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80,000 Hours Podcast
80,000 Hours Podcast
Rob, Luisa, Keiran, and the 80,000 Hours team

Unusually in-depth conversations about the world's most pressing problems and what you can do to solve them. Subscribe by searching for '80000... more

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Episodes

#201 – Ken Goldberg on why your robot butler isn’t here yet

"Perception is quite difficult with cameras: even if you have a stereo camera, you still can’t really build a map... more

13 Sep 2024 · 2 hours, 1 minute
#200 – Ezra Karger on what superforecasters and experts think about existential risks

"It’s very hard to find examples where people say, 'I’m starting from this point. I’m starting from this belief.' So... more

04 Sep 2024 · 2 hours, 49 minutes
#199 – Nathan Calvin on California’s AI bill SB 1047 and its potential to shape US AI policy

"I do think that there is a really significant sentiment among parts of the opposition that it’s not really just... more

29 Aug 2024 · 1 hour, 12 minutes
#198 – Meghan Barrett on challenging our assumptions about insects

"This is a group of animals I think people are particularly unfamiliar with. They are especially poorly covered in our... more

26 Aug 2024 · 3 hours, 48 minutes
#197 – Nick Joseph on whether Anthropic's AI safety policy is up to the task

The three biggest AI companies — Anthropic, OpenAI, and DeepMind — have now all released policies designed to make their... more

22 Aug 2024 · 2 hours, 29 minutes
#196 – Jonathan Birch on the edge cases of sentience and why they matter

"In the 1980s, it was still apparently common to perform surgery on newborn babies without anaesthetic on both sides of... more

15 Aug 2024 · 2 hours, 1 minute
#195 – Sella Nevo on who's trying to steal frontier AI models, and what they could do with them

"Computational systems have literally millions of physical and conceptual components, and around 98% of them are embedded into your infrastructure... more

01 Aug 2024 · 2 hours, 8 minutes
#194 – Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government

"If you’re a power that is an island and that goes by sea, then you’re more likely to do things... more

26 Jul 2024 · 3 hours, 4 minutes
#193 – Sihao Huang on the risk that US–China AI competition leads to war

"You don’t necessarily need world-leading compute to create highly risky AI systems. The biggest biological design tools right now, like... more

18 Jul 2024 · 2 hours, 23 minutes
#192 – Annie Jacobsen on what would happen if North Korea launched a nuclear weapon at the US

"Ring one: total annihilation; no cellular life remains. Ring two, another three-mile diameter out: everything is ablaze. Ring three, another... more

12 Jul 2024 · 1 hour, 54 minutes
80,000 Hours Podcast
#201 – Ken Goldberg on why your robot butler isn’t here yet
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