
The most important conversations about artificial intelligence you won’t hear anywhere else. Subscribe by searching for '80000 Hours' wherever you get podcasts. Hosted by Rob Wiblin, Luisa Rodriguez, Zershaaneh Qureshi, and Tom Reed.
| Publishes | Twice weekly | Episodes | 368 | Founded | 9 years ago |
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China’s best models are only six months behind America’s, despite having far less computing power. How is that possible?
Luisa Rodriguez investigates, and finds that much of China’s progress is made by using American chips and copying American model... more
We make a lot of episodes about AI these days. We recently picked out the best 10 episodes of the show to really help deepen your understanding of AI and AGI and superintelligence and recursive self-improvement — and the impact all of those things mi... more
This is an (unpaid) cross-post of an episode from the podcast NonZero, which Rob Wiblin thought you might be interested in. The originals are on the NonZero website: Part 1 and Part 2. If you like it and want more similar stuff in the future, conside... more
The big 3 AI companies all had serious scandals last month. Anthropic pushed a federal AI bill that would make it harder to stop dangerous model training. OpenAI fired three safety researchers based on evidence that’s somewhere between weak and nonex... more
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you guys should consider the massive opportunity cost of all the good work not featured anymore just so you can feature AI all day long
I was on board with these ideas until you spent nearly 2 hours interacting with your latest guest. Please, stop anthropomorphizing this technology. It is not human. To even consider it having intelligence is a joke.
Any appearance of human behavior is a side effect of these LLMs being…human language models. Maybe they can problem solve more efficiently, now and in the future, but the idea that these machines should ever have similar rights to humans is an insane idea. Might as well allow dogs a... more
You really need to hire an editor. Not everything that comes out of your guests mouth is gold. A good editor would help convey the main point while maintaining quality and respecting the audience’s time.
There are soooo many podcasts talking about AI… do we really need another one?
This podcast started talking about careers, then seemed to do a random walk through other topics, to end up in the land of AI speculation. They really need to define a mission and stick with it.
Far too much content to actually be useful. Less quantity and more quality.
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A thoughtful, long-form interview show focused on AI risk, governance, and policy. Episodes frequently center on AI safety, alignment challenges, regulatory approaches, and strategic ideas for shaping safe AI progress, often featuring researchers, policymakers, and practitioners discussing practical safeguards, international cooperation, and career paths in high-impact AI work. Noteworthy is the sustained emphasis on rigorous analysis, diverse expert perspectives, and real-world implications for governance, industry practice, and public understanding of AI futures.
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