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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   Geoffrey Irving

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

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   Katja Grace

   #255 – Will AI take power — or will humans use it to take power first? With Katja Grace and Tom Davidson · 2 episodes

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   Marius Hobbhahn

   #229 – Marius Hobbhahn on the race to solve AI scheming before models go superhuman · Dec 2025

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   Nathan Calvin

   #199 – Nathan Calvin on California’s AI bill SB 1047 and its potential to shape US AI policy · Aug 2024

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   Nick Joseph

   #197 – Nick Joseph on whether Anthropic's AI safety policy is up to the task · Aug 2024

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   Owain Evans

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

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   Tom Davidson

   #215 – Tom Davidson on how AI-enabled coups could allow a tiny group to seize power · 2 episodes

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   Christine Peterson

   #9 - Christine Peterson on how insecure computers could lead to global disaster, and how to fix it · Oct 2017

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   Ian Morris

   #134 Classic episode – Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us · 3 episodes

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    Ian Dunt

    #216 – Ian Dunt on why governments in Britain and elsewhere can't get anything done – and how to fix it · May 2025

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    Mark Lynas

    #85 - Mark Lynas on climate change, societal collapse & nuclear energy · Aug 2020

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    Nikita Lalwani
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    Beth Barnes

    #217 – Beth Barnes on the most important graph in AI right now — and the 7-month rule that governs its progress · Jun 2025

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    Neel Nanda

    #223 – Neel Nanda on leading a Google DeepMind team at 26 – and advice if you want to work at an AI company (part 2) · 2 episodes

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    Alison Young

    #171 – Alison Young on how top labs have jeopardised public health with repeated biosafety failures · Nov 2023

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    Dean Spears

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

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    David Duvenaud

    #234 – David Duvenaud on why 'aligned AI' would still kill democracy · Jan 2026

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    Jeffrey Ding

    #69 – Jeffrey Ding on China, its AI dream, and what we get wrong about both · Feb 2020

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    Kevin Esvelt

    #164 – Kevin Esvelt on cults that want to kill everyone, stealth vs wildfire pandemics, and how he felt inventing gene drives · Oct 2023

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    Aaron Hamlin

    #34 - We use the worst voting system that exists. Here's how Aaron Hamlin is going to fix it. · Jun 2018

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    Anders Sandberg

    #165 – Anders Sandberg on war in space, whether civilisations age, and the best things possible in our universe · 4 episodes

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    Danny Hernandez

    #78 – Danny Hernandez on forecasting and the drivers of AI progress · May 2020

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    David Denkenberger

    #117 – David Denkenberger on using paper mills and seaweed to feed everyone in a catastrophe, ft Sahil Shah · 2 episodes

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    Elizabeth Cox

    #208 – Elizabeth Cox on the case that TV shows, movies, and novels can improve the world · Nov 2024

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    Eva Vivalt

    #30 - Eva Vivalt on how little social science findings generalize from one study to another · May 2018

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    Habiba Islam
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    Nick Beckstead

    #10 - Nick Beckstead on how to spend billions of dollars preventing human extinction · Oct 2017

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    Stefan Schubert

    #24 - Stefan Schubert on why it’s a bad idea to break the rules, even if it’s for a good cause · Mar 2018

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    Tom Kalil

    #57 – Tom Kalil on how to do the most good in government · Apr 2019

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    Amanda Askell

    #42 - Amanda Askell on moral empathy, the value of information & the ethics of infinity · Sep 2018

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    David Roodman

    #41 - David Roodman on incarceration, geomagnetic storms, & becoming a world-class researcher · Aug 2018

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    Kelsey Piper

    #53 - Kelsey Piper on the room for important advocacy within journalism · Feb 2019

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    Michael Webb

    #161 – Michael Webb on whether AI will soon cause job loss, lower incomes, and higher inequality — or the opposite · Aug 2023

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    Owen Cotton-Barratt

    #89 – Owen Cotton-Barratt on epistemic systems and layers of defense against potential global catastrophes · 2 episodes

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    Athena Aktipis

    #144 Classic episode – Athena Aktipis on why cancer is a fundamental universal phenomena · 2 episodes

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    Bear Braumoeller

    #140 Classic episode – Bear Braumoeller on the case that war isn’t in decline · 2 episodes

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    Alan Hájek

    #139 Classic episode – Alan Hájek on puzzles and paradoxes in probability and expected value · 2 episodes

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    Alex Gordon-Brown

    #5 - Alex Gordon-Brown on how to donate millions in your 20s working in quantitative trading · Aug 2017

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    Alexander Berger

    #105 – Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways · Jul 2021

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    Andreas Mogensen

    #232 – Andreas Mogensen on what we owe 'philosophical Vulcans' and unconscious beings · 2 episodes

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