Category

Governance & Policy

39 episodes

What Would a US-China AI Deal Look Like? — with Beatrice Fihn

Governance & Policy September 10, 2026

What Would a US-China AI Deal Look Like?

How AI Shifts the Offense-Defense Balance in Biosecurity — with Paul-Enguerrand Fady

Governance & Policy August 7, 2026

How AI Shifts the Offense-Defense Balance in Biosecurity

How AI Is Replacing Children's Ability to Think — with Randi Weingarten

Governance & Policy June 30, 2026

How AI Is Replacing Children's Ability to Think

The Gulf Between AI Progress and Political Understanding — with Dex Hunter-Torricke

Governance & Policy June 25, 2026

The Gulf Between AI Progress and Political Understanding

How AI Companions Trap Users Through Addictive Design — with Claire Boine

Governance & Policy June 12, 2026

How AI Companions Trap Users Through Addictive Design

Why AI Chatbots Are a Rival to the Family — with Michael Toscano

Governance & Policy May 26, 2026

Why AI Chatbots Are a Rival to the Family

Why We Should Build AI Tools, Not AI Replacements — with Anthony Aguirre

Governance & Policy May 11, 2026

Why We Should Build AI Tools, Not AI Replacements

How to Govern AI When You Can't Predict the Future — with Charlie Bullock

Governance & Policy May 7, 2026

How to Govern AI When You Can't Predict the Future

How to Rebuild the Social Contract After AGI — with Deric Cheng

Governance & Policy January 27, 2026

How to Rebuild the Social Contract After AGI

How Humans Could Lose Power Without an AI Takeover — with David Duvenaud

Governance & Policy December 23, 2025

How Humans Could Lose Power Without an AI Takeover

Why the AI Race Undermines Safety — with Steven Adler

Governance & Policy December 12, 2025

Why the AI Race Undermines Safety

Why OpenAI Is Trying to Silence Its Critics — with Tyler Johnston

Governance & Policy November 27, 2025

Why OpenAI Is Trying to Silence Its Critics

What Happens When Insiders Sound the Alarm on AI? — with Karl Koch

Governance & Policy November 7, 2025

What Happens When Insiders Sound the Alarm on AI?

Will AI Companies Respect Creators' Rights? — with Ed Newton-Rex

Governance & Policy June 20, 2025

Will AI Companies Respect Creators' Rights?

Could Powerful AI Break Our Fragile World? — with Michael Nielsen

Governance & Policy June 6, 2025

Could Powerful AI Break Our Fragile World?

How Will We Cooperate with AIs? (with Allison Duettmann)

Technology & Future April 11, 2025

How Will We Cooperate with AIs?

Nick Allardice on Using AI to Optimize Cash Transfers and Predict Disasters

Technology & Future December 19, 2024

Nick Allardice on Using AI to Optimize Cash Transfers and Predict Disasters

Nathan Labenz on the State of AI and Progress since GPT-4

Technology & Future December 5, 2024

Nathan Labenz on the State of AI and Progress since GPT-4

Tom Barnes on How to Build a Resilient World

Technology & Future September 12, 2024

Tom Barnes on How to Build a Resilient World

Samuel Hammond on why AI Progress is Accelerating - and how Governments Should Respond

Technology & Future August 22, 2024

Samuel Hammond on why AI Progress is Accelerating - and how Governments Should Respond

Mary Robinson (Former President of Ireland) on Long-View Leadership

Governance & Policy July 25, 2024

Mary Robinson (Former President of Ireland) on Long-View Leadership

Emilia Javorsky on how AI Concentrates Power

Technology & Future July 11, 2024

Emilia Javorsky on how AI Concentrates Power

Christian Ruhl on Preventing World War III, US-China Hotlines, and Ultraviolet Germicidal Light

Existential Risk June 7, 2024

Christian Ruhl on Preventing World War III, US-China Hotlines, and Ultraviolet Germicidal Light

Christian Nunes on Deepfakes (with Max Tegmark)

Governance & Policy May 24, 2024

Christian Nunes on Deepfakes

Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War - a Second by Second Timeline

Existential Risk April 5, 2024

Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War - a Second by Second Timeline

Special: Flo Crivello on AI as a New Form of Life

Technology & Future January 19, 2024

Special: Flo Crivello on AI as a New Form of Life

Carl Robichaud on Preventing Nuclear War

Existential Risk January 6, 2024

Carl Robichaud on Preventing Nuclear War

Frank Sauer on Autonomous Weapon Systems

Technology & Future December 14, 2023

Frank Sauer on Autonomous Weapon Systems

Mark Brakel on the UK AI Summit and the Future of AI Policy

Governance & Policy November 17, 2023

Mark Brakel on the UK AI Summit and the Future of AI Policy

Samuel Hammond on AGI and Institutional Disruption

Technology & Future October 20, 2023

Samuel Hammond on AGI and Institutional Disruption

Johannes Ackva on Managing Climate Change

Technology & Future September 21, 2023

Johannes Ackva on Managing Climate Change

Robert Trager on International AI Governance and Cybersecurity at AI Companies

Governance & Policy August 20, 2023

Robert Trager on International AI Governance and Cybersecurity at AI Companies

Lennart Heim on Compute Governance

Governance & Policy April 6, 2023

Lennart Heim on Compute Governance

Philip Reiner on Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications

Technology & Future October 6, 2022

Philip Reiner on Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications

Filippa Lentzos on Global Catastrophic Biological Risks

Existential Risk October 1, 2021

Filippa Lentzos on Global Catastrophic Biological Risks

Susan Solomon and Stephen Andersen on Saving the Ozone Layer

Existential Risk September 16, 2021

Susan Solomon and Stephen Andersen on Saving the Ozone Layer

James Manyika on Global Economic and Technological Trends

Technology & Future September 7, 2021

James Manyika on Global Economic and Technological Trends

Michael Klare on the Pentagon's view of Climate Change and the Risks of State Collapse

Existential Risk July 30, 2021

Michael Klare on the Pentagon's view of Climate Change and the Risks of State Collapse

Kelly Wanser on Climate Change as a Possible Existential Threat

Existential Risk September 30, 2020

Kelly Wanser on Climate Change as a Possible Existential Threat