80,000 Hours Podcast
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80,000 Hours Podcast

by Rob, Luisa, and the 80000 Hours team

Unusually in-depth conversations about the world's most pressing problems and what you can do to solve them.

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Hosted by Rob Wiblin and Luisa Rodriguez.

100 episodes
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1
AGI Won't End Mutually Assured Destruction (Probably) | Sam Winter-Levy & Nikita Lalwani
1:11:03 Mar 10, 2026
2
Using AI to enhance societal decision making (article by Zershaaneh Qureshi)
31:28 Mar 6, 2026
3
We're Not Ready for AI Consciousness | Robert Long, philosopher and founder of Eleos AI
3:25:40 Mar 3, 2026
4
#236 – Max Harms on why teaching AI right from wrong could get everyone killed
2:41:20 Feb 24, 2026
5
#235 – Ajeya Cotra on whether it’s crazy that every AI company’s safety plan is ‘use AI to make AI safe’
2:54:37 Feb 17, 2026
6
What the hell happened with AGI timelines in 2025?
25:34 Feb 10, 2026
7
#179 Classic episode – Randy Nesse on why evolution left us so vulnerable to depression and anxiety
2:51:17 Feb 3, 2026
8
#234 – David Duvenaud on why 'aligned AI' would still kill democracy
2:31:48 Jan 27, 2026
9
#145 Classic episode – Christopher Brown on why slavery abolition wasn't inevitable
2:56:17 Jan 20, 2026
10
#233 – James Smith on how to prevent a mirror life catastrophe
2:09:40 Jan 13, 2026
11
#144 Classic episode – Athena Aktipis on why cancer is a fundamental universal phenomena
3:30:30 Jan 9, 2026
12
#142 Classic episode – John McWhorter on why the optimal number of languages might be one, and other provocative claims about language
1:35:05 Jan 6, 2026
13
2025 Highlight-o-thon: Oops! All Bests
1:40:17 Dec 29, 2025
14
#232 – Andreas Mogensen on what we owe 'philosophical Vulcans' and unconscious beings
2:37:15 Dec 19, 2025
15
#231 – Paul Scharre on how AI-controlled robots will and won't change war
2:45:17 Dec 17, 2025
16
AI might let a few people control everything — permanently (article by Rose Hadshar)
1:00:10 Dec 12, 2025
17
#230 – Dean Ball on how AI is a huge deal — but we shouldn’t regulate it yet
2:54:15 Dec 10, 2025
18
#229 – Marius Hobbhahn on the race to solve AI scheming before models go superhuman
3:03:18 Dec 3, 2025
19
Rob & Luisa chat kids, the 2016 fertility crash, and how the 50s invented parenting that makes us miserable
1:59:09 Nov 25, 2025
20
#228 – Eileen Yam on how we're completely out of touch with what the public thinks about AI
1:43:24 Nov 20, 2025
21
OpenAI: The nonprofit refuses to be killed (with Tyler Whitmer)
1:56:06 Nov 11, 2025
22
#227 – Helen Toner on the geopolitics of AGI in China and the Middle East
2:20:02 Nov 5, 2025
23
#226 – Holden Karnofsky on unexploited opportunities to make AI safer — and all his AGI takes
4:30:19 Oct 30, 2025
24
#225 – Daniel Kokotajlo on what a hyperspeed robot economy might look like
2:12:01 Oct 27, 2025
25
#224 – There's a cheap and low-tech way to save humanity from any engineered disease | Andrew Snyder-Beattie
2:31:11 Oct 2, 2025
26
Inside the Biden admin’s AI policy approach | Jake Sullivan, Biden’s NSA | via The Cognitive Revolution
1:05:58 Sep 26, 2025
27
#223 – Neel Nanda on leading a Google DeepMind team at 26 – and advice if you want to work at an AI company (part 2)
1:46:49 Sep 15, 2025
28
#222 – Can we tell if an AI is loyal by reading its mind? DeepMind's Neel Nanda (part 1)
3:01:11 Sep 8, 2025
29
#221 – Kyle Fish on the most bizarre findings from 5 AI welfare experiments
2:28:53 Aug 28, 2025
30
How not to lose your job to AI (article by Benjamin Todd)
51:25 Jul 31, 2025
31
Rebuilding after apocalypse: What 13 experts say about bouncing back
4:26:38 Jul 15, 2025
32
#220 – Ryan Greenblatt on the 4 most likely ways for AI to take over, and the case for and against AGI in <8 years
2:50:32 Jul 8, 2025
33
#219 – Toby Ord on graphs AI companies would prefer you didn't (fully) understand
2:48:22 Jun 24, 2025
34
#218 – Hugh White on why Trump is abandoning US hegemony – and that’s probably good
2:48:42 Jun 12, 2025
35
#217 – Beth Barnes on the most important graph in AI right now — and the 7-month rule that governs its progress
3:47:09 Jun 2, 2025
36
Beyond human minds: The bewildering frontier of consciousness in insects, AI, and more
3:34:40 May 23, 2025
37
Don’t believe OpenAI’s “nonprofit” spin (emergency pod with Tyler Whitmer)
1:12:04 May 15, 2025
38
The case for and against AGI by 2030 (article by Benjamin Todd)
1:00:06 May 12, 2025
39
Emergency pod: Did OpenAI give up, or is this just a new trap? (with Rose Chan Loui)
1:02:50 May 8, 2025
40
#216 – Ian Dunt on why governments in Britain and elsewhere can't get anything done – and how to fix it
3:14:52 May 2, 2025
41
Serendipity, weird bets, & cold emails that actually work: Career advice from 16 former guests
2:18:41 Apr 24, 2025
42
#215 – Tom Davidson on how AI-enabled coups could allow a tiny group to seize power
3:22:44 Apr 16, 2025
43
Guilt, imposter syndrome & doing good: 16 past guests share their mental health journeys
1:47:10 Apr 11, 2025
44
#214 – Buck Shlegeris on controlling AI that wants to take over – so we can use it anyway
2:16:03 Apr 4, 2025
45
15 expert takes on infosec in the age of AI
2:35:54 Mar 28, 2025
46
#213 – Will MacAskill on AI causing a “century in a decade” – and how we're completely unprepared
3:57:36 Mar 11, 2025
47
Emergency pod: Judge plants a legal time bomb under OpenAI (with Rose Chan Loui)
36:50 Mar 7, 2025
48
#139 Classic episode – Alan Hájek on puzzles and paradoxes in probability and expected value
3:41:31 Feb 25, 2025
49
#143 Classic episode – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuclear weapons
2:40:52 Feb 19, 2025
50
#212 – Allan Dafoe on why technology is unstoppable & how to shape AI development anyway
2:44:07 Feb 14, 2025
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