The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is a nonprofit working to reduce global catastrophic and existential risk from powerful technologies. In particular,... more
Ryan Greenblatt joins the podcast to discuss AI control, timelines, takeoff speeds, misalignment, and slowing down around human-level AI. You can... more
Tom Barnes joins the podcast to discuss how much the world spends on AI capabilities versus AI safety, how governments... more
Samuel Hammond joins the podcast to discuss whether AI progress is slowing down or speeding up, AI agents and reasoning,... more
Anousheh Ansari joins the podcast to discuss how innovation prizes can incentivize technical innovation in space, AI, quantum computing, and... more
Mary Robinson joins the podcast to discuss long-view leadership, risks from AI and nuclear weapons, prioritizing global problems, how to... more
Emilia Javorsky joins the podcast to discuss AI-driven power concentration and how we might mitigate it. We also discuss optimism,... more
Anton Korinek joins the podcast to discuss the effects of automation on wages and labor, how we measure the complexity... more
Christian Ruhl joins the podcast to discuss US-China competition and the risk of war, official versus unofficial diplomacy, hotlines between... more
Christian Nunes joins the podcast to discuss deepfakes, how they impact women in particular, how we can protect ordinary victims... more
Dan Faggella joins the podcast to discuss whether humanity should eventually create AGI, how AI will change power dynamics between... more