#207 – Sarah Eustis-Guthrie on why she shut down her charity, and why more found...
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Nov 14, 20242:58:39pending
Parenting insights from Rob and 8 past guests
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Nov 8, 20241:35:39pending
#206 – Anil Seth on the predictive brain and how to study consciousness
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Nov 1, 20242:33:50pending
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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Oct 23, 20243:11:05pending
#204 – Nate Silver on making sense of SBF, and his biggest critiques of effectiv...
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Oct 16, 20241:57:48pending
#203 – Peter Godfrey-Smith on interfering with wild nature, accepting death, and...
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Oct 3, 20241:25:09pending
Luisa and Keiran on free will, and the consequences of never feeling enduring gu...
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Sep 27, 20241:36:00pending
#202 – Venki Ramakrishnan on the cutting edge of anti-ageing science
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Sep 19, 20242:20:26pending
#201 – Ken Goldberg on why your robot butler isn’t here yet
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