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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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#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
#191 (Part 2) – Carl Shulman on government and society after AGI

This is the second part of our marathon interview with Carl Shulman. The first episode is on the economy and... more

05 Jul 2024 · 2 hours, 20 minutes
#191 (Part 1) – Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGI

This is the first part of our marathon interview with Carl Shulman. The second episode is on government and society... more

27 Jun 2024 · 4 hours, 14 minutes
#190 – Eric Schwitzgebel on whether the US is conscious

"One of the most amazing things about planet Earth is that there are complex bags of mostly water — you... more

07 Jun 2024 · 2 hours,
#189 – Rachel Glennerster on how “market shaping” could help solve climate change, pandemics, and other global problems

"You can’t charge what something is worth during a pandemic. So we estimated that the value of one course of... more

29 May 2024 · 2 hours, 48 minutes
#188 – Matt Clancy on whether science is good

"Suppose we make these grants, we do some of those experiments I talk about. We discover, for example — I’m... more

23 May 2024 · 2 hours, 40 minutes
#187 – Zach Weinersmith on how researching his book turned him from a space optimist into a "space bastard"

"Earth economists, when they measure how bad the potential for exploitation is, they look at things like, how is labour... more

14 May 2024 · 3 hours, 6 minutes
#186 – Dean Spears on why babies are born small in Uttar Pradesh, and how to save their lives

"I work in a place called Uttar Pradesh, which is a state in India with 240 million people. One in... more

01 May 2024 · 1 hour, 18 minutes
80,000 Hours Podcast
#194 – Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government
80,000 Hours Podcast
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