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A compilation of ten key episodes on artificial intelligence and related topics from 80,000 Hours. Together they'll help you learn about how AI looks from a broadly longtermist, existential risk, or effective altruism flavoured point of view.
80,000 Hours hosts The 80,000 Hours Podcast on Artificial Intelligence (September 2023), a science show with 14 episodes published.
The 20th century saw unprecedented change: nuclear weapons, satellites, the rise and fall of communism, third-wave feminism, the internet, postmodernism, game theory, genetic engineering, the Big Bang theory, quantum mec
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Imagine you’re an orphaned eight-year-old whose parents left you a $1 trillion company, with no trusted adult to guide you. You have to hire a smart adult to run that company, guide your life the way a parent would, and
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The human brain does what it does with a shockingly low energy supply: just 20 watts — a fraction of a cent worth of electricity per hour. What would happen if AI technology merely matched what evolution already managed,
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The most important political question in the age of advanced AI might not be who wins elections. It might be whether elections continue to matter at all. That’s the view of Rose Hadshar, researcher at Forethought Researc
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With the US racing to develop AGI and superintelligence ahead of China, you might expect the two countries to be negotiating how they’ll deploy AI, including in the military, without coming to blows. But according to Hel
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In 2024, AI models had a 50% chance of successfully completing a task that would take a human expert one hour. Seven months before that, that number was roughly 30 minutes — and seven months before that, 15 minutes. Thes
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In September 2025, scientists used an AI model to design genomes for entirely new bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria). They then built them in a lab. Many were viable. And despite being entirely novel, some eve
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Claude 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 f
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We don’t know how AIs think or why they do what they do. Or at least, we don’t know much. This is only becoming more troubling as AIs grow more capable and appear on track to wield enormous cultural influence, directly a
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For years, working on AI safety usually meant theorising about the ‘alignment problem’ or trying to convince other people to give a damn. If you could find any way to help, the work was frustrating and low feedback. Acco
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Hundreds of prominent AI scientists and other notable figures signed a statement in 2023 saying that mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority. At 80,000 Hours, we’ve considered risks from AI
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What might it be like to live through the creation of AI that surpasses human abilities? That future may be closer than you think. In this series, one expert interview at a time, we'll walk you through what's at stake —
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