The 80,000 Hours Podcast on Artificial Intelligence
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Episodes: 14
Description
10 experts, 10 episodes: a crash course on transformative AI and what you can do to help shape its trajectory.
This compilation features 10 key episodes of The 80,000 Hours Podcast to help listeners — particularly those new to the topic — get to grips with the potential upsides and downsides of powerful, transformative AI.
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Zero: What to expect in this series
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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One: Will MacAskill on AI causing a “century in a decade” — and how we’re completely unprepared
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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Two: Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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Three: Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGI
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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Four: Rose Hadshar on why automating human labour will break our political system
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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Five: Helen Toner on the geopolitics of AI in China and the Middle East
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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Six: Beth Barnes on the most important graph in AI right now — and the 7-month rule that governs its progress
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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Seven: Richard Moulange on how AI now designs genomes from scratch and outperforms virologists at lab work — what could go wrong?
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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Eight: Robert Long on how we’re not ready for AI consciousness
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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Nine: Neel Nanda on the race to read AI minds
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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Ten: Holden Karnofsky on dozens of opportunities to make AI safer lying on the table — and all his AGI takes
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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Bonus: How AI could create the world's biggest problems (article narration by Zershaaneh Qureshi)
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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Bonus: Risks from power-seeking AI systems (article narration by Zershaaneh Qureshi)
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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Bonus: Benjamin Todd on why we’re updating our career advice for the strangest time in history
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Jun 05, 2026 |