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

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