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Podcast Profile: 80,000 Hours Podcast

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255 episodes
2017 to 2024
Median: 138 minutes
Collection: SciPhi-Adjacent

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The "80,000 Hours Podcast" is a series of deep dives into some of the world's most pressing problems and potential solutions, as explored through in-depth conversations with experts and thought leaders. Hosted by Rob Wiblin and Luisa Rodriguez, and produced by Keiran Harris, the podcast covers a wide range of topics aimed at understanding and addressing significant global issues.

Key themes include the future of artificial intelligence, its ethical implications, and the governance necessary to manage its risks and benefits. Discussions frequently highlight the science and policy necessary to mitigate existential risks, such as engineered pandemics, nuclear threats, and climate change. The podcast also explores practical career advice, emphasizing how individuals can meaningfully contribute to solving these problems.

Several episodes focus on advances in biotechnology, with specific emphasis on innovations like gene drives, neuroscience, and their ethical quandaries. Episodes also cover topics related to animal welfare, alternative proteins, and strategies to end factory farming. Insights from economic theory and social science research are common, often highlighting interventions in global health, development, and poverty alleviation.

The podcast delves into intriguing subjects like evolutionary psychology, human behaviour, and the philosophical underpinnings of effective altruism. Guests share their research on topics such as human rationality, emotional well-being, and societal management of new technologies. Occasionally, historical context and long-term future scenarios are discussed to better understand current challenges and potential paths forward.

Overall, the "80,000 Hours Podcast" is dedicated to exploring complex and high-stakes topics with the aim of fostering a deeper understanding of how to strategically mitigate risks and enhance global welfare.

Episodes:

#203 – Peter Godfrey-Smith on interfering with wild nature, accepting death, and the origin of complex civilisation 2024-Oct-03 85 minutes

Luisa and Keiran on free will, and the consequences of never feeling enduring guilt or shame 2024-Sep-27 96 minutes

#202 – Venki Ramakrishnan on the cutting edge of anti-ageing science 2024-Sep-19 140 minutes

#201 – Ken Goldberg on why your robot butler isn’t here yet 2024-Sep-13 121 minutes

#200 – Ezra Karger on what superforecasters and experts think about existential risks 2024-Sep-04 169 minutes

#199 – Nathan Calvin on California’s AI bill SB 1047 and its potential to shape US AI policy 2024-Aug-29 72 minutes

#198 – Meghan Barrett on challenging our assumptions about insects 2024-Aug-26 228 minutes

#197 – Nick Joseph on whether Anthropic's AI safety policy is up to the task 2024-Aug-22 149 minutes

#196 – Jonathan Birch on the edge cases of sentience and why they matter 2024-Aug-15 121 minutes

#195 – Sella Nevo on who's trying to steal frontier AI models, and what they could do with them 2024-Aug-01 128 minutes

#194 – Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government 2024-Jul-26 184 minutes

#193 – Sihao Huang on the risk that US–China AI competition leads to war 2024-Jul-18 143 minutes

#192 – Annie Jacobsen on what would happen if North Korea launched a nuclear weapon at the US 2024-Jul-12 114 minutes

#191 (Part 2) – Carl Shulman on government and society after AGI 2024-Jul-05 140 minutes

#191 (Part 1) – Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGI 2024-Jun-27 254 minutes

#190 – Eric Schwitzgebel on whether the US is conscious 2024-Jun-07 120 minutes

#189 – Rachel Glennerster on how “market shaping” could help solve climate change, pandemics, and other global problems 2024-May-29 168 minutes

#188 – Matt Clancy on whether science is good 2024-May-23 160 minutes

#187 – Zach Weinersmith on how researching his book turned him from a space optimist into a "space bastard" 2024-May-14 186 minutes

#186 – Dean Spears on why babies are born small in Uttar Pradesh, and how to save their lives 2024-May-01 78 minutes

#185 – Lewis Bollard on the 7 most promising ways to end factory farming, and whether AI is going to be good or bad for animals 2024-Apr-18 153 minutes

#184 – Zvi Mowshowitz on sleeping on sleeper agents, and the biggest AI updates since ChatGPT 2024-Apr-11 211 minutes

AI governance and policy (Article) 2024-Mar-28 51 minutes

#183 – Spencer Greenberg on causation without correlation, money and happiness, lightgassing, hype vs value, and more 2024-Mar-14 156 minutes

#182 – Bob Fischer on comparing the welfare of humans, chickens, pigs, octopuses, bees, and more 2024-Mar-08 141 minutes

#181 – Laura Deming on the science that could keep us healthy in our 80s and beyond 2024-Mar-01 97 minutes

#180 – Hugo Mercier on why gullibility and misinformation are overrated 2024-Feb-21 156 minutes

#179 – Randy Nesse on why evolution left us so vulnerable to depression and anxiety 2024-Feb-12 176 minutes

#178 – Emily Oster on what the evidence actually says about pregnancy and parenting 2024-Feb-01 142 minutes

#177 – Nathan Labenz on recent AI breakthroughs and navigating the growing rift between AI safety and accelerationist camps 2024-Jan-24 167 minutes

#90 Classic episode – Ajeya Cotra on worldview diversification and how big the future could be 2024-Jan-12 179 minutes

#112 Classic episode – Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications 2024-Jan-08 230 minutes

#111 Classic episode – Mushtaq Khan on using institutional economics to predict effective government reforms 2024-Jan-04 202 minutes

2023 Mega-highlights Extravaganza 2023-Dec-31 113 minutes

#100 Classic episode – Having a successful career with depression, anxiety, and imposter syndrome 2023-Dec-27 171 minutes

#176 – Nathan Labenz on the final push for AGI, understanding OpenAI's leadership drama, and red-teaming frontier models 2023-Dec-22 226 minutes

#175 – Lucia Coulter on preventing lead poisoning for $1.66 per child 2023-Dec-14 134 minutes

#174 – Nita Farahany on the neurotechnology already being used to convict criminals and manipulate workers 2023-Dec-07 120 minutes

#173 – Jeff Sebo on digital minds, and how to avoid sleepwalking into a major moral catastrophe 2023-Nov-22 158 minutes

#172 – Bryan Caplan on why you should stop reading the news 2023-Nov-17 143 minutes

#171 – Alison Young on how top labs have jeopardised public health with repeated biosafety failures 2023-Nov-09 106 minutes

#170 – Santosh Harish on how air pollution is responsible for ~12% of global deaths — and how to get that number down 2023-Nov-01 177 minutes

#169 – Paul Niehaus on whether cash transfers cause economic growth, and keeping theft to acceptable levels 2023-Oct-26 107 minutes

#168 – Ian Morris on whether deep history says we're heading for an intelligence explosion 2023-Oct-23 163 minutes

#167 – Seren Kell on the research gaps holding back alternative proteins from mass adoption 2023-Oct-18 114 minutes

#166 – Tantum Collins on what he’s learned as an AI policy insider at the White House, DeepMind and elsewhere 2023-Oct-12 188 minutes

#165 – Anders Sandberg on war in space, whether civilisations age, and the best things possible in our universe 2023-Oct-06 168 minutes

#164 – Kevin Esvelt on cults that want to kill everyone, stealth vs wildfire pandemics, and how he felt inventing gene drives 2023-Oct-02 183 minutes

Great power conflict (Article) 2023-Sep-22 79 minutes

#163 – Toby Ord on the perils of maximising the good that you do 2023-Sep-08 187 minutes

The 80,000 Hours Career Guide (2023) 2023-Sep-04 281 minutes

#162 – Mustafa Suleyman on getting Washington and Silicon Valley to tame AI 2023-Sep-01 59 minutes

#161 – Michael Webb on whether AI will soon cause job loss, lower incomes, and higher inequality — or the opposite 2023-Aug-23 210 minutes

#160 – Hannah Ritchie on why it makes sense to be optimistic about the environment 2023-Aug-14 156 minutes

#159 – Jan Leike on OpenAI's massive push to make superintelligence safe in 4 years or less 2023-Aug-07 171 minutes

We now offer shorter 'interview highlights' episodes 2023-Aug-05 6 minutes

#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 2023-Jul-31 193 minutes

#157 – Ezra Klein on existential risk from AI and what DC could do about it 2023-Jul-24 78 minutes

#156 – Markus Anderljung on how to regulate cutting-edge AI models 2023-Jul-10 126 minutes

Bonus: The Worst Ideas in the History of the World 2023-Jun-30 35 minutes

#155 – Lennart Heim on the compute governance era and what has to come after 2023-Jun-22 192 minutes

#154 - Rohin Shah on DeepMind and trying to fairly hear out both AI doomers and doubters 2023-Jun-09 189 minutes

#153 – Elie Hassenfeld on 2 big picture critiques of GiveWell's approach, and 6 lessons from their recent work 2023-Jun-02 176 minutes

#152 – Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion 2023-May-19 206 minutes

#151 – Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us 2023-May-12 169 minutes

#150 – Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world 2023-May-05 181 minutes

Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla on the Shrimp Welfare Project (80k After Hours) 2023-Apr-22 77 minutes

#149 – Tim LeBon on how altruistic perfectionism is self-defeating 2023-Apr-12 191 minutes

#148 – Johannes Ackva on unfashionable climate interventions that work, and fashionable ones that don't 2023-Apr-03 137 minutes

#147 – Spencer Greenberg on stopping valueless papers from getting into top journals 2023-Mar-24 158 minutes

#146 – Robert Long on why large language models like GPT (probably) aren't conscious 2023-Mar-14 192 minutes

#145 – Christopher Brown on why slavery abolition wasn't inevitable 2023-Feb-11 162 minutes

#144 – Athena Aktipis on why cancer is actually one of our universe's most fundamental phenomena 2023-Jan-26 195 minutes

#79 Classic episode - A.J. Jacobs on radical honesty, following the whole Bible, and reframing global problems as puzzles 2023-Jan-16 155 minutes

#81 Classic episode - Ben Garfinkel on scrutinising classic AI risk arguments 2023-Jan-09 157 minutes

#83 Classic episode - Jennifer Doleac on preventing crime without police and prisons 2023-Jan-04 137 minutes

#143 – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuclear weapons 2022-Dec-29 160 minutes

#142 – John McWhorter on key lessons from linguistics, the virtue of creoles, and language extinction 2022-Dec-20 107 minutes

#141 – Richard Ngo on large language models, OpenAI, and striving to make the future go well 2022-Dec-13 164 minutes

My experience with imposter syndrome — and how to (partly) overcome it (Article) 2022-Dec-08 44 minutes

Rob's thoughts on the FTX bankruptcy 2022-Nov-23 5 minutes

#140 – Bear Braumoeller on the case that war isn't in decline 2022-Nov-08 167 minutes

#139 — Alan Hájek on puzzles and paradoxes in probability and expected value 2022-Oct-28 218 minutes

Preventing an AI-related catastrophe (Article) 2022-Oct-14 144 minutes

#138 – Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on why pleasure and pain are the only things that intrinsically matter 2022-Sep-30 144 minutes

#137 – Andreas Mogensen on whether effective altruism is just for consequentialists 2022-Sep-08 141 minutes

#136 – Will MacAskill on what we owe the future 2022-Aug-15 174 minutes

#135 – Samuel Charap on key lessons from five months of war in Ukraine 2022-Aug-08 54 minutes

#134 – Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us 2022-Jul-22 221 minutes

#133 – Max Tegmark on how a 'put-up-or-shut-up' resolution led him to work on AI and algorithmic news selection 2022-Jul-01 177 minutes

#132 – Nova DasSarma on why information security may be critical to the safe development of AI systems 2022-Jun-14 162 minutes

#131 – Lewis Dartnell on getting humanity to bounce back faster in a post-apocalyptic world 2022-Jun-03 65 minutes

#130 – Will MacAskill on balancing frugality with ambition, whether you need longtermism, & mental health under pressure 2022-May-23 136 minutes

#129 – James Tibenderana on the state of the art in malaria control and elimination 2022-May-09 199 minutes

#128 – Chris Blattman on the five reasons wars happen 2022-Apr-28 166 minutes

#127 – Sam Bankman-Fried on taking a high-risk approach to crypto and doing good 2022-Apr-14 200 minutes

#126 – Bryan Caplan on whether lazy parenting is OK, what really helps workers, and betting on beliefs 2022-Apr-05 135 minutes

#125 – Joan Rohlfing on how to avoid catastrophic nuclear blunders 2022-Mar-29 133 minutes

#124 – Karen Levy on fads and misaligned incentives in global development, and scaling deworming to reach hundreds of millions 2022-Mar-21 189 minutes

#123 – Samuel Charap on why Putin invaded Ukraine, the risk of escalation, and how to prevent disaster 2022-Mar-14 59 minutes

#122 – Michelle Hutchinson & Habiba Islam on balancing competing priorities and other themes from our 1-on-1 careers advising 2022-Mar-09 96 minutes

Introducing 80k After Hours 2022-Mar-01 13 minutes

#121 – Matthew Yglesias on avoiding the pundit's fallacy and how much military intervention can be used for good 2022-Feb-16 184 minutes

#120 – Audrey Tang on what we can learn from Taiwan’s experiments with how to do democracy 2022-Feb-02 125 minutes

#43 Classic episode - Daniel Ellsberg on the institutional insanity that maintains nuclear doomsday machines 2022-Jan-18 155 minutes

#35 Classic episode - Tara Mac Aulay on the audacity to fix the world without asking permission 2022-Jan-10 83 minutes

#67 Classic episode – David Chalmers on the nature and ethics of consciousness 2022-Jan-03 282 minutes

#59 Classic episode - Cass Sunstein on how change happens, and why it's so often abrupt & unpredictable 2021-Dec-27 103 minutes

#119 – Andrew Yang on our very long-term future, and other topics most politicians won’t touch 2021-Dec-20 85 minutes

#118 – Jaime Yassif on safeguarding bioscience to prevent catastrophic lab accidents and bioweapons development 2021-Dec-13 135 minutes

#117 – David Denkenberger on using paper mills and seaweed to feed everyone in a catastrophe, ft Sahil Shah 2021-Nov-29 188 minutes

#116 – Luisa Rodriguez on why global catastrophes seem unlikely to kill us all 2021-Nov-19 225 minutes

#115 – David Wallace on the many-worlds theory of quantum mechanics and its implications 2021-Nov-12 189 minutes

#114 – Maha Rehman on working with governments to rapidly deliver masks to millions of people 2021-Oct-22 102 minutes

We just put up a new compilation of ten core episodes of the show 2021-Oct-20 3 minutes

#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India 2021-Oct-18 125 minutes

#112 – Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications 2021-Oct-05 228 minutes

#111 – Mushtaq Khan on using institutional economics to predict effective government reforms 2021-Sep-10 200 minutes

#110 – Holden Karnofsky on building aptitudes and kicking ass 2021-Aug-26 166 minutes

#109 – Holden Karnofsky on the most important century 2021-Aug-19 139 minutes

#108 – Chris Olah on working at top AI labs without an undergrad degree 2021-Aug-11 93 minutes

#107 – Chris Olah on what the hell is going on inside neural networks 2021-Aug-04 189 minutes

#106 – Cal Newport on an industrial revolution for office work 2021-Jul-28 113 minutes

#105 – Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways 2021-Jul-12 174 minutes

#104 – Pardis Sabeti on the Sentinel system for detecting and stopping pandemics 2021-Jun-29 140 minutes

#103 – Max Roser on building the world's best source of COVID-19 data at Our World in Data 2021-Jun-21 142 minutes

#102 – Tom Moynihan on why prior generations missed some of the biggest priorities of all 2021-Jun-11 236 minutes

#101 – Robert Wright on using cognitive empathy to save the world 2021-May-28 96 minutes

#100 – Having a successful career with depression, anxiety and imposter syndrome 2021-May-19 171 minutes

#99 – Leah Garcés on turning adversaries into allies to change the chicken industry 2021-May-13 146 minutes

#98 – Christian Tarsney on future bias and a possible solution to moral fanaticism 2021-May-05 158 minutes

#97 – Mike Berkowitz on keeping the US a liberal democratic country 2021-Apr-20 156 minutes

The ten episodes of this show you should listen to first 2021-Apr-15 3 minutes

#96 – Nina Schick on disinformation and the rise of synthetic media 2021-Apr-06 120 minutes

#95 – Kelly Wanser on whether to deliberately intervene in the climate 2021-Mar-26 84 minutes

#94 – Ezra Klein on aligning journalism, politics, and what matters most 2021-Mar-20 105 minutes

#93 – Andy Weber on rendering bioweapons obsolete & ending the new nuclear arms race 2021-Mar-12 114 minutes

#92 – Brian Christian on the alignment problem 2021-Mar-05 175 minutes

#91 – Lewis Bollard on big wins against factory farming and how they happened 2021-Feb-15 153 minutes

Rob Wiblin on how he ended up the way he is 2021-Feb-03 117 minutes

#90 – Ajeya Cotra on worldview diversification and how big the future could be 2021-Jan-21 179 minutes

Rob Wiblin on self-improvement and research ethics 2021-Jan-13 150 minutes

#73 - Phil Trammell on patient philanthropy and waiting to do good [re-release] 2021-Jan-07 161 minutes

#75 – Michelle Hutchinson on what people most often ask 80,000 Hours [re-release] 2020-Dec-30 134 minutes

#89 – Owen Cotton-Barratt on epistemic systems and layers of defense against potential global catastrophes 2020-Dec-17 158 minutes

#88 – Tristan Harris on the need to change the incentives of social media companies 2020-Dec-03 155 minutes

Benjamin Todd on what the effective altruism community most needs (80k team chat #4) 2020-Nov-12 85 minutes

#87 – Russ Roberts on whether it's more effective to help strangers, or people you know 2020-Nov-03 109 minutes

How much does a vote matter? (Article) 2020-Oct-29 31 minutes

#86 – Hilary Greaves on Pascal's mugging, strong longtermism, and whether existing can be good for us 2020-Oct-21 144 minutes

Benjamin Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it (80k team chat #3) 2020-Sep-22 84 minutes

Ideas for high impact careers beyond our priority paths (Article) 2020-Sep-07 27 minutes

Benjamin Todd on varieties of longtermism and things 80,000 Hours might be getting wrong (80k team chat #2) 2020-Sep-01 57 minutes

Global issues beyond 80,000 Hours’ current priorities (Article) 2020-Aug-28 32 minutes

#85 - Mark Lynas on climate change, societal collapse & nuclear energy 2020-Aug-20 128 minutes

#84 - Shruti Rajagopalan on what India did to stop COVID-19 and how well it worked 2020-Aug-13 178 minutes

#83 - Jennifer Doleac on preventing crime without police and prisons 2020-Jul-31 143 minutes

#82 – James Forman Jr on reducing the cruelty of the US criminal legal system 2020-Jul-27 88 minutes

#81 - Ben Garfinkel on scrutinising classic AI risk arguments 2020-Jul-09 158 minutes

Advice on how to read our advice (Article) 2020-Jun-29 15 minutes

#80 – Stuart Russell on why our approach to AI is broken and how to fix it 2020-Jun-22 133 minutes

What anonymous contributors think about important life and career questions (Article) 2020-Jun-05 37 minutes

#79 – A.J. Jacobs on radical honesty, following the whole Bible, and reframing global problems as puzzles 2020-Jun-01 158 minutes

#78 – Danny Hernandez on forecasting and the drivers of AI progress 2020-May-22 131 minutes

#77 - Marc Lipsitch on whether we're winning or losing against COVID-19 2020-May-18 97 minutes

Article: Ways people trying to do good accidentally make things worse, and how to avoid them 2020-May-12 26 minutes

#76 - Tara Kirk Sell on misinformation, who's done well and badly, & what to reopen first 2020-May-08 113 minutes

#75 – Michelle Hutchinson on what people most often ask 80,000 Hours 2020-Apr-28 133 minutes

#74 – Dr Greg Lewis on COVID-19 & catastrophic biological risks 2020-Apr-17 157 minutes

Article: Reducing global catastrophic biological risks 2020-Apr-15 64 minutes

Emergency episode: Rob & Howie on the menace of COVID-19, and what both governments & individuals might do to help 2020-Mar-19 112 minutes

#73 - Phil Trammell on patient philanthropy and waiting to do good 2020-Mar-17 155 minutes

#72 - Toby Ord on the precipice and humanity's potential futures 2020-Mar-07 194 minutes

#71 - Benjamin Todd on the key ideas of 80,000 Hours 2020-Mar-02 177 minutes

Arden & Rob on demandingness, work-life balance & injustice (80k team chat #1) 2020-Feb-25 44 minutes

#70 - Dr Cassidy Nelson on the 12 best ways to stop the next pandemic (and limit nCoV) 2020-Feb-13 146 minutes

#69 – Jeffrey Ding on China, its AI dream, and what we get wrong about both 2020-Feb-06 97 minutes

Rob & Howie on what we do and don't know about 2019-nCoV 2020-Feb-03 78 minutes

#68 - Will MacAskill on the paralysis argument, whether we're at the hinge of history, & his new priorities 2020-Jan-24 205 minutes

#44 Classic episode - Paul Christiano on finding real solutions to the AI alignment problem 2020-Jan-15 231 minutes

#33 Classic episode - Anders Sandberg on cryonics, solar flares, and the annual odds of nuclear war 2020-Jan-08 85 minutes

#17 Classic episode - Will MacAskill on moral uncertainty, utilitarianism & how to avoid being a moral monster 2019-Dec-31 112 minutes

#67 – David Chalmers on the nature and ethics of consciousness 2019-Dec-16 281 minutes

#66 - Peter Singer on being provocative, effective altruism, & how his moral views have changed 2019-Dec-05 121 minutes

#65 - Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins on 8 years pursuing WMD arms control, & diversity in diplomacy 2019-Nov-19 100 minutes

#64 – Bruce Schneier on how insecure electronic voting could break the United States — and surveillance without tyranny 2019-Oct-25 131 minutes

Rob Wiblin on plastic straws, nicotine, doping, & whether changing the long-term is really possible 2019-Sep-25 194 minutes

Have we helped you have a bigger social impact? Our annual survey, plus other ways we can help you. 2019-Sep-16 3 minutes

#63 – Vitalik Buterin on better ways to fund public goods, blockchain's failures, & effective giving 2019-Sep-03 198 minutes

#62 - Paul Christiano on messaging the future, increasing compute, & how CO2 impacts your brain 2019-Aug-05 131 minutes

#61 - Helen Toner on emerging technology, national security, and China 2019-Jul-17 114 minutes

#60 - Phil Tetlock on why accurate forecasting matters for everything, and how you can do it better 2019-Jun-28 131 minutes

#59 – Cass Sunstein on how change happens, and why it's so often abrupt & unpredictable 2019-Jun-17 103 minutes

#58 – Pushmeet Kohli of DeepMind on designing robust & reliable AI systems and how to succeed in AI 2019-Jun-03 90 minutes

Rob Wiblin on human nature, new technology, and living a happy, healthy & ethical life 2019-May-13 138 minutes

#57 – Tom Kalil on how to do the most good in government 2019-Apr-23 170 minutes

#56 - Persis Eskander on wild animal welfare and what, if anything, to do about it 2019-Apr-15 177 minutes

#55 – Lutter & Winter on founding charter cities with outstanding governance to end poverty 2019-Mar-31 151 minutes

#54 – OpenAI on publication norms, malicious uses of AI, and general-purpose learning algorithms 2019-Mar-19 173 minutes

#53 - Kelsey Piper on the room for important advocacy within journalism 2019-Feb-27 154 minutes

Julia Galef and Rob Wiblin on an updated view of the best ways to help humanity 2019-Feb-17 56 minutes

#52 - Glen Weyl on uprooting capitalism and democracy for a just society 2019-Feb-08 164 minutes

#51 - Martin Gurri on the revolt of the public & crisis of authority in the information age 2019-Jan-29 151 minutes

#50 - David Denkenberger on how to feed all 8b people through an asteroid/nuclear winter 2018-Dec-27 177 minutes

#49 - Rachel Glennerster on a year's worth of education for 30c & other development 'best buys' 2018-Dec-20 95 minutes

#48 - Brian Christian on better living through the wisdom of computer science 2018-Nov-22 195 minutes

#47 - Catherine Olsson & Daniel Ziegler on the fast path into high-impact ML engineering roles 2018-Nov-02 124 minutes

#46 - Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness & tackling crucial questions in academia 2018-Oct-23 169 minutes

#45 - Tyler Cowen's case for maximising econ growth, stabilising civilization & thinking long-term 2018-Oct-17 150 minutes

#44 - Paul Christiano on how we'll hand the future off to AI, & solving the alignment problem 2018-Oct-02 231 minutes

#43 - Daniel Ellsberg on the institutional insanity that maintains nuclear doomsday machines 2018-Sep-25 164 minutes

#42 - Amanda Askell on moral empathy, the value of information & the ethics of infinity 2018-Sep-11 166 minutes

#41 - David Roodman on incarceration, geomagnetic storms, & becoming a world-class researcher 2018-Aug-28 138 minutes

#40 - Katja Grace on forecasting future technology & how much we should trust expert predictions 2018-Aug-21 131 minutes

#39 - Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions 2018-Aug-07 137 minutes

#38 - Yew-Kwang Ng on anticipating effective altruism decades ago & how to make a much happier world 2018-Jul-26 119 minutes

#37 - GiveWell picks top charities by estimating the unknowable. James Snowden on how they do it. 2018-Jul-16 104 minutes

#36 - Tanya Singh on ending the operations management bottleneck in effective altruism 2018-Jul-11 124 minutes

#35 - Tara Mac Aulay on the audacity to fix the world without asking permission 2018-Jun-21 82 minutes

Rob Wiblin on the art/science of a high impact career 2018-Jun-08 91 minutes

#34 - We use the worst voting system that exists. Here's how Aaron Hamlin is going to fix it. 2018-Jun-01 138 minutes

#33 - Anders Sandberg on what if we ended ageing, solar flares & the annual risk of nuclear war 2018-May-29 84 minutes

#32 - Bryan Caplan on whether his Case Against Education holds up, totalitarianism, & open borders 2018-May-22 145 minutes

#31 - Allan Dafoe on defusing the political & economic risks posed by existing AI capabilities 2018-May-18 48 minutes

#30 - Eva Vivalt on how little social science findings generalize from one study to another 2018-May-15 121 minutes

#29 - Anders Sandberg on 3 new resolutions for the Fermi paradox & how to colonise the universe 2018-May-08 81 minutes

#28 - Owen Cotton-Barratt on why scientists should need insurance, PhD strategy & fast AI progresses 2018-Apr-27 63 minutes

#27 - Dr Tom Inglesby on careers and policies that reduce global catastrophic biological risks 2018-Apr-18 136 minutes

#26 - Marie Gibbons on how exactly clean meat is made & what's needed to get it in every supermarket 2018-Apr-10 104 minutes

#25 - Robin Hanson on why we have to lie to ourselves about why we do what we do 2018-Mar-28 159 minutes

#24 - Stefan Schubert on why it’s a bad idea to break the rules, even if it’s for a good cause 2018-Mar-20 55 minutes

#23 - How to actually become an AI alignment researcher, according to Dr Jan Leike 2018-Mar-16 45 minutes

#22 - Leah Utyasheva on the non-profit that figured out how to massively cut suicide rates 2018-Mar-07 68 minutes

#21 - Holden Karnofsky on times philanthropy transformed the world & Open Phil’s plan to do the same 2018-Feb-27 155 minutes

#20 - Bruce Friedrich on inventing outstanding meat substitutes to end speciesism & factory farming 2018-Feb-19 78 minutes

#19 - Samantha Pitts-Kiefer on working next to the White House trying to prevent nuclear war 2018-Feb-14 64 minutes

#18 - Ofir Reich on using data science to end poverty & the spurious action-inaction distinction 2018-Jan-31 78 minutes

#17 - Will MacAskill on moral uncertainty, utilitarianism & how to avoid being a moral monster 2018-Jan-19 112 minutes

#16 - Michelle Hutchinson on global priorities research & shaping the ideas of intellectuals 2017-Dec-22 55 minutes

#15 - Phil Tetlock on how chimps beat Berkeley undergrads and when it’s wise to defer to the wise 2017-Nov-20 84 minutes

#14 - Sharon Nunez & Jose Valle on going undercover to expose animal abuse 2017-Nov-13 85 minutes

#13 - Claire Walsh on testing which policies work & how to get governments to listen to the results 2017-Oct-31 52 minutes

#12 - Beth Cameron works to stop you dying in a pandemic. Here’s what keeps her up at night. 2017-Oct-25 105 minutes

#11 - Spencer Greenberg on speeding up social science 10-fold & why plenty of startups cause harm 2017-Oct-17 89 minutes

#10 - Nick Beckstead on how to spend billions of dollars preventing human extinction 2017-Oct-11 111 minutes

#9 - Christine Peterson on how insecure computers could lead to global disaster, and how to fix it 2017-Oct-04 105 minutes

#8 - Lewis Bollard on how to end factory farming in our lifetimes 2017-Sep-27 196 minutes

#7 - Julia Galef on making humanity more rational, what EA does wrong, and why Twitter isn’t all bad 2017-Sep-13 74 minutes

#6 - Toby Ord on why the long-term future matters more than anything else & what to do about it 2017-Sep-06 128 minutes

#5 - Alex Gordon-Brown on how to donate millions in your 20s working in quantitative trading 2017-Aug-28 105 minutes

#4 - Howie Lempel on pandemics that kill hundreds of millions and how to stop them 2017-Aug-23 155 minutes

#3 - Dario Amodei on OpenAI and how AI will change the world for good and ill 2017-Jul-21 98 minutes

#2 - David Spiegelhalter on risk, stats and improving understanding of science 2017-Jun-21 33 minutes

#1 - Miles Brundage on the world's desperate need for AI strategists and policy experts 2017-Jun-05 55 minutes

#0 – Introducing the 80,000 Hours Podcast 2017-May-01 3 minutes