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Annie Jacobsen joins the podcast to lay out a second by second timeline for how nuclear war could happen. We... more
Katja Grace joins the podcast to discuss the largest survey of AI researchers conducted to date, AI researchers' beliefs about... more
Holly Elmore joins the podcast to discuss pausing frontier AI, hardware overhang, safety research during a pause, the social dynamics... more
Sneha Revanur joins the podcast to discuss the social effects of AI, the illusory divide between AI ethics and AI... more
Roman Yampolskiy joins the podcast again to discuss whether AI is like a Shoggoth, whether scaling laws will hold for... more
On this special episode of the podcast, Flo Crivello talks with Nathan Labenz about AI as a new form of... more
Carl Robichaud joins the podcast to discuss the new nuclear arms race, how much world leaders and ideologies matter for... more
Frank Sauer joins the podcast to discuss autonomy in weapon systems, killer drones, low-tech defenses against drones, the flaws and... more
Darren McKee joins the podcast to discuss how AI might be difficult to control, which goals and traits AI systems... more
Mark Brakel (Director of Policy at the Future of Life Institute) joins the podcast to discuss the AI Safety Summit... more