80,000 Hours Podcast

80,000 Hours Podcast

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

Title Duration Published Consumed
#211 – Sam Bowman on why housing still isn't fixed and what would actually work 03:25:46 2024-12-19 18:17
#210 – Cameron Meyer Shorb on dismantling the myth that we can’t do anything to help wild animals 03:21:03 2024-11-29 23:45
#209 – Rose Chan Loui on OpenAI’s gambit to ditch its nonprofit 01:22:08 2024-11-27 19:10
#208 – Elizabeth Cox on the case that TV shows, movies, and novels can improve the world 02:22:03 2024-11-21 22:14
#207 – Sarah Eustis-Guthrie on why she shut down her charity, and why more founders should follow her lead 02:58:39 2024-11-14 21:04
Bonus: Parenting insights from Rob and 8 past guests 01:35:39 2024-11-08 17:55
#206 – Anil Seth on the predictive brain and how to study consciousness 02:33:50 2024-11-01 18:22
How much does a vote matter? (Article) 00:32:32 2024-10-28 18:34
#205 – Sébastien Moro on the most insane things fish can do 03:11:05 2024-10-23 21:08
#204 – Nate Silver on making sense of SBF, and his biggest critiques of effective altruism 01:57:48 2024-10-16 18:22
#203 – Peter Godfrey-Smith on interfering with wild nature, accepting death, and the origin of complex civilisation 01:25:09 2024-10-03 18:48
Luisa and Keiran on free will, and the consequences of never feeling enduring guilt or shame 01:36:00 2024-09-27 22:04
#202 – Venki Ramakrishnan on the cutting edge of anti-ageing science 02:20:26 2024-09-19 20:00
#201 – Ken Goldberg on why your robot butler isn’t here yet 02:01:43 2024-09-13 18:34
#200 – Ezra Karger on what superforecasters and experts think about existential risks 02:49:24 2024-09-04 21:17
#199 – Nathan Calvin on California’s AI bill SB 1047 and its potential to shape US AI policy 01:12:37 2024-08-29 21:12
#198 – Meghan Barrett on challenging our assumptions about insects 03:48:12 2024-08-26 22:27
#197 – Nick Joseph on whether Anthropic's AI safety policy is up to the task 02:29:26 2024-08-22 15:55
#196 – Jonathan Birch on the edge cases of sentience and why they matter 02:01:50 2024-08-16 01:04
#195 – Sella Nevo on who's trying to steal frontier AI models, and what they could do with them 02:08:29 2024-08-01 20:37
#194 – Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government 03:04:18 2024-07-26 22:03
#193 – Sihao Huang on the risk that US–China AI competition leads to war 02:23:34 2024-07-18 20:34
#192 – Annie Jacobsen on what would happen if North Korea launched a nuclear weapon at the US 01:54:24 2024-07-12 19:25
#191 (Part 2) – Carl Shulman on government and society after AGI 02:20:32 2024-07-05 20:19
#191 (Part 1) – Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGI 04:14:58 2024-06-27 20:44
#190 – Eric Schwitzgebel on whether the US is conscious 02:00:46 2024-06-07 19:48
#189 – Rachel Glennerster on how “market shaping” could help solve climate change, pandemics, and other global problems 02:48:51 2024-05-29 22:13
#188 – Matt Clancy on whether science is good 02:40:15 2024-05-23 23:32
#187 – Zach Weinersmith on how researching his book turned him from a space optimist into a "space bastard" 03:06:47 2024-05-14 22:17
#186 – Dean Spears on why babies are born small in Uttar Pradesh, and how to save their lives 01:18:58 2024-05-01 20:09
#185 – Lewis Bollard on the 7 most promising ways to end factory farming, and whether AI is going to be good or bad for animals 02:33:12 2024-04-18 21:27
#184 – Zvi Mowshowitz on sleeping on sleeper agents, and the biggest AI updates since ChatGPT 03:31:22 2024-04-11 23:07
AI governance and policy (Article) 00:51:06 2024-03-28 21:12
#183 – Spencer Greenberg on causation without correlation, money and happiness, lightgassing, hype vs value, and more 02:36:38 2024-03-14 18:40
#182 – Bob Fischer on comparing the welfare of humans, chickens, pigs, octopuses, bees, and more 02:21:31 2024-03-08 20:45
#181 – Laura Deming on the science that could keep us healthy in our 80s and beyond 01:37:21 2024-03-01 22:02
#180 – Hugo Mercier on why gullibility and misinformation are overrated 02:36:55 2024-02-21 23:36
#179 – Randy Nesse on why evolution left us so vulnerable to depression and anxiety 02:56:48 2024-02-13 00:26
#178 – Emily Oster on what the evidence actually says about pregnancy and parenting 02:22:36 2024-02-01 22:56
#177 – Nathan Labenz on recent AI breakthroughs and navigating the growing rift between AI safety and accelerationist camps 02:47:09 2024-01-24 23:08
#90 Classic episode – Ajeya Cotra on worldview diversification and how big the future could be 02:59:17 2024-01-12 21:02
#112 Classic episode – Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications 03:50:30 2024-01-08 21:55
#111 Classic episode – Mushtaq Khan on using institutional economics to predict effective government reforms 03:22:17 2024-01-04 23:56
2023 Mega-highlights Extravaganza 01:53:43 2023-12-31 21:52
#100 Classic episode – Having a successful career with depression, anxiety, and imposter syndrome 02:51:32 2023-12-27 22:31
#176 – Nathan Labenz on the final push for AGI, understanding OpenAI's leadership drama, and red-teaming frontier models 03:46:52 2023-12-22 22:31
#175 – Lucia Coulter on preventing lead poisoning for $1.66 per child 02:14:08 2023-12-14 22:38
#174 – Nita Farahany on the neurotechnology already being used to convict criminals and manipulate workers 02:00:31 2023-12-07 23:20
#173 – Jeff Sebo on digital minds, and how to avoid sleepwalking into a major moral catastrophe 02:38:20 2023-11-22 22:01
#172 – Bryan Caplan on why you should stop reading the news 02:23:22 2023-11-17 22:13
#171 – Alison Young on how top labs have jeopardised public health with repeated biosafety failures 01:46:14 2023-11-09 22:39
#170 – Santosh Harish on how air pollution is responsible for ~12% of global deaths — and how to get that number down 02:57:46 2023-11-01 23:15
#169 – Paul Niehaus on whether cash transfers cause economic growth, and keeping theft to acceptable levels 01:47:56 2023-10-26 22:42
#168 – Ian Morris on whether deep history says we're heading for an intelligence explosion 02:43:55 2023-10-24 01:42
#167 – Seren Kell on the research gaps holding back alternative proteins from mass adoption 01:54:49 2023-10-18 22:32
#166 – Tantum Collins on what he’s learned as an AI policy insider at the White House, DeepMind and elsewhere 03:08:49 2023-10-12 23:12
#165 – Anders Sandberg on war in space, whether civilisations age, and the best things possible in our universe 02:48:33 2023-10-06 22:22
#164 – Kevin Esvelt on cults that want to kill everyone, stealth vs wildfire pandemics, and how he felt inventing gene drives 03:03:42 2023-10-02 20:14
Great power conflict (Article) 01:19:46 2023-09-22 20:36
#163 – Toby Ord on the perils of maximising the good that you do 03:07:08 2023-09-08 22:28
The 80,000 Hours Career Guide (2023) 04:41:13 2023-09-04 09:09
#162 – Mustafa Suleyman on getting Washington and Silicon Valley to tame AI 00:59:34 2023-09-01 21:51
#161 – Michael Webb on whether AI will soon cause job loss, lower incomes, and higher inequality — or the opposite 03:30:32 2023-08-23 23:27
#160 – Hannah Ritchie on why it makes sense to be optimistic about the environment 02:36:42 2023-08-14 23:18
#159 – Jan Leike on OpenAI's massive push to make superintelligence safe in 4 years or less 02:51:20 2023-08-08 00:08
We now offer shorter 'interview highlights' episodes 00:06:10 2023-08-05 09:44
#158 – Holden Karnofsky on how AIs might take over even if they're no smarter than humans, and his 4-part playbook for AI risk 03:13:33 2023-08-01 01:30
#157 – Ezra Klein on existential risk from AI and what DC could do about it 01:18:46 2023-07-24 23:21
#156 – Markus Anderljung on how to regulate cutting-edge AI models 02:06:36 2023-07-10 22:50
Bonus: The Worst Ideas in the History of the World 00:35:24 2023-06-30 22:46
#155 – Lennart Heim on the compute governance era and what has to come after 03:12:43 2023-06-23 01:25
#154 - Rohin Shah on DeepMind and trying to fairly hear out both AI doomers and doubters 03:09:42 2023-06-09 22:15
#153 – Elie Hassenfeld on 2 big picture critiques of GiveWell's approach, and 6 lessons from their recent work 02:56:10 2023-06-02 23:53
#152 – Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion 03:26:58 2023-05-20 00:55
#151 – Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us 02:49:40 2023-05-12 22:41
#150 – Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world 03:01:59 2023-05-05 22:48
Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla on the Shrimp Welfare Project (80k After Hours) 01:17:28 2023-04-22 03:58
#149 – Tim LeBon on how altruistic perfectionism is self-defeating 03:11:48 2023-04-12 02:05
#148 – Johannes Ackva on unfashionable climate interventions that work, and fashionable ones that don't 02:17:28 2023-04-03 20:58
#147 – Spencer Greenberg on stopping valueless papers from getting into top journals 02:38:08 2023-03-24 05:09
#146 – Robert Long on why large language models like GPT (probably) aren't conscious 03:12:51 2023-03-14 06:42
#145 – Christopher Brown on why slavery abolition wasn't inevitable 02:42:24 2023-02-11 01:30
#144 – Athena Aktipis on why cancer is actually one of our universe's most fundamental phenomena 03:15:57 2023-01-26 01:01
#79 Classic episode - A.J. Jacobs on radical honesty, following the whole Bible, and reframing global problems as puzzles 02:35:30 2023-01-16 23:58
#81 Classic episode - Ben Garfinkel on scrutinising classic AI risk arguments 02:37:11 2023-01-09 23:57
#83 Classic episode - Jennifer Doleac on preventing crime without police and prisons 02:17:46 2023-01-04 22:34
#143 – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuclear weapons 02:40:17 2022-12-29 23:49
#142 – John McWhorter on key lessons from linguistics, the virtue of creoles, and language extinction 01:47:54 2022-12-21 00:49
#141 – Richard Ngo on large language models, OpenAI, and striving to make the future go well 02:44:19 2022-12-14 00:59
My experience with imposter syndrome — and how to (partly) overcome it (Article) 00:44:05 2022-12-08 02:37
Rob's thoughts on the FTX bankruptcy 00:05:36 2022-11-23 22:08
#140 – Bear Braumoeller on the case that war isn't in decline 02:47:06 2022-11-08 23:36
#139 – Alan Hájek on puzzles and paradoxes in probability and expected value 03:38:26 2022-10-28 23:58
Preventing an AI-related catastrophe (Article) 02:24:18 2022-10-14 23:11
#138 – Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on why pleasure and pain are the only things that intrinsically matter 02:24:20 2022-09-30 23:05
#137 – Andreas Mogensen on whether effective altruism is just for consequentialists 02:21:34 2022-09-08 23:00
#136 – Will MacAskill on what we owe the future 02:54:37 2022-08-15 22:11
#135 – Samuel Charap on key lessons from five months of war in Ukraine 00:54:47 2022-08-08 18:41
#134 – Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us 03:41:07 2022-07-22 11:25
#133 – Max Tegmark on how a 'put-up-or-shut-up' resolution led him to work on AI and algorithmic news selection 02:57:51 2022-07-01 17:36
#132 – Nova DasSarma on why information security may be critical to the safe development of AI systems 02:42:27 2022-06-14 23:47
#131 – Lewis Dartnell on getting humanity to bounce back faster in a post-apocalyptic world 01:05:42 2022-06-03 17:34
#130 – Will MacAskill on balancing frugality with ambition, whether you need longtermism, & mental health under pressure 02:16:41 2022-05-23 20:17
#129 – James Tibenderana on the state of the art in malaria control and elimination 03:19:36 2022-05-09 23:57
#128 – Chris Blattman on the five reasons wars happen 02:46:51 2022-04-28 23:50
#127 – Sam Bankman-Fried on taking a high-risk approach to crypto and doing good 03:20:28 2022-04-14 22:29
#126 – Bryan Caplan on whether lazy parenting is OK, what really helps workers, and betting on beliefs 02:15:16 2022-04-06 00:39
#125 – Joan Rohlfing on how to avoid catastrophic nuclear blunders 02:13:42 2022-03-30 01:15
#124 – Karen Levy on fads and misaligned incentives in global development, and scaling deworming to reach hundreds of millions 03:09:53 2022-03-21 20:39
#123 – Samuel Charap on why Putin invaded Ukraine, the risk of escalation, and how to prevent disaster 00:59:17 2022-03-14 19:27
#122 – Michelle Hutchinson & Habiba Islam on balancing competing priorities and other themes from our 1-on-1 careers advising 01:36:26 2022-03-09 18:39
Introducing 80k After Hours 00:13:31 2022-03-01 19:04
#121 – Matthew Yglesias on avoiding the pundit's fallacy and how much military intervention can be used for good 03:04:18 2022-02-16 18:23
#120 – Audrey Tang on what we can learn from Taiwan’s experiments with how to do democracy 02:05:51 2022-02-02 23:45
#43 Classic episode - Daniel Ellsberg on the institutional insanity that maintains nuclear doomsday machines 02:35:28 2022-01-18 18:21
#35 Classic episode - Tara Mac Aulay on the audacity to fix the world without asking permission 01:23:34 2022-01-11 00:17
#67 Classic episode – David Chalmers on the nature and ethics of consciousness 04:42:05 2022-01-04 00:51
#59 Classic episode - Cass Sunstein on how change happens, and why it's so often abrupt & unpredictable 01:43:05 2021-12-27 23:25
#119 – Andrew Yang on our very long-term future, and other topics most politicians won’t touch 01:25:57 2021-12-20 18:28
#118 – Jaime Yassif on safeguarding bioscience to prevent catastrophic lab accidents and bioweapons development 02:15:40 2021-12-13 23:22
#117 – David Denkenberger on using paper mills and seaweed to feed everyone in a catastrophe, ft Sahil Shah 03:08:13 2021-11-29 22:24
#116 – Luisa Rodriguez on why global catastrophes seem unlikely to kill us all 03:45:44 2021-11-19 21:53
#115 – David Wallace on the many-worlds theory of quantum mechanics and its implications 03:09:47 2021-11-12 21:55
#114 – Maha Rehman on working with governments to rapidly deliver masks to millions of people 01:42:55 2021-10-22 21:21
We just put up a new compilation of ten core episodes of the show 00:03:02 2021-10-20 20:54
#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India 02:05:44 2021-10-19 00:43
#112 – Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications 03:48:40 2021-10-06 01:12
#111 – Mushtaq Khan on using institutional economics to predict effective government reforms 03:20:26 2021-09-10 13:38
#110 – Holden Karnofsky on building aptitudes and kicking ass 02:46:06 2021-08-26 22:07
#109 – Holden Karnofsky on the most important century 02:19:02 2021-08-19 21:29
#108 – Chris Olah on working at top AI labs without an undergrad degree 01:33:24 2021-08-11 15:18
#107 – Chris Olah on what the hell is going on inside neural networks 03:09:21 2021-08-04 22:05
#106 – Cal Newport on an industrial revolution for office work 01:53:27 2021-07-28 19:02
#105 – Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways 02:54:32 2021-07-12 17:18
#104 – Pardis Sabeti on the Sentinel system for detecting and stopping pandemics 02:20:58 2021-06-30 00:52
#103 – Max Roser on building the world's best source of COVID-19 data at Our World in Data 02:22:25 2021-06-21 18:13
#102 – Tom Moynihan on why prior generations missed some of the biggest priorities of all 03:56:44 2021-06-12 00:41
#101 – Robert Wright on using cognitive empathy to save the world 01:36:00 2021-05-28 02:57
#100 – Having a successful career with depression, anxiety and imposter syndrome 02:51:21 2021-05-19 19:55
#99 – Leah Garcés on turning adversaries into allies to change the chicken industry 02:26:04 2021-05-14 01:12
#98 – Christian Tarsney on future bias and a possible solution to moral fanaticism 02:38:22 2021-05-05 22:16
#97 – Mike Berkowitz on keeping the US a liberal democratic country 02:36:10 2021-04-20 23:03
The ten episodes of this show you should listen to first 00:03:03 2021-04-15 18:50
#96 – Nina Schick on disinformation and the rise of synthetic media 02:00:04 2021-04-06 23:02
#95 – Kelly Wanser on whether to deliberately intervene in the climate 01:24:08 2021-03-26 20:21
#94 – Ezra Klein on aligning journalism, politics, and what matters most 01:45:21 2021-03-20 22:00
#93 – Andy Weber on rendering bioweapons obsolete & ending the new nuclear arms race 01:54:21 2021-03-12 23:54
#92 – Brian Christian on the alignment problem 02:55:46 2021-03-05 21:59
#91 – Lewis Bollard on big wins against factory farming and how they happened 02:33:17 2021-02-15 17:37
Rob Wiblin on how he ended up the way he is 01:57:57 2021-02-03 17:53
#90 – Ajeya Cotra on worldview diversification and how big the future could be 02:59:05 2021-01-21 01:18
Rob Wiblin on self-improvement and research ethics 02:30:37 2021-01-13 19:08
#73 - Phil Trammell on patient philanthropy and waiting to do good [re-release] 02:41:06 2021-01-07 20:57
#75 – Michelle Hutchinson on what people most often ask 80,000 Hours [re-release] 02:14:50 2020-12-30 18:00
#89 – Owen Cotton-Barratt on epistemic systems and layers of defense against potential global catastrophes 02:38:12 2020-12-17 18:03
#88 – Tristan Harris on the need to change the incentives of social media companies 02:35:39 2020-12-03 21:18
Benjamin Todd on what the effective altruism community most needs (80k team chat #4) 01:25:21 2020-11-12 23:26
#87 – Russ Roberts on whether it's more effective to help strangers, or people you know 01:49:36 2020-11-03 20:43
How much does a vote matter? (Article) 00:31:14 2020-10-29 14:47
#86 – Hilary Greaves on Pascal's mugging, strong longtermism, and whether existing can be good for us 02:24:54 2020-10-21 23:30
Benjamin Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it (80k team chat #3) 01:24:07 2020-09-23 00:47
Ideas for high impact careers beyond our priority paths (Article) 00:27:54 2020-09-07 14:03
Benjamin Todd on varieties of longtermism and things 80,000 Hours might be getting wrong (80k team chat #2) 00:57:51 2020-09-01 17:56
Global issues beyond 80,000 Hours’ current priorities (Article) 00:32:54 2020-08-28 18:24
#85 - Mark Lynas on climate change, societal collapse & nuclear energy 02:08:26 2020-08-20 21:50
#84 – Shruti Rajagopalan on what India did to stop COVID-19 and how well it worked 02:58:14 2020-08-13 23:22
#83 - Jennifer Doleac on preventing crime without police and prisons 02:23:03 2020-07-31 22:16
#82 – James Forman Jr on reducing the cruelty of the US criminal legal system 01:28:08 2020-07-28 00:07
#81 - Ben Garfinkel on scrutinising classic AI risk arguments 02:38:28 2020-07-09 19:42
Advice on how to read our advice (Article) 00:15:23 2020-06-29 21:38
#80 – Stuart Russell on why our approach to AI is broken and how to fix it 02:13:17 2020-06-23 01:17
What anonymous contributors think about important life and career questions (Article) 00:37:10 2020-06-05 19:40
#79 – A.J. Jacobs on radical honesty, following the whole Bible, and reframing global problems as puzzles 02:38:47 2020-06-02 00:08
#78 – Danny Hernandez on forecasting and the drivers of AI progress 02:11:37 2020-05-22 18:17
#77 – Marc Lipsitch on whether we're winning or losing against COVID-19 01:37:05 2020-05-19 01:32
Article: Ways people trying to do good accidentally make things worse, and how to avoid them 00:26:46 2020-05-12 21:45
#76 – Tara Kirk Sell on misinformation, who's done well and badly, & what to reopen first 01:53:00 2020-05-09 01:43
#75 – Michelle Hutchinson on what people most often ask 80,000 Hours 02:13:06 2020-04-28 16:45
#74 – Dr Greg Lewis on COVID-19 & catastrophic biological risks 02:37:17 2020-04-17 19:20
Article: Reducing global catastrophic biological risks 01:04:15 2020-04-16 00:45
Emergency episode: Rob & Howie on the menace of COVID-19, and what both governments & individuals might do to help 01:52:12 2020-03-20 00:43
#73 – Phil Trammell on patient philanthropy and waiting to do good 02:35:22 2020-03-17 16:08
#72 - Toby Ord on the precipice and humanity's potential futures 03:14:17 2020-03-07 20:58
#71 - Benjamin Todd on the key ideas of 80,000 Hours 02:57:29 2020-03-03 00:50
Arden & Rob on demandingness, work-life balance & injustice (80k team chat #1) 00:44:12 2020-02-25 23:17
#70 - Dr Cassidy Nelson on the 12 best ways to stop the next pandemic (and limit nCoV) 02:26:33 2020-02-14 00:58
#69 – Jeffrey Ding on China, its AI dream, and what we get wrong about both 01:37:14 2020-02-07 00:07
Rob & Howie on what we do and don't know about 2019-nCoV 01:18:44 2020-02-03 18:42
#68 - Will MacAskill on the paralysis argument, whether we're at the hinge of history, & his new priorities 03:25:36 2020-01-24 01:57
#44 Classic episode - Paul Christiano on finding real solutions to the AI alignment problem 03:51:14 2020-01-15 01:44
#33 Classic episode - Anders Sandberg on cryonics, solar flares, and the annual odds of nuclear war 01:25:11 2020-01-08 07:27
#17 Classic episode - Will MacAskill on moral uncertainty, utilitarianism & how to avoid being a moral monster 01:52:39 2019-12-31 17:28
#46 Classic episode - Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness & tackling crucial questions in academia 02:49:12 2019-12-23 23:24
#67 – David Chalmers on the nature and ethics of consciousness 04:41:50 2019-12-16 22:00
#66 – Peter Singer on being provocative, effective altruism, & how his moral views have changed 02:01:21 2019-12-05 16:58
#65 – Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins on 8 years pursuing WMD arms control, & diversity in diplomacy 01:40:32 2019-11-20 00:49
#64 – Bruce Schneier on how insecure electronic voting could break the United States — and surveillance without tyranny 02:11:04 2019-10-25 20:21
Rob Wiblin on plastic straws, nicotine, doping, & whether changing the long-term is really possible 03:14:33 2019-09-26 01:23
Have we helped you have a bigger social impact? Our annual survey, plus other ways we can help you. 00:03:39 2019-09-16 21:22
#63 – Vitalik Buterin on better ways to fund public goods, blockchain's failures, & effective giving 03:18:24 2019-09-04 00:52
#62 – Paul Christiano on messaging the future, increasing compute, & how CO2 impacts your brain 02:11:47 2019-08-05 17:07
#61 - Helen Toner on emerging technology, national security, and China 01:54:57 2019-07-17 19:08
#60 - Phil Tetlock on why accurate forecasting matters for everything, and how you can do it better 02:11:39 2019-06-28 17:36
#59 – Cass Sunstein on how change happens, and why it's so often abrupt & unpredictable 01:43:24 2019-06-18 00:45
#58 – Pushmeet Kohli of DeepMind on designing robust & reliable AI systems and how to succeed in AI 01:30:12 2019-06-03 19:10
Rob Wiblin on human nature, new technology, and living a happy, healthy & ethical life 02:18:25 2019-05-14 00:28
#57 – Tom Kalil on how to do the most good in government 02:50:16 2019-04-23 14:51
#56 - Persis Eskander on wild animal welfare and what, if anything, to do about it 02:57:58 2019-04-15 19:22
#55 – Lutter & Winter on founding charter cities with outstanding governance to end poverty 02:31:14 2019-03-31 20:42
#54 – OpenAI on publication norms, malicious uses of AI, and general-purpose learning algorithms 02:53:40 2019-03-19 22:32
#53 - Kelsey Piper on the room for important advocacy within journalism 02:34:31 2019-02-27 05:28
Julia Galef and Rob Wiblin on an updated view of the best ways to help humanity 00:56:46 2019-02-17 02:00
#52 - Glen Weyl on uprooting capitalism and democracy for a just society 02:44:27 2019-02-08 03:00
#10 Classic episode - Dr Nick Beckstead on spending billions of dollars preventing human extinction 01:52:04 2019-02-02 21:00
#51 - Martin Gurri on the revolt of the public & crisis of authority in the information age 02:31:11 2019-01-29 01:48
#8 Classic episode - Lewis Bollard on how to end factory farming in our lifetimes 03:14:53 2019-01-16 23:07
#9 Classic episode - Christine Peterson on the '80s futurist movement & its lessons for today 01:19:40 2019-01-07 18:58
#50 - David Denkenberger on how to feed all 8b people through an asteroid/nuclear winter 02:57:15 2018-12-27 21:45
#49 - Rachel Glennerster on a year's worth of education for 30c & other development 'best buys' 01:35:42 2018-12-20 06:19
#6 Classic episode - Dr Toby Ord on why the long-term future matters more than anything else 02:10:23 2018-12-14 20:29
#15 Classic episode - Prof Tetlock on chimps beating Berkeley undergrads & when to defer to the wise 01:24:09 2018-12-07 16:01
#48 - Brian Christian on better living through the wisdom of computer science 03:15:30 2018-11-22 23:27
#47 - Catherine Olsson & Daniel Ziegler on the fast path into high-impact ML engineering roles 02:04:50 2018-11-02 13:47
#46 - Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness & tackling crucial questions in academia 02:49:24 2018-10-23 17:54
#45 - Tyler Cowen's case for maximising econ growth, stabilising civilization & thinking long-term 02:30:41 2018-10-17 20:13
#44 - Paul Christiano on how we'll hand the future off to AI, & solving the alignment problem 03:51:51 2018-10-02 18:25
#43 - Daniel Ellsberg on the institutional insanity that maintains nuclear doomsday machines 02:44:28 2018-09-25 11:36
#42 - Amanda Askell on moral empathy, the value of information & the ethics of infinity 02:46:29 2018-09-11 20:21
#41 - David Roodman on incarceration, geomagnetic storms, & becoming a world-class researcher 02:18:01 2018-08-28 21:18
#40 - Katja Grace on forecasting future technology & how much we should trust expert predictions 02:11:18 2018-08-21 20:37
#39 - Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions 02:17:30 2018-08-07 21:51
#38 - Yew-Kwang Ng on anticipating effective altruism decades ago & how to make a much happier world 01:59:30 2018-07-26 02:08
#37 - GiveWell picks top charities by estimating the unknowable. James Snowden on how they do it. 01:44:07 2018-07-16 22:41
#36 - Tanya Singh on ending the operations management bottleneck in effective altruism 02:04:33 2018-07-11 20:00
#35 - Tara Mac Aulay on the audacity to fix the world without asking permission 01:22:35 2018-06-22 01:31
Rob Wiblin on the art/science of a high impact career 01:31:35 2018-06-08 04:21
#34 - We use the worst voting system that exists. Here's how Aaron Hamlin is going to fix it. 02:18:31 2018-06-01 11:44
#33 - Anders Sandberg on what if we ended ageing, solar flares & the annual risk of nuclear war 01:24:54 2018-05-29 17:57
#32 - Bryan Caplan on whether his Case Against Education holds up, totalitarianism, & open borders 02:25:13 2018-05-22 13:45
#31 - Allan Dafoe on defusing the political & economic risks posed by existing AI capabilities 00:48:08 2018-05-18 15:49
#30 - Eva Vivalt on how little social science findings generalize from one study to another 02:01:29 2018-05-15 19:43
#29 - Anders Sandberg on 3 new resolutions for the Fermi paradox & how to colonise the universe 01:21:27 2018-05-08 18:17
#28 - Owen Cotton-Barratt on why scientists should need insurance, PhD strategy & fast AI progresses 01:03:06 2018-04-28 00:00
#27 - Dr Tom Inglesby on careers and policies that reduce global catastrophic biological risks 02:16:41 2018-04-18 03:30
#26 - Marie Gibbons on how exactly clean meat is made & what's needed to get it in every supermarket 01:44:17 2018-04-10 18:52
#25 - Robin Hanson on why we have to lie to ourselves about why we do what we do 02:39:20 2018-03-28 19:20
#24 - Stefan Schubert on why it’s a bad idea to break the rules, even if it’s for a good cause 00:55:02 2018-03-20 17:56
#23 - How to actually become an AI alignment researcher, according to Dr Jan Leike 00:45:24 2018-03-16 18:51
#22 - Leah Utyasheva on the non-profit that figured out how to massively cut suicide rates 01:08:04 2018-03-07 19:13
#21 - Holden Karnofsky on times philanthropy transformed the world & Open Phil’s plan to do the same 02:35:36 2018-02-27 18:59
#20 - Bruce Friedrich on inventing outstanding meat substitutes to end speciesism & factory farming 01:18:00 2018-02-19 04:39
#19 - Samantha Pitts-Kiefer on working next to the White House trying to prevent nuclear war 01:04:30 2018-02-14 17:56
#18 - Ofir Reich on using data science to end poverty & the spurious action-inaction distinction 01:18:49 2018-01-31 13:53
#17 - Will MacAskill on moral uncertainty, utilitarianism & how to avoid being a moral monster 01:52:14 2018-01-19 13:18
#16 - Michelle Hutchinson on global priorities research & shaping the ideas of intellectuals 00:55:01 2017-12-22 19:53
#15 - Phil Tetlock on how chimps beat Berkeley undergrads and when it’s wise to defer to the wise 01:24:00 2017-11-20 18:28
#14 - Sharon Nunez & Jose Valle on going undercover to expose animal abuse 01:25:57 2017-11-13 19:12
#13 - Claire Walsh on testing which policies work & how to get governments to listen to the results 00:52:28 2017-10-31 22:00
#12 - Beth Cameron works to stop you dying in a pandemic. Here’s what keeps her up at night. 01:45:16 2017-10-25 19:13
#11 - Spencer Greenberg on speeding up social science 10-fold & why plenty of startups cause harm 01:29:18 2017-10-17 19:57
#10 - Nick Beckstead on how to spend billions of dollars preventing human extinction 01:51:48 2017-10-11 18:41
#9 - Christine Peterson on how insecure computers could lead to global disaster, and how to fix it 01:45:10 2017-10-04 18:18
#8 - Lewis Bollard on how to end factory farming in our lifetimes 03:16:55 2017-09-27 19:19
#7 - Julia Galef on making humanity more rational, what EA does wrong, and why Twitter isn’t all bad 01:14:17 2017-09-13 18:25
#6 - Toby Ord on why the long-term future matters more than anything else & what to do about it 02:08:50 2017-09-06 19:59
#5 - Alex Gordon-Brown on how to donate millions in your 20s working in quantitative trading 01:45:20 2017-08-28 20:59
#4 - Howie Lempel on pandemics that kill hundreds of millions and how to stop them 02:35:24 2017-08-23 18:37
#3 - Dario Amodei on OpenAI and how AI will change the world for good and ill 01:38:22 2017-07-21 08:55
#2 - David Spiegelhalter on risk, stats and improving understanding of science 00:33:43 2017-06-21 06:58
#1 - Miles Brundage on the world's desperate need for AI strategists and policy experts 00:55:16 2017-06-06 01:56
#0 – Introducing the 80,000 Hours Podcast 00:03:54 2017-05-01 23:39
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