80,000 Hours Podcast · Chai Podcast

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Episodes · 25

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

Aug 4, 2026 · 49m

Spencer Greenberg on staying sane while trying to save the world

Jul 28, 2026 · 2h 9m

Jasmine Sun on what the people building AI really believe

Jul 21, 2026 · 1h 6m

#247 – Anton Leicht on how middle powers avoid losing everything in a post-AI world

Jul 14, 2026 · 1h 33m

#246 – Sneha Revanur on how a small team of activists helped pass America's landmark AI safety laws

Jul 8, 2026 · 52m

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

Jun 18, 2026 · 15m

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

Jun 11, 2026 · 1h 29m

#245 – Rohin Shah on what it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers')

Jun 2, 2026 · 2h 48m

What makes for a dream job? | Benjamin Todd

May 28, 2026 · 28m

#244 – Benjamin Todd on how we’re updating our career advice for the strangest time in history

May 26, 2026 · 1h 6m

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

May 20, 2026 · 20m

#243 – 'Godfather of AI' Yoshua Bengio: "I now see a path" to safe superintelligent AI

May 7, 2026 · 2h 35m

'95% of AI Pilots Fail': The hidden agenda behind the viral stat that misled millions

Apr 28, 2026 · 10m

#242 – Will MacAskill on how we survive the 'intelligence explosion,' AI character, and the case for 'viatopia'

Apr 22, 2026 · 3h 14m

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

Apr 16, 2026 · 1h 29m

How scary is Claude Mythos? 303 pages in 21 minutes

Apr 10, 2026 · 21m

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

Apr 7, 2026 · 4h 6m

What everyone is missing about Anthropic vs the Pentagon. And: The Meta leaks are worse than you think.

Apr 3, 2026 · 20m

#241 – Richard Moulange on how now AI codes viable genomes from scratch and outperforms virologists at lab work — what could go wrong?

Mar 31, 2026 · 3h 10m

#240 – Samuel Charap on how a Ukraine ceasefire could accidentally set Europe up for a bigger war

Mar 24, 2026 · 1h 15m

#239 – Rose Hadshar on why automating all human labour will break our political system

Mar 17, 2026 · 2h 16m

#238 – Sam Winter-Levy and Nikita Lalwani on how AGI won't end mutually assured destruction (probably)

Mar 10, 2026 · 1h 13m

Using AI to enhance societal decision making (article by Zershaaneh Qureshi)

Mar 6, 2026 · 31m

#237 – Robert Long on how we're not ready for AI consciousness

Mar 3, 2026 · 3h 32m

#236 – Max Harms on why teaching AI right from wrong could get everyone killed

Feb 24, 2026 · 2h 40m