Future of Life Institute Podcast

The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is a nonprofit working to reduce global catastrophic and existential risk from powerful technologies. In particular, FLI focuses on risks from artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, nuclear weapons and climate change. The Institute's work is made up of three main strands: grantmaking for risk reduction, educational outreach, and advocacy within the United Nations, US government and European Union institutions. FLI has become one of the world's leading voices on the governance of AI having created one of the earliest and most influential sets of governance principles: the Asilomar AI Principles.

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Every guest on Future of Life Institute Podcast

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

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   Dario Amodei

   Concrete Problems In AI Safety With Dario Amodei And Seth Baum · Aug 2016

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   Roman Yampolskiy

   Roman Yampolskiy on Shoggoth, Scaling Laws, and Evidence for AI being Uncontrollable · 4 episodes

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   Sean Carroll

   Sean Carroll on Consciousness, Physicalism, and the History of Intellectual Progress · Dec 2020

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   Annie Jacobsen

   First 24 Hours of a Bioweapon Attack - Annie Jacobsen · 2 episodes

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   Ajeya Cotra

   Ajeya Cotra on Thinking Clearly in a Rapidly Changing World · 3 episodes

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   Ryan Greenblatt

   Ryan Greenblatt on AI Control, Timelines, and Slowing Down Around Human-Level AI · Sep 2024

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   Michael Nielsen

   Could Powerful AI Break Our Fragile World? (with Michael Nielsen) · Jun 2025

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   Joe Carlsmith

   Joe Carlsmith on How We Change Our Minds About AI Risk · Jun 2023

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   Joscha Bach

   Joscha Bach and Anthony Aguirre on Digital Physics and Moving Towards Beneficial Futures · Apr 2021

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    Max Tegmark

    Max Tegmark and the FLI Team on 2020 and Existential Risk Reduction in the New Year · 2 episodes

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    Sam Harris

    Sam Harris on Global Priorities, Existential Risk, and What Matters Most · Jun 2020

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    Liv Boeree

    Liv Boeree on Poker, GPT-4, and the Future of AI · 2 episodes

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    Martin Rees

    On the Future: An Interview with Martin Rees · Oct 2018

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    Robin Hanson

    Robin Hanson on Predicting the Future of Artificial Intelligence · 3 episodes

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    Avi Loeb

    Avi Loeb on UFOs and if they're Alien in Origin · 2 episodes

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    Peter Singer

    AIAP: On Becoming a Moral Realist with Peter Singer · Oct 2018

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    Ben Goertzel

    Facing Superintelligence (with Ben Goertzel) · May 2025

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    Steven Pinker

    Steven Pinker and Stuart Russell on the Foundations, Benefits, and Possible Existential Threat of AI · Jun 2020

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    Stuart Russell

    Stuart Russell and Zachary Kallenborn on Drone Swarms and the Riskiest Aspects of Autonomous Weapons · 2 episodes

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    David Pearce

    AIAP: Identity and the AI Revolution with David Pearce and Andrés Gómez Emilsson · Jan 2020

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    Jason Crawford

    Jason Crawford on Progress and Risks from AI · Jul 2023

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    Carl Robichaud

    Carl Robichaud on Preventing Nuclear War · Jan 2024

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    Daniel Kokotajlo

    Why the AI Race Ends in Disaster (with Daniel Kokotajlo) · Jul 2025

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    David Chalmers

    David Chalmers on Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy · Jan 2022

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    Nate Soares

    Why Building Superintelligence Means Human Extinction (with Nate Soares) · Sep 2025

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    Toby Ord

    FLI Podcast: The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity with Toby Ord · Apr 2020

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    Will MacAskill

    We're Not Ready for AGI (with Will MacAskill) · 2 episodes

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    Mary Robinson

    Mary Robinson (Former President of Ireland) on Long-View Leadership · Jul 2024

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    Naomi Oreskes

    Not Cool Ep 26: Naomi Oreskes on trusting climate science · Nov 2019

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    Beatrice Fihn

    What Would a US-China AI Deal Look Like? (with Beatrice Fihn) · 3 episodes

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    Helen Toner

    FLI Podcast: Beyond the Arms Race Narrative: AI and China with Helen Toner and Elsa Kania · Aug 2019

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    Zak Stein

    How AI Hacks Your Brain's Attachment System (with Zak Stein) · Mar 2026

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    Anton Korinek

    Anton Korinek on Automating Work and the Economics of an Intelligence Explosion · Jun 2024

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    Benjamin Todd

    Reasoning, Robots, and How to Prepare for AGI (with Benjamin Todd) · Aug 2025

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    Dex Hunter-Torricke

    The Gulf Between AI Progress and Political Understanding (with Dex Hunter-Torricke) · Jun 2026

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    Jeff Sebo

    Will Future AIs Be Conscious? (with Jeff Sebo) · May 2025

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    Joshua Greene

    AIAP: Human Cognition and the Nature of Intelligence with Joshua Greene · 2 episodes

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    Rob Wiblin

    80,000 Hours with Rob Wiblin and Brenton Mayer · Sep 2017

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    Sherry Turkle

    Artificial Intimacy: When Machines Pursue Our Attachment (with Sherry Turkle) · Oct 2026

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    Zvi Mowshowitz

    Understanding AI Agents: Time Horizons, Sycophancy, and Future Risks (with Zvi Mowshowitz) · May 2025

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