GPT-7 may democratise bioweapons. But we can defend ourselves anyway. | Andrew Snyder-Beattie

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Inside the Biden admin’s AI policy approach | Jake Sullivan, Biden’s NSA | via The Cognitive Revolution

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Neel Nanda on leading a Google DeepMind team at 26 – and advice if you want to work at an AI company (part 2)

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Can we tell if an AI is loyal by reading its mind? DeepMind's Neel Nanda (part 1)

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#221 – Kyle Fish on the most bizarre findings from 5 AI welfare experiments

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How not to lose your job to AI (article by Benjamin Todd)

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Rebuilding after apocalypse: What 13 experts say about bouncing back

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#220 – Ryan Greenblatt on the 4 most likely ways for AI to take over, and the case for and against AGI in 8 years

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#219 – Toby Ord on graphs AI companies would prefer you didn't (fully) understand

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#218 – Hugh White on why Trump is abandoning US hegemony – and that’s probably good

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#217 – Beth Barnes on the most important graph in AI right now — and the 7-month rule that governs its progress

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Beyond human minds: The bewildering frontier of consciousness in insects, AI, and more

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Don’t believe OpenAI’s “nonprofit” spin (emergency pod with Tyler Whitmer)

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The case for and against AGI by 2030 (article by Benjamin Todd)

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Emergency pod: Did OpenAI give up, or is this just a new trap? (with Rose Chan Loui)

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#216 – Ian Dunt on why governments in Britain and elsewhere can't get anything done – and how to fix it

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Serendipity, weird bets, & cold emails that actually work: Career advice from 16 former guests

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#215 – Tom Davidson on how AI-enabled coups could allow a tiny group to seize power

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Guilt, imposter syndrome & doing good: 16 past guests share their mental health journeys

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#214 – Buck Shlegeris on controlling AI that wants to take over – so we can use it anyway

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15 expert takes on infosec in the age of AI

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#213 – Will MacAskill on AI causing a “century in a decade” – and how we're completely unprepared

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Emergency pod: Judge plants a legal time bomb under OpenAI (with Rose Chan Loui)

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#139 Classic episode – Alan Hájek on puzzles and paradoxes in probability and expected value

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#143 Classic episode – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuclear weapons

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#212 – Allan Dafoe on why technology is unstoppable & how to shape AI development anyway

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Emergency pod: Elon tries to crash OpenAI's party (with Rose Chan Loui)

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AGI disagreements and misconceptions: Rob, Luisa, & past guests hash it out

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#124 Classic episode – Karen Levy on fads and misaligned incentives in global development, and scaling deworming to reach hundreds of millions

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If digital minds could suffer, how would we ever know? (Article)

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#132 Classic episode – Nova DasSarma on why information security may be critical to the safe development of AI systems

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#138 Classic episode – Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on why pleasure and pain are the only things that intrinsically matter

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#134 Classic episode – Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us

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#140 Classic episode – Bear Braumoeller on the case that war isn’t in decline

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2024 Highlightapalooza! (The best of The 80,000 Hours Podcast this year)

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#211 – Sam Bowman on why housing still isn't fixed and what would actually work

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#210 – Cameron Meyer Shorb on dismantling the myth that we can’t do anything to help wild animals

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#209 – Rose Chan Loui on OpenAI’s gambit to ditch its nonprofit

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#208 – Elizabeth Cox on the case that TV shows, movies, and novels can improve the world

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#207 – Sarah Eustis-Guthrie on why she shut down her charity, and why more founders should follow her lead

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Parenting insights from Rob and 8 past guests

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#206 – Anil Seth on the predictive brain and how to study consciousness

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How much does a vote matter? (Article)

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#205 – Sébastien Moro on the most insane things fish can do

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#204 – Nate Silver on making sense of SBF, and his biggest critiques of effective altruism

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

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Luisa and Keiran on free will, and the consequences of never feeling enduring guilt or shame

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#202 – Venki Ramakrishnan on the cutting edge of anti-ageing science

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#201 – Ken Goldberg on why your robot butler isn’t here yet

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#200 – Ezra Karger on what superforecasters and experts think about existential risks

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#199 – Nathan Calvin on California’s AI bill SB 1047 and its potential to shape US AI policy

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#198 – Meghan Barrett on upending everything you thought you knew about bugs in 3 hours

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#197 – Nick Joseph on whether Anthropic's AI safety policy is up to the task

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#196 – Jonathan Birch on the edge cases of sentience and why they matter

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#195 – Sella Nevo on who's trying to steal frontier AI models, and what they could do with them

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#194 – Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government

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#193 – Sihao Huang on navigating the geopolitics of US–China AI competition

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#192 – Annie Jacobsen on what would happen if North Korea launched a nuclear weapon at the US

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#191 (Part 2) – Carl Shulman on government and society after AGI

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#191 (Part 1) – Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGI

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#190 – Eric Schwitzgebel on whether the US is conscious

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#189 – Rachel Glennerster on why we still don’t have vaccines that could save millions

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#188 – Matt Clancy on whether science is good

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#187 – Zach Weinersmith on how researching his book turned him from a space optimist into a "space bastard"

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#186 – Dean Spears on why babies are born small in Uttar Pradesh, and how to save their lives

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#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

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#184 – Zvi Mowshowitz on sleeping on sleeper agents, and the biggest AI updates since ChatGPT

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AI governance and policy (Article)

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#183 – Spencer Greenberg on causation without correlation, money and happiness, lightgassing, hype vs value, and more

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#182 – Bob Fischer on comparing the welfare of humans, chickens, pigs, octopuses, bees, and more

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#181 – Laura Deming on the science that could keep us healthy in our 80s and beyond

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#180 – Hugo Mercier on why gullibility and misinformation are overrated

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#179 – Randy Nesse on why evolution left us so vulnerable to depression and anxiety

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#178 – Emily Oster on what the evidence actually says about pregnancy and parenting

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#177 – Nathan Labenz on recent AI breakthroughs and navigating the growing rift between AI safety and accelerationist camps

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#90 Classic episode – Ajeya Cotra on worldview diversification and how big the future could be

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

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#111 Classic episode – Mushtaq Khan on using institutional economics to predict effective government reforms

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2023 Mega-highlights Extravaganza

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#100 Classic episode – Having a successful career with depression, anxiety, and imposter syndrome

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

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#175 – Lucia Coulter on preventing lead poisoning for $1.66 per child

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#174 – Nita Farahany on the neurotechnology already being used to convict criminals and manipulate workers

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#173 – Jeff Sebo on digital minds, and how to avoid sleepwalking into a major moral catastrophe

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#172 – Bryan Caplan on why you should stop reading the news

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#171 – Alison Young on how top labs have jeopardised public health with repeated biosafety failures

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

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#169 – Paul Niehaus on whether cash transfers cause economic growth, and keeping theft to acceptable levels

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#168 – Ian Morris on whether deep history says we're heading for an intelligence explosion

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#167 – Seren Kell on the research gaps holding back alternative proteins from mass adoption

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

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#165 – Anders Sandberg on war in space, whether civilisations age, and the best things possible in our universe

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

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Great power conflict (Article)

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#163 – Toby Ord on the perils of maximising the good that you do

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The 80,000 Hours Career Guide (2023)

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#162 – Mustafa Suleyman on getting Washington and Silicon Valley to tame AI

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#161 – Michael Webb on whether AI will soon cause job loss, lower incomes, and higher inequality — or the opposite

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#160 – Hannah Ritchie on why it makes sense to be optimistic about the environment

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#159 – Jan Leike on OpenAI's massive push to make superintelligence safe in 4 years or less

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GPT-7 may democratise bioweapons. But we can defend ourselves anyway. | Andrew Snyder-Beattie

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Inside the Biden admin’s AI policy approach | Jake Sullivan, Biden’s NSA | via The Cognitive Revolution

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Neel Nanda on leading a Google DeepMind team at 26 – and advice if you want to work at an AI company (part 2)

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Can we tell if an AI is loyal by reading its mind? DeepMind's Neel Nanda (part 1)

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#221 – Kyle Fish on the most bizarre findings from 5 AI welfare experiments

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How not to lose your job to AI (article by Benjamin Todd)

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Rebuilding after apocalypse: What 13 experts say about bouncing back

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#220 – Ryan Greenblatt on the 4 most likely ways for AI to take over, and the case for and against AGI in 8 years

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#219 – Toby Ord on graphs AI companies would prefer you didn't (fully) understand

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#218 – Hugh White on why Trump is abandoning US hegemony – and that’s probably good

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#217 – Beth Barnes on the most important graph in AI right now — and the 7-month rule that governs its progress

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Beyond human minds: The bewildering frontier of consciousness in insects, AI, and more

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Don’t believe OpenAI’s “nonprofit” spin (emergency pod with Tyler Whitmer)

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The case for and against AGI by 2030 (article by Benjamin Todd)

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Emergency pod: Did OpenAI give up, or is this just a new trap? (with Rose Chan Loui)

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#216 – Ian Dunt on why governments in Britain and elsewhere can't get anything done – and how to fix it

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Serendipity, weird bets, & cold emails that actually work: Career advice from 16 former guests

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#215 – Tom Davidson on how AI-enabled coups could allow a tiny group to seize power

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Guilt, imposter syndrome & doing good: 16 past guests share their mental health journeys

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#214 – Buck Shlegeris on controlling AI that wants to take over – so we can use it anyway

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15 expert takes on infosec in the age of AI

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#213 – Will MacAskill on AI causing a “century in a decade” – and how we're completely unprepared

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Emergency pod: Judge plants a legal time bomb under OpenAI (with Rose Chan Loui)

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#139 Classic episode – Alan Hájek on puzzles and paradoxes in probability and expected value

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#143 Classic episode – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuclear weapons

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#212 – Allan Dafoe on why technology is unstoppable & how to shape AI development anyway

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Emergency pod: Elon tries to crash OpenAI's party (with Rose Chan Loui)

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AGI disagreements and misconceptions: Rob, Luisa, & past guests hash it out

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#124 Classic episode – Karen Levy on fads and misaligned incentives in global development, and scaling deworming to reach hundreds of millions

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If digital minds could suffer, how would we ever know? (Article)

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#132 Classic episode – Nova DasSarma on why information security may be critical to the safe development of AI systems

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#138 Classic episode – Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on why pleasure and pain are the only things that intrinsically matter

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#134 Classic episode – Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us

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#140 Classic episode – Bear Braumoeller on the case that war isn’t in decline

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2024 Highlightapalooza! (The best of The 80,000 Hours Podcast this year)

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#211 – Sam Bowman on why housing still isn't fixed and what would actually work

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#210 – Cameron Meyer Shorb on dismantling the myth that we can’t do anything to help wild animals

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#209 – Rose Chan Loui on OpenAI’s gambit to ditch its nonprofit

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#208 – Elizabeth Cox on the case that TV shows, movies, and novels can improve the world