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Nick Allardice joins the podcast to discuss how GiveDirectly uses AI to target cash transfers and predict natural disasters. Learn... more
Nathan Labenz joins the podcast to provide a comprehensive overview of AI progress since the release of GPT-4. You can find... more
Connor Leahy joins the podcast to discuss the motivations of AGI corporations, how modern AI is "grown", the need for... more
Suzy Shepherd joins the podcast to discuss her new short film "Writing Doom", which deals with AI risk. We discuss... more
Andrea Miotti joins the podcast to discuss "A Narrow Path" — a roadmap to safe, transformative AI. We talk about... more
Tamay Besiroglu joins the podcast to discuss scaling, AI capabilities in 2030, breakthroughs in AI agents and planning, automating work,... 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