80,000 Hours Podcast
Unusually in-depth conversations about the world's most pressing problems and what you can do to solve them.
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Hosted by Rob Wiblin and Luisa Rodriguez.
Latest Episode
Andreas Mogensen on what we owe 'philosophical Vulcans' and unconscious beings (19.12.2025)
Previous Episodes
- How AI-Controlled Robots Will and Won't Change War | U.S. Defense Strategist Paul Scharre
- AI might let a few people control everything — permanently (article by Rose Hadshar)
- #230 – Dean Ball on how AI is a huge deal — but we shouldn’t regulate it yet
- #229 – Marius Hobbhahn on the race to solve AI scheming before models go superhuman
- 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
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