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
GPT-7 Might Democratise Bioweapons. Are We Ready? | Andrew Snyder-Beattie (02.10.2025)
Previous Episodes
- Inside the Biden admin’s AI policy approach | Jake Sullivan, Biden’s NSA | via The Cognitive Revolution 26.09.2025
- Neel Nanda on leading a Google DeepMind team at 26 – and advice if you want to work at an AI company (part 2) 15.09.2025
- Can we tell if an AI is loyal by reading its mind? DeepMind's Neel Nanda (part 1) 08.09.2025
- #221 – Kyle Fish on the most bizarre findings from 5 AI welfare experiments 28.08.2025
- How not to lose your job to AI (article by Benjamin Todd) 31.07.2025
- Rebuilding after apocalypse: What 13 experts say about bouncing back 15.07.2025
- #220 – Ryan Greenblatt on the 4 most likely ways for AI to take over, and the case for and against AGI in <8 years 08.07.2025
- #219 – Toby Ord on graphs AI companies would prefer you didn't (fully) understand 24.06.2025
- #218 – Hugh White on why Trump is abandoning US hegemony – and that’s probably good 12.06.2025
- #217 – Beth Barnes on the most important graph in AI right now — and the 7-month rule that governs its progress 02.06.2025
- Beyond human minds: The bewildering frontier of consciousness in insects, AI, and more 23.05.2025
- Don’t believe OpenAI’s “nonprofit” spin (emergency pod with Tyler Whitmer) 15.05.2025
- The case for and against AGI by 2030 (article by Benjamin Todd) 12.05.2025
- Emergency pod: Did OpenAI give up, or is this just a new trap? (with Rose Chan Loui) 08.05.2025
- #216 – Ian Dunt on why governments in Britain and elsewhere can't get anything done – and how to fix it 02.05.2025
- Serendipity, weird bets, & cold emails that actually work: Career advice from 16 former guests 24.04.2025
- #215 – Tom Davidson on how AI-enabled coups could allow a tiny group to seize power 16.04.2025
- Guilt, imposter syndrome & doing good: 16 past guests share their mental health journeys 11.04.2025
- #214 – Buck Shlegeris on controlling AI that wants to take over – so we can use it anyway 04.04.2025
- 15 expert takes on infosec in the age of AI 28.03.2025
