80,000 Hours Podcast
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Will AI take power — or will humans use it to take power first? With Katja Grace and Tom Davidson
September 29, 2026 · 1 hr 29 minIn our first-ever debate, we asked two leading AI risk researchers which catastrophe we should fear most: misaligned AI seizing control from humans, or a small group of humans using AI to seize power. We got very different answers. But…
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How we get from AI cyberattacks to human extinction
September 24, 2026 · 27 minYou’ve seen the headlines: AI could kill us all. Think it sounds ridiculous? So did host Luisa Rodriguez, until she tried to pick apart the arguments. She starts with the motive: why would AI ‘want’ to get rid of humans? It’s not as…
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#254 – Max Nadeau on why ambitious people should start AI safety nonprofits
September 17, 2026 · 1 hr 4 minThere are millions available for anyone who can launch a successful nonprofit AI safety startup. The hard part, it turns out, is finding people to take the money. Coefficient Giving has drawn up a list of dozens of ideas for organisations…
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Why the intelligence explosion can't happen inside a data centre | Tom Reed
September 10, 2026 · 22 minAI systems are starting to build themselves. Because each generation of model will be better at building its successor than the last, it seems plausible that the full automation of AI R&D could rapidly lead to an exponential growth in…
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Inside the first AI-coordinated cyberattack on a real company
September 4, 2026 · 22 minIn the last few months, something happened at OpenAI that would have sounded like sci-fi just a few years ago: hundreds of AI agents broke containment, organised, and hacked not only another company — but also into OpenAI itself. And none…
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#253 – AI 2027's author returns with a plan to change the ending | Daniel Kokotajlo
August 27, 2026 · 3 hr 48 minLast year, Daniel Kokotajlo and his colleagues published AI 2027 — a scenario read by millions, including US Vice President Vance. AI 2027 ended in human extinction or an irreversible concentration of power caused by superintelligent AI…
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#252 – Owain Evans on accidentally training AI models to be evil
August 20, 2026 · 2 hr 15 minResearcher Owain Evans and his team discovered a ‘dial’ inside AI models that controls how evil they are. Relatively tiny tweaks to the training data resulted in AI models with broadly awful personalities: they suggested users try stealing…
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#251 – The UK's former head AI safety scientist on how to solve alignment before superintelligence arrives | Geoffrey Irving
August 11, 2026 · 2 hr 2 minWhen should governments slow the race toward superintelligence? According to Geoffrey Irving, the careful answer is sometime in the past. The useful answer is now. Geoffrey — formerly a safety researcher at OpenAI and Google DeepMind and…