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ControlAI’s Connor Leahy on why superintelligence is ‘not a weapon, it’s an adversary’
TechCrunch Equity Podcast · 2026-09-09
Inside the first AI-coordinated cyberattack on a real company
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2026-09-04
We’re ‘dangerously close’ to dead internet theory, says Pangram’s CEO
TechCrunch Equity Podcast · 2026-09-02
#253 – AI 2027's author returns with a plan to change the ending | Daniel Kokotajlo
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2026-08-27
#501 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2026-08-26
#252 – Owain Evans on accidentally training AI models to be evil
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2026-08-20
#251 – The UK's former head AI safety scientist on how to solve alignment before superintelligence arrives | Geoffrey Irving
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2026-08-11
#250 – Toby Ord on where AGI timelines go wrong
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2026-08-06
What the hell happened with AGI timelines in 2026? – Rob Wiblin
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2026-08-04
#248 – Jasmine Sun on what the people building AI really believe
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2026-07-21
#246 – Sneha Revanur on how a small team of activists helped pass America's landmark AI safety laws
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2026-07-08
#245 – Rohin Shah on what it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers')
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2026-06-02
#244 – Benjamin Todd on how we’re updating our career advice for the strangest time in history
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2026-05-26
Can AIs already start 'rogue deployments' inside AI companies? (Landmark new METR report)
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2026-05-20
#243 – 'Godfather of AI' Yoshua Bengio: "I now see a path" to safe superintelligent AI
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2026-05-07
Risks from power-seeking AI systems (article narration by Zershaaneh Qureshi)
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2026-04-16
How scary is Claude Mythos? 303 pages in 21 minutes
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2026-04-10
Village gossip, pesticide bans, and gene drives: 17 experts on the future of global health
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2026-04-07
Defense in Depth: Layered Strategies Against AI Risk (with Li-Lian Ang)
Future of Life Institute Podcast · 2026-04-03
Defense in Depth: Layered Strategies Against AI Risk (with Li-Lian Ang)
Future of Life Institute Podcast · 2026-04-02
#241 – Richard Moulange on how now AI codes viable genomes from scratch and outperforms virologists at lab work — what could go wrong?
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2026-03-31
#494 – Jensen Huang: NVIDIA – The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2026-03-23
#238 – Sam Winter-Levy and Nikita Lalwani on how AGI won't end mutually assured destruction (probably)
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2026-03-10
#237 – Robert Long on how we're not ready for AI consciousness
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2026-03-03
#236 – Max Harms on why teaching AI right from wrong could get everyone killed
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2026-02-24
#235 – Ajeya Cotra on whether it’s crazy that every AI company’s safety plan is ‘use AI to make AI safe’
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2026-02-17
#491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2026-02-12
#490 – State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2026-02-01
#233 – James Smith on how to prevent a mirror life catastrophe
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2026-01-13
2025 Highlight-o-thon: Oops! All Bests
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-12-29
#231 – Paul Scharre on how AI-controlled robots will and won't change war
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-12-17
#230 – Dean Ball on how AI is a huge deal — but we shouldn’t regulate it yet
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-12-10
#229 – Marius Hobbhahn on the race to solve AI scheming before models go superhuman
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-12-03
Rob & Luisa chat kids, the 2016 fertility crash, and how the 50s invented parenting that makes us miserable
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-11-25
OpenAI: The nonprofit refuses to be killed (with Tyler Whitmer)
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-11-11
#227 – Helen Toner on the geopolitics of AGI in China and the Middle East
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-11-05
#226 – Holden Karnofsky on unexploited opportunities to make AI safer — and all his AGI takes
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-10-30
#225 – Daniel Kokotajlo on what a hyperspeed robot economy might look like
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-10-27
#224 – There's a cheap and low-tech way to save humanity from any engineered disease | Andrew Snyder-Beattie
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-10-02
Inside the Biden admin’s AI policy approach | Jake Sullivan, Biden’s NSA | via The Cognitive Revolution
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-09-26
#223 – Neel Nanda on leading a Google DeepMind team at 26 – and advice if you want to work at an AI company (part 2)
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-09-15
#222 – Can we tell if an AI is loyal by reading its mind? DeepMind's Neel Nanda (part 1)
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-09-08
#221 – Kyle Fish on the most bizarre findings from 5 AI welfare experiments
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-08-28
#475 – Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2025-07-23
#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2025-07-12
#220 – Ryan Greenblatt on the 4 most likely ways for AI to take over, and the case for and against AGI in <8 years
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-07-08
#219 – Toby Ord on graphs AI companies would prefer you didn't (fully) understand
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-06-24
#217 – Beth Barnes on the most important graph in AI right now — and the 7-month rule that governs its progress
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-06-02
Don’t believe OpenAI’s “nonprofit” spin (emergency pod with Tyler Whitmer)
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-05-15
The case for and against AGI by 2030 (article by Benjamin Todd)
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-05-12
Emergency pod: Did OpenAI give up, or is this just a new trap? (with Rose Chan Loui)
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-05-08
#215 – Tom Davidson on how AI-enabled coups could allow a tiny group to seize power
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-04-16
#214 – Buck Shlegeris on controlling AI that wants to take over – so we can use it anyway
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-04-04
15 expert takes on infosec in the age of AI
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-03-28
#213 – Will MacAskill on AI causing a “century in a decade” – and how we're completely unprepared
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-03-11
#212 – Allan Dafoe on why technology is unstoppable & how to shape AI development anyway
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-02-14
AGI disagreements and misconceptions: Rob, Luisa, & past guests hash it out
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-02-10
#459 – DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2025-02-03
#132 Classic episode – Nova DasSarma on why information security may be critical to the safe development of AI systems
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-01-31
#138 Classic episode – Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on why pleasure and pain are the only things that intrinsically matter
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2025-01-22
2024 Highlightapalooza! (The best of The 80,000 Hours Podcast this year)
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2024-12-27
#452 – Dario Amodei: Anthropic CEO on Claude, AGI & the Future of AI & Humanity
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2024-11-11
#447 – Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2024-10-06
#201 – Ken Goldberg on why your robot butler isn’t here yet
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2024-09-13
#200 – Ezra Karger on what superforecasters and experts think about existential risks
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2024-09-04
#199 – Nathan Calvin on California’s AI bill SB 1047 and its potential to shape US AI policy
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2024-08-29
#197 – Nick Joseph on whether Anthropic's AI safety policy is up to the task
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2024-08-22
#440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2024-08-20
#196 – Jonathan Birch on the edge cases of sentience and why they matter
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2024-08-15
#195 – Sella Nevo on who's trying to steal frontier AI models, and what they could do with them
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2024-08-01
#194 – Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2024-07-26
#193 – Sihao Huang on navigating the geopolitics of US–China AI competition
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2024-07-18
#191 (Part 2) – Carl Shulman on government and society after AGI
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2024-07-05
#191 (Part 1) – Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGI
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2024-06-27
#431 – Roman Yampolskiy: Dangers of Superintelligent AI
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2024-06-02
#184 – Zvi Mowshowitz on sleeping on sleeper agents, and the biggest AI updates since ChatGPT
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2024-04-11
AI governance and policy (Article)
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2024-03-28
#416 – Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2024-03-07
#180 – Hugo Mercier on why gullibility and misinformation are overrated
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2024-02-21
#412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2024-02-16
#177 – Nathan Labenz on recent AI breakthroughs and navigating the growing rift between AI safety and accelerationist camps
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2024-01-24
#176 – Nathan Labenz on the final push for AGI, understanding OpenAI's leadership drama, and red-teaming frontier models
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2023-12-22
#172 – Bryan Caplan on why you should stop reading the news
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2023-11-17
#400 – Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2023-11-09
#164 – Kevin Esvelt on cults that want to kill everyone, stealth vs wildfire pandemics, and how he felt inventing gene drives
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2023-10-02
#163 – Toby Ord on the perils of maximising the good that you do
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2023-09-08
#162 – Mustafa Suleyman on getting Washington and Silicon Valley to tame AI
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2023-09-01
#159 – Jan Leike on OpenAI's massive push to make superintelligence safe in 4 years or less
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2023-08-07
#158 – Holden Karnofsky on how AIs might take over even if they're no smarter than humans, and his 4-part playbook for AI risk
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2023-07-31
#157 – Ezra Klein on existential risk from AI and what DC could do about it
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2023-07-24
#156 – Markus Anderljung on how to regulate cutting-edge AI models
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2023-07-10
#387 – George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2023-06-30
#155 – Lennart Heim on the compute governance era and what has to come after
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2023-06-22
#154 - Rohin Shah on DeepMind and trying to fairly hear out both AI doomers and doubters
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2023-06-09
#383 – Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2023-06-08
#151 – Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2023-05-12
#150 – Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2023-05-05
#374 – Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2023-04-28
#373 – Manolis Kellis: Evolution of Human Civilization and Superintelligent AI
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2023-04-21
#367 – Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2023-03-25
#146 – Robert Long on why large language models like GPT (probably) aren't conscious
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2023-03-14
#81 Classic episode - Ben Garfinkel on scrutinising classic AI risk arguments
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2023-01-09
#141 – Richard Ngo on large language models, OpenAI, and striving to make the future go well
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2022-12-13
#333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2022-10-29
Preventing an AI-related catastrophe (Article)
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2022-10-14
#138 – Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on why pleasure and pain are the only things that intrinsically matter
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2022-09-30
#322 – Rana el Kaliouby: Emotion AI, Social Robots, and Self-Driving Cars
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2022-09-21
#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2022-07-01
#133 – Max Tegmark on how a 'put-up-or-shut-up' resolution led him to work on AI and algorithmic news selection
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2022-07-01
#132 – Nova DasSarma on why information security may be critical to the safe development of AI systems
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2022-06-14
#258 – Yann LeCun: Dark Matter of Intelligence and Self-Supervised Learning
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2022-01-22
#252 – Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-12-28
#241 – Boris Sofman: Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Robotics
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-11-16
We just put up a new compilation of ten core episodes of the show
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2021-10-20
#218 – Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-09-06
#217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-09-03
#215 – Wojciech Zaremba: OpenAI Codex, GPT-3, Robotics, and the Future of AI
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-08-29
#109 – Holden Karnofsky on the most important century
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2021-08-19
#107 – Chris Olah on what the hell is going on inside neural networks
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2021-08-04
#206 – Ishan Misra: Self-Supervised Deep Learning in Computer Vision
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-07-31
#95 – Kelly Wanser on whether to deliberately intervene in the climate
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2021-03-26
#92 – Brian Christian on the alignment problem
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2021-03-05
#162 – Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-02-18
Lex Fridman: Ask Me Anything – AMA January 2021
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-01-27
#155 – Max Tegmark: AI and Physics
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-01-18
#144 – Michael Littman: Reinforcement Learning and the Future of AI
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2020-12-13
New Name: Lex Fridman Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2020-08-24
#114 – Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2020-08-09
#108 – Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2020-07-14
#81 - Ben Garfinkel on scrutinising classic AI risk arguments
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2020-07-09
#107 – Peter Singer: Suffering in Humans, Animals, and AI
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2020-07-08
#80 – Stuart Russell on why our approach to AI is broken and how to fix it
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2020-06-22
#78 – Danny Hernandez on forecasting and the drivers of AI progress
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2020-05-22
#95 – Dawn Song: Adversarial Machine Learning and Computer Security
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2020-05-12
#94 – Ilya Sutskever: Deep Learning
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2020-05-08
#93 – Daphne Koller: Biomedicine and Machine Learning
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2020-05-05
#73 – Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2020-02-20
#69 – Jeffrey Ding on China, its AI dream, and what we get wrong about both
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2020-02-06
#44 Classic episode - Paul Christiano on finding real solutions to the AI alignment problem
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2020-01-15
Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow, Deep Learning, and AI
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2020-01-14
#33 Classic episode - Anders Sandberg on cryonics, solar flares, and the annual odds of nuclear war
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2020-01-08
Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2019-12-28
#67 – David Chalmers on the nature and ethics of consciousness
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2019-12-16
Judea Pearl: Causal Reasoning, Counterfactuals, Bayesian Networks, and the Path to AGI
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2019-12-11
Whitney Cummings: Comedy, Robotics, Neurology, and Love
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2019-12-05
Elon Musk: Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2019-11-12
David Ferrucci: IBM Watson, Jeopardy & Deep Conversations with AI
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2019-10-11
#63 – Vitalik Buterin on better ways to fund public goods, blockchain's failures, & effective giving
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2019-09-03
Yann LeCun: Deep Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks, and Self-Supervised Learning
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2019-08-31
#62 – Paul Christiano on messaging the future, increasing compute, & how CO2 impacts your brain
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2019-08-05
#58 – Pushmeet Kohli of DeepMind on designing robust & reliable AI systems and how to succeed in AI
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2019-06-03
#54 – OpenAI on publication norms, malicious uses of AI, and general-purpose learning algorithms
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2019-03-19
Leslie Kaelbling: Reinforcement Learning, Planning, and Robotics
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2019-03-12
#53 - Kelsey Piper on the room for important advocacy within journalism
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2019-02-27
#47 - Catherine Olsson & Daniel Ziegler on the fast path into high-impact ML engineering roles
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2018-11-02
Yoshua Bengio: Deep Learning
Lex Fridman Podcast · 2018-10-20
#40 - Katja Grace on forecasting future technology & how much we should trust expert predictions
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2018-08-21
#33 - Anders Sandberg on what if we ended ageing, solar flares & the annual risk of nuclear war
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2018-05-29
#28 - Owen Cotton-Barratt on why scientists should need insurance, PhD strategy & fast AI progresses
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2018-04-27
#23 - How to actually become an AI alignment researcher, according to Dr Jan Leike
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2018-03-16
#15 - Phil Tetlock on how chimps beat Berkeley undergrads and when it’s wise to defer to the wise
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2017-11-20
#10 - Nick Beckstead on how to spend billions of dollars preventing human extinction
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2017-10-11
#3 - Dario Amodei on OpenAI and how AI will change the world for good and ill
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2017-07-21
#0 – Introducing the 80,000 Hours Podcast
80,000 Hours Podcast · 2017-05-01
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