The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is a nonprofit working to reduce global catastrophic and existential risk from powerful technologies. In particular,... 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 and... 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. ... 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