Addresses how institutions, laws, and international cooperation can help manage powerful technologies and global challenges. Covers regulation approaches, coordination mechanisms, incentive structures, and policy solutions for ensuring beneficial outcomes.
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 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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Annie Jacobsen joins the podcast to lay out a second by second timeline for how nuclear war could happen.
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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 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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Frank Sauer joins the podcast to discuss autonomy in weapon systems, killer drones, low-tech defenses against drones, the flaws and unpredictability of autonomous weapon systems, and the political possibilities of regulating such systems.
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Mark Brakel (Director of Policy at the Future of Life Institute) joins the podcast to discuss the AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park, objections to AI policy, AI regulation in the EU and US, global institutions for safe AI, and autonomy in weapon systems.
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Samuel Hammond joins the podcast to discuss how AGI will transform economies, governments, institutions, and other power structures.
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Johannes Ackva joins the podcast to discuss the main drivers of climate change and our best technological and governmental options for managing it.
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Robert Trager joins the podcast to discuss AI governance, the incentives of governments and companies, the track record of international regulation, the security dilemma in AI, cybersecurity at AI companies, and skepticism about AI governance.
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Lennart Heim joins the podcast to discuss options for governing the compute used by AI labs and potential problems with this approach to AI safety.
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Philip Reiner joins us to talk about nuclear, command, control and communications systems.
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