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#172 – Bryan Caplan on why you should stop reading the news
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2023-11-17
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#171 – Alison Young on how top labs have jeopardised public health with repeated biosafety failures
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2023-11-09
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#170 – Santosh Harish on how air pollution is responsible for ~12% of global deaths — and how to get that number down
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2023-11-01
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#169 – Paul Niehaus on whether cash transfers cause economic growth, and keeping theft to acceptable levels
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2023-10-26
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#168 – Ian Morris on whether deep history says we're heading for an intelligence explosion
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2023-10-23
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#167 – Seren Kell on the research gaps holding back alternative proteins from mass adoption
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2023-10-18
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#166 – Tantum Collins on what he’s learned as an AI policy insider at the White House, DeepMind and elsewhere
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2023-10-12
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#165 – Anders Sandberg on war in space, whether civilisations age, and the best things possible in our universe
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2023-10-06
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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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2023-10-02
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Great power conflict (Article)
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2023-09-22
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#163 – Toby Ord on the perils of maximising the good that you do
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2023-09-08
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The 80,000 Hours Career Guide (2023)
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2023-09-04
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#162 – Mustafa Suleyman on getting Washington and Silicon Valley to tame AI
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2023-09-01
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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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2023-08-23
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#160 – Hannah Ritchie on why it makes sense to be optimistic about the environment
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2023-08-14
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#159 – Jan Leike on OpenAI's massive push to make superintelligence safe in 4 years or less
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2023-08-07
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We now offer shorter 'interview highlights' episodes
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2023-08-05
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#158 – Holden Karnofsky on how AIs might take over even if they're no smarter than humans, and his 4-part playbook for AI risk
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2023-07-31
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#157 – Ezra Klein on existential risk from AI and what DC could do about it
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2023-07-24
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#156 – Markus Anderljung on how to regulate cutting-edge AI models
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2023-07-10
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