All Episodes

AI for Civilizational Sanity (with Rose Hadshar and Owen Cotton-Barratt)

Will Automation Cause Runaway Inequality? (with Phil Trammell)

[AI Narration] Moral public goods are a big deal for whether we get a good future

Can Liberal Democracy Survive AGI? (with Sam Hammond)

[AI Narration] Design sketches for a more sensible world

[AI Narration] Design Sketches: Angels-on-the-Shoulder

Should There Be an International AGI Project? (with Rose Hadshar)

[AI Narration] An overview of some international organisations, with their voting structures

[AI Narration] A global convention to govern the intelligence explosion

[AI Narration] International AI projects and differential AI development

[AI Narration] AGI and World Government

[AI Narration] What an international project to develop AGI should look like

[AI Narration] The International AGI Project Series

[AI Narration] The UN Charter: a case study in international governance

When Will AI Transform the Physical World? (with Tom Davidson and Will MacAskill)

[AI Narration] Short Timelines Aren't Obviously Higher-Leverage

[AI Narration] Beyond Existential Risk

[AI Narration] Is Flourishing Predetermined?

[AI Narration] ML research directions for preventing catastrophic data poisoning

[AI Narration] Viatopia

[AI Narration] Design Sketches: Collective Epistemics

Why Make Deals with Misaligned AIs? (with Lukas Finnveden)

[AI Narration] The first type of transformative AI?

[AI Narration] Space Debris and Launch Denial

Checks, Balances, and Power Concentration (with Rose Hadshar and Nora Ammann)

Consciousness and Competition (with Joe Carlsmith)

Forethought is Hiring Researchers (with Mia Taylor)

[Article] Introducing Better Futures

Politics and Power Post-Automation (with David Duvenaud)

[AI Narration] Evaluating the Infinite

[Article] AI Tools for Existential Security

Is Gradual Disempowerment Inevitable? (with Raymond Douglas)

[Article] Intelsat as a Model for International AGI Governance

[Article] Will AI R&D Automation Cause a Software Intelligence Explosion?

Should AI Agents Obey Human Laws? (with Cullen O'Keefe)

[Article] AI-Enabled Coups: How a Small Group Could Use AI to Seize Power

[AI Narration] Could One Country Outgrow the Rest of the World After AGI?

How Can We Prevent AI-Enabled Coups? (with Tom Davidson)

Should We Aim for Flourishing Over Mere Survival? (with Will MacAskill)

[AI Narration] How quick and big would a software intelligence explosion be?

[AI Narration] The Basic Case for Better Futures: SF Model Analysis

[AI Narration] How to Make the Future Better

[AI Narration] Convergence and Compromise

[AI Narration] No Easy Eutopia

[AI Narration] Persistent Path-Dependence

[AI Narration] Introducing Better Futures

AI Rights for Human Safety (with Peter Salib and Simon Goldstein)

Inference Scaling, AI Agents, and Moratoria (with Toby Ord)

[AI Narration] The Industrial Explosion

AI Tools for Existential Security (with Lizka Vaintrob)

[AI Narration] Will Compute Bottlenecks Prevent a Software Intelligence Explosion?

[AI Narration] The AI Adoption Gap: Preparing the US Government for Advanced AI

Will AI R&D Automation Cause a Software Intelligence Explosion? (with Tom Davidson)

[AI Narration] Will the Need to Retrain AI Models from Scratch Block a Software Intelligence Explosion?

[AI Narration] How Can AI Labs Incorporate Risks From AI Accelerating AI Progress Into Their Responsible Scaling Policies?

Preparing for the Intelligence Explosion (with Will MacAskill)

[AI Narration] How Far Can AI Progress Before Hitting Effective Physical Limits?

[AI Narration] Three Types of Intelligence Explosion

[AI Narration] Once AI Research is Automated, Will AI Progress Accelerate?

[AI Narration] How Suddenly will AI Accelerate the Pace of AI progress?

Intelsat as a Model for International AGI Governance (with Rose Hadshar)

[AI Narration] Could Advanced AI Accelerate the Pace of AI Progress? Interviews with AI Researchers

What is ForeCast?

[AI Narration] Inference Scaling Reshapes AI Governance

[AI Narration] Inference Scaling & the Log-x Chart

[AI Narration] The Scaling Paradox

[AI Narration] Human Takeover Might be Worse than AI Takeover

[AI Narration] Should There Be Just One Western AGI Project?

[AI Narration] What’s Important in ‘AI for Epistemics’?

[AI Narration] On the Value of Advancing Progress

[AI Narration] Project ideas: Epistemics

[AI Narration] Project Ideas: Backup Plans & Cooperative AI

[AI Narration] Project Ideas: Sentience and Rights of Digital Minds

[AI Narration] Project Ideas: Governance During Explosive Technological Growth

[AI Narration] Project Ideas for Making Transformative AI Go Well, Other Than by Working on Alignment

[AI Narration] AGI and Lock-in