Nick Allardice on Using AI to Optimize Cash Transfers and Predict Disasters
Nick Allardice joins the podcast to discuss how GiveDirectly uses AI to target cash transfers and predict natural disasters.
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Discusses technological progress broadly and its implications for humanity's trajectory. Covers synthetic biology, space exploration, computation, emerging technologies, forecasting, and how science and innovation shape possible futures.
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Nathan Labenz on the State of AI and Progress since GPT-4
Nathan Labenz joins the podcast to provide a comprehensive overview of AI progress since the release of GPT-4.
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Connor Leahy on Why Humanity Risks Extinction from AGI
Connor Leahy joins the podcast to discuss the motivations of AGI corporations, how modern AI is "grown", the need for a science of intelligence, the effects of AI on work, the radical implications of superintelligence, open-source AI, and what you might be able to do about all of this.
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Suzy Shepherd on Imagining Superintelligence and "Writing Doom"
Suzy Shepherd joins the podcast to discuss her new short film "Writing Doom", which deals with AI risk.
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Andrea Miotti on a Narrow Path to Safe, Transformative AI
Andrea Miotti joins the podcast to discuss "A Narrow Path" — a roadmap to safe, transformative AI.
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Tamay Besiroglu on AI in 2030: Scaling, Automation, and AI Agents
Tamay Besiroglu joins the podcast to discuss scaling, AI capabilities in 2030, breakthroughs in AI agents and planning, automating work, the uncertainties of investing in AI, and scaling laws for inference-time compute.
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Ryan Greenblatt on AI Control, Timelines, and Slowing Down Around Human-Level AI
Ryan Greenblatt joins the podcast to discuss AI control, timelines, takeoff speeds, misalignment, and slowing down around human-level AI.
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Tom Barnes on How to Build a Resilient World
Tom Barnes joins the podcast to discuss how much the world spends on AI capabilities versus AI safety, how governments can prepare for advanced AI, and how to build a more resilient world.
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Samuel Hammond on why AI Progress is Accelerating - and how Governments Should Respond
Samuel Hammond joins the podcast to discuss whether AI progress is slowing down or speeding up, AI agents and reasoning, why superintelligence is an ideological goal, open source AI, how technical change leads to regime change, the economics of advanced AI, and much more.
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Anousheh Ansari on Innovation Prizes for Space, AI, Quantum Computing, and Carbon Removal
Anousheh Ansari joins the podcast to discuss how innovation prizes can incentivize technical innovation in space, AI, quantum computing, and carbon removal.
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Mary Robinson (Former President of Ireland) on Long-View Leadership
Mary Robinson joins the podcast to discuss long-view leadership, risks from AI and nuclear weapons, prioritizing global problems, how to overcome barriers to international cooperation, and advice to future leaders.
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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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