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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   Calum Chace

   From Peak Horse to Peak Human: How AI Could Replace Us (with Calum Chace) · Jul 2025

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   Carina Prunkl

   Why AI Evaluation Science Can't Keep Up (with Carina Prunkl) · Apr 2026

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   Catherine Rhodes

   Governing Biotechnology: From Avian Flu to Genetically-Modified Babies With Catherine Rhodes · Nov 2018

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   Charlie Bullock

   How to Govern AI When You Can't Predict the Future (with Charlie Bullock) · May 2026

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   Charlie Oliver

   Mission AI - Giving a Global Voice to the AI Discussion With Charlie Oliver and Randi Williams · Jun 2018

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   Christian Nunes

   Christian Nunes on Deepfakes (with Max Tegmark) · May 2024

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   Christian Ruhl

   Christian Ruhl on Preventing World War III, US-China Hotlines, and Ultraviolet Germicidal Light · Jun 2024

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   Cullen Hendrix

   Not Cool Ep 22: Cullen Hendrix on climate change and armed conflict · Nov 2019

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   Cullen O'Keefe

   FLI Podcast: Distributing the Benefits of AI via the Windfall Clause with Cullen O'Keefe · Feb 2020

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    Dan Faggella

    Dan Faggella on the Race to AGI · May 2024

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    Daniel Susskind

    Preparing for an AI Economy (with Daniel Susskind) · Jun 2025

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    Dave Schmerler
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    David Dalrymple

    David Dalrymple on Safeguarded, Transformative AI · Jan 2025

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    David Krueger

    AI Breakthroughs and Challenges in 2018 with David Krueger and Roman Yampolskiy · Jan 2019

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    Deborah Lawrence

    Not Cool Ep 20: Deborah Lawrence on deforestation · Nov 2019

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    Deric Cheng

    How to Rebuild the Social Contract After AGI (with Deric Cheng) · Jan 2026

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    Dylan Hadfield-Menell

    AIAP: Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement Learning with Dylan Hadfield-Menell (Beneficial AGI 2019) · 2 episodes

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    Ed Newton-Rex

    Will AI Companies Respect Creators' Rights? (with Ed Newton-Rex) · Jun 2025

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    Ege Erdil

    How Close Are We to AGI? Inside Epoch's GATE Model (with Ege Erdil) · Mar 2025

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    El Mahdi El Mhamdi

    The Byzantine Generals' Problem, Poisoning, and Distributed Machine Learning with El Mahdi El Mhamdi · Feb 2019

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    Ellen Quigley

    Not Cool Ep 24: Ellen Quigley and Natalie Jones on defunding the fossil fuel industry · Nov 2019

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    Elsa Kania
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    Emilia Javorsky

    What AI Companies Get Wrong About Curing Cancer (with Emilia Javorsky) · 3 episodes

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    Esben Kran

    AGI Security: How We Defend the Future (with Esben Kran) · Aug 2025

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    Evan Hubinger

    Evan Hubinger on Inner Alignment, Outer Alignment, and Proposals for Building Safe Advanced AI · Jul 2020

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    Filippa Lentzos

    Filippa Lentzos on Global Catastrophic Biological Risks · Oct 2021

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    Filippo Berardi

    Not Cool Ep 14: Filippo Berardi on carbon finance and the economics of climate change · Oct 2019

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    Fran Moore

    The Unexpected Side Effects of Climate Change with Fran Moore and Nick Obradovich · Apr 2019

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    Frank Sauer

    Frank Sauer on Autonomous Weapon Systems · Dec 2023

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    Glen Peters

    Not Cool Ep 18: Glen Peters on the carbon budget and global carbon emissions · Oct 2019

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    Haydn Belfield
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    Heather Roff

    Heather Roff and Peter Asaro on Autonomous Weapons · Nov 2016

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    Iason Gabriel

    Iason Gabriel on Foundational Philosophical Questions in AI Alignment · Sep 2020

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    Ilissa Ocko

    Not Cool Ep 19: Ilissa Ocko on non-carbon causes of climate change · Oct 2019

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    Iyad Rahwan
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    Jack Stilgoe
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    Jakob Zscheischler

    Not Cool Ep 11: Jakob Zscheischler on climate-driven compound weather events · Oct 2019

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    Jared Brown
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    Jessica Cussins
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    Jessica Troni

    Not Cool Ep 4: Jessica Troni on helping countries adapt to climate change · Sep 2019

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