The 80,000 Hours Podcast on Artificial Intelligence

80,000 Hours

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

Latest episodeZero: What to expect in this seriesJune 5, 2026 · 2 min

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1. Zero: What to expect in this seriesJune 5, 2026 · 2 min
2. One: Will MacAskill on AI causing a “century in a decade” — and how we’re completely unpreparedJune 5, 2026 · 248 min
3. Two: Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive usJune 5, 2026 · 170 min
4. Three: Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGIJune 5, 2026 · 255 min
5. Four: Rose Hadshar on why automating human labour will break our political systemJune 5, 2026 · 137 min
6. Five: Helen Toner on the geopolitics of AI in China and the Middle EastJune 5, 2026 · 143 min
7. Six: Beth Barnes on the most important graph in AI right now — and the 7-month rule that governs its progressJune 5, 2026 · 238 min
8. Seven: Richard Moulange on how AI now designs genomes from scratch and outperforms virologists at lab work — what could go wrong?June 5, 2026 · 190 min
9. Eight: Robert Long on how we’re not ready for AI consciousnessJune 5, 2026 · 213 min
10. Nine: Neel Nanda on the race to read AI mindsJune 5, 2026 · 183 min

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