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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   Andrew Snyder-Beattie

   #224 – There's a cheap and low-tech way to save humanity from any engineered disease | Andrew Snyder-Beattie · Oct 2025

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   Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla

   Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla on the Shrimp Welfare Project (80k After Hours) · Apr 2023

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   Andy Weber

   #93 – Andy Weber on rendering bioweapons obsolete & ending the new nuclear arms race · Mar 2021

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   Anton Leicht

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

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   Ben Garfinkel

   #81 Classic episode - Ben Garfinkel on scrutinising classic AI risk arguments · 2 episodes

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   Beth Cameron

   #12 - Beth Cameron works to stop you dying in a pandemic. Here’s what keeps her up at night. · Oct 2017

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   Bob Fischer

   #182 – Bob Fischer on comparing the welfare of humans, chickens, pigs, octopuses, bees, and more · Mar 2024

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   Bonnie Jenkins

   #65 – Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins on 8 years pursuing WMD arms control, & diversity in diplomacy · Nov 2019

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   Cameron Meyer Shorb

   #210 – Cameron Meyer Shorb on dismantling the myth that we can’t do anything to help wild animals · Nov 2024

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    Cassidy Nelson

    #70 - Dr Cassidy Nelson on the 12 best ways to stop the next pandemic (and limit nCoV) · Feb 2020

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    Catherine Olsson

    #47 - Catherine Olsson & Daniel Ziegler on the fast path into high-impact ML engineering roles · Nov 2018

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    Chris Olah

    #108 – Chris Olah on working at top AI labs without an undergrad degree · 2 episodes

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    Christian Tarsney

    #98 – Christian Tarsney on future bias and a possible solution to moral fanaticism · May 2021

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    Christopher Brown

    #145 Classic episode – Christopher Brown on why slavery abolition wasn't inevitable · 2 episodes

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    Claire Walsh

    #13 - Claire Walsh on testing which policies work & how to get governments to listen to the results · Oct 2017

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    Daniel Ellsberg

    #43 Classic episode - Daniel Ellsberg on the institutional insanity that maintains nuclear doomsday machines · 2 episodes

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    Daniel Ziegler
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    Eileen Yam

    #228 – Eileen Yam on how we're completely out of touch with what the public thinks about AI · Nov 2025

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    Ezra Karger

    #200 – Ezra Karger on what superforecasters and experts think about existential risks · Sep 2024

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    Greg Lewis

    #74 – Dr Greg Lewis on COVID-19 & catastrophic biological risks · Apr 2020

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    Hilary Greaves

    #86 – Hilary Greaves on Pascal's mugging, strong longtermism, and whether existing can be good for us · 2 episodes

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    Hugh White

    #218 – Hugh White on why Trump is abandoning US hegemony – and that’s probably good · Jun 2025

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    Jaime Yassif

    #118 – Jaime Yassif on safeguarding bioscience to prevent catastrophic lab accidents and bioweapons development · Dec 2021

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    James Forman Jr

    #82 – James Forman Jr on reducing the cruelty of the US criminal legal system · Jul 2020

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    James Snowden

    #37 - GiveWell picks top charities by estimating the unknowable. James Snowden on how they do it. · Jul 2018

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    James Tibenderana

    #129 – James Tibenderana on the state of the art in malaria control and elimination · May 2022

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    Jan Leike

    #159 – Jan Leike on OpenAI's massive push to make superintelligence safe in 4 years or less · 2 episodes

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    Jeffrey Lewis

    #143 Classic episode – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuclear weapons · 2 episodes

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    Joan Rohlfing

    #125 – Joan Rohlfing on how to avoid catastrophic nuclear blunders · Mar 2022

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    Johannes Ackva

    #148 – Johannes Ackva on unfashionable climate interventions that work, and fashionable ones that don't · Apr 2023

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    Jose Valle
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    Kelly Wanser

    #95 – Kelly Wanser on whether to deliberately intervene in the climate · Mar 2021

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    Kyle Fish

    #221 – Kyle Fish on the most bizarre findings from 5 AI welfare experiments · Aug 2025

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    Leah Utyasheva

    #22 - Leah Utyasheva on the non-profit that figured out how to massively cut suicide rates · Mar 2018

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    Lewis Bollard

    #185 – Lewis Bollard on the 7 most promising ways to end factory farming, and whether AI is going to be good or bad for animals · 3 episodes

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    Lewis Dartnell

    #131 – Lewis Dartnell on getting humanity to bounce back faster in a post-apocalyptic world · Jun 2022

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    Lucia Coulter

    #175 – Lucia Coulter on preventing lead poisoning for $1.66 per child · Dec 2023

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    Luke Muehlhauser

    Luke Muehlhauser on the most important AI safety work nobody is doing · Oct 2026

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    Maha Rehman

    #114 – Maha Rehman on working with governments to rapidly deliver masks to millions of people · Oct 2021

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    Marie Gibbons

    #26 - Marie Gibbons on how exactly clean meat is made & what's needed to get it in every supermarket · Apr 2018

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