80,000 Hours Podcast
Rob, Luisa, and the 80000 Hours team
EN500 episodes
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Unusually in-depth conversations about the world's most pressing problems and what you can do to solve them. Subscribe by searching for '80000 Hours' wherever you get podcasts.Hosted by Rob Wiblin and Luisa Rodriguez.
Episodes (500)
Serendipity, weird bets, & cold emails that actually work: Career advice from 16...
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Apr 24, 20252:18:41pending
#215 – Tom Davidson on how AI-enabled coups could allow a tiny group to seize po...
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Apr 16, 20253:22:44pending
Guilt, imposter syndrome & doing good: 16 past guests share their mental health...
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Apr 11, 20251:47:10pending
#214 – Buck Shlegeris on controlling AI that wants to take over – so we can use...
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Apr 4, 20252:16:03pending
15 expert takes on infosec in the age of AI
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Mar 28, 20252:35:54pending
#213 – Will MacAskill on AI causing a “century in a decade” – and how we're comp...
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Mar 11, 20253:57:36pending
Emergency pod: Judge plants a legal time bomb under OpenAI (with Rose Chan Loui)
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Mar 7, 202536:50pending
#139 Classic episode – Alan Hájek on puzzles and paradoxes in probability and ex...
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Feb 25, 20253:41:31pending
#143 Classic episode – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuc...
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Feb 19, 20252:40:52pending
#212 – Allan Dafoe on why technology is unstoppable & how to shape AI developmen...
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Feb 14, 20252:44:07pending
Emergency pod: Elon tries to crash OpenAI's party (with Rose Chan Loui)
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Feb 12, 202557:29pending
AGI disagreements and misconceptions: Rob, Luisa, & past guests hash it out
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Feb 10, 20253:12:24pending
#124 Classic episode – Karen Levy on fads and misaligned incentives in global de...
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Feb 7, 20253:10:21pending
If digital minds could suffer, how would we ever know? (Article)
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Feb 4, 20251:14:30pending
#132 Classic episode – Nova DasSarma on why information security may be critical...
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Jan 31, 20252:41:11pending
#138 Classic episode – Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on why pleasure and pain are the o...
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Jan 22, 20252:25:43pending
#134 Classic episode – Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us
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Jan 15, 20253:40:53pending
#140 Classic episode – Bear Braumoeller on the case that war isn’t in decline
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Jan 8, 20252:48:03pending
2024 Highlightapalooza! (The best of The 80,000 Hours Podcast this year)
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Dec 27, 20242:50:02pending
#211 – Sam Bowman on why housing still isn't fixed and what would actually work
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Dec 19, 20243:25:46pending
#210 – Cameron Meyer Shorb on dismantling the myth that we can’t do anything to...
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Nov 29, 20243:21:03pending
#209 – Rose Chan Loui on OpenAI’s gambit to ditch its nonprofit
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Nov 27, 20241:22:08pending
#208 – Elizabeth Cox on the case that TV shows, movies, and novels can improve t...
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Nov 21, 20242:22:03pending
#207 – Sarah Eustis-Guthrie on why she shut down her charity, and why more found...
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Nov 14, 20242:58:39pending
Parenting insights from Rob and 8 past guests
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Nov 8, 20241:35:39pending
#206 – Anil Seth on the predictive brain and how to study consciousness
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Nov 1, 20242:33:50pending
How much does a vote matter? (Article)
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Oct 28, 202432:32pending
#205 – Sébastien Moro on the most insane things fish can do
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Oct 23, 20243:11:05pending
#204 – Nate Silver on making sense of SBF, and his biggest critiques of effectiv...
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Oct 16, 20241:57:48pending
#203 – Peter Godfrey-Smith on interfering with wild nature, accepting death, and...
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Oct 3, 20241:25:09pending
Luisa and Keiran on free will, and the consequences of never feeling enduring gu...
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Sep 27, 20241:36:00pending
#202 – Venki Ramakrishnan on the cutting edge of anti-ageing science
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Sep 19, 20242:20:26pending
#201 – Ken Goldberg on why your robot butler isn’t here yet
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Sep 13, 20242:01:43pending
#200 – Ezra Karger on what superforecasters and experts think about existential...
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Sep 4, 20242:49:24pending
#199 – Nathan Calvin on California’s AI bill SB 1047 and its potential to shape...
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Aug 29, 20241:12:37pending
#198 – Meghan Barrett on upending everything you thought you knew about bugs in...
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Aug 26, 20243:48:12pending
#197 – Nick Joseph on whether Anthropic's AI safety policy is up to the task
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Aug 22, 20242:29:26pending
#196 – Jonathan Birch on the edge cases of sentience and why they matter
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Aug 15, 20242:01:50pending
#195 – Sella Nevo on who's trying to steal frontier AI models, and what they cou...
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Aug 1, 20242:08:29pending
#194 – Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you...
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Jul 26, 20243:04:18pending
#193 – Sihao Huang on navigating the geopolitics of US–China AI competition
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Jul 18, 20242:23:34pending
#192 – Annie Jacobsen on what would happen if North Korea launched a nuclear wea...
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Jul 12, 20241:54:24pending
#191 (Part 2) – Carl Shulman on government and society after AGI
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Jul 5, 20242:20:32pending
#191 (Part 1) – Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGI
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Jun 27, 20244:14:58pending
#190 – Eric Schwitzgebel on whether the US is conscious
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Jun 7, 20242:00:46pending
#189 – Rachel Glennerster on why we still don’t have vaccines that could save mi...
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May 29, 20242:48:51pending
#188 – Matt Clancy on whether science is good
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May 23, 20242:40:15pending
#187 – Zach Weinersmith on how researching his book turned him from a space opti...
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May 14, 20243:06:47pending
#186 – Dean Spears on why babies are born small in Uttar Pradesh, and how to sav...
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May 1, 20241:18:58pending
#185 – Lewis Bollard on the 7 most promising ways to end factory farming, and wh...
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Apr 18, 20242:33:12pending
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