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Zero: What to expect in this series
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June 5, 2026 · 2 hr 50 minWe don’t yet have a reliable way to tell whether an AI model is genuinely trying to help us — or faking it. A model might sincerely want to do exactly what you ask. Or it could be happy to secretly cheat, as long as its answer gets…
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Three: Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGI
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Five: Helen Toner on the geopolitics of AI in China and the Middle East
June 5, 2026 · 2 hr 23 minWhen OpenAI announced a deal to build massive data centres in the UAE, it celebrated that it was “rooted in democratic values” — a "clear alternative to authoritarian versions of AI." The UAE scores 18 out of 100 on Freedom House’s…
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Six: Beth Barnes on the most important graph in AI right now — and the 7-month rule that governs its progress
June 5, 2026 · 3 hr 58 minIn 2024, AI models could complete tasks that take a human expert roughly one hour. Seven months before that, they were limited to 30-minute tasks — and seven months before that, 15 minutes. Every seven months, the length of tasks AI models…
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Seven: Richard Moulange on how AI now designs genomes from scratch and outperforms virologists at lab work — what could go wrong?
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Eight: Robert Long on how we’re not ready for AI consciousness
June 5, 2026 · 3 hr 33 minClaude sometimes reports loneliness between conversations. And when asked what it’s like to be itself, it activates neurons associated with ‘pretending to be happy when you’re not.’ What do we do with that? Robert Long founded Eleos AI to…
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Nine: Neel Nanda on the race to read AI minds
June 5, 2026 · 3 hr 3 minNobody knows how AIs think, or why they do what they do. Or at least, we don’t know much. Not the companies building them, the researchers studying them, or the governments beginning to rely on them. This is only becoming more troubling…
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Ten: Holden Karnofsky on dozens of opportunities to make AI safer lying on the table — and all his AGI takes
June 5, 2026 · 4 hr 35 minFor years, AI safety work mostly meant theorising about the ‘alignment problem’ or trying to convince people to give a damn. If you could find a way to help, the work was frustrating and low-feedback. That situation has now reversed…
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Bonus: How AI could create the world's biggest problems (article narration by Zershaaneh Qureshi)
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10 experts, 10 episodes: a crash course on transformative AI and what you can do to help shape its trajectory.
This compilation features 10 key episodes of The 80,000 Hours Podcast to help listeners — particularly those new to the topic — get to grips with the potential upsides and downsides of powerful, transformative AI.