80,000 Hours Podcast

Education Podcasts

The most important conversations about artificial intelligence you won’t hear anywhere else. Subscribe by searching for '80000 Hours' wherever you get podcasts. Hosted by Rob Wiblin, Luisa Rodriguez, Zershaaneh Qureshi, and Tom Reed.

Episodes

Where AGI timelines go wrong | Toby Ord, Oxford University

What the hell happened with AGI timelines in 2026? – Rob Wiblin

Spencer Greenberg on staying sane while trying to save the world

Jasmine Sun on what the people building AI really believe

How middle powers avoid losing everything in a post-AI world | Anton Leicht

How a small team of activists helped pass America's landmark AI safety laws | Sneha Revanur, Encode AI

We can guess what intergalactic war would look like. And strangely, it matters.

How AI could create the world’s biggest problems (article by Zershaaneh Qureshi)

What it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') | Rohin Shah

What makes for a dream job? | Benjamin Todd

We’re updating our career advice for the strangest time in history | Benjamin Todd, author of 80,000 Hours

Can AIs already start 'rogue deployments' inside AI companies? (Landmark new METR report)

I Know How to Build Safe Superintelligence | Yoshua Bengio, the most-cited AI researcher

"AI doesn't work"—the story behind the stat that misled millions and moved markets

AI character matters even more than you think | Will MacAskill

Risks from power-seeking AI systems (article narration by Zershaaneh Qureshi)

How scary is Claude Mythos? 303 pages in 21 minutes

Village gossip, pesticide bans, and gene drives: 17 experts on the future of global health

Is there a case against Anthropic? And: The Meta leaks are worse than you think.

AI designs genomes from scratch & outperforms virologists at lab work. What could go wrong? | Dr Richard Moulange, CLTR