Existential Risk

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.

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Mar 30, 2023 · Technology & Future

Lennart Heim on the AI Triad: Compute, Data, and Algorithms

Lennart Heim joins the podcast to discuss how we can forecast AI progress by researching AI hardware.

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Mar 23, 2023 · Technology & Future

Liv Boeree on Poker, GPT-4, and the Future of AI

Liv Boeree joins the podcast to discuss poker, GPT-4, human-AI interaction, whether this is the most important century, and building a dataset of human wisdom.

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Mar 9, 2023 · Technology & Future

Tobias Baumann on Space Colonization and Cooperative Artificial Intelligence

Tobias Baumann joins the podcast to discuss suffering risks, space colonization, and cooperative artificial intelligence.

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Mar 2, 2023 · Existential Risk

Tobias Baumann on Artificial Sentience and Reducing the Risk of Astronomical Suffering

Tobias Baumann joins the podcast to discuss suffering risks, artificial sentience, and the problem of knowing which actions reduce suffering in the long-term future.

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Feb 16, 2023 · Existential Risk

Neel Nanda on Avoiding an AI Catastrophe with Mechanistic Interpretability

Neel Nanda joins the podcast to talk about mechanistic interpretability and how it can make AI safer.

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Feb 9, 2023 · Technology & Future

Neel Nanda on What is Going on Inside Neural Networks

Neel Nanda joins the podcast to explain how we can understand neural networks using mechanistic interpretability.

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Jan 26, 2023 · Existential Risk

Connor Leahy on AI Safety and Why the World is Fragile

Connor Leahy from Conjecture joins the podcast to discuss AI safety, the fragility of the world, slowing down AI development, regulating AI, and the optimal funding model for AI safety research.

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Jan 19, 2023 · Technology & Future

Connor Leahy on AI Progress, Chimps, Memes, and Markets

Connor Leahy from Conjecture joins the podcast to discuss AI progress, chimps, memes, and markets.

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Dec 15, 2022 · Technology & Future

Anders Sandberg on ChatGPT and the Future of AI

Anders Sandberg from The Future of Humanity Institute joins the podcast to discuss ChatGPT, large language models, and what he's learned about the risks and benefits of AI.

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