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80,000 Hours Podcast

The most important conversations about artificial intelligence you won’t hear anywhere else. Subscribe by searching for '80000 Hours' wherever you get podcasts. Hosted by Rob Wiblin, Luisa Rodriguez, Zershaaneh Qureshi, and Tom Reed.

Episodes

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OpenAI Security: Controlling Models is Now ‘Hell’ (AI Explained cross-post)

09 Oct 2026
40m
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In 2023 Ajeya Cotra already knew what was coming (classic episode)

08 Oct 2026
2h 46m
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19 Astra and 'Hugging Face' details that reveal what's coming next | Rob Wiblin

02 Oct 2026
20m
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The case for giving AI (some) legal rights | Simon Goldstein

01 Oct 2026
1h 53m
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Will AI take power — or will humans use it to take power first? With Katja Grace and Tom Davidson

29 Sep 2026
1h 28m
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How we get from AI cyberattacks to human extinction

24 Sep 2026
27m
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Max Nadeau on why ambitious people should start AI safety nonprofits

17 Sep 2026
1h 3m
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Why the intelligence explosion can't happen inside a data centre | Tom Reed

10 Sep 2026
22m
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Inside the first AI-coordinated cyberattack on a real company

04 Sep 2026
22m
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AI 2027's author returns with a plan to change the ending | Daniel Kokotajlo

27 Aug 2026
3h 47m
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Owain Evans on accidentally training AI models to be evil

20 Aug 2026
2h 15m
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The UK's former head AI safety scientist on how to solve alignment before superintelligence arrives | Geoffrey Irving

11 Aug 2026
2h 2m
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Where AGI timelines go wrong | Toby Ord, Oxford University

06 Aug 2026
2h 46m
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What the hell happened with AGI timelines in 2026? – Rob Wiblin

04 Aug 2026
49m
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Spencer Greenberg on staying sane while trying to save the world

28 Jul 2026
2h 9m
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Jasmine Sun on what the people building AI really believe

21 Jul 2026
1h 6m
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The frontier AI industry operates under a pervasive sense of techno-determinism, where researchers often believe that mass job displacement is inevitable and that securing personal equity in AI labs is the only way to avoid a permanent underclass. Jasmine Sun, an AI ethnographer, observes that these idiosyncratic belie...

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How middle powers avoid losing everything in a post-AI world | Anton Leicht

14 Jul 2026
1h 33m
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How a small team of activists helped pass America's landmark AI safety laws | Sneha Revanur, Encode AI

08 Jul 2026
52m
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We can guess what intergalactic war would look like. And strangely, it matters.

18 Jun 2026
15m
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How AI could create the world’s biggest problems (article by Zershaaneh Qureshi)

11 Jun 2026
1h 29m
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