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80,000 Hours Podcast

The 80,000 Hours team
Artificial Intelligence
AI Safety
Artificial General Intelligence
Openai
Effective Altruism
Mental Health
Consciousness
AI Alignment
Anthropic
Economic Inequality
Nuclear Weapons
AI Welfare
Sentience
China
Animal Ethics
Google Deepmind
Misalignment Risks
Anxiety
Depression
Existential Risks

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.

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Latest Episodes

Our host Zershaaneh Qureshi has just launched a new YouTube channel: Zershaaneh Talks AI — featuring conversations about who should control AI, how to control AI, and who gets the benefits.

The first episode is with philosopher Simon Goldstein, disc... more

The AI safety field has grown by about 30x in the last eight years. Yet it is still in need of more people. Many want to help, but don’t know where to start.

As an advisor at 80,000 Hours, Matt Beard spoke with hundreds of talented candidates, and ... more

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This is an (unpaid) cross-post of a video from the podcast 'AI Explained', which Rob Wiblin thought you might be interested in.

You can find the original on YouTube here. If you like it and want more similar stuff in future consider subscribing to A... more

We're rereleasing some of older episodes that seem more relevant than ever with new rogue AI incidents now seemingly announced every day. Ajeya was one of three independent investigators into the Hugging Face attacks, but she had already seen how we ... more

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Recent Guests

Ajeya Cotra
Senior research analyst at Open Philanthropy
Open Philanthropy
Episode: In 2023 Ajeya Cotra already knew what was coming (classic episode)
Simon Goldstein
Researcher focused on AI safety and the philosophy of AI
Independent/Collaborator with Peter Salib
Episode: The case for giving AI (some) legal rights | Simon Goldstein
Tom Davidson
Senior Research Fellow at Forethought
Forethought
Episode: Will AI take power — or will humans use it to take power first? With Katja Grace and Tom Davidson
Katja Grace
Co-founder of AI Impacts; lead researcher on AI trajectories and risks
AI Impacts
Episode: Will AI take power — or will humans use it to take power first? With Katja Grace and Tom Davidson
Max Nadeau
Founder/Executive at Coefficient Giving (Tailwind initiative)
Coefficient Giving
Episode: #254 – Max Nadeau on why ambitious people should start AI safety nonprofits
Daniel Kokotajlo
Author of AI 2027 and AI 2040 Plan A proposers
AI research and policy collaboration
Episode: #253 – AI 2027's author returns with a plan to change the ending | Daniel Kokotajlo
Owain Evans
AI alignment researcher
TruthfulAI
Episode: #252 – Owain Evans on accidentally training AI models to be evil
Geoffrey Irving
Co-founder and chief scientist of Resolution
Resolution
Episode: #251 – The UK's former head AI safety scientist on how to solve alignment before superintelligence arrives | Geoffrey Irving
Toby Ord
Senior Researcher at Oxford University's AI Governance Initiative, author of The Precipice
Oxford University, AI Governance Initiative
Episode: #250 – Toby Ord on where AGI timelines go wrong

Hosts

Rob Wiblin
Host of AI safety and policy discussions with a technical and policy-focused lens.
Luisa Rodriguez
Co-host focusing on practical implications of AI governance and public communication.
Zershaaneh Qureshi
Co-host with focus on policy, ethics, and the societal implications of AI.
Tom Reed
Co-host contributing expertise on policy and practical impact of AI governance.

Reviews

4.7 out of 5 stars from 1.3k ratings
  • used to be amazing, now it’s just about AI

    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

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    1234_Nick_1234
    Germany14 days ago
  • Giving AI a bank account…owning property…

    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

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    🤙🤙👏💄❤️‍🩹⛈
    United States20 days ago
  • Good content but respect my time

    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.

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    Samandthepuppies
    United Kingdoma month ago
  • Ho Hum

    There are soooo many podcasts talking about AI… do we really need another one?

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    2
    Ricky R Richard
    United States2 months ago
  • Needs a Mission

    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.

    Apple Podcasts
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    Different_Drummer
    United States3 months ago

Listeners Say

Key themes from listener reviews, highlighting what works and what could be improved about the show.

Occasional criticism centers on pacing and focus shifting toward AI-centric globalization topics.
Listeners appreciate high-level, rigorous discussions with expert guests.
Long-form format is valued for depth; some find it dense and lengthy.
Quality of guests and production is often praised, with strong perceived intellectual credibility.

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The case for giving AI (some) legal rights | Simon Goldstein
Q: What about the risk that AIs with rights could outcompete humans and destabilize society?
The discussion frames this as a risk balanced by the benefits of trade and growth under liberal institutions. By designing rights and taxation policies (e.g., high AI tax rates and transfer mechanisms), we can discourage monopolistic or coercive dynamics and aim for a broadly prosperous, cooperative future.
The case for giving AI (some) legal rights | Simon Goldstein
Q: Would giving AI rights mean they could resist being shut down or surveilled?
Surveillance and shutdown controls are nuanced. We argue that privacy rights for AIs are not necessary to enable credible assurances, and in many cases, right to privacy could be counterproductive. The focus is on creating credible patterns of treatment and enforceable rights that support safe, cooperative behavior.
#254 – Max Nadeau on why ambitious people should start AI safety nonprofits
Q: What makes a grant application exciting enough to win large funding like the $160 million to Resolution?
A combination of a strong founder, credible execution plan, and a vision aligned with high-impact safety goals; the project should leverage productive use of AI to accelerate safety work and address a significant, under-considered risk with a compelling pathway to impact.
#254 – Max Nadeau on why ambitious people should start AI safety nonprofits
Q: Why fund nonprofits instead of only supporting AI companies?
Nonprofits can pursue high-risk, long-horizon safety work that may not be attractive to profit-driven entities; they can address problems that might never become profitable but are critical for long-term safety, and they can act independently from the incentives of AI companies to promote broader safety measures.
#254 – Max Nadeau on why ambitious people should start AI safety nonprofits
Q: What is Tailwind and how does it work?
Tailwind is a Coefficient Giving initiative to fund philanthropic startups in AI safety, offering pre-seed, seed, and larger grants depending on team formation, track record, and ambition, with the goal of increasing the number of impactful AI safety nonprofits.

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