The 80,000 Hours Podcast

80000_Hours
27 Jun 2024 21:03 UTC

About the show

The 80,000 Hours Podcast features unusually in-depth conversations about the world’s most pressing problems and how you can use your career to solve them.

We invite guests pursuing a wide range of career paths – from academics and activists to entrepreneurs and policymakers — to analyse the case for and against working on different issues and figure out which approaches are best for solving them.

The show is produced and edited by Keiran Harris. Get in touch with feedback or guest suggestions by emailing keiran@80000hours.org.

OpenAI’s mas­sive push to make su­per­in­tel­li­gence safe in 4 years or less (Jan Leike on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours8 Aug 2023 18:00 UTC
32 points
1 comment19 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Why it makes sense to be op­ti­mistic about the en­vi­ron­ment (Han­nah Ritchie on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours15 Aug 2023 14:21 UTC
44 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

On whether AI will soon cause job loss, lower in­comes, and higher in­equal­ity — or the op­po­site (Michael Webb on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours25 Aug 2023 14:59 UTC
11 points
2 comments18 min readEA link

Get­ting Wash­ing­ton and Sili­con Valley to tame AI (Mustafa Suley­man on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours4 Sep 2023 16:25 UTC
5 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

The per­ils of max­imis­ing the good that you do (Toby Ord on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours14 Sep 2023 12:14 UTC
12 points
0 comments19 min readEA link

Cults that want to kill ev­ery­one, stealth vs wild­fire pan­demics, and how he felt in­vent­ing gene drives (Kevin Esvelt on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours4 Oct 2023 13:58 UTC
38 points
1 comment16 min readEA link

War in space, whether civ­i­liza­tions age, and the best things pos­si­ble in our uni­verse (An­ders Sand­berg on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours9 Oct 2023 14:03 UTC
10 points
2 comments17 min readEA link

What he’s learned as an AI policy in­sider (Tan­tum Col­lins on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours13 Oct 2023 15:01 UTC
11 points
2 comments15 min readEA link

#167 - The re­search gaps hold­ing back al­ter­na­tive pro­teins from mass adop­tion (Seren Kell on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours18 Oct 2023 21:05 UTC
28 points
1 comment11 min readEA link

#168 – Whether deep his­tory says we’re head­ing for an in­tel­li­gence ex­plo­sion (Ian Mor­ris on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours24 Oct 2023 15:24 UTC
11 points
2 comments18 min readEA link

#169 – On whether cash trans­fers cause eco­nomic growth, and keep­ing theft to ac­cept­able lev­els (Paul Nie­haus on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours1 Nov 2023 15:20 UTC
2 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

#170 – How air pol­lu­tion is re­spon­si­ble for ~12% of global deaths — and how to get that num­ber down (San­tosh Har­ish on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours7 Nov 2023 19:38 UTC
16 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

#171 – How top labs have jeop­ar­dised pub­lic health with re­peated biosafety failures (Ali­son Young on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours14 Nov 2023 12:37 UTC
15 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

#172 – Why you should stop read­ing the news (Bryan Ca­plan on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours22 Nov 2023 18:29 UTC
20 points
1 comment20 min readEA link

#173 – Digi­tal minds, and how to avoid sleep­walk­ing into a ma­jor moral catas­tro­phe (Jeff Sebo on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours29 Nov 2023 19:18 UTC
43 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

#174 – Neu­rotech­nol­ogy already be­ing used to con­vict crim­i­nals and ma­nipu­late work­ers (Nita Fara­hany on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours12 Dec 2023 14:07 UTC
26 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

#175 – Prevent­ing lead poi­son­ing for $1.66 per child (Lu­cia Coulter on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours15 Dec 2023 20:15 UTC
76 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

#176 – The fi­nal push for AGI, un­der­stand­ing OpenAI’s lead­er­ship drama, and red-team­ing fron­tier mod­els (Nathan Labenz on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours4 Jan 2024 16:00 UTC
15 points
0 comments22 min readEA link

#177 – Re­cent AI break­throughs and nav­i­gat­ing the grow­ing rift be­tween AI safety and ac­cel­er­a­tionist camps (Nathan Labenz on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours31 Jan 2024 19:37 UTC
15 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

#178 – What the ev­i­dence ac­tu­ally says about preg­nancy and par­ent­ing (Emily Oster on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours2 Feb 2024 18:13 UTC
25 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

#179 – Why evolu­tion left us so vuln­er­a­ble to de­pres­sion and anx­iety (Randy Nesser on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours14 Feb 2024 16:02 UTC
12 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

#180 – Why gullibil­ity and mis­in­for­ma­tion are over­rated (Hugo Mercier on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours26 Feb 2024 19:16 UTC
15 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

#181 – The sci­ence that could keep us healthy in our 80s and be­yond (Laura Dem­ing on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours6 Mar 2024 20:05 UTC
10 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

#182 – Com­par­ing the welfare of hu­mans, chick­ens, pigs, oc­to­puses, bees, and more (Bob Fischer on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours13 Mar 2024 16:54 UTC
50 points
3 comments17 min readEA link

#183 – Cau­sa­tion with­out cor­re­la­tion, money and hap­piness, light­gassing, hype vs value, and more (Spencer Green­berg on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours20 Mar 2024 19:55 UTC
7 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

#184 – Sleep­ing on sleeper agents, and the biggest AI up­dates since ChatGPT (Zvi Mow­show­itz on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours12 Apr 2024 12:22 UTC
46 points
0 comments20 min readEA link

#185 – The 7 most promis­ing ways to end fac­tory farm­ing, and whether AI is go­ing to be good or bad for an­i­mals (Lewis Bol­lard on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours30 Apr 2024 17:20 UTC
63 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

#186 – Why ba­bies are born small in Ut­tar Pradesh, and how to save their lives (Dean Spears on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours1 May 2024 19:16 UTC
23 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

#187 – How re­search­ing his book turned him from a space op­ti­mist into a “space bas­tard” (Zach Wein­er­smith on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours15 May 2024 14:03 UTC
28 points
1 comment18 min readEA link

#188 – On whether sci­ence is good (Matt Clancy on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours24 May 2024 15:04 UTC
13 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

#189 – How “mar­ket shap­ing” could help solve cli­mate change, pan­demics, and other global prob­lems (Rachel Glen­ner­ster on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours31 May 2024 12:21 UTC
18 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

#190 – On whether the US is con­scious (Eric Sch­witzgebel on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours12 Jun 2024 15:14 UTC
7 points
0 comments20 min readEA link

#191 (Part 1) – The econ­omy and na­tional se­cu­rity af­ter AGI (Carl Shul­man on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours27 Jun 2024 19:10 UTC
45 points
0 comments19 min readEA link

#191 (Part 2) – Govern­ment and so­ciety af­ter AGI (Carl Shul­man on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours11 Jul 2024 19:26 UTC
23 points
1 comment18 min readEA link

#192 – What would hap­pen if North Korea launched a nu­clear weapon at the US (An­nie Ja­cob­sen on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours12 Jul 2024 19:38 UTC
13 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

#193 – The risk that US–China AI com­pe­ti­tion leads to war (Sihao Huang on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours19 Jul 2024 13:07 UTC
18 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

#194 – Defen­sive ac­cel­er­a­tion and how to reg­u­late AI when you fear gov­ern­ment (Vi­talik Bu­terin on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours31 Jul 2024 20:28 UTC
42 points
5 comments21 min readEA link

#195 – Who’s try­ing to steal fron­tier AI mod­els, and what they could do with them (Sella Nevo on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours9 Aug 2024 14:45 UTC
29 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

#196 – The edge cases of sen­tience and why they mat­ter (Jonathan Birch on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours16 Aug 2024 19:07 UTC
43 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

#197 – On whether An­thropic’s AI safety policy is up to the task (Nick Joseph on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours22 Aug 2024 15:34 UTC
9 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

#198 – Challeng­ing our as­sump­tions about in­sects (Meghan Bar­rett on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours29 Aug 2024 14:46 UTC
96 points
4 comments16 min readEA link

#199 – Cal­ifor­nia’s AI bill SB 1047 and its po­ten­tial to shape US AI policy (Nathan Calvin on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours30 Aug 2024 18:18 UTC
12 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

#200 – What su­perfore­cast­ers and ex­perts think about ex­is­ten­tial risks (Ezra Karger on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours6 Sep 2024 17:53 UTC
12 points
2 comments14 min readEA link

#201 – Why your robot but­ler isn’t here yet (Ken Gold­berg on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours13 Sep 2024 17:41 UTC
21 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

#202 – The cut­ting edge of anti-age­ing sci­ence (Venki Ra­makr­ish­nan on on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours19 Sep 2024 22:41 UTC
13 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

#203 – In­terfer­ing with wild na­ture, ac­cept­ing death, and the ori­gin of com­plex civil­i­sa­tion (Peter God­frey-Smith on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours4 Oct 2024 13:00 UTC
14 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

#204 – Mak­ing sense of SBF, and his biggest cri­tiques of effec­tive al­tru­ism (Nate Silver on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours17 Oct 2024 20:41 UTC
22 points
2 comments14 min readEA link

#205 – The most in­sane things fish can do (Sébastien Moro on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours24 Oct 2024 19:27 UTC
47 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

#206 – The pre­dic­tive brain and how to study con­scious­ness (Anil Seth on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours1 Nov 2024 17:51 UTC
13 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

#207 – Why she shut down her char­ity, and why more founders should fol­low her lead (Sarah Eustis-Guthrie on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours15 Nov 2024 12:55 UTC
33 points
1 comment15 min readEA link