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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   Markus Anderljung

   #156 – Markus Anderljung on how to regulate cutting-edge AI models · Jul 2023

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   Matt Clancy

   #188 – Matt Clancy on whether science is good · May 2024

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   Max Harms

   #236 – Max Harms on why teaching AI right from wrong could get everyone killed · Feb 2026

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   Max Nadeau

   #254 – Max Nadeau on why ambitious people should start AI safety nonprofits · Sep 2026

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   Max Roser

   #103 – Max Roser on building the world's best source of COVID-19 data at Our World in Data · Jun 2021

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   Meghan Barrett

   #198 – Meghan Barrett on upending everything you thought you knew about bugs in 3 hours · Aug 2024

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   Michelle Hutchinson

   #122 – Michelle Hutchinson & Habiba Islam on balancing competing priorities and other themes from our 1-on-1 careers advising · 4 episodes

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   Mike Berkowitz

   #97 – Mike Berkowitz on keeping the US a liberal democratic country · Apr 2021

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   Miles Brundage

   #1 - Miles Brundage on the world's desperate need for AI strategists and policy experts · Jun 2017

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    Mushtaq Khan

    #111 Classic episode – Mushtaq Khan on using institutional economics to predict effective government reforms · 2 episodes

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    Nova DasSarma

    #132 Classic episode – Nova DasSarma on why information security may be critical to the safe development of AI systems · 2 episodes

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    Ofir Reich

    #18 - Ofir Reich on using data science to end poverty & the spurious action-inaction distinction · Jan 2018

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    Pardis Sabeti

    #104 – Pardis Sabeti on the Sentinel system for detecting and stopping pandemics · Jun 2021

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    Persis Eskander

    #56 - Persis Eskander on wild animal welfare and what, if anything, to do about it · Apr 2019

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    Rachel Glennerster

    #189 – Rachel Glennerster on why we still don’t have vaccines that could save millions · 2 episodes

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    Richard Moulange

    #241 – Richard Moulange on how now AI codes viable genomes from scratch and outperforms virologists at lab work — what could go wrong? · Mar 2026

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    Richard Ngo

    #141 – Richard Ngo on large language models, OpenAI, and striving to make the future go well · Dec 2022

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    Robert Long

    #237 – Robert Long on how we're not ready for AI consciousness · 2 episodes

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    Rohin Shah

    #245 – Rohin Shah on what it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') · 2 episodes

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    Rose Chan Loui

    Emergency pod: Did OpenAI give up, or is this just a new trap? (with Rose Chan Loui) · 4 episodes

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    Rose Hadshar

    #239 – Rose Hadshar on why automating all human labour will break our political system · Mar 2026

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    Sahil Shah
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    Sam Winter-Levy

    #238 – Sam Winter-Levy and Nikita Lalwani on how AGI won't end mutually assured destruction (probably) · Mar 2026

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    Samantha Pitts-Kiefer

    #19 - Samantha Pitts-Kiefer on working next to the White House trying to prevent nuclear war · Feb 2018

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    Samuel Charap

    #240 – Samuel Charap on how a Ukraine ceasefire could accidentally set Europe up for a bigger war · 3 episodes

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    Santosh Harish

    #170 – Santosh Harish on how air pollution is responsible for ~12% of global deaths — and how to get that number down · Nov 2023

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    Sarah Eustis-Guthrie

    #207 – Sarah Eustis-Guthrie on why she shut down her charity, and why more founders should follow her lead · Nov 2024

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    Sella Nevo

    #195 – Sella Nevo on who's trying to steal frontier AI models, and what they could do with them · Aug 2024

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    Seren Kell

    #167 – Seren Kell on the research gaps holding back alternative proteins from mass adoption · Oct 2023

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    Sharon Hewitt Rawlette

    #138 Classic episode – Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on why pleasure and pain are the only things that intrinsically matter · 2 episodes

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    Sharon Nunez

    #14 - Sharon Nunez & Jose Valle on going undercover to expose animal abuse · Nov 2017

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    Sihao Huang

    #193 – Sihao Huang on navigating the geopolitics of US–China AI competition · Jul 2024

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    Simon Goldstein

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

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    Sneha Revanur

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

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    Sébastien Moro

    #205 – Sébastien Moro on the most insane things fish can do · Oct 2024

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    Tantum Collins

    #166 – Tantum Collins on what he’s learned as an AI policy insider at the White House, DeepMind and elsewhere · Oct 2023

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    Tanya Singh

    #36 - Tanya Singh on ending the operations management bottleneck in effective altruism · Jul 2018

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    Tara Kirk Sell

    #76 – Tara Kirk Sell on misinformation, who's done well and badly, & what to reopen first · May 2020

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    Tara Mac Aulay

    #35 Classic episode - Tara Mac Aulay on the audacity to fix the world without asking permission · 2 episodes

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    Tim LeBon

    #149 – Tim LeBon on how altruistic perfectionism is self-defeating · Apr 2023

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