The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is a nonprofit working to reduce global catastrophic and existential risk from powerful technologies. In particular,... 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
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
Liron Shapira joins the podcast to discuss superintelligence goals, what makes AI different from other technologies, risks from centralizing power,... more
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
Dan Hendrycks joins the podcast again to discuss X.ai, how AI risk thinking has evolved, malicious use of AI, AI... more
Samuel Hammond joins the podcast to discuss how AGI will transform economies, governments, institutions, and other power structures. You can... more
Are we doomed to a future of loneliness and unfulfilling online interactions? What if technology made us feel more connected... more
Let's imagine a future where AGI is developed but kept at a distance from practically impacting the world, while narrow... more
Steve Omohundro joins the podcast to discuss Provably Safe Systems, a paper he co-authored with FLI President Max Tegmark. You... more
What if AI allowed us to communicate with animals? Could interspecies communication lead to new levels of empathy? How might... more
If you could extend your life, would you? How might life extension technologies create new social and political divides? How... more
Johannes Ackva joins the podcast to discuss the main drivers of climate change and our best technological and governmental options... more
How do low income countries affected by climate change imagine their futures? How do they overcome these twin challenges? Will... more
What if we had one advanced AI system for the entire world? Would this led to a world 'beyond' nation... more
Tom Davidson joins the podcast to discuss how AI could quickly automate most cognitive tasks, including AI research, and why... more
How does who is involved in the design of AI affect the possibilities for our future? Why isn't the design... more
Are today's democratic systems equipped well enough to create the best possible future for everyone? If they're not, what systems... more
Coming Soon… The year is 2045. Humanity is not extinct, nor living in a dystopia. It has averted climate disaster... more
Robert Trager joins the podcast to discuss AI governance, the incentives of governments and companies, the track record of international... more
Jason Crawford joins the podcast to discuss the history of progress, the future of economic growth, and the relationship between... more
On this special episode of the podcast, Jaan Tallinn talks with Nathan Labenz about Jaan's model of AI risk, the... more
Joe Carlsmith joins the podcast to discuss how we change our minds about AI risk, gut feelings versus abstract models,... more
Dan Hendrycks joins the podcast to discuss evolutionary dynamics in AI development and how we could develop AI safely. You... more
Roman Yampolskiy joins the podcast to discuss various objections to AI safety, impossibility results for AI, and how much risk... more
Nathan Labenz joins the podcast to discuss the economic effects of AI on growth, productivity, and employment. We also talk... more
Nathan Labenz joins the podcast to discuss the cognitive revolution, his experience red teaming GPT-4, and the potential near-term dangers... more
Maryanna Saenko joins the podcast to discuss how venture capital works, how to fund innovation, and what the fields of... more
Connor Leahy joins the podcast to discuss the state of the AI. Which labs are in front? Which alignment solutions... more
Connor Leahy joins the podcast to discuss GPT-4, magic, cognitive emulation, demand for human-like AI, and aligning superintelligence. You can... more
Lennart Heim joins the podcast to discuss options for governing the compute used by AI labs and potential problems with... more
Lennart Heim joins the podcast to discuss how we can forecast AI progress by researching AI hardware. You can read... more
Liv Boeree joins the podcast to discuss poker, GPT-4, human-AI interaction, whether this is the most important century, and building... more
Liv Boeree joins the podcast to discuss Moloch, beauty filters, game theory, institutional change, and artificial intelligence. You can read... more
Tobias Baumann joins the podcast to discuss suffering risks, space colonization, and cooperative artificial intelligence. You can read more about... more
Tobias Baumann joins the podcast to discuss suffering risks, artificial sentience, and the problem of knowing which actions reduce suffering... more
Neel Nanda joins the podcast for a lightning round on mathematics, technological progress, aging, living up to our values, and... more
Neel Nanda joins the podcast to talk about mechanistic interpretability and how it can make AI safer. Neel is an... more
Neel Nanda joins the podcast to explain how we can understand neural networks using mechanistic interpretability. Neel is an independent... more
Connor Leahy from Conjecture joins the podcast for a lightning round on a variety of topics ranging from aliens to... more
Connor Leahy from Conjecture joins the podcast to discuss AI safety, the fragility of the world, slowing down AI development,... more
Tobias Baumann joins the podcast to discuss suffering risks, artificial sentience, and the problem of knowing which actions reduce suffering in the... more