80,000 Hours Podcast

Emergency pod: Judge plants a legal time bomb under OpenAI (with Rose Chan Loui)

#139 Classic episode – Alan Hájek on puzzles and paradoxes in probability and expected value

#143 Classic episode – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuclear weapons

#212 – Allan Dafoe on why technology is unstoppable & how to shape AI development anyway

Emergency pod: Elon tries to crash OpenAI's party (with Rose Chan Loui)

Bonus: AGI disagreements and misconceptions: Rob, Luisa, & past guests hash it out

#124 Classic episode – Karen Levy on fads and misaligned incentives in global development, and scaling deworming to reach hundreds of millions

If digital minds could suffer, how would we ever know? (Article)

#132 Classic episode – Nova DasSarma on why information security may be critical to the safe development of AI systems

#138 Classic episode – Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on why pleasure and pain are the only things that intrinsically matter

#134 Classic episode – Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us

#140 Classic episode – Bear Braumoeller on the case that war isn’t in decline

2024 Highlightapalooza! (The best of The 80,000 Hours Podcast this year)

This podcast episode wraps up the 2024 season by showcasing the 80 Best Bits from the 80,000 Hours podcast. It includes short clips from a range of interviews on fascinating subjects such as the origins of morality, AI risks, the gender pay gap, insect sentience, and the concept of robot nannies. The selected clips are...

#211 – Sam Bowman on why housing still isn't fixed and what would actually work

#210 – Cameron Meyer Shorb on dismantling the myth that we can’t do anything to help wild animals

#209 – Rose Chan Loui on OpenAI’s gambit to ditch its nonprofit

#208 – Elizabeth Cox on the case that TV shows, movies, and novels can improve the world

#207 – Sarah Eustis-Guthrie on why she shut down her charity, and why more founders should follow her lead

Bonus: Parenting insights from Rob and 8 past guests

#206 – Anil Seth on the predictive brain and how to study consciousness