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Buck Shlegeris

Redwood Research CEO, AI control research

Every podcast episode featuring Buck Shlegeris that Attunex has found: 14 interviews and appearances across 11 shows between 2020 and 2026. Most often on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2), For Humanity: An AI Risk Podcast (2) and Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg (2). Often in conversation with Rob Wiblin. Follow Buck in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.

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Updated 2026-10-14.

  1. Ep 93: CEO of Redwood Research Buck Shlegeris on OpenAI/HuggingFace Revelations, Fixing AI Safety & Takeover Odds
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron

    Jacob sits down with Buck Shlegeris, CEO of Redwood Research, one of the organizations that led the independent investigation into OpenAI/Hugging Face's incident. They dig into the incident itself,…

    2026-09-03
  2. Google’s Strike Team for Coding Models, Anthropic’s Powerful CFO, Polymarket’s Raise
    The Information's TITV

    The Information’s Erin Woo talks with TITV Guest Host Rocket Drew about Google’s new internal strike team focused on automating coding and AI research. We also talk with Yueqi Yang about Polymarket’s…

    2026-04-20
  3. 2025 Highlight-o-thon: Oops! All Bests
    80,000 Hours Podcast

    It’s that magical time of year once again — highlightapalooza! Stick around for one top bit from each episode we recorded this year, including: Kyle Fish explaining how Anthropic’s AI Claude descends…

    2025-12-29
  4. AI Control: Using Untrusted Systems Safely with Buck Shlegeris of Redwood Research, from the 80,000 Hours Podcast
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    In this episode, we share a fascinating conversation from the 80,000 Hours Podcast between Rob Wiblin and Buck Shlegeris, CEO of Redwood Research. Buck dives deep into the emerging field of AI…

    2025-05-04
  5. Highlights: #214 – Buck Shlegeris on controlling AI that wants to take over – so we can use it anyway
    80k After Hours

    Most AI safety conversations centre on alignment: ensuring AI systems share our values and goals. But despite progress, we’re unlikely to know we’ve solved the problem before the arrival of…

    2025-04-18
  6. “Buck on the 80,000 Hours podcast” by Buck Shlegeris
    Redwood Research BlogAI

    Buck on the 80,000 Hours podcast My podcast with Rob Wiblin from 80,000 Hours just came out. I’m really happy with how it turned out. I talked about a bunch of stuff on the podcast that I don’t think…

    2025-04-05
  7. #214 – Buck Shlegeris on controlling AI that wants to take over – so we can use it anyway
    80,000 Hours Podcast

    Most AI safety conversations centre on alignment: ensuring AI systems share our values and goals. But despite progress, we’re unlikely to know we’ve solved the problem before the arrival of…

    2025-04-04
  8. Ein AI-Agent macht sich zum Systemadministrator
    Bots & BossesAI

    In dieser Folge von „AI in 5,4,3,2,1“ besprechen wir ein überraschendes Ereignis: Ein KI-Agent wird zum Systemadministrator und nimmt selbstständig Systemänderungen vor. - Entdecke, dass Autonomie in…

    2024-10-22
  9. #14 Buck Shlegeris on AI control
    Consistently Candid

    Buck Shlegeris is the CEO of Redwood Research, a non-profit working to reduce risks from powerful AI. We discussed Redwood's research into AI control, why we shouldn't feel confident that witnessing…

    2024-10-16
  10. An AI turns itself into a system administrator
    Bots & Bosses (english)AI

    In this episode of "AI in 5,4,3,2,1", we discuss a surprising event: an AI agent becoming a system administrator and independently making system changes. Discover how autonomy in AI can be both…

    2024-10-16
  11. Episode #47: “Can AI Be Controlled?“ For Humanity: An AI Risk Podcas
    For Humanity: An AI Risk Podcast

    In Episode #47, host John Sherman talks with Buck Shlegeris, CEO of Redwood Research, a non-profit company working on technical AI risk challenges. The discussion includes Buck’s thoughts on the new…

    2024-09-25
  12. Episode #47 Trailer : “Can AI Be Controlled?“ For Humanity: An AI Risk Podcast
    For Humanity: An AI Risk Podcast

    In Episode #47 Trailer, host John Sherman talks with Buck Shlegeris, CEO of Redwood Research, a non-profit company working on technical AI risk challenges. The discussion includes Buck’s thoughts on…

    2024-09-25
  13. 27 - AI Control with Buck Shlegeris and Ryan Greenblatt
    AXRP - the AI X-risk Research Podcast

    A lot of work to prevent AI existential risk takes the form of ensuring that AIs don't want to cause harm or take over the world---or in other words, ensuring that they're aligned. In this episode, I…

    2024-04-11
  14. The current alignment plan, and how we might improve it | Buck Shlegeris | EAG Bay Area 23
    EAG Talks

    Watch on Youtube In this session, Buck is discussing how he thinks we should try to align artificial general intelligence (AGI) if we made no more fundamental progress on alignment, and then talks…

    2023-05-26
  15. Taking pleasure in being wrong (with Buck Shlegeris)
    Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

    Read the full transcript here. How hard is it to arrive at true beliefs about the world? How can you find enjoyment in being wrong? When presenting claims that will be scrutinized by others, is it…

    2022-06-08
  16. Taking pleasure in being wrong (with Buck Shlegeris)
    Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

    Read the full transcript here. How hard is it to arrive at true beliefs about the world? How can you find enjoyment in being wrong? When presenting claims that will be scrutinized by others, is it…

    2022-06-08
  17. AIAP: An Overview of Technical AI Alignment in 2018 and 2019 with Buck Shlegeris and Rohin Shah
    Future of Life Institute Podcast

    Just a year ago we released a two part episode titled An Overview of Technical AI Alignment with Rohin Shah. That conversation provided details on the views of central AI alignment research…

    2020-04-15