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2026

March

#238 – Sam Winter-Levy and Nikita Lalwani on how AI won’t end nuclear deterrence (probably)
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#237 – Robert Long on how we’re not ready for AI consciousness
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January

#233 – James Smith on why he quit everything to work on a biothreat nobody had heard of
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2025

December

#231 – Paul Scharre on how AI could transform the nature of war
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November

Rob & Luisa chat kids, the fertility crash, and how the ‘50s invented parenting that makes us miserable
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October

#225 – Daniel Kokotajlo on what a hyperspeed robot economy might look like
Podcast

August

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

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
Podcast
#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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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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#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
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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 upending everything you thought you knew about bugs in 3 hours
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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 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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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

#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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August

#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

#156 – Markus Anderljung on how to regulate cutting-edge AI models
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May

#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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March

#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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2022

June

#131 – Lewis Dartnell on getting humanity to bounce back faster in a post-apocalyptic world
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