80,000 Hours Podcast

The most important conversations about artificial intelligence you won’t hear anywhere else. Subscribe by searching for '80000 Hours' wherever you get podcasts. Hosted by Rob Wiblin, Luisa Rodriguez, Zershaaneh Qureshi, and Tom Reed.

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Most frequent guests

Will MacAskill 7 episodes
Holden Karnofsky 5 episodes
Spencer Greenberg 5 episodes
Toby Ord 5 episodes
Ajeya Cotra 4 episodes
Carl Shulman 4 episodes
Anders Sandberg 4 episodes
Michelle Hutchinson 4 episodes
Rose Chan Loui 4 episodes
Paul Christiano 3 episodes

Every guest on 80,000 Hours Podcast

206 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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Dario Amodei
#3 - Dario Amodei on OpenAI and how AI will change the world for good and ill · Jul 2017

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Annie Jacobsen
#192 – Annie Jacobsen on what would happen if North Korea launched a nuclear weapon at the US · Jul 2024

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Robert Wright
#101 – Robert Wright on using cognitive empathy to save the world · May 2021

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Ezra Klein
#157 – Ezra Klein on existential risk from AI and what DC could do about it · 2 episodes

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Tristan Harris
#88 – Tristan Harris on the need to change the incentives of social media companies · Dec 2020

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Cal Newport
#106 – Cal Newport on an industrial revolution for office work · Jul 2021

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Ajeya Cotra
#235 – Ajeya Cotra on whether it’s crazy that every AI company’s safety plan is ‘use AI to make AI safe’ · 4 episodes

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Ryan Greenblatt
#220 – Ryan Greenblatt on the 4 most likely ways for AI to take over, and the case for and against AGI in <8 years · Jul 2025

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Phil Trammell
#73 - Phil Trammell on patient philanthropy and waiting to do good [re-release] · 2 episodes

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Tyler Cowen
#45 - Tyler Cowen's case for maximising econ growth, stabilising civilization & thinking long-term · Oct 2018

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Joe Carlsmith
#152 – Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion · May 2023

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Paul Christiano
#44 Classic episode - Paul Christiano on finding real solutions to the AI alignment problem · 3 episodes

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Carl Shulman
#191 (Part 2) – Carl Shulman on government and society after AGI · 4 episodes

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Holden Karnofsky
#226 – Holden Karnofsky on unexploited opportunities to make AI safer — and all his AGI takes · 5 episodes

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Max Tegmark
#133 – Max Tegmark on how a 'put-up-or-shut-up' resolution led him to work on AI and algorithmic news selection · Jul 2022

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Robin Hanson
#25 - Robin Hanson on why we have to lie to ourselves about why we do what we do · Mar 2018

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Chris Blattman
#128 – Chris Blattman on the five reasons wars happen · Apr 2022

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Vitalik Buterin
#194 – Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government · 2 episodes

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Peter Singer
#66 – Peter Singer on being provocative, effective altruism, & how his moral views have changed · Dec 2019

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Spencer Greenberg
#249 – Spencer Greenberg on staying sane while trying to save the world · 5 episodes

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Nate Silver
#204 – Nate Silver on making sense of SBF, and his biggest critiques of effective altruism · Oct 2024

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Hannah Ritchie
#160 – Hannah Ritchie on why it makes sense to be optimistic about the environment · Aug 2023

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Bryan Caplan
#172 – Bryan Caplan on why you should stop reading the news · 3 episodes

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Anil Seth
#206 – Anil Seth on the predictive brain and how to study consciousness · Nov 2024

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Randy Nesse
#179 Classic episode – Randy Nesse on why evolution left us so vulnerable to depression and anxiety · 2 episodes

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Russ Roberts
#87 – Russ Roberts on whether it's more effective to help strangers, or people you know · Nov 2020

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John McWhorter
#142 Classic episode – John McWhorter on why the optimal number of languages might be one, and other provocative claims about language · 2 episodes

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Stuart Russell
#80 – Stuart Russell on why our approach to AI is broken and how to fix it · Jun 2020

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Julia Galef
Julia Galef and Rob Wiblin on an updated view of the best ways to help humanity · 2 episodes

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Thomas Moynihan
#102 – Tom Moynihan on why prior generations missed some of the biggest priorities of all · Jun 2021

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Brian Christian
#92 – Brian Christian on the alignment problem · 2 episodes

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Matthew Yglesias
#121 – Matthew Yglesias on avoiding the pundit's fallacy and how much military intervention can be used for good · Feb 2022

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Ken Goldberg
#201 – Ken Goldberg on why your robot butler isn’t here yet · Sep 2024

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Mustafa Suleyman
#162 – Mustafa Suleyman on getting Washington and Silicon Valley to tame AI · Sep 2023

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Nita Farahany
#174 – Nita Farahany on the neurotechnology already being used to convict criminals and manipulate workers · Dec 2023

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A.J. Jacobs
#79 Classic episode - A.J. Jacobs on radical honesty, following the whole Bible, and reframing global problems as puzzles · 2 episodes

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Andrew Yang
#119 – Andrew Yang on our very long-term future, and other topics most politicians won’t touch · Dec 2021

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Sam Bankman-Fried
#127 – Sam Bankman-Fried on taking a high-risk approach to crypto and doing good · Apr 2022

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Emily Oster
#178 – Emily Oster on what the evidence actually says about pregnancy and parenting · Feb 2024

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Bruce Friedrich
#20 - Bruce Friedrich on inventing outstanding meat substitutes to end speciesism & factory farming · Feb 2018

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Recent episodes

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Oct 2026
#256 – Simon Goldstein on the case for giving AI (some) legal rights
with Simon Goldstein

Oct 2026
#255 – Will AI take power — or will humans use it to take power first? With Katja Grace and Tom Davidson
with Katja Grace

Sep 2026
How we get from AI cyberattacks to human extinction
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#254 – Max Nadeau on why ambitious people should start AI safety nonprofits
with Max Nadeau

Sep 2026
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with Tom Reed

Sep 2026
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Sep 2026
#253 – AI 2027's author returns with a plan to change the ending | Daniel Kokotajlo
with Daniel Kokotajlo

Aug 2026
#252 – Owain Evans on accidentally training AI models to be evil
with Owain Evans

Aug 2026
#251 – The UK's former head AI safety scientist on how to solve alignment before superintelligence arrives | Geoffrey Irving
with Geoffrey Irving

Aug 2026
#250 – Toby Ord on where AGI timelines go wrong
with Toby Ord

Aug 2026
What the hell happened with AGI timelines in 2026? – Rob Wiblin
Aug 2026
#249 – Spencer Greenberg on staying sane while trying to save the world
with Spencer Greenberg

Jul 2026
#248 – Jasmine Sun on what the people building AI really believe
with Jasmine Sun

Jul 2026
#247 – Anton Leicht on how middle powers avoid losing everything in a post-AI world
with Anton Leicht

Jul 2026
#246 – Sneha Revanur on how a small team of activists helped pass America's landmark AI safety laws
with Sneha Revanur

Jul 2026
We can guess what intergalactic war would look like. And strangely, it matters.
Jun 2026