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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   Anthony Aguirre

   Why We Should Build AI Tools, Not AI Replacements (with Anthony Aguirre) · 6 episodes

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   Paul Scharre

   AIAP: On Lethal Autonomous Weapons with Paul Scharre · 2 episodes

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   Andrew Revkin

   Not Cool Ep 9: Andrew Revkin on climate communication, vulnerability, and information gaps · Sep 2019

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   Stephen Batchelor

   Stephen Batchelor on Awakening, Embracing Existential Risk, and Secular Buddhism · Oct 2020

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   Dan Hendrycks

   Dan Hendrycks on Catastrophic AI Risks · 2 episodes

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   George Church

   FLI Podcast: On the Future of Computation, Synthetic Biology, and Life with George Church · May 2020

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   Jaan Tallinn

   Special: Jaan Tallinn on Pausing Giant AI Experiments · 2 episodes

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   Lennart Heim

   Lennart Heim on Compute Governance · 2 episodes

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   Nathan Labenz

   Nathan Labenz on the State of AI and Progress since GPT-4 · 3 episodes

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    Adam Gleave

    Can Defense in Depth Work for AI? (with Adam Gleave) · Oct 2025

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    Allan Dafoe

    AI: Global Governance, National Policy, and Public Trust with Allan Dafoe and Jessica Cussins · Aug 2018

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    Brian Toon

    Brian Toon on Nuclear Winter, Asteroids, Volcanoes, and the Future of Humanity · 3 episodes

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    Buck Shlegeris

    AIAP: An Overview of Technical AI Alignment in 2018 and 2019 with Buck Shlegeris and Rohin Shah · Apr 2020

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    Connor Leahy

    Connor Leahy on Why Humanity Risks Extinction from AGI · 6 episodes

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    Flo Crivello

    Special: Flo Crivello on AI as a New Form of Life · Jan 2024

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    Geoffrey Irving

    AIAP: AI Alignment through Debate with Geoffrey Irving · Mar 2019

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    Jeffrey Ladish

    Why AIs Misbehave and How We Could Lose Control (with Jeffrey Ladish) · Feb 2025

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    Karl Koch

    What Happens When Insiders Sound the Alarm on AI? (with Karl Koch) · Nov 2025

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    Katja Grace

    Katja Grace on the Largest Survey of AI Researchers · Mar 2024

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    Liron Shapira

    Liron Shapira on Superintelligence Goals · Apr 2024

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    Luke Drago

    Breaking the Intelligence Curse (with Luke Drago) · Sep 2025

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    Nicholas Carlini

    Special: Defeating AI Defenses (with Nicholas Carlini and Nathan Labenz) · Mar 2025

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    Nora Ammann

    How to Avoid Two AI Catastrophes: Domination and Chaos (with Nora Ammann) · Jan 2026

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    Ryan Kidd

    Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd) · Feb 2026

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    Sam Hammond

    Samuel Hammond on why AI Progress is Accelerating - and how Governments Should Respond · 2 episodes

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    Stephen Andersen
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    Steve Omohundro

    Steve Omohundro on Provably Safe AGI · Oct 2023

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    Steven Adler

    Why the AI Race Undermines Safety (with Steven Adler) · Dec 2025

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    Susan Solomon

    Susan Solomon and Stephen Andersen on Saving the Ozone Layer · Sep 2021

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    Tom Davidson

    How AI Could Help Overthrow Governments (with Tom Davidson) · 2 episodes

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    Anousheh Ansari

    Anousheh Ansari on Innovation Prizes for Space, AI, Quantum Computing, and Carbon Removal · Aug 2024

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    Joanna Haigh

    Not Cool Ep 2: Joanna Haigh on climate modeling and the history of climate change · Sep 2019

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    Katrina Manson

    Can Humans Still Control AI-Assisted Kill Chains? (with Katrina Manson) · Sep 2026

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    Neel Nanda

    Neel Nanda on Math, Tech Progress, Aging, Living up to Our Values, and Generative AI · 3 episodes

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    Peter Railton

    Peter Railton on Moral Learning and Metaethics in AI Systems · Aug 2020

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    Andres Gomez-Emilsson

    AIAP: On Consciousness, Qualia, and Meaning with Mike Johnson and Andrés Gómez Emilsson · May 2019

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    James Manyika

    James Manyika on Global Economic and Technological Trends · Sep 2021

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    David Duvenaud

    How Humans Could Lose Power Without an AI Takeover (with David Duvenaud) · Dec 2025

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    Ian Goodfellow

    AI Breakthroughs With Ian Goodfellow And Richard Mallah · Jan 2017

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    Jeffrey Ding

    Inside China's AI Strategy: Innovation, Diffusion, and US Relations (with Jeffrey Ding) · 2 episodes

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