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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…

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#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…
#12 Deger Turan on all things forecasting

August 21, 2024 · 54 min

Deger Turan is the CEO of forecasting platform Metaculus and president of the AI Objectives Institute. In this episode, we discuss how forecasting can be used to help humanity coordinate around reducing existential risks, Deger's advice…
#11 Katja Grace on the AI Impacts survey, the case for slowing down AI & arguments for and against x-risk

June 20, 2024 · 1 hr 17 min

Katja Grace is the co-founder of AI Impacts, a non-profit focused on answering key questions about the future trajectory of AI development, which is best known for conducting the world's largest survey of machine learning researchers. We…
#10 Nathan Labenz on the current AI state-of-the-art, the Red Team in Public project, reasons for hope on AI x-risk & more

June 9, 2024 · 1 hr 54 min

Nathan Labenz is the founder of AI content-generation platform Waymark and host of The Cognitive Revolution Podcast, who now works full-time on tracking and analysing developments in AI. We chatted about where we currently stand with…
#9 Sneha Revanur on founding Encode Justice, California's SB-1047, and youth advocacy for safe AI development

May 15, 2024 · 50 min

Sheha Revanur is a the founder of Encode Justice, an international, youth-led network campaigning for the responsible development of AI, which was among the sponsors of California's proposed AI bill SB-1047. We chatted about why Sheha…