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2025

March

Expression of Interest: Podcast Host
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Expression of Interest: Podcast Chief of Staff
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February

Bonus: AGI disagreements and misconceptions: Rob, Luisa, & past guests hash it out
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2024

November

#210 – Cameron Meyer Shorb on dismantling the myth that we can't do anything to help wild animals
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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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Bonus episode: 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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October

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

#202 – Venki Ramakrishnan on the cutting edge of anti-ageing science
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Why experts and forecasters disagree about AI risk
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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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August

#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 challenging our assumptions about insects
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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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July

#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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June

#190 – Eric Schwitzgebel on whether the US is conscious
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May

#189 – Rachel Glennerster on how "market shaping" could help solve climate change, pandemics, and other global problems
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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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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
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March

Christian Ruhl on why we’re entering a new nuclear age — and how to reduce the risks
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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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February

#178 – Emily Oster on what the evidence actually says about pregnancy and parenting
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2023

December

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

#173 – Jeff Sebo on digital minds, and how to avoid sleepwalking into a major moral catastrophe
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#171 – Alison Young on how top labs have jeopardised public health with repeated biosafety failures
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October

#169 – Paul Niehaus on whether cash transfers cause economic growth, and keeping theft to acceptable levels
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#167 – Seren Kell on the research gaps holding back alternative proteins from mass adoption
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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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September

Alex Lawsen on avoiding 10 mistakes people make when pursuing a high-impact career
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What the past can tell us about how AI will affect jobs
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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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July

Hannah Boettcher on the mental health challenges that come with trying to have a big impact
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#156 – Markus Anderljung on how to regulate cutting-edge AI models
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How to cope with rejection in your career
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#152 – Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion
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#151 – Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us
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#150 – Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world
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Luisa and Keiran on free will, and the consequences of never feeling enduring guilt or shame
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Luisa and Robert Long on how to make independent research more fun
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#146 – Robert Long on why large language models like GPT (probably) aren't conscious
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February

#145 – Christopher Brown on why slavery abolition wasn't inevitable
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#131 – Lewis Dartnell on getting humanity to bounce back faster in a post-apocalyptic world
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April

My experience with imposter syndrome — and how to (partly) overcome it
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Expression of interest: writer
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Expression of interest: popular writing consultant
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The twelve 80,000 Hours 2021 releases that affected our staff most
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