80,000 Hours Podcast
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
- 2024-09-14 03:50
- last episode published
- 2024-09-13 16:34
- publication frequency
- 10.72 days
- Contributors
- Rob, Luisa, Keiran, and the 80,000 Hours team
- Author
- The 80,000 Hours Podcast
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 252
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Education Technology
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-09-13 | "Perception is quite difficult with cameras: even if you have a stereo camera, you still can’t really build a map of where everything is in space. It’s just very difficult. And I know that sounds surprising, because humans are very good at this. In fac... |
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| 2024-09-04 |
#200 – Ezra Karger on what superforecasters and experts think about existential risks "It’s very hard to find examples where people say, 'I’m starting from this point. I’m starting from this belief.' So we wanted to make that very legible to people. We wanted to say, 'Experts think this; accurate forecasters think this.' They might both... |
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| 2024-08-29 |
#199 – Nathan Calvin on California’s AI bill SB 1047 and its potential to shape US AI policy "I do think that there is a really significant sentiment among parts of the opposition that it’s not really just that this bill itself is that bad or extreme — when you really drill into it, it feels like one of those things where you read it and it’s ... |
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| 2024-08-26 |
#198 – Meghan Barrett on challenging our assumptions about insects "This is a group of animals I think people are particularly unfamiliar with. They are especially poorly covered in our science curriculum; they are especially poorly understood, because people don’t spend as much time learning about them at museums; an... |
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| 2024-08-22 |
#197 – Nick Joseph on whether Anthropic's AI safety policy is up to the task The three biggest AI companies — Anthropic, OpenAI, and DeepMind — have now all released policies designed to make their AI models less likely to go rogue or cause catastrophic damage as they approach, and eventually exceed, human capabilities. Are the... |
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| 2024-08-15 |
#196 – Jonathan Birch on the edge cases of sentience and why they matter "In the 1980s, it was still apparently common to perform surgery on newborn babies without anaesthetic on both sides of the Atlantic. This led to appalling cases, and to public outcry, and to campaigns to change clinical practice. And as soon as [some ... |
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| 2024-08-01 |
#195 – Sella Nevo on who's trying to steal frontier AI models, and what they could do with them "Computational systems have literally millions of physical and conceptual components, and around 98% of them are embedded into your infrastructure without you ever having heard of them. And an inordinate amount of them can lead to a catastrophic failur... |
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| 2024-07-26 |
#194 – Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government "If you’re a power that is an island and that goes by sea, then you’re more likely to do things like valuing freedom, being democratic, being pro-foreigner, being open-minded, being interested in trade. If you are on the Mongolian steppes, then your en... |
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| 2024-07-18 |
#193 – Sihao Huang on the risk that US–China AI competition leads to war "You don’t necessarily need world-leading compute to create highly risky AI systems. The biggest biological design tools right now, like AlphaFold’s, are orders of magnitude smaller in terms of compute requirements than the frontier large language mode... |
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| 2024-07-12 |
#192 – Annie Jacobsen on what would happen if North Korea launched a nuclear weapon at the US "Ring one: total annihilation; no cellular life remains. Ring two, another three-mile diameter out: everything is ablaze. Ring three, another three or five miles out on every side: third-degree burns among almost everyone. You are talking about people ... |
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