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Author archive: Keiran Harris

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2024

November
  • #210 – Cameron Meyer Shorb on dismantling the myth that we can’t do anything to help wild animals
    Podcast
  • #209 – Rose Chan Loui on OpenAI’s gambit to ditch its nonprofit
    Podcast
  • #208 – Elizabeth Cox on the case that TV shows, movies, and novels can improve the world
    Podcast
  • #207 – Sarah Eustis-Guthrie on why she shut down her charity, and why more founders should follow her lead
    Podcast
  • Parenting insights from Rob and 8 past guests
    Podcast
  • #206 – Anil Seth on the predictive brain and how to study consciousness
    Podcast
October
  • #205 – Sébastien Moro on the most insane things fish can do
    Podcast
  • #204 – Nate Silver on making sense of SBF, and his biggest critiques of effective altruism
    Podcast
  • #203 – Peter Godfrey-Smith on interfering with wild nature, accepting death, and the origin of complex civilisation
    Podcast
September
  • #202 – Venki Ramakrishnan on the cutting edge of anti-ageing science
    Podcast
  • #201 – Ken Goldberg on why your robot butler isn’t here yet
    Podcast
  • #200 – Ezra Karger on what superforecasters and experts think about existential risks
    Podcast
August
  • #199 – Nathan Calvin on California’s AI bill SB 1047 and its potential to shape US AI policy
    Podcast
  • #198 – Meghan Barrett on upending everything you thought you knew about bugs in 3 hours
    Podcast
  • #197 – Nick Joseph on whether Anthropic’s AI safety policy is up to the task
    Podcast
  • #196 – Jonathan Birch on the edge cases of sentience and why they matter
    Podcast
  • #195 – Sella Nevo on who’s trying to steal frontier AI models, and what they could do with them
    Podcast
July
  • #194 – Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government
    Podcast
  • #193 – Sihao Huang on navigating the geopolitics of US–China AI competition
    Podcast
  • #192 – Annie Jacobsen on what would happen if North Korea launched a nuclear weapon at the US
    Podcast
  • #191 – Carl Shulman on government and society after AGI (Part 2)
    Podcast
June
  • #191 – Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGI (Part 1)
    Podcast
  • #190 – Eric Schwitzgebel on whether the US is conscious
    Podcast
May
  • #189 – Rachel Glennerster on why we still don’t have vaccines that could save millions
    Podcast
  • #188 – Matt Clancy on whether science is good
    Podcast
  • #187 – Zach Weinersmith on how researching his book turned him from a space optimist into a “space bastard”
    Podcast
  • #186 – Dean Spears on why babies are born small in Uttar Pradesh, and how to save their lives
    Podcast
April
  • #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
    Podcast
  • #184 – Zvi Mowshowitz on sleeping on sleeper agents, and the biggest AI updates since ChatGPT
    Podcast
March
  • Christian Ruhl on why we’re entering a new nuclear age — and how to reduce the risks
    Podcast (80k After Hours)
  • #183 – Spencer Greenberg on causation without correlation, money and happiness, lightgassing, hype vs value, and more
    Podcast
  • #182 – Bob Fischer on comparing the welfare of humans, chickens, pigs, octopuses, bees, and more
    Podcast
  • #181 – Laura Deming on the science that could keep us healthy in our 80s and beyond
    Podcast
February
  • #180 – Hugo Mercier on why gullibility and misinformation are overrated
    Podcast
  • #179 – Randy Nesse on why evolution left us so vulnerable to depression and anxiety
    Podcast
  • #178 – Emily Oster on what the evidence actually says about pregnancy and parenting
    Podcast
January
  • #177 – Nathan Labenz on recent AI breakthroughs and navigating the growing rift between AI safety and accelerationist camps
    Podcast

2023

December
  • #176 – Nathan Labenz on the final push for AGI, understanding OpenAI’s leadership drama, and red-teaming frontier models
    Podcast
  • #175 – Lucia Coulter on preventing lead poisoning for $1.66 per child
    Podcast
  • #174 – Nita Farahany on the neurotechnology already being used to convict criminals and manipulate workers
    Podcast
  • Benjamin Todd on the history of 80,000 Hours
    Podcast (80k After Hours)
November
  • #173 – Jeff Sebo on digital minds, and how to avoid sleepwalking into a major moral catastrophe
    Podcast
  • #172 – Bryan Caplan on why you should stop reading the news
    Podcast
  • #171 – Alison Young on how top labs have jeopardised public health with repeated biosafety failures
    Podcast
  • #170 – Santosh Harish on how air pollution is responsible for ~12% of global deaths — and how to get that number down
    Podcast
October
  • #169 – Paul Niehaus on whether cash transfers cause economic growth, and keeping theft to acceptable levels
    Podcast
  • #168 – Ian Morris on whether deep history says we’re heading for an intelligence explosion
    Podcast
  • #167 – Seren Kell on the research gaps holding back alternative proteins from mass adoption
    Podcast
  • #166 – Tantum Collins on what he’s learned as an AI policy insider at the White House, DeepMind and elsewhere
    Podcast
  • #165 – Anders Sandberg on war in space, whether civilisations age, and the best things possible in our universe
    Podcast
  • #164 – Kevin Esvelt on cults that want to kill everyone, stealth vs wildfire pandemics, and how he felt inventing gene drives
    Podcast
September
  • #163 – Toby Ord on the perils of maximising the good that you do
    Podcast
  • Alex Lawsen on avoiding 10 mistakes people make when pursuing a high-impact career
    Podcast (80k After Hours)
  • #162 – Mustafa Suleyman on getting Washington and Silicon Valley to tame AI
    Podcast
August
  • #161 – Michael Webb on whether AI will soon cause job loss, lower incomes, and higher inequality — or the opposite
    Podcast
  • #160 – Hannah Ritchie on why it makes sense to be optimistic about the environment
    Podcast
  • #159 – Jan Leike on OpenAI’s massive push to make superintelligence safe in 4 years or less
    Podcast
July
  • #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
    Podcast
  • #157 – Ezra Klein on existential risk from AI and what DC could do about it
    Podcast
  • Hannah Boettcher on the mental health challenges that come with trying to have a big impact
    Podcast (80k After Hours)
  • #156 – Markus Anderljung on how to regulate cutting-edge AI models
    Podcast
June
  • #155 – Lennart Heim on the compute governance era and what has to come after
    Podcast
  • #154 – Rohin Shah on DeepMind and trying to fairly hear out both AI doomers and doubters
    Podcast
  • #153 – Elie Hassenfeld on two big-picture critiques of GiveWell’s approach, and six lessons from their recent work
    Podcast
May
  • #152 – Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion
    Podcast
  • #151 – Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us
    Podcast
  • #150 – Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world
    Podcast
April
  • Luisa and Keiran on free will, and the consequences of never feeling enduring guilt or shame
    Podcast (80k After Hours)
  • #149 – Tim LeBon on how altruistic perfectionism is self-defeating
    Podcast
  • #148 – Johannes Ackva on unfashionable climate interventions that work, and fashionable ones that don’t
    Podcast
March
  • #147 – Spencer Greenberg on stopping valueless papers from getting into top journals
    Podcast
  • Luisa and Robert Long on how to make independent research more fun
    Podcast (80k After Hours)
  • #146 – Robert Long on why large language models like GPT (probably) aren’t conscious
    Podcast
February
  • #145 – Christopher Brown on why slavery abolition wasn’t inevitable
    Podcast
January
  • #144 – Athena Aktipis on why cancer is actually one of the fundamental phenomena in our universe
    Podcast

2022

December
  • #143 – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuclear weapons
    Podcast
  • #142 – John McWhorter on key lessons from linguistics, the virtue of creoles, and language extinction
    Podcast
  • #141 – Richard Ngo on large language models, OpenAI, and striving to make the future go well
    Podcast
  • Marcus Davis on founding and leading Rethink Priorities
    Podcast (80k After Hours)
November
  • #140 – Bear Braumoeller on the case that war isn’t in decline
    Podcast
October
  • #139 – Alan Hájek on puzzles and paradoxes in probability and expected value
    Podcast
September
  • #138 – Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on why pleasure and pain are the only things that intrinsically matter
    Podcast
  • Kuhan Jeyapragasan on effective altruism university groups
    Podcast (80k After Hours)
  • #137 – Andreas Mogensen on whether effective altruism is just for consequentialists
    Podcast
  • Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla on the Shrimp Welfare Project
    Podcast (80k After Hours)
August
  • #136 – Will MacAskill on what we owe the future
    Podcast
  • #135 – Samuel Charap on key lessons from five months of war in Ukraine
    Podcast
July
  • #134 – Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us
    Podcast
  • #133 – Max Tegmark on how a ‘put-up-or-shut-up’ resolution led him to work on AI and algorithmic news selection
    Podcast
June
  • #132 – Nova DasSarma on why information security may be critical to the safe development of AI systems
    Podcast
  • #131 – Lewis Dartnell on getting humanity to bounce back faster in a post-apocalyptic world
    Podcast
May
  • Clay Graubard and Robert de Neufville on forecasting the war in Ukraine
    Podcast (80k After Hours)
  • #130 – Will MacAskill on balancing frugality with ambition, whether you need longtermism, and mental health under pressure
    Podcast
  • #129 – Dr James Tibenderana on the state of the art in malaria control and elimination
    Podcast
April
  • #128 – Chris Blattman on the five reasons wars happen
    Podcast
  • #127 – Sam Bankman-Fried on taking a high-risk approach to crypto and doing good
    Podcast
  • #126 – Bryan Caplan on whether lazy parenting is OK, what really helps workers, and betting on beliefs
    Podcast
March
  • #125 – Joan Rohlfing on how to avoid catastrophic nuclear blunders
    Podcast
  • #124 – Karen Levy on fads and misaligned incentives in global development, and scaling deworming to reach hundreds of millions
    Podcast
  • #123 – Samuel Charap on why Putin invaded Ukraine, the risk of escalation, and how to prevent disaster
    Podcast
  • Michelle and Habiba on what they’d tell their younger selves, and the impact of the 1-1 team
    Podcast (80k After Hours)
  • #122 – Michelle Hutchinson & Habiba Islam on balancing competing priorities and other themes from our 1-on-1 careers advising
    Podcast
February
  • Alex Lawsen on his advice for students
    Podcast (80k After Hours)
  • Rob and Keiran on the philosophy of The 80,000 Hours Podcast
    Podcast (80k After Hours)
  • Introducing 80k After Hours
    Blog post
  • #121 – Matthew Yglesias on avoiding the pundit’s fallacy and how much military intervention can be used for good
    Podcast
  • #120 – Audrey Tang on what we can learn from Taiwan’s experiments with how to do democracy
    Podcast

2021

December
  • #119 – Andrew Yang on our very long-term future, and other topics most politicians won’t touch
    Podcast
  • #118 – Jaime Yassif on safeguarding bioscience to prevent catastrophic lab accidents and bioweapons development
    Podcast
November
  • #117 – David Denkenberger on using paper mills and seaweed to feed everyone in a catastrophe, ft Sahil Shah
    Podcast
  • #116 – Luisa Rodriguez on why global catastrophes seem unlikely to kill us all
    Podcast
  • #115 – David Wallace on the many-worlds theory of quantum mechanics and its implications
    Podcast
October
  • #114 – Maha Rehman on working with governments to rapidly deliver masks to millions of people
    Podcast
  • #113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India
    Podcast
  • Effective altruism in a nutshell
    Blog post
  • #112 – Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications
    Podcast
September
  • #111 – Mushtaq Khan on using institutional economics to predict effective government reforms
    Podcast
August
  • #110 – Holden Karnofsky on building aptitudes and kicking ass
    Podcast
  • #109 – Holden Karnofsky on the most important century
    Podcast
  • #108 – Chris Olah on working at top AI labs without an undergrad degree
    Podcast
  • #107 – Chris Olah on what the hell is going on inside neural networks
    Podcast
July
  • #106 – Cal Newport on an industrial revolution for office work
    Podcast
  • #105 – Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways
    Podcast
June
  • #104 – Dr Pardis Sabeti on the Sentinel system for detecting and stopping pandemics
    Podcast
  • #103 – Max Roser on building the world’s first great source of COVID-19 data at Our World in Data
    Podcast
  • #102 – Tom Moynihan on why prior generations missed some of the biggest priorities of all
    Podcast
May
  • #101 – Robert Wright on using cognitive empathy to save the world
    Podcast
  • #100 – Having a successful career with depression, anxiety, and imposter syndrome
    Podcast
  • #99 – Leah Garcés on turning adversaries into allies to change the chicken industry
    Podcast
  • #98 – Christian Tarsney on future bias and a possible solution to moral fanaticism
    Podcast
April
  • #97 – Mike Berkowitz on keeping the U.S. a liberal democratic country
    Podcast
  • Launching a new resource: ‘Effective Altruism: An Introduction’
    Blog post
  • #96 – Nina Schick on disinformation and the rise of synthetic media
    Podcast
March
  • #95 – Kelly Wanser on whether to deliberately intervene in the climate
    Podcast
  • #94 – Ezra Klein on aligning journalism, politics, and what matters most
    Podcast
  • #93 – Andy Weber on rendering bioweapons obsolete and ending the new nuclear arms race
    Podcast
  • #92 – Brian Christian on the alignment problem
    Podcast
February
  • #91 – Lewis Bollard on big wins against factory farming and how they happened
    Podcast
  • Rob Wiblin on how he ended up the way he is
    Blog post
January
  • #90 – Ajeya Cotra on worldview diversification and how big the future could be
    Podcast
  • Rob Wiblin on self-improvement and research ethics
    Blog post

2020

December
  • #89 – Owen Cotton-Barratt on epistemic systems & layers of defence against potential global catastrophes
    Podcast
  • #88 – Tristan Harris on the need to change the incentives of social media companies
    Podcast
November
  • Benjamin Todd on what the effective altruism community most needs (& how to analyse replaceability)
    Podcast
  • #87 – Russ Roberts on whether it’s more effective to help strangers, or people you know
    Podcast
October
  • #86 – Hilary Greaves on Pascal’s mugging, strong longtermism, and whether existing can be good for us
    Podcast
September
  • Benjamin Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it
    Podcast
  • Benjamin Todd on varieties of longtermism and things 80,000 Hours might be getting wrong
    Podcast
August
  • #85 – Mark Lynas on climate change, societal collapse & nuclear energy
    Podcast
  • #84 – Shruti Rajagopalan on what India did to stop COVID-19 and how well it worked
    Podcast
July
  • #83 – Jennifer Doleac on ways to prevent crime other than police and prisons
    Podcast
  • #82 – James Forman Jr on reducing the cruelty of the US criminal legal system
    Podcast
  • #81 – Ben Garfinkel on scrutinising classic AI risk arguments
    Podcast
June
  • #80 – Stuart Russell on the flaws that make today’s AI architecture unsafe, and a new approach that could fix them
    Podcast
  • #79 – A.J. Jacobs on radical honesty, following the whole Bible, and reframing global problems as puzzles
    Podcast
May
  • #78 – Danny Hernandez on forecasting and the drivers of AI progress
    Podcast
  • #77 – Marc Lipsitch on whether we’re winning or losing against COVID-19
    Podcast
  • #76 – Tara Kirk Sell on COVID-19 misinformation, who’s done well and badly, and what we should reopen first
    Podcast
April
  • #75 – Michelle Hutchinson on what people most often ask 80,000 Hours
    Podcast
  • #74 – Dr Greg Lewis on COVID-19 and reducing global catastrophic biological risks
    Podcast
March
  • Emergency episode: Rob & Howie on the menace of COVID-19, and what both governments & individuals might be able to do to help
    Podcast
  • #73 – Phil Trammell on how becoming a ‘patient philanthropist’ might allow you to do far more good
    Podcast
  • #72 – Toby Ord on the precipice and humanity’s potential futures
    Podcast
  • #71 – Benjamin Todd on the key ideas of 80,000 Hours
    Podcast
February
  • Bonus episode: Arden & Rob on demandingness, work-life balance and injustice
    Podcast
  • #70 – Dr Cassidy Nelson on the twelve best ways to stop the next pandemic (and limit COVID-19)
    Podcast
  • #69 – Jeff Ding on China, its AI dream, and what we get wrong about both
    Podcast
  • Bonus episode: What we do and don’t know about the 2019-nCoV coronavirus
    Podcast
January
  • #68 – Will MacAskill on the moral case against ever leaving the house, whether now is the hinge of history, and the culture of effective altruism
    Podcast

2019

December
  • #67 – David Chalmers on the nature and ethics of consciousness
    Podcast
  • #66 – Peter Singer on being provocative, EA, how his moral views have changed, & rescuing children drowning in ponds
    Podcast
November
  • #65 – Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins on 8 years of combating WMD terrorism
    Podcast
October
  • #64 – Bruce Schneier on how insecure electronic voting could break the United States — and surveillance without tyranny
    Podcast
September
  • Rob Wiblin on plastic straws, nicotine, doping, & whether changing the long term is really possible
    Podcast
  • #63 – Vitalik Buterin on effective altruism, better ways to fund public goods, the blockchain’s problems so far, and how it could yet change the world
    Podcast
August
  • #62 – Paul Christiano on whether we should leave a helpful message for future civilisations — just in case humanity dies out
    Podcast
July
  • #61 – Helen Toner on the new 30-person research group in DC investigating how emerging technologies could affect national security
    Podcast
June
  • #60 – Accurately predicting the future is central to absolutely everything. Phil Tetlock has spent 40 years studying how to do it better.
    Podcast
  • #59 – Cass Sunstein on how social change happens, and why it’s so often abrupt & unpredictable
    Podcast
  • #58 – Pushmeet Kohli on DeepMind’s plan to make AI systems robust & reliable, why it’s a core issue in AI design, and how to succeed at AI research
    Podcast
May
  • Rob Wiblin on human nature, new technology, and living a happy, healthy & ethical life
    Blog post
April
  • #57 – Tom Kalil on how to have a big impact in government & huge organisations, based on 16 years’ experience in the White House
    Podcast
  • #56 – Animals in the wild often suffer a great deal. We ask Persis Eskander what — if anything — should we do about that
    Podcast
March
  • #55 – Mark Lutter on trying to end poverty by founding well-governed ‘charter’ cities, ft Tamara Winter
    Podcast
  • #54 – Askell, Brundage & Clark on whether policy has a hope of keeping up with AI advances
    Podcast
February
  • #53 – Kelsey Piper on whether journalists have room to write about important things
    Podcast
  • #52 – Glen Weyl on radical institutional reforms that make capitalism & democracy work better, and how to get them
    Podcast
January
  • #51 – Martin Gurri on the revolt of the public & crisis of authority in the information age
    Podcast

2018

December
  • #50 – We could feed all eight billion people through a nuclear winter. David Denkenberger is working to make it practical.
    Podcast
  • #49 – Rachel Glennerster on a year’s worth of education for under a dollar and other ‘best buys’ in development
    Podcast
November
  • #48 – Brian Christian on computer science algorithms that tackle fundamental and universal problems — and whether they can help us live better in practice
    Podcast
  • #47 – PhD or programming? Fast paths into aligning AI as a machine learning engineer, according to ML engineers Catherine Olsson & Daniel Ziegler
    Podcast
October
  • #46 – Philosopher Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness, population ethics, probability within a multiverse, & harnessing the brainpower of academia to tackle the most important research questions
    Podcast
  • #45 – Economist Tyler Cowen says our overwhelming priorities should be maximising economic growth and making civilisation more stable. Is he right?
    Podcast
  • #44 – Paul Christiano on how OpenAI is developing real solutions to the ‘AI alignment problem’, and his vision of how humanity will progressively hand over decision-making to AI systems
    Podcast
September
  • #43 – Daniel Ellsberg on the creation of nuclear doomsday machines, the institutional insanity that maintains them, and a practical plan for dismantling them
    Podcast
  • #42 – Amanda Askell on tackling the ethics of infinity, being clueless about the effects of our actions, and having moral empathy for intellectual adversaries
    Podcast
August
  • #41 – If the US put fewer people in prison, would crime go up? Not at all, according to Open Philanthropy’s renowned researcher David Roodman.
    Podcast
  • #40 – How well can we actually predict the future? Katja Grace on why expert opinion isn’t a great guide to AI’s impact and how to do better
    Podcast
  • #39 – How much should you change your beliefs based on new evidence? Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions
    Podcast
July
  • #38 – Yew-Kwang Ng on ethics and how to create a much happier world
    Podcast
  • #37 – Finding the best charity requires estimating the unknowable. Here’s how GiveWell tries to do that, according to researcher James Snowden.
    Podcast
  • #36 – Tanya Singh on ending the operations management bottleneck in effective altruism
    Podcast
June
  • #35 – How the audacity to fix things without asking permission can change the world, demonstrated by Tara Mac Aulay
    Podcast
May
  • #34 – Politics is so much worse because we use an atrocious 18th century voting system. Aaron Hamlin has a viable plan to fix it.
    Podcast
  • #33 – Oxford’s Anders Sandberg on solar flares, the annual risk of nuclear war, and what if dictators could live forever?
    Podcast
  • #32 – Economist Bryan Caplan thinks education is mostly pointless showing off. We test the strength of his case.
    Podcast
  • #31 – Allan Dafoe on trying to prepare the world for the possibility that AI will destabilise global politics
    Podcast
  • #30 – Eva Vivalt’s research suggests social science findings don’t generalize. So evidence-based development – what is it good for?
    Podcast
  • #29 – Where are the aliens? Anders Sandberg on three new resolutions to the Fermi Paradox and how we could easily colonise the whole universe
    Podcast
April
  • #28 – Owen Cotton-Barratt on why daring scientists should have to get liability insurance
    Podcast
  • #27 – The careers and policies that can prevent global catastrophic biological risks, according to world-leading health security expert Dr Tom Inglesby
    Podcast
  • #26 – How exactly clean meat is created & the advances needed to get it into every supermarket, according to food scientist Marie Gibbons
    Podcast
March
  • #25 – Why we have to lie to ourselves about why we do what we do, according to economist Robin Hanson
    Podcast
  • #24 – Stefan Schubert on why it’s a bad idea to break the rules, even if it’s for a good cause
    Podcast
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