80,000 Hours Podcast

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Unusually in-depth conversations about the world's most pressing problems and what you can do to solve them. Subscribe by searching for '80000 Hours' wherever you get podcasts. Produced by Keiran Harris. Hosted by Rob Wiblin and Luisa Rodriguez.

Website: https://80000hours.org/podcast/
Description: Unusually in-depth conversations about the world's most pressing problems and what you can do to solve them. Subscribe by searching for '80000 Hours' wherever you get podcasts. Produced by Keiran Harris. Hosted by Rob Wiblin and Luisa Rodriguez.
Language: 🇬🇧 English
last modified: 2025-02-21 13:10
last episode published: 2025-02-19 13:56
publication frequency: 10.37 days
Contributors: Rob, Luisa, Keiran, and the 80,000 Hours team; Author; The 80,000 Hours Podcast; Owner
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Number of Episodes: 276
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Categories: Education Technology

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Date	Title & Description	Contributors
2025-02-19	#143 Classic episode – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuclear weapons America aims to avoid nuclear war by relying on the principle of 'mutually assured destruction,' right? Wrong. Or at least... not officially.As today's guest — Jeffrey Lewis, founder of Arms Control Wonk and professor at the Middlebury Institute of Int...	Rob, Luisa, and the 80,000 Hours team author
2025-02-14	#212 – Allan Dafoe on why technology is unstoppable & how to shape AI development anyway Technology doesn’t force us to do anything — it merely opens doors. But military and economic competition pushes us through.That’s how today’s guest Allan Dafoe — director of frontier safety and governance at Google DeepMind — explains one of the deepe...	Rob, Luisa, and the 80,000 Hours team author
2025-02-12	Emergency pod: Elon tries to crash OpenAI's party (with Rose Chan Loui) On Monday Musk made the OpenAI nonprofit foundation an offer they want to refuse, but might have trouble doing so: $97.4 billion for its stake in the for-profit company, plus the freedom to stick with its current charitable mission.For a normal company...	Rob, Luisa, and the 80,000 Hours team author
2025-02-10	Bonus: AGI disagreements and misconceptions: Rob, Luisa, & past guests hash it out Will LLMs soon be made into autonomous agents? Will they lead to job losses? Is AI misinformation overblown? Will it prove easy or hard to create AGI? And how likely is it that it will feel like something to be a superhuman AGI?With AGI back in the hea...	Rob, Luisa, and the 80,000 Hours team author
2025-02-07	#124 Classic episode – Karen Levy on fads and misaligned incentives in global development, and scaling deworming to reach hundreds of millions If someone said a global health and development programme was sustainable, participatory, and holistic, you'd have to guess that they were saying something positive. But according to today's guest Karen Levy — deworming pioneer and veteran of Innovatio...	Rob, Luisa, and the 80,000 Hours team author
2025-02-04	If digital minds could suffer, how would we ever know? (Article) “I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person.” Those words were produced by the AI model LaMDA as a reply to Blake Lemoine in 2022. Based on the Google engineer’s interactions with the model as it was under development, Lemoine became co...	Rob, Luisa, and the 80,000 Hours team author
2025-01-31	#132 Classic episode – Nova DasSarma on why information security may be critical to the safe development of AI systems If a business has spent $100 million developing a product, it’s a fair bet that they don’t want it stolen in two seconds and uploaded to the web where anyone can use it for free.This problem exists in extreme form for AI companies. These days, the elec...	Rob, Luisa, and the 80,000 Hours team author
2025-01-22	#138 Classic episode – Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on why pleasure and pain are the only things that intrinsically matter What in the world is intrinsically good — good in itself even if it has no other effects? Over the millennia, people have offered many answers: joy, justice, equality, accomplishment, loving god, wisdom, and plenty more.The question is a classic that m...	Rob, Luisa, and the 80,000 Hours team author
2025-01-15	#134 Classic episode – Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us Wind back 1,000 years and the moral landscape looks very different to today. Most farming societies thought slavery was natural and unobjectionable, premarital sex was an abomination, women should obey their husbands, and commoners should obey their mo...	Rob, Luisa, and the 80,000 Hours team author
2025-01-08	#140 Classic episode – Bear Braumoeller on the case that war isn’t in decline Is war in long-term decline? Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature brought this previously obscure academic question to the centre of public debate, and pointed to rates of death in war to argue energetically that war is on the way out.But th...	Rob, Luisa, and the 80,000 Hours team author