80,000 Hours Podcast

#191 (Part 2) – Carl Shulman on government and society after AGI

July 5, 2024

2:20:32

#191 (Part 1) – Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGI

June 27, 2024

4:14:58

#190 – Eric Schwitzgebel on whether the US is conscious

June 7, 2024

2:00:46

#189 – Rachel Glennerster on how “market shaping” could help solve climate change, pandemics, and other global problems

May 29, 2024

2:48:51

#188 – Matt Clancy on whether science is good

May 23, 2024

2:40:15

#187 – Zach Weinersmith on how researching his book turned him from a space optimist into a "space bastard"

May 14, 2024

3:06:47

#186 – Dean Spears on why babies are born small in Uttar Pradesh, and how to save their lives

May 1, 2024

1:18:58

#185 – Lewis Bollard on the 7 most promising ways to end factory farming, and whether AI is going to be good or bad for animals

April 18, 2024

2:33:12

#184 – Zvi Mowshowitz on sleeping on sleeper agents, and the biggest AI updates since ChatGPT

April 11, 2024

3:31:22

AI governance and policy (Article)

March 28, 2024

51:06

#183 – Spencer Greenberg on causation without correlation, money and happiness, lightgassing, hype vs value, and more

March 14, 2024

2:36:38

#182 – Bob Fischer on comparing the welfare of humans, chickens, pigs, octopuses, bees, and more

March 8, 2024

2:21:31

#181 – Laura Deming on the science that could keep us healthy in our 80s and beyond

March 1, 2024

1:37:21

#180 – Hugo Mercier on why gullibility and misinformation are overrated

Feb. 21, 2024

2:36:55

#179 – Randy Nesse on why evolution left us so vulnerable to depression and anxiety

Feb. 12, 2024

2:56:48

#178 – Emily Oster on what the evidence actually says about pregnancy and parenting

Feb. 1, 2024

2:22:36

#177 – Nathan Labenz on recent AI breakthroughs and navigating the growing rift between AI safety and accelerationist camps

Jan. 24, 2024

2:47:09

#90 Classic episode – Ajeya Cotra on worldview diversification and how big the future could be

Jan. 12, 2024

2:59:17

#112 Classic episode – Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications

Jan. 8, 2024

3:50:30

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

Jan. 4, 2024

3:22:17

2023 Mega-highlights Extravaganza

Dec. 31, 2023

1:53:43

#100 Classic episode – Having a successful career with depression, anxiety, and imposter syndrome

Dec. 27, 2023

2:51:32

#176 – Nathan Labenz on the final push for AGI, understanding OpenAI's leadership drama, and red-teaming frontier models

Dec. 22, 2023

3:46:52

#175 – Lucia Coulter on preventing lead poisoning for $1.66 per child

Dec. 14, 2023

2:14:08

#174 – Nita Farahany on the neurotechnology already being used to convict criminals and manipulate workers

Dec. 7, 2023

2:00:31

#173 – Jeff Sebo on digital minds, and how to avoid sleepwalking into a major moral catastrophe

Nov. 22, 2023

2:38:20

#172 – Bryan Caplan on why you should stop reading the news

Nov. 17, 2023

2:23:22

#171 – Alison Young on how top labs have jeopardised public health with repeated biosafety failures

Nov. 9, 2023

1:46:14

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

Nov. 1, 2023

2:57:46

#169 – Paul Niehaus on whether cash transfers cause economic growth, and keeping theft to acceptable levels

Oct. 26, 2023

1:47:56

#168 – Ian Morris on whether deep history says we're heading for an intelligence explosion

Oct. 23, 2023

2:43:55

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

Oct. 18, 2023

1:54:49

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

Oct. 12, 2023

3:08:49

#165 – Anders Sandberg on war in space, whether civilisations age, and the best things possible in our universe

Oct. 6, 2023

2:48:33

#164 – Kevin Esvelt on cults that want to kill everyone, stealth vs wildfire pandemics, and how he felt inventing gene drives

Oct. 2, 2023

3:03:42

Great power conflict (Article)

Sept. 22, 2023

1:19:46

#163 – Toby Ord on the perils of maximising the good that you do

Sept. 8, 2023

3:07:08

The 80,000 Hours Career Guide (2023)

Sept. 4, 2023

4:41:13

#162 – Mustafa Suleyman on getting Washington and Silicon Valley to tame AI

Sept. 1, 2023

59:34

#161 – Michael Webb on whether AI will soon cause job loss, lower incomes, and higher inequality — or the opposite

Aug. 23, 2023

3:30:32