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1. #84 – Dean Spears on the Case for People

   with Dean Spears

   Nov 2025
2. #83 – Max Smeets on Barriers To Cyberweapons

   with Max Smeets

   Mar 2025
3. #82 – Tom Kalil on Institutions for Innovation (with Matt Clancy)

   with Tom Kalil

   Dec 2024
4. #81 – Cynthia Schuck on Quantifying Animal Welfare

   with Cynthia Schuck

   Nov 2024
5. #80 – Dan Williams on How Persuasion Works

   with Dan Williams

   Oct 2024
6. #79 – Tamay Besiroglu on Explosive Growth from AI

   with Tamay Besiroglu

   Sep 2024
7. #78 – Jacob Trefethen on Global Health R&D

   with Jacob Trefethen

   Sep 2024
8. #77 – Elizabeth Seger on Open Sourcing AI

   with Elizabeth Seger

   Jul 2024
9. #76 – Joe Carlsmith on Scheming AI

   with Joe Carlsmith

   Mar 2024
10. #75 – Eric Schwitzgebel on Digital Consciousness and the Weirdness of the World

    with Eric Schwitzgebel

    Feb 2024
11. #74 – Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley on Barriers to Bioweapons

    with Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley

    Dec 2023
12. Bonus: 'How I Learned To Love Shrimp' & David Coman-Hidy

    with David Coman-Hidy

    Nov 2023
13. #73 – Michelle Lavery on the Science of Animal Welfare

    with Michelle Lavery

    Nov 2023
14. #72 – Richard Bruns on Indoor Air Quality

    with Richard Bruns

    Nov 2023
15. #71 – Saloni Dattani on Malaria Vaccines and Missing Data in Global Health

    with Saloni Dattani

    Oct 2023
16. #70 – Liv Boeree on Healthy vs Unhealthy Competition

    with Liv Boeree

    Sep 2023
17. #69 – Jon Y (Asianometry) on Problems And Progress in Semiconductor Manufacturing

    with Jon Y

    Aug 2023
18. #68 – Steven Teles on what the Conservative Legal Movement Teaches about Policy Advocacy

    with Steven Teles

    Aug 2023
19. #67 – Guive Assadi on Whether Humanity Will Choose Its Future

    with Guive Assadi

    Jul 2023
20. #66 – Michael Cohen on Input Tampering in Advanced RL Agents
    Jun 2023
21. #65 – Katja Grace on Slowing Down AI and Whether the X-Risk Case Holds Up

    with Katja Grace

    Jun 2023
22. #64 – Michael Aird on Strategies for Reducing AI Existential Risk

    with Michael Aird

    Jun 2023
23. #63 – Ben Garfinkel on AI Governance

    with Ben Garfinkel

    May 2023
24. #62 – Anders Sandberg on Exploratory Engineering, Value Diversity, and Grand Futures

    with Anders Sandberg

    Apr 2023
25. #61 – Rory Stewart on GiveDirectly and Massively Scaling Cash Transfers

    with Rory Stewart

    Apr 2023