We can guess what intergalactic war would look like. And strangely, it matters.
80,000 Hours Podcast
2026-06-18
#245 – Rohin Shah on what it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers')
80,000 Hours Podcast
2026-06-02
Can AIs already start 'rogue deployments' inside AI companies? (Landmark new METR report)
80,000 Hours Podcast
2026-05-20
#243 – 'Godfather of AI' Yoshua Bengio: "I now see a path" to safe superintelligent AI
80,000 Hours Podcast
2026-05-07
'95% of AI Pilots Fail': The hidden agenda behind the viral stat that misled millions
80,000 Hours Podcast
2026-04-28
#242 – Will MacAskill on how we survive the 'intelligence explosion,' AI character, and the case for 'viatopia'
80,000 Hours Podcast
2026-04-22
It's Crunch Time: Ajeya Cotra on RSI & AI-Powered AI Safety Work, from the 80,000 Hours Podcast
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
2026-04-11
Village gossip, pesticide bans, and gene drives: 17 experts on the future of global health
80,000 Hours Podcast
2026-04-07
What everyone is missing about Anthropic vs the Pentagon. And: The Meta leaks are worse than you think.
80,000 Hours Podcast
2026-04-03
#240 – Samuel Charap on how a Ukraine ceasefire could accidentally set Europe up for a bigger war
80,000 Hours Podcast
2026-03-24
#239 – Rose Hadshar on why automating all human labour will break our political system
80,000 Hours Podcast
2026-03-17
Using AI to enhance societal decision making (article by Zershaaneh Qureshi)
80,000 Hours Podcast
2026-03-06
#236 – Max Harms on why teaching AI right from wrong could get everyone killed
80,000 Hours Podcast
2026-02-24
#235 – Ajeya Cotra on whether it’s crazy that every AI company’s safety plan is ‘use AI to make AI safe’
80,000 Hours Podcast
2026-02-17
#179 Classic episode – Randy Nesse on why evolution left us so vulnerable to depression and anxiety
80,000 Hours Podcast
2026-02-03
#145 Classic episode – Christopher Brown on why slavery abolition wasn't inevitable
80,000 Hours Podcast
2026-01-20
#144 Classic episode – Athena Aktipis on why cancer is a fundamental universal phenomena
80,000 Hours Podcast
2026-01-09
AI might let a few people control everything — permanently (article by Rose Hadshar)
80,000 Hours Podcast
2025-12-12
#230 – Dean Ball on how AI is a huge deal — but we shouldn’t regulate it yet
80,000 Hours Podcast
2025-12-10
#229 – Marius Hobbhahn on the race to solve AI scheming before models go superhuman
80,000 Hours Podcast
2025-12-03
Rob & Luisa chat kids, the 2016 fertility crash, and how the 50s invented parenting that makes us miserable
80,000 Hours Podcast
2025-11-25
#228 – Eileen Yam on how we're completely out of touch with what the public thinks about AI
80,000 Hours Podcast
2025-11-20
#227 – Helen Toner on the geopolitics of AGI in China and the Middle East
80,000 Hours Podcast
2025-11-05
#226 – Holden Karnofsky on unexploited opportunities to make AI safer — and all his AGI takes
80,000 Hours Podcast
2025-10-30
#225 – Daniel Kokotajlo on what a hyperspeed robot economy might look like
80,000 Hours Podcast
2025-10-27
#224 – There's a cheap and low-tech way to save humanity from any engineered disease | Andrew Snyder-Beattie
80,000 Hours Podcast
2025-10-02
#223 – Neel Nanda on leading a Google DeepMind team at 26 – and advice if you want to work at an AI company (part 2)
80,000 Hours Podcast
2025-09-15
#222 – Can we tell if an AI is loyal by reading its mind? DeepMind's Neel Nanda (part 1)
80,000 Hours Podcast
2025-09-08
#221 – Kyle Fish on the most bizarre findings from 5 AI welfare experiments
80,000 Hours Podcast
2025-08-28
#220 – Ryan Greenblatt on the 4 most likely ways for AI to take over, and the case for and against AGI in 8 years
80,000 Hours Podcast
2025-07-08
#218 – Hugh White on why Trump is abandoning US hegemony – and that’s probably good
80,000 Hours Podcast
2025-06-12
Beyond human minds: The bewildering frontier of consciousness in insects, AI, and more
80,000 Hours Podcast
2025-05-23
Serendipity, weird bets, & cold emails that actually work: Career advice from 16 former guests
80,000 Hours Podcast
2025-04-24
#215 – Tom Davidson on how AI-enabled coups could allow a tiny group to seize power
80,000 Hours Podcast
2025-04-16
#213 – Will MacAskill on AI causing a “century in a decade” – and how we're completely unprepared
80,000 Hours Podcast
2025-03-11
#143 Classic episode – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuclear weapons
80,000 Hours Podcast
2025-02-19
#138 Classic episode – Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on why pleasure and pain are the only things that intrinsically matter
80,000 Hours Podcast
2025-01-22
#134 Classic episode – Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us
80,000 Hours Podcast
2025-01-15
#211 – Sam Bowman on why housing still isn't fixed and what would actually work
80,000 Hours Podcast
2024-12-19
Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy, with Nick Joseph, from the 80,000 Hours Podcast
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis
2024-09-25
#180 – Hugo Mercier on why gullibility and misinformation are overrated
80,000 Hours Podcast
2024-02-21
#166 – Tantum Collins on what he’s learned as an AI policy insider at the White House, DeepMind and elsewhere
80,000 Hours Podcast
2023-10-12
#132 – Nova DasSarma on why information security may be critical to the safe development of AI systems
80,000 Hours Podcast
2022-06-14
#115 – David Wallace on the many-worlds theory of quantum mechanics and its implications
80,000 Hours Podcast
2021-11-12