Examines threats that could permanently curtail humanity's potential or cause human extinction. Includes nuclear warfare, engineered pandemics, climate catastrophe, unaligned AI, and other global catastrophic risks that threaten civilization's long-term survival.
Technical specialist Nora Ammann of the UK's ARIA discusses how to steer a slow AI takeoff toward resilient, cooperative futures, covering risks from rogue AI and competition to scalable oversight, formal guarantees, secure infrastructure, and AI-supported bargaining.
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Adam Gleave, CEO of FAR.AI, discusses post-AGI scenarios, risks of gradual disempowerment, defense-in-depth safety strategies, scalable oversight for AI deception, and the challenges of interpretability, as well as FAR.AI's integrated research and policy work.
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Nate Soares discusses his book on the risks of superintelligent AI, arguing that current approaches make AI unpredictable and uncontrollable, and advocates for an international ban on research toward superintelligence.
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Esben Kran joins the podcast to discuss why securing AGI requires more than traditional cybersecurity, exploring new attack surfaces, adaptive malware, and the societal shifts needed for resilient defenses.
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Tom Davidson discusses the risks of AI-enabled coups, examining how advanced artificial intelligence could facilitate covert power grabs, alter democratic processes, and outlining strategies to mitigate these emerging threats.
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On this episode, Steven Byrnes joins me to discuss brain-like AGI safety.
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On this episode, Ege Erdil from Epoch AI joins me to discuss their new GATE model of AI development, what evolution and brain efficiency tell us about AGI requirements, how AI might impact wages and labor markets, and what it takes to train models with long-term planning.
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In this special episode, we feature Nathan Labenz interviewing Nicholas Carlini on the Cognitive Revolution podcast.
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On this episode, I interview Anthony Aguirre, Executive Director of the Future of Life Institute, about his new essay Keep the Future Human: https://keepthefuturehuman.ai AI companies are explicitly working toward AGI and are likely to succeed soon, possibly within years. Keep the Future Huma...
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On this episode, Jeffrey Ladish from Palisade Research joins me to discuss the rapid pace of AI progress and the risks of losing control over powerful systems.
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Ann Pace joins the podcast to discuss the work of Wise Ancestors.
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David "davidad" Dalrymple joins the podcast to explore Safeguarded AI — an approach to ensuring the safety of highly advanced AI systems.
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