Emilia Javorsky on how AI Concentrates Power
Emilia Javorsky joins the podcast to discuss AI-driven power concentration and how we might mitigate it.
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Anton Korinek on Automating Work and the Economics of an Intelligence Explosion
Anton Korinek joins the podcast to discuss the effects of automation on wages and labor, how we measure the complexity of tasks, the economics of an intelligence explosion, and the market structure of the AI industry.
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Christian Ruhl on Preventing World War III, US-China Hotlines, and Ultraviolet Germicidal Light
Christian Ruhl joins the podcast to discuss US-China competition and the risk of war, official versus unofficial diplomacy, hotlines between countries, catastrophic biological risks, ultraviolet germicidal light, and ancient civilizational collapse.
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Christian Nunes on Deepfakes (with Max Tegmark)
Christian Nunes joins the podcast to discuss deepfakes, how they impact women in particular, how we can protect ordinary victims of deepfakes, and the current landscape of deepfake legislation.
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Dan Faggella on the Race to AGI
Dan Faggella joins the podcast to discuss whether humanity should eventually create AGI, how AI will change power dynamics between institutions, what drives AI progress, and which industries are implementing AI successfully.
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Liron Shapira on Superintelligence Goals
Liron Shapira joins the podcast to discuss superintelligence goals, what makes AI different from other technologies, risks from centralizing power, and whether AI can defend us from AI.
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Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War - a Second by Second Timeline
Annie Jacobsen joins the podcast to lay out a second by second timeline for how nuclear war could happen.
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Holly Elmore on Pausing AI, Hardware Overhang, Safety Research, and Protesting
Holly Elmore joins the podcast to discuss pausing frontier AI, hardware overhang, safety research during a pause, the social dynamics of AI risk, and what prevents AGI corporations from collaborating.
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Sneha Revanur on the Social Effects of AI
Sneha Revanur joins the podcast to discuss the social effects of AI, the illusory divide between AI ethics and AI safety, the importance of humans in the loop, the different effects of AI on younger and older people, and the importance of AIs identifying as AIs.
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Roman Yampolskiy on Shoggoth, Scaling Laws, and Evidence for AI being Uncontrollable
Roman Yampolskiy joins the podcast again to discuss whether AI is like a Shoggoth, whether scaling laws will hold for more agent-like AIs, evidence that AI is uncontrollable, and whether designing human-like AI would be safer than the current development path.
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Special: Flo Crivello on AI as a New Form of Life
On this special episode of the podcast, Flo Crivello talks with Nathan Labenz about AI as a new form of life, whether attempts to regulate AI risks regulatory capture, how a GPU kill switch could work, and why Flo expects AGI in 2-8 years.
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Carl Robichaud on Preventing Nuclear War
Carl Robichaud joins the podcast to discuss the new nuclear arms race, how much world leaders and ideologies matter for nuclear risk, and how to reach a stable, low-risk era.
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