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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Every guest on 80,000 Hours Podcast

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

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   Cass Sunstein

   #59 Classic episode - Cass Sunstein on how change happens, and why it's so often abrupt & unpredictable · 2 episodes

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   Daniel Kokotajlo

   #253 – AI 2027's author returns with a plan to change the ending | Daniel Kokotajlo · 2 episodes

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   David Chalmers

   #67 Classic episode – David Chalmers on the nature and ethics of consciousness · 2 episodes

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   Marc Lipsitch

   #77 – Marc Lipsitch on whether we're winning or losing against COVID-19 · May 2020

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   Nina Schick

   #96 – Nina Schick on disinformation and the rise of synthetic media · Apr 2021

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   Toby Ord

   #250 – Toby Ord on where AGI timelines go wrong · 5 episodes

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   Will MacAskill

   #242 – Will MacAskill on how we survive the 'intelligence explosion,' AI character, and the case for 'viatopia' · 7 episodes

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   Yoshua Bengio

   #243 – 'Godfather of AI' Yoshua Bengio: "I now see a path" to safe superintelligent AI · May 2026

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   David Spiegelhalter

   #2 - David Spiegelhalter on risk, stats and improving understanding of science · Jun 2017

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    Venki Ramakrishnan

    #202 – Venki Ramakrishnan on the cutting edge of anti-ageing science · Sep 2024

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    Laura Deming

    #181 – Laura Deming on the science that could keep us healthy in our 80s and beyond · Mar 2024

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    Bruce Schneier

    #64 – Bruce Schneier on how insecure electronic voting could break the United States — and surveillance without tyranny · Oct 2019

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    Helen Toner

    #227 – Helen Toner on the geopolitics of AGI in China and the Middle East · 2 episodes

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    Leah Garcés

    #99 – Leah Garcés on turning adversaries into allies to change the chicken industry · May 2021

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    Martin Gurri

    #51 - Martin Gurri on the revolt of the public & crisis of authority in the information age · Jan 2019

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    Philip Tetlock

    #60 - Phil Tetlock on why accurate forecasting matters for everything, and how you can do it better · 2 episodes

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    Sam Bowman

    #211 – Sam Bowman on why housing still isn't fixed and what would actually work · Dec 2024

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    Audrey Tang

    #120 – Audrey Tang on what we can learn from Taiwan’s experiments with how to do democracy · Feb 2022

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    Dean Ball

    #230 – Dean Ball on how AI is a huge deal — but we shouldn’t regulate it yet · Dec 2025

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    Elie Hassenfeld

    #153 – Elie Hassenfeld on 2 big picture critiques of GiveWell's approach, and 6 lessons from their recent work · Jun 2023

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    Glen Weyl

    #52 - Glen Weyl on uprooting capitalism and democracy for a just society · Feb 2019

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    Jasmine Sun

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

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    Jeff Sebo

    #173 – Jeff Sebo on digital minds, and how to avoid sleepwalking into a major moral catastrophe · Nov 2023

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    Jennifer Doleac

    #83 Classic episode - Jennifer Doleac on preventing crime without police and prisons · 2 episodes

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    Paul Niehaus

    #169 – Paul Niehaus on whether cash transfers cause economic growth, and keeping theft to acceptable levels · Oct 2023

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    Pushmeet Kohli

    #58 – Pushmeet Kohli of DeepMind on designing robust & reliable AI systems and how to succeed in AI · Jun 2019

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    Shruti Rajagopalan

    #84 – Shruti Rajagopalan on what India did to stop COVID-19 and how well it worked · Aug 2020

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    Zach Weinersmith

    #187 – Zach Weinersmith on how researching his book turned him from a space optimist into a "space bastard" · May 2024

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    Zvi Mowshowitz

    #184 – Zvi Mowshowitz on sleeping on sleeper agents, and the biggest AI updates since ChatGPT · Apr 2024

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    David Wallace

    #115 – David Wallace on the many-worlds theory of quantum mechanics and its implications · Nov 2021

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    Eric Schwitzgebel

    #190 – Eric Schwitzgebel on whether the US is conscious · Jun 2024

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    Hugo Mercier

    #180 – Hugo Mercier on why gullibility and misinformation are overrated · Feb 2024

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    Jonathan Birch

    #196 – Jonathan Birch on the edge cases of sentience and why they matter · Aug 2024

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    Karen Levy

    #124 Classic episode – Karen Levy on fads and misaligned incentives in global development, and scaling deworming to reach hundreds of millions · 2 episodes

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    Paul Scharre

    #231 – Paul Scharre on how AI-controlled robots will and won't change war · Dec 2025

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    Peter Godfrey-Smith

    #203 – Peter Godfrey-Smith on interfering with wild nature, accepting death, and the origin of complex civilisation · Oct 2024

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    Lennart Heim

    #155 – Lennart Heim on the compute governance era and what has to come after · Jun 2023

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    Nathan Labenz

    #177 – Nathan Labenz on recent AI breakthroughs and navigating the growing rift between AI safety and accelerationist camps · 2 episodes

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    Allan Dafoe

    #212 – Allan Dafoe on why technology is unstoppable & how to shape AI development anyway · 2 episodes

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    Buck Shlegeris

    #214 – Buck Shlegeris on controlling AI that wants to take over – so we can use it anyway · Apr 2025

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