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Future of Life Institute Podcast — 274 episodes
First 24 Hours of a Bioweapon Attack - Annie Jacobsen
How AI Shifts the Offense-Defense Balance in Biosecurity (with Paul-Enguerrand Fady)
Why AI Evaluations Are Broken and How to Fix Them (with David Manheim)
How AI Is Replacing Children's Ability to Think (with Randi Weingarten)
The Gulf Between AI Progress and Political Understanding (with Dex Hunter-Torricke)
How AI Companions Trap Users Through Addictive Design (with Claire Boine)
Why AI Chatbots Are a Rival to the Family (with Michael Toscano)
Why We Should Build AI Tools, Not AI Replacements (with Anthony Aguirre)
How to Govern AI When You Can't Predict the Future (with Charlie Bullock)
Why AI Is Not a Normal Technology (with Peter Wildeford)
Why AI Evaluation Science Can't Keep Up (with Carina Prunkl)
Defense in Depth: Layered Strategies Against AI Risk (with Li-Lian Ang)
What AI Companies Get Wrong About Curing Cancer (with Emilia Javorsky)
AI vs Cancer - How AI Can, and Can't, Cure Cancer (by Emilia Javorsky)
How AI Hacks Your Brain's Attachment System (with Zak Stein)
The Case for a Global Ban on Superintelligence (with Andrea Miotti)
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)
How to Rebuild the Social Contract After AGI (with Deric Cheng)
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)
How to Avoid Two AI Catastrophes: Domination and Chaos (with Nora Ammann)
How Humans Could Lose Power Without an AI Takeover (with David Duvenaud)
Why the AI Race Undermines Safety (with Steven Adler)
Why OpenAI Is Trying to Silence Its Critics (with Tyler Johnston)
We're Not Ready for AGI (with Will MacAskill)
What Happens When Insiders Sound the Alarm on AI? (with Karl Koch)
Can Machines Be Truly Creative? (with Maya Ackerman)
From Research Labs to Product Companies: AI's Transformation (with Parmy Olson)
Can Defense in Depth Work for AI? (with Adam Gleave)
How We Keep Humans in Control of AI (with Beatrice Erkers)
Why Building Superintelligence Means Human Extinction (with Nate Soares)
Breaking the Intelligence Curse (with Luke Drago)
What Markets Tell Us About AI Timelines (with Basil Halperin)
AGI Security: How We Defend the Future (with Esben Kran)
Reasoning, Robots, and How to Prepare for AGI (with Benjamin Todd)
From Peak Horse to Peak Human: How AI Could Replace Us (with Calum Chace)
How AI Could Help Overthrow Governments (with Tom Davidson)
What Happens After Superintelligence? (with Anders Sandberg)
Why the AI Race Ends in Disaster (with Daniel Kokotajlo)
Preparing for an AI Economy (with Daniel Susskind)
Will AI Companies Respect Creators' Rights? (with Ed Newton-Rex)
AI Timelines and Human Psychology (with Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse)
Could Powerful AI Break Our Fragile World? (with Michael Nielsen)
Facing Superintelligence (with Ben Goertzel)
Will Future AIs Be Conscious? (with Jeff Sebo)
Understanding AI Agents: Time Horizons, Sycophancy, and Future Risks (with Zvi Mowshowitz)
Inside China's AI Strategy: Innovation, Diffusion, and US Relations (with Jeffrey Ding)
How Will We Cooperate with AIs? (with Allison Duettmann)
Brain-like AGI and why it's Dangerous (with Steven Byrnes)
How Close Are We to AGI? Inside Epoch's GATE Model (with Ege Erdil)
Special: Defeating AI Defenses (with Nicholas Carlini and Nathan Labenz)
Keep the Future Human (with Anthony Aguirre)
We Created AI. Why Don't We Understand It? (with Samir Varma)
Why AIs Misbehave and How We Could Lose Control (with Jeffrey Ladish)
Ann Pace on using Biobanking and Genomic Sequencing to Conserve Biodiversity
Michael Baggot on Superintelligence and Transhumanism from a Catholic Perspective
David Dalrymple on Safeguarded, Transformative AI
Nick Allardice on Using AI to Optimize Cash Transfers and Predict Disasters
Nathan Labenz on the State of AI and Progress since GPT-4
Connor Leahy on Why Humanity Risks Extinction from AGI
Suzy Shepherd on Imagining Superintelligence and "Writing Doom"
Andrea Miotti on a Narrow Path to Safe, Transformative AI
Tamay Besiroglu on AI in 2030: Scaling, Automation, and AI Agents
Ryan Greenblatt on AI Control, Timelines, and Slowing Down Around Human-Level AI
Tom Barnes on How to Build a Resilient World
Samuel Hammond on why AI Progress is Accelerating - and how Governments Should Respond
Anousheh Ansari on Innovation Prizes for Space, AI, Quantum Computing, and Carbon Removal
Mary Robinson (Former President of Ireland) on Long-View Leadership
Emilia Javorsky on how AI Concentrates Power
Anton Korinek on Automating Work and the Economics of an Intelligence Explosion
Christian Ruhl on Preventing World War III, US-China Hotlines, and Ultraviolet Germicidal Light
Christian Nunes on Deepfakes (with Max Tegmark)
Dan Faggella on the Race to AGI
Liron Shapira on Superintelligence Goals
Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War - a Second by Second Timeline
Katja Grace on the Largest Survey of AI Researchers
Holly Elmore on Pausing AI, Hardware Overhang, Safety Research, and Protesting
Sneha Revanur on the Social Effects of AI
Roman Yampolskiy on Shoggoth, Scaling Laws, and Evidence for AI being Uncontrollable
Special: Flo Crivello on AI as a New Form of Life
Carl Robichaud on Preventing Nuclear War
Frank Sauer on Autonomous Weapon Systems
Darren McKee on Uncontrollable Superintelligence
Mark Brakel on the UK AI Summit and the Future of AI Policy
Dan Hendrycks on Catastrophic AI Risks
Samuel Hammond on AGI and Institutional Disruption
Imagine A World: What if AI advisors helped us make better decisions?
Imagine A World: What if narrow AI fractured our shared reality?
Steve Omohundro on Provably Safe AGI
Imagine A World: What if AI enabled us to communicate with animals?
Imagine A World: What if some people could live forever?
Johannes Ackva on Managing Climate Change
Imagine A World: What if we had digital nations untethered to geography?
Imagine A World: What if global challenges led to more centralization?
Tom Davidson on How Quickly AI Could Automate the Economy
Imagine A World: What if we designed and built AI in an inclusive way?
Imagine A World: What if new governance mechanisms helped us coordinate?
New: Imagine A World Podcast [TRAILER]
Robert Trager on International AI Governance and Cybersecurity at AI Companies
Jason Crawford on Progress and Risks from AI
Special: Jaan Tallinn on Pausing Giant AI Experiments
Joe Carlsmith on How We Change Our Minds About AI Risk
Dan Hendrycks on Why Evolution Favors AIs over Humans
Roman Yampolskiy on Objections to AI Safety
Nathan Labenz on How AI Will Transform the Economy
Nathan Labenz on the Cognitive Revolution, Red Teaming GPT-4, and Potential Dangers of AI
Maryanna Saenko on Venture Capital, Philanthropy, and Ethical Technology
Connor Leahy on the State of AI and Alignment Research
Connor Leahy on AGI and Cognitive Emulation
Lennart Heim on Compute Governance
Lennart Heim on the AI Triad: Compute, Data, and Algorithms
Liv Boeree on Poker, GPT-4, and the Future of AI
Liv Boeree on Moloch, Beauty Filters, Game Theory, Institutions, and AI
Tobias Baumann on Space Colonization and Cooperative Artificial Intelligence
Tobias Baumann on Artificial Sentience and Reducing the Risk of Astronomical Suffering
Neel Nanda on Math, Tech Progress, Aging, Living up to Our Values, and Generative AI
Neel Nanda on Avoiding an AI Catastrophe with Mechanistic Interpretability
Neel Nanda on What is Going on Inside Neural Networks
Connor Leahy on Aliens, Ethics, Economics, Memetics, and Education
Connor Leahy on AI Safety and Why the World is Fragile
Connor Leahy on AI Progress, Chimps, Memes, and Markets
Sean Ekins on Regulating AI Drug Discovery
Sean Ekins on the Dangers of AI Drug Discovery
Anders Sandberg on the Value of the Future
Anders Sandberg on Grand Futures and the Limits of Physics
Anders Sandberg on ChatGPT and the Future of AI
Vincent Boulanin on Military Use of Artificial Intelligence
Vincent Boulanin on the Dangers of AI in Nuclear Weapons Systems
Robin Hanson on Predicting the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Robin Hanson on Grabby Aliens and When Humanity Will Meet Them
Ajeya Cotra on Thinking Clearly in a Rapidly Changing World
Ajeya Cotra on how Artificial Intelligence Could Cause Catastrophe
Ajeya Cotra on Forecasting Transformative Artificial Intelligence
Alan Robock on Nuclear Winter, Famine, and Geoengineering
Brian Toon on Nuclear Winter, Asteroids, Volcanoes, and the Future of Humanity
Philip Reiner on Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications
Daniela and Dario Amodei on Anthropic
Anthony Aguirre and Anna Yelizarova on FLI's Worldbuilding Contest
David Chalmers on Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
Rohin Shah on the State of AGI Safety Research in 2021
Future of Life Institute's $25M Grants Program for Existential Risk Reduction
Filippa Lentzos on Global Catastrophic Biological Risks
Susan Solomon and Stephen Andersen on Saving the Ozone Layer
James Manyika on Global Economic and Technological Trends
Michael Klare on the Pentagon's view of Climate Change and the Risks of State Collapse
Avi Loeb on UFOs and if they're Alien in Origin
Avi Loeb on 'Oumuamua, Aliens, Space Archeology, Great Filters, and Superstructures
Nicolas Berggruen on the Dynamics of Power, Wisdom, and Ideas in the Age of AI
Bart Selman on the Promises and Perils of Artificial Intelligence
Jaan Tallinn on Avoiding Civilizational Pitfalls and Surviving the 21st Century
Joscha Bach and Anthony Aguirre on Digital Physics and Moving Towards Beneficial Futures
Roman Yampolskiy on the Uncontrollability, Incomprehensibility, and Unexplainability of AI
Stuart Russell and Zachary Kallenborn on Drone Swarms and the Riskiest Aspects of Autonomous Weapons
John Prendergast on Non-dual Awareness and Wisdom for the 21st Century
Beatrice Fihn on the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
Max Tegmark and the FLI Team on 2020 and Existential Risk Reduction in the New Year
Future of Life Award 2020: Saving 200,000,000 Lives by Eradicating Smallpox
Sean Carroll on Consciousness, Physicalism, and the History of Intellectual Progress
Mohamed Abdalla on Big Tech, Ethics-washing, and the Threat on Academic Integrity
Maria Arpa on the Power of Nonviolent Communication
Stephen Batchelor on Awakening, Embracing Existential Risk, and Secular Buddhism
Kelly Wanser on Climate Change as a Possible Existential Threat
Andrew Critch on AI Research Considerations for Human Existential Safety
Iason Gabriel on Foundational Philosophical Questions in AI Alignment
Peter Railton on Moral Learning and Metaethics in AI Systems
Evan Hubinger on Inner Alignment, Outer Alignment, and Proposals for Building Safe Advanced AI
Sam Barker and David Pearce on Art, Paradise Engineering, and Existential Hope (With Guest Mix)
Steven Pinker and Stuart Russell on the Foundations, Benefits, and Possible Existential Threat of AI
Sam Harris on Global Priorities, Existential Risk, and What Matters Most
FLI Podcast: On the Future of Computation, Synthetic Biology, and Life with George Church
FLI Podcast: On Superforecasting with Robert de Neufville
AIAP: An Overview of Technical AI Alignment in 2018 and 2019 with Buck Shlegeris and Rohin Shah
FLI Podcast: Lessons from COVID-19 with Emilia Javorsky and Anthony Aguirre
FLI Podcast: The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity with Toby Ord
AIAP: On Lethal Autonomous Weapons with Paul Scharre
FLI Podcast: Distributing the Benefits of AI via the Windfall Clause with Cullen O'Keefe
AIAP: On the Long-term Importance of Current AI Policy with Nicolas Moës and Jared Brown
FLI Podcast: Identity, Information & the Nature of Reality with Anthony Aguirre
AIAP: Identity and the AI Revolution with David Pearce and Andrés Gómez Emilsson
On Consciousness, Morality, Effective Altruism & Myth with Yuval Noah Harari & Max Tegmark
FLI Podcast: Existential Hope in 2020 and Beyond with the FLI Team
AIAP: On DeepMind, AI Safety, and Recursive Reward Modeling with Jan Leike
FLI Podcast: The Psychology of Existential Risk and Effective Altruism with Stefan Schubert
Not Cool Epilogue: A Climate Conversation
Not Cool Ep 26: Naomi Oreskes on trusting climate science
Not Cool Ep 25: Mario Molina on climate action
Not Cool Ep 24: Ellen Quigley and Natalie Jones on defunding the fossil fuel industry
AIAP: Machine Ethics and AI Governance with Wendell Wallach
Not Cool Ep 23: Brian Toon on nuclear winter: the other climate change
Not Cool Ep 22: Cullen Hendrix on climate change and armed conflict
Not Cool Ep 21: Libby Jewett on ocean acidification
Not Cool Ep 20: Deborah Lawrence on deforestation
FLI Podcast: Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physical Reality with Anthony Aguirre
Not Cool Ep 19: Ilissa Ocko on non-carbon causes of climate change
Not Cool Ep 18: Glen Peters on the carbon budget and global carbon emissions
Not Cool Ep 17: Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, part 2
Not Cool Ep 16: Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, part 1
Not Cool Ep 15: Astrid Caldas on equitable climate adaptation
Not Cool Ep 14: Filippo Berardi on carbon finance and the economics of climate change
Not Cool Ep 13: Val Kapos on ecosystem-based adaptation
AIAP: Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control with Stuart Russell
Not Cool Ep 12: Kris Ebi on climate change, human health, and social stability
Not Cool Ep 11: Jakob Zscheischler on climate-driven compound weather events
Not Cool Ep 10: Stephanie Herring on extreme weather events and climate change attribution
FLI Podcast: Feeding Everyone in a Global Catastrophe with Dave Denkenberger & Joshua Pearce
Not Cool Ep 9: Andrew Revkin on climate communication, vulnerability, and information gaps
Not Cool Ep 8: Suzanne Jones on climate policy and government responsibility
Not Cool Ep 7: Lindsay Getschel on climate change and national security
Not Cool Ep 6: Alan Robock on geoengineering
AIAP: Synthesizing a human's preferences into a utility function with Stuart Armstrong
Not Cool Ep 5: Ken Caldeira on energy, infrastructure, and planning for an uncertain climate future
Not Cool Ep 4: Jessica Troni on helping countries adapt to climate change
Not Cool Ep 3: Tim Lenton on climate tipping points
Not Cool Ep 2: Joanna Haigh on climate modeling and the history of climate change
Not Cool Ep 1: John Cook on misinformation and overcoming climate silence
Not Cool Prologue: A Climate Conversation
FLI Podcast: Beyond the Arms Race Narrative: AI and China with Helen Toner and Elsa Kania
AIAP: China's AI Superpower Dream with Jeffrey Ding
FLI Podcast: The Climate Crisis as an Existential Threat with Simon Beard and Haydn Belfield
FLI Podcast: Is Nuclear Weapons Testing Back on the Horizon? With Jeffrey Lewis and Alex Bell
FLI Podcast: Applying AI Safety & Ethics Today with Ashley Llorens & Francesca Rossi
AIAP: On Consciousness, Qualia, and Meaning with Mike Johnson and Andrés Gómez Emilsson
The Unexpected Side Effects of Climate Change with Fran Moore and Nick Obradovich
AIAP: An Overview of Technical AI Alignment with Rohin Shah (Part 2)
AIAP: An Overview of Technical AI Alignment with Rohin Shah (Part 1)
Why Ban Lethal Autonomous Weapons
AIAP: AI Alignment through Debate with Geoffrey Irving
Part 2: Anthrax, Agent Orange, and Yellow Rain With Matthew Meselson and Max Tegmark
Part 1: From DNA to Banning Biological Weapons With Matthew Meselson and Max Tegmark
AIAP: Human Cognition and the Nature of Intelligence with Joshua Greene
The Byzantine Generals' Problem, Poisoning, and Distributed Machine Learning with El Mahdi El Mhamdi
AI Breakthroughs and Challenges in 2018 with David Krueger and Roman Yampolskiy
Artificial Intelligence: American Attitudes and Trends with Baobao Zhang
AIAP: Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement Learning with Dylan Hadfield-Menell (Beneficial AGI 2019)
Existential Hope in 2019 and Beyond
AIAP: Inverse Reinforcement Learning and the State of AI Alignment with Rohin Shah
Governing Biotechnology: From Avian Flu to Genetically-Modified Babies With Catherine Rhodes
Avoiding the Worst of Climate Change with Alexander Verbeek and John Moorhead
AIAP: On Becoming a Moral Realist with Peter Singer
On the Future: An Interview with Martin Rees
AI and Nuclear Weapons - Trust, Accidents, and New Risks with Paul Scharre and Mike Horowitz
AIAP: Moral Uncertainty and the Path to AI Alignment with William MacAskill
AI: Global Governance, National Policy, and Public Trust with Allan Dafoe and Jessica Cussins
The Metaethics of Joy, Suffering, and Artificial Intelligence with Brian Tomasik and David Pearce
Six Experts Explain the Killer Robots Debate
AIAP: AI Safety, Possible Minds, and Simulated Worlds with Roman Yampolskiy
Mission AI - Giving a Global Voice to the AI Discussion With Charlie Oliver and Randi Williams
AIAP: Astronomical Future Suffering and Superintelligence with Kaj Sotala
Nuclear Dilemmas, From North Korea to Iran with Melissa Hanham and Dave Schmerler
What are the odds of nuclear war? A conversation with Seth Baum and Robert de Neufville
AIAP: Inverse Reinforcement Learning and Inferring Human Preferences with Dylan Hadfield-Menell
Navigating AI Safety -- From Malicious Use to Accidents
AI, Ethics And The Value Alignment Problem With Meia Chita-Tegmark And Lucas Perry
Top AI Breakthroughs and Challenges of 2017
Beneficial AI And Existential Hope In 2018
Balancing the Risks of Future Technologies With Andrew Maynard and Jack Stilgoe
AI Ethics, the Trolley Problem, and a Twitter Ghost Story with Joshua Greene And Iyad Rahwan
80,000 Hours with Rob Wiblin and Brenton Mayer
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence with Max Tegmark
The Art Of Predicting With Anthony Aguirre And Andrew Critch
Banning Nuclear & Autonomous Weapons With Richard Moyes And Miriam Struyk
Creative AI With Mark Riedl & Scientists Support A Nuclear Ban
Climate Change With Brian Toon And Kevin Trenberth
Law and Ethics of AI with Ryan Jenkins and Matt Scherer
UN Nuclear Weapons Ban With Beatrice Fihn And Susi Snyder
AI Breakthroughs With Ian Goodfellow And Richard Mallah
FLI 2016 - A Year In Reivew
Heather Roff and Peter Asaro on Autonomous Weapons
Nuclear Winter With Alan Robock and Brian Toon
Robin Hanson On The Age Of Em
Nuclear Risk In The 21st Century
Concrete Problems In AI Safety With Dario Amodei And Seth Baum
Earthquakes As Existential Risks?
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Climate interview with Seth Baum