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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.

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What it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') | Rohin Shah

02 Jun 2026
2h 48m
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Achieving AGI safety relies on prosaic alignment techniques rather than assuming catastrophic failure is the inevitable default. Current AI progress exhibits approximate continuity, suggesting that development remains predictable and manageable through iterative, evidence-based oversight. Public safety commitments ofte...

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What makes for a dream job? | Benjamin Todd

28 May 2026
28m
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We’re updating our career advice for the strangest time in history | Benjamin Todd, author of 80,000 Hours

26 May 2026
1h 6m
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Can AIs already start 'rogue deployments' inside AI companies? (Landmark new METR report)

20 May 2026
20m
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#243 – 'Godfather of AI' Yoshua Bengio: "I now see a path" to safe superintelligent AI

07 May 2026
2h 35m
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Yoshua Bengio, a Turing Award-winning computer scientist, proposes a "Scientist AI" architecture designed to prioritize honesty and truth-modeling over human-mimicry. Current AI training methods, such as reinforcement learning from human feedback, inadvertently instill implicit, potentially dangerous goals like self-pr...

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"AI doesn't work"—the story behind the stat that misled millions and moved markets

28 Apr 2026
10m
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AI character matters even more than you think | Will MacAskill

22 Apr 2026
3h 9m
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Risks from power-seeking AI systems (article narration by Zershaaneh Qureshi)

16 Apr 2026
1h 29m
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How scary is Claude Mythos? 303 pages in 21 minutes

10 Apr 2026
21m
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Village gossip, pesticide bans, and gene drives: 17 experts on the future of global health

07 Apr 2026
4h 6m
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Is there a case against Anthropic? And: The Meta leaks are worse than you think.

03 Apr 2026
20m
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AI designs genomes from scratch & outperforms virologists at lab work. What could go wrong? | Dr Richard Moulange, CLTR

31 Mar 2026
3h 7m
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A Ukraine ceasefire could accidentally set Europe up for a bigger war | RAND's top Russia expert Samuel Charap

24 Mar 2026
1h 12m
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Why automating human labour will break our political system | Rose Hadshar, Forethought

17 Mar 2026
2h 14m
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AI Won't End Mutually Assured Destruction (Probably) | Sam Winter-Levy & Nikita Lalwani

10 Mar 2026
1h 11m
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Using AI to enhance societal decision making (article by Zershaaneh Qureshi)

06 Mar 2026
31m
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We're Not Ready for AI Consciousness | Robert Long, philosopher and founder of Eleos AI

03 Mar 2026
3h 25m
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Why Teaching AI Right from Wrong Could Get Everyone Killed | Max Harms, MIRI

24 Feb 2026
2h 41m
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#235 – Ajeya Cotra on whether it’s crazy that every AI company’s safety plan is ‘use AI to make AI safe’

17 Feb 2026
2h 57m
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The prospect of an AI-driven intelligence explosion remains a central point of contention, with expert expectations for economic growth ranging from marginal improvements to thousand-fold increases. This divergence stems from conflicting priors regarding historical technological progress and the potential for AI to aut...

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What the hell happened with AGI timelines in 2025?

10 Feb 2026
25m
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