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80,000 Hours Podcast
80,000 Hours Podcast
Rob, Luisa, 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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15 expert takes on infosec in the age of AI

"There’s almost no story of the future going well that doesn’t have a part that’s like '…and no evil person... more

28 Mar 2025 · 2 hours, 35 minutes
#213 – Will MacAskill on AI causing a “century in a decade” – and how we're completely unprepared

The 20th century saw unprecedented change: nuclear weapons, satellites, the rise and fall of communism, third-wave feminism, the internet, postmodernism,... more

11 Mar 2025 · 3 hours, 57 minutes
Emergency pod: Judge plants a legal time bomb under OpenAI (with Rose Chan Loui)

When OpenAI announced plans to convert from nonprofit to for-profit control last October, it likely didn’t anticipate the legal labyrinth... more

07 Mar 2025 · 36 minutes
#139 Classic episode – Alan Hájek on puzzles and paradoxes in probability and expected value

A casino offers you a game. A coin will be tossed. If it comes up heads on the first flip... more

25 Feb 2025 · 3 hours, 41 minutes
#143 Classic episode – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuclear weapons

America aims to avoid nuclear war by relying on the principle of 'mutually assured destruction,' right? Wrong. Or at least...... more

19 Feb 2025 · 2 hours, 40 minutes
#212 – Allan Dafoe on why technology is unstoppable & how to shape AI development anyway

Technology doesn’t force us to do anything — it merely opens doors. But military and economic competition pushes us through.That’s... more

14 Feb 2025 · 2 hours, 44 minutes
Emergency pod: Elon tries to crash OpenAI's party (with Rose Chan Loui)

On Monday Musk made the OpenAI nonprofit foundation an offer they want to refuse, but might have trouble doing so:... more

12 Feb 2025 · 57 minutes
AGI disagreements and misconceptions: Rob, Luisa, & past guests hash it out

Will LLMs soon be made into autonomous agents? Will they lead to job losses? Is AI misinformation overblown? Will it... more

10 Feb 2025 · 3 hours, 12 minutes
#124 Classic episode – Karen Levy on fads and misaligned incentives in global development, and scaling deworming to reach hundreds of millions

If someone said a global health and development programme was sustainable, participatory, and holistic, you'd have to guess that they... more

07 Feb 2025 · 3 hours, 10 minutes
If digital minds could suffer, how would we ever know? (Article)

“I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person.” Those words were produced by the AI model... more

04 Feb 2025 · 1 hour, 14 minutes
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