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)
#184 – Zvi Mowshowitz on sleeping on sleeper agents, and the biggest AI updates...
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AI governance and policy (Article)
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#183 – Spencer Greenberg on causation without correlation, money and happiness,...
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Mar 14, 20242:36:38pending
#182 – Bob Fischer on comparing the welfare of humans, chickens, pigs, octopuses...
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Mar 8, 20242:21:31pending
#181 – Laura Deming on the science that could keep us healthy in our 80s and bey...
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Mar 1, 20241:37:21pending
#180 – Hugo Mercier on why gullibility and misinformation are overrated
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Feb 21, 20242:36:55pending
#179 – Randy Nesse on why evolution left us so vulnerable to depression and anxi...
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Feb 12, 20242:56:48pending
#178 – Emily Oster on what the evidence actually says about pregnancy and parent...
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Feb 1, 20242:22:36pending
#177 – Nathan Labenz on recent AI breakthroughs and navigating the growing rift...
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Jan 24, 20242:47:09pending
#90 Classic episode – Ajeya Cotra on worldview diversification and how big the f...
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Jan 12, 20242:59:17pending
#112 Classic episode – Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential ris...
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#111 Classic episode – Mushtaq Khan on using institutional economics to predict...
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Jan 4, 20243:22:17pending
2023 Mega-highlights Extravaganza
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#100 Classic episode – Having a successful career with depression, anxiety, and...
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#176 – Nathan Labenz on the final push for AGI, understanding OpenAI's leadershi...
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#175 – Lucia Coulter on preventing lead poisoning for $1.66 per child
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Dec 14, 20232:14:08pending
#174 – Nita Farahany on the neurotechnology already being used to convict crimin...
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Dec 7, 20232:00:31pending
#173 – Jeff Sebo on digital minds, and how to avoid sleepwalking into a major mo...
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Nov 22, 20232:38:20pending
#172 – Bryan Caplan on why you should stop reading the news
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#171 – Alison Young on how top labs have jeopardised public health with repeated...
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Nov 9, 20231:46:14pending
#170 – Santosh Harish on how air pollution is responsible for ~12% of global dea...
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Nov 1, 20232:57:46pending
#169 – Paul Niehaus on whether cash transfers cause economic growth, and keeping...
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Oct 26, 20231:47:56pending
#168 – Ian Morris on whether deep history says we're heading for an intelligence...
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#167 – Seren Kell on the research gaps holding back alternative proteins from ma...
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Oct 18, 20231:54:49pending
#166 – Tantum Collins on what he’s learned as an AI policy insider at the White...
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Oct 12, 20233:08:49pending
#165 – Anders Sandberg on war in space, whether civilisations age, and the best...
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Oct 6, 20232:48:33pending
#164 – Kevin Esvelt on cults that want to kill everyone, stealth vs wildfire pan...
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Oct 2, 20233:03:42pending
Great power conflict (Article)
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Sep 22, 20231:19:46pending
#163 – Toby Ord on the perils of maximising the good that you do
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Sep 8, 20233:07:08pending
The 80,000 Hours Career Guide (2023)
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Sep 4, 20234:41:13pending
#162 – Mustafa Suleyman on getting Washington and Silicon Valley to tame AI
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Sep 1, 202359:34pending
#161 – Michael Webb on whether AI will soon cause job loss, lower incomes, and h...
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Aug 23, 20233:30:32pending
#160 – Hannah Ritchie on why it makes sense to be optimistic about the environme...
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Aug 14, 20232:36:42pending
#159 – Jan Leike on OpenAI's massive push to make superintelligence safe in 4 ye...
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Aug 7, 20232:51:20pending
We now offer shorter 'interview highlights' episodes
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#158 – Holden Karnofsky on how AIs might take over even if they're no smarter th...
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Jul 31, 20233:13:33pending
#157 – Ezra Klein on existential risk from AI and what DC could do about it
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Jul 24, 20231:18:46pending
#156 – Markus Anderljung on how to regulate cutting-edge AI models
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Jul 10, 20232:06:36pending
Bonus: The Worst Ideas in the History of the World
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#155 – Lennart Heim on the compute governance era and what has to come after
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Jun 22, 20233:12:43pending
#154 - Rohin Shah on DeepMind and trying to fairly hear out both AI doomers and...
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Jun 9, 20233:09:42pending
#153 – Elie Hassenfeld on 2 big picture critiques of GiveWell's approach, and 6...
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Jun 2, 20232:56:10pending
#152 – Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion
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May 19, 20233:26:58pending
#151 – Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us
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May 12, 20232:49:40pending
#150 – Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world
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May 5, 20233:01:59pending
Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla on the Shrimp Welfare Project (80k After Hours)
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Apr 22, 20231:17:28pending
#149 – Tim LeBon on how altruistic perfectionism is self-defeating
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Apr 12, 20233:11:48pending
#148 – Johannes Ackva on unfashionable climate interventions that work, and fash...
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Apr 3, 20232:17:28pending
#147 – Spencer Greenberg on stopping valueless papers from getting into top jour...
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Mar 24, 20232:38:08pending
#146 – Robert Long on why large language models like GPT (probably) aren't consc...
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Mar 14, 20233:12:51pending
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