The 80,000 Hours Podcast on Artificial Intelligence

10 experts, 10 episodes: a crash course on transformative AI and what you can do to help shape its trajectory

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About the show

The 80,000 Hours Podcast on Artificial Intelligence brings together 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.

Our expert guests walk listeners through:

  • How modern AI models actually work — and the blindspots we still don’t understand
  • The radical ways AI could improve human wellbeing
  • How things could go wrong and cause catastrophic harm
  • The cutting-edge research aimed at making good outcomes more likely
  • How to figure out where you fit in — and make your biggest contribution to steering AI development in a positive direction

The episodes are selected from over 80 episodes of the show that talk about AI.

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Episodes

Will MacAskill on AI causing a “century in a decade” — and how we’re completely unprepared Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGI (Part 1) Rose Hadshar on why automating human labour will break our political system Helen Toner on the geopolitics of AI in China and the Middle East Beth Barnes on the most important graph in AI right now — and the 7-month rule that governs its progress AI designs genomes from scratch & outperforms virologists at lab work. Dr Richard Moulange asks: what could go wrong? Robert Long on how we’re not ready for AI consciousness Neel Nanda on the race to read AI minds (part 1) Holden Karnofsky on dozens of opportunities to make AI safer lying on the table — and all his AGI takes Risks from power-seeking AI systems How AI could create the world’s biggest problems