80,000 Hours Podcast

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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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How the New Congress Can Save Us From AI Disaster | Rob Wiblin

2026-11-13 · 19 min

We now know the makeup of Congress for what may turn out to be the two most important years in AI’s development. Democrats won big and AI was maybe the fourth or fifth biggest driver of the backlash.So is strong and…
Is Anthropic on the cusp of RSI? Inside the redacted METR report | Luisa Rodriguez

2026-11-12 · 15 min

Anthropic’s AI is working to build the next version of itself. For the first time ever, an independent team got a chance to investigate this.METR spent 11 weeks inside the lab, with access to data almost no one outside…
The US is building the smartest AI. China is running a different race | Luisa Rodriguez

2026-11-10 · 26 min

China’s best models are only six months behind America’s, despite having far less computing power. How is that possible?Luisa Rodriguez investigates, and finds that much of China’s progress is made by using American…
Your AI crash course starts here: Our best episodes to get up to speed on transformative AI

2026-11-06 · 2 min

We make a lot of episodes about AI these days. We recently picked out the best 10 episodes of the show to really help deepen your understanding of AI and AGI and superintelligence and recursive self-improvement — and…
An AI disaster hits. The president calls Xi. Then what? | Jeremie Harris (crosspost from NonZero)

2026-11-05 · 2 hr 22 min

This is an (unpaid) cross-post of an episode from the podcast NonZero, which Rob Wiblin thought you might be interested in. The originals are on the NonZero website: Part 1 and Part 2. If you like it and want more…
3 new scandals show being a pain in the ass for AI labs is a legit job now | Rob Wiblin

2026-11-03 · 29 min

The big 3 AI companies all had serious scandals last month. Anthropic pushed a federal AI bill that would make it harder to stop dangerous model training. OpenAI fired three safety researchers based on evidence that’s…
#258 – Luke Muehlhauser on the most important AI safety work nobody is doing

2026-10-29 · 2 hr 36 min

The US government spends 25 times more on military marching bands than on its AI safety institute. And that’s just one of the many institutions we’re missing as AI becomes more powerful and dangerous.Aviation has the…
Why Silicon Valley can’t slow down AI on its own | Luisa Rodriguez

2026-10-27 · 21 min

Two-thirds of Americans think AI is moving too fast. So do the people building it. So why the hell isn’t anyone slowing down?We can’t tell when models are too dangerous. We mostly don’t know how they work. We don’t know…
#257 – Tom Milton on how we could verify a US–China deal on AI

2026-10-23 · 1 hr 49 min

If the US and China agreed to pause frontier AI training, how would either side confirm the other was complying? Today, Tom Milton argues, the most likely answer would be to shut down data centres entirely. That would…
AI lab staff: Has your project been overtaken by events? 8 strategic updates | Rob Wiblin

2026-10-21 · 14 min

I have a plea for all staff at AI companies: reassess if your current role is still your best opportunity for impact. And if it’s not — move.Frontier lab staff listening to this show will mostly already be struggling to…

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Owner: The 80000 Hours Podcast
Oldest episode in feed: 05/2017 · over 9 years
Typical length: 2 hr 12 min
Format: Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone

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