Consistently Candid

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• #21 Steven Adler on scruntising AI company safety practices & pacing the frontier

  August 21, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

  After a long hiatus, I am resurrecting my podcast! For this episode, I spoke with Steven Adler. Steven worked on policy and safety at OpenAI between 2020 and 2024. He has since left to pursue independent writing to raise public awareness…

• #20 Frances Lorenz on the emotional side of AI x-risk, being a woman in a male-dominated online space & more

  May 14, 2025 · 52 min

  In this episode, I chatted with Frances Lorenz, events associate at the Centre for Effective Altruism. We covered our respective paths into AI safety, the emotional impact of learning about x-risk, what it's like to be female in a…

• #19 Gabe Alfour on why AI alignment is hard, what it would mean to solve it & what ordinary people can do about existential risk

  April 13, 2025 · 1 hr 37 min

  Gabe Alfour is a co-founder of Conjecture and an advisor to Control AI, both organisations working to reduce risks from advanced AI.  We discussed why AI poses an existential risk to humanity, what makes this problem very hard to solve…

• #18 Nathan Labenz on reinforcement learning, reasoning models, emergent misalignment & more

  March 2, 2025 · 1 hr 46 min

  A lot has happened in AI since the last time I spoke to Nathan Labenz of The Cognitive Revolution, so I invited him back on for a whistlestop tour of the most important developments we've seen over the last year! We covered reasoning…

• #17 Fun Theory with Noah Topper

  November 8, 2024 · 1 hr 26 min

  The Fun Theory Sequence is one of Eliezer Yudkowsky's cheerier works, and considers questions such as 'how much fun is there in the universe?', 'are we having fun yet' and 'could we be having more fun?'. It tries to answer some of the…

• #16 John Sherman on the psychological experience of learning about x-risk and AI safety messaging strategies

  October 30, 2024 · 53 min

  John Sherman is the host of the For Humanity Podcast, which (much like this one!) aims to explain AI safety to a non-expert audience. In this episode, we compared our experiences of encountering AI safety arguments for the first time and…

• #14 Buck Shlegeris on AI control

  October 16, 2024 · 49 min

  Buck Shlegeris is the CEO of Redwood Research, a non-profit working to reduce risks from powerful AI. We discussed Redwood's research into AI control, why we shouldn't feel confident that witnessing an AI escape attempt would persuade labs…

• #13 Aaron Bergman and Max Alexander debate the Very Repugnant Conclusion

  September 8, 2024 · 1 hr 54 min

  In this episode, Aaron Bergman and Max Alexander are back to battle it out for the philosophy crown, while I (attempt to) moderate. They discuss the Very Repugnant Conclusion, which, in the words of Claude, "posits that a world with a vast…