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80,000 Hours Podcast
352 episodes · Education · by The 80,000 Hours team
About 80,000 Hours Podcast
80,000 Hours Podcast is a Education podcast with 352 episodes in the PodLexicon database, each accompanied by a full searchable transcript and AI-generated summary. PodLexicon indexes every episode of 80,000 Hours Podcast and turns each one into a searchable AI summary — find the episode that covers a topic, track how that topic evolved over time, or compare what different guests said about it.
Recent Episodes
Max Nadeau on why ambitious people should start AI safety nonprofits — September 17, 2026Why the intelligence explosion can't happen inside a data centre | Tom Reed — September 10, 2026Inside the first AI-coordinated cyberattack on a real company — September 04, 2026#253 – AI 2027's author returns with a plan to change the ending | Daniel Kokotajlo — August 27, 2026#252 – Owain Evans on accidentally training AI models to be evil — August 20, 2026#251 – The UK's former head AI safety scientist on how to solve alignment before superintelligence arrives | Geoffrey Irving — August 11, 2026#250 – Toby Ord on where AGI timelines go wrong — August 06, 2026What the hell happened with AGI timelines in 2026? – Rob Wiblin — August 04, 2026#249 – Spencer Greenberg on staying sane while trying to save the world — July 28, 2026#248 – Jasmine Sun on what the people building AI really believe — July 21, 2026#247 – Anton Leicht on how middle powers avoid losing everything in a post-AI world — July 14, 2026#246 – Sneha Revanur on how a small team of activists helped pass America's landmark AI safety laws — July 08, 2026We can guess what intergalactic war would look like. And strangely, it matters. — June 18, 2026How AI could create the world’s biggest problems (article by Zershaaneh Qureshi) — June 11, 2026#245 – Rohin Shah on what it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') — June 02, 2026What makes for a dream job? | Benjamin Todd — May 28, 2026#244 – Benjamin Todd on how we’re updating our career advice for the strangest time in history — May 26, 2026Can AIs already start 'rogue deployments' inside AI companies? (Landmark new METR report) — May 20, 2026#243 – 'Godfather of AI' Yoshua Bengio: "I now see a path" to safe superintelligent AI — May 07, 2026'95% of AI Pilots Fail': The hidden agenda behind the viral stat that misled millions — April 28, 2026#242 – Will MacAskill on how we survive the 'intelligence explosion,' AI character, and the case for 'viatopia' — April 22, 2026Risks from power-seeking AI systems (article narration by Zershaaneh Qureshi) — April 16, 2026How scary is Claude Mythos? 303 pages in 21 minutes — April 10, 2026Village gossip, pesticide bans, and gene drives: 17 experts on the future of global health — April 07, 2026What everyone is missing about Anthropic vs the Pentagon. And: The Meta leaks are worse than you think. — April 03, 2026#241 – Richard Moulange on how now AI codes viable genomes from scratch and outperforms virologists at lab work — what could go wrong? — March 31, 2026#240 – Samuel Charap on how a Ukraine ceasefire could accidentally set Europe up for a bigger war — March 24, 2026#239 – Rose Hadshar on why automating all human labour will break our political system — March 17, 2026#238 – Sam Winter-Levy and Nikita Lalwani on how AGI won't end mutually assured destruction (probably) — March 10, 2026Using AI to enhance societal decision making (article by Zershaaneh Qureshi) — March 06, 2026#237 – Robert Long on how we're not ready for AI consciousness — March 03, 2026#236 – Max Harms on why teaching AI right from wrong could get everyone killed — February 24, 2026#235 – Ajeya Cotra on whether it’s crazy that every AI company’s safety plan is ‘use AI to make AI safe’ — February 17, 2026What the hell happened with AGI timelines in 2025? — February 10, 2026#179 Classic episode – Randy Nesse on why evolution left us so vulnerable to depression and anxiety — February 03, 2026#234 – David Duvenaud on why 'aligned AI' would still kill democracy — January 27, 2026#145 Classic episode – Christopher Brown on why slavery abolition wasn't inevitable — January 20, 2026#233 – James Smith on how to prevent a mirror life catastrophe — January 13, 2026#144 Classic episode – Athena Aktipis on why cancer is a fundamental universal phenomena — January 09, 2026#142 Classic episode – John McWhorter on why the optimal number of languages might be one, and other provocative claims about language — January 06, 20262025 Highlight-o-thon: Oops! All Bests — December 29, 2025#232 – Andreas Mogensen on what we owe 'philosophical Vulcans' and unconscious beings — December 19, 2025#231 – Paul Scharre on how AI-controlled robots will and won't change war — December 17, 2025AI might let a few people control everything — permanently (article by Rose Hadshar) — December 12, 2025#230 – Dean Ball on how AI is a huge deal — but we shouldn’t regulate it yet — December 10, 2025#229 – Marius Hobbhahn on the race to solve AI scheming before models go superhuman — December 03, 2025Rob & Luisa chat kids, the 2016 fertility crash, and how the 50s invented parenting that makes us miserable — November 25, 2025#228 – Eileen Yam on how we're completely out of touch with what the public thinks about AI — November 20, 2025OpenAI: The nonprofit refuses to be killed (with Tyler Whitmer) — November 11, 2025#227 – Helen Toner on the geopolitics of AGI in China and the Middle East — November 05, 2025
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