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David Duvenaud

University of Toronto computer scientist focused on probabilistic ML and AI safety

Every podcast episode featuring David Duvenaud that Attunex has found: 14 interviews and appearances across 13 shows between 2018 and 2026. Most often on The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) (2). Often in conversation with Sam Charrington. Follow David in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.

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Updated 2026-10-14.

  1. AI:AM #4: Cameron on Model Consciousness, Duvenaud's Gradual Disempowerment, swyx's AI-Eng Alpha
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    This AI:AM highlights cut brings together Cameron Berg, David Duvenaud, Michiel Bakker, Shawn “swyx” Wang, and Bing Xu to examine what we understand about frontier AI systems and what happens as more…

    2026-06-27
  2. Une IA bloquée en 1930… peut-elle prédire le monde moderne ?
    Choses à Savoir TECHMentioned

    En 1989, le réalisateur Robert Zemeckis imaginait un futur où, en 2015, les voitures voleraient et les pizzas gonfleraient toutes seules au four. La réalité a été bien différente. Mais aujourd’hui,…

    2026-05-24
  3. OpenAI’s Big Reset + A.I. in the Doctor’s Office + Talkie, a pre-1930s LLM
    Hard Fork

    This week, OpenAI announced a loosened partnership with Microsoft and an aggressive new strategy to secure computing power. We unpack what these updates signal about OpenAI’s business strategy and…

    2026-05-01
  4. #234 – David Duvenaud on why 'aligned AI' would still kill democracy
    80,000 Hours Podcast

    Democracy might be a brief historical blip. That’s the unsettling thesis of a recent paper, which argues AI that can do all the work a human can do inevitably leads to the “gradual disempowerment” of…

    2026-01-27
  5. How Humans Could Lose Power Without an AI Takeover (with David Duvenaud)
    Future of Life Institute Podcast

    David Duvenaud is an associate professor of computer science and statistics at the University of Toronto. He joins the podcast to discuss gradual disempowerment in a post-AGI world. We ask how humans…

    2025-12-23
  6. David Duvenaud on the Cruxes and Possibilities of Post AGI Futures
    The Existential Hope Podcast

    In this episode of the Existential Hope Podcast, Beatrice Erkers is joined by David Duvenaud, Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and former researcher at Anthropic. We discuss David’s…

    2025-10-06
  7. Politics and Power Post-Automation (with David Duvenaud)
    ForeCast

    David Duvenaud is an associate professor at the University of Toronto. He recently organised the workshop on ‘Post-AGI Civilizational Equilibria’ , and he is a co-author of ‘Gradual Disempowerment’.…

    2025-09-25
  8. David Duvenaud - What are Humans Even Good For in Five Years? (Early Experience of AGI - Episode 1)
    The Trajectory

    This is an interview with David Duvenaud, Assistant Professor at University of Toronto, co-author of the Gradual Disempowerment paper, and former researcher at Anthropic. This is the first episode in…

    2025-06-06
  9. Top AI Professor Has 85% P(Doom) — David Duvenaud, Fmr. Anthropic Safety Team Lead
    Doom Debates!

    David Duvenaud is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, co-director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, former Alignment Evals Team Lead at…

    2025-04-18
  10. 38.8 - David Duvenaud on Sabotage Evaluations and the Post-AGI Future
    AXRP - the AI X-risk Research Podcast

    In this episode, I chat with David Duvenaud about two topics he's been thinking about: firstly, a paper he wrote about evaluating whether or not frontier models can sabotage human decision-making or…

    2025-03-01
  11. AI Risk (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with David Duvenaud)
    Minds Almost Meeting

    View the transcript for this episode here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://mindsalmostmeeting.com/episodes/ai-risk Imagine two smart curious friendly and basically truth-seeking people, but from very different…

    2023-05-31
  12. 58. David Duvenaud - Using generative models for explainable AI
    Towards Data Science

    In the early 1900s, all of our predictions were the direct product of human brains. Scientists, analysts, climatologists, mathematicians, bankers, lawyers and politicians did their best to anticipate…

    2020-11-18
  13. Neural Ordinary Differential Equations with David Duvenaud
    The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)

    Today we’re joined by David Duvenaud, Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, to discuss his research on Neural Ordinary Differential Equations, a type of continuous-depth neural network.…

    2020-04-09
  14. Troubling Trends and Climbing Mountains
    Talking Machines

    In this episode we talk about an article Troubling Trends in Machine learning Scholarship the difference between engineering and science (and the mountains you climb to span the distance) plus we…

    2018-09-07
  15. Composing Graphical Models With Neural Networks with David Duvenaud - TWiML Talk #96
    The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)

    In this episode, we hear from David Duvenaud, assistant professor in the Computer Science and Statistics departments at the University of Toronto. David joined me after his talk at the Deep Learning…

    2018-01-15