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About the show
What can I expect?
Unusually in-depth interviews with the people shaping AI: researchers inside and outside the frontier companies, policymakers, activists, forecasters, and sceptics.
We examine AI's bleeding edge and the questions it raises. Will AI seek power for itself, or concentrate it in the hands of a few? How can we prevent AI-powered bioweapons and engineered pandemics? We also take the stranger questions seriously, like whether the systems we're building could matter morally themselves.
Short on time? Our video essays and explainers cover the latest AI developments in half an hour or less.
What is 80,000 Hours?
The world faces urgent risks from AI. 80,000 Hours is a nonprofit that exists to answer one key question: what can you do about it?
Our research, podcast, and careers advice will help you understand the risks, figure out where you fit in, and either skill up or find a role right away — all for free.
If you're new here, read our guide to using your career to reduce risks from AI to find out why this could be your life's most impactful work.
What can I expect?
Unusually in-depth interviews with the people shaping AI: researchers inside and outside the frontier companies, policymakers, activists, forecasters, and sceptics.
We examine AI's bleeding edge and the questions it raises. Will AI seek power for itself, or concentrate it in the hands of a few? How can we prevent AI-powered bioweapons and engineered pandemics? We also take the stranger questions seriously, like whether the systems we're building could matter morally themselves.
Short on time? Our video essays and explainers cover the latest AI developments in half an hour or less.
What is 80,000 Hours?
The world faces urgent risks from AI. 80,000 Hours is a nonprofit that exists to answer one key question: what can you do about it?
Our research, podcast, and careers advice will help you understand the risks, figure out where you fit in, and either skill up or find a role right away — all for free.
If you're new here, read our guide to using your career to reduce risks from AI to find out why this could be your life's most impactful work.
What can I expect?
Unusually in-depth interviews with the people shaping AI: researchers inside and outside the frontier companies, policymakers, activists, forecasters, and sceptics.
We examine AI's bleeding edge and the questions it raises. Will AI seek power for itself, or concentrate it in the hands of a few? How can we prevent AI-powered bioweapons and engineered pandemics? We also take the stranger questions seriously, like whether the systems we're building could matter morally themselves.
Short on time? Our video essays and explainers cover the latest AI developments in half an hour or less.
What is 80,000 Hours?
The world faces urgent risks from AI. 80,000 Hours is a nonprofit that exists to answer one key question: what can you do about it?
Our research, podcast, and careers advice will help you understand the risks, figure out where you fit in, and either skill up or find a role right away — all for free.
If you're new here, read our guide to using your career to reduce risks from AI to find out why this could be your life's most impactful work.
Our hosts
Rob Wiblin
Luisa Rodriguez
Luisa studied sociology at Carleton College and international development at Brandeis University.
Before joining us as our second podcast host, Luisa was Will MacAskill’s Chief of Staff at the Forethought Foundation, where she helped do the research for MacAskill’s 2022 book, What We Owe the Future. She also spent time at Rethink Priorities and the Future of Humanity Institute (conducting cause prioritisation research); and ImpactMatters, Innovations for Poverty Action, and GiveWell doing cost-effectiveness analysis for nonprofit and government programmes.
Luisa Rodriguez
Luisa studied sociology at Carleton College and international development at Brandeis University.
Before joining us as our second podcast host, Luisa was Will MacAskill’s Chief of Staff at the Forethought Foundation, where she helped do the research for MacAskill’s 2022 book, What We Owe the Future. She also spent time at Rethink Priorities and the Future of Humanity Institute (conducting cause prioritisation research); and ImpactMatters, Innovations for Poverty Action, and GiveWell doing cost-effectiveness analysis for nonprofit and government programmes.
Zershaaneh Qureshi
Zershaaneh studied maths and philosophy at the University of Oxford, receiving an award in 2020 for topping her cohort in philosophy.
She worked in the global water industry for three years as a consultant and research analyst before pivoting to focus on AI risks. After spending a year researching when AGI might arrive, she joined 80,000 Hours as a writer — but soon realised she was destined for a life behind the microphone.
Tom Reed
Tom studied history at the University of Cambridge and psychology at University College London.
Before joining the podcast, Tom was a research scholar at GovAI and worked on pre-deployment testing of frontier AI models at the UK’s AI Security Institute. He also occasionally blogs.
