Future of Life Institute Podcast

Connor Leahy on Why Humanity Risks Extinction from AGI

2024/11/22

8 chapters Transcript

Connor Leahy joins the podcast to discuss the motivations of AGI corporations, how modern AI is "gro

Suzy Shepherd on Imagining Superintelligence and "Writing Doom"

2024/11/8

Suzy Shepherd joins the podcast to discuss her new short film "Writing Doom", which deals with AI ri

Andrea Miotti on a Narrow Path to Safe, Transformative AI

2024/10/25

Andrea Miotti joins the podcast to discuss "A Narrow Path" — a roadmap to safe, transformative AI. W

Tamay Besiroglu on AI in 2030: Scaling, Automation, and AI Agents

2024/10/11

Tamay Besiroglu joins the podcast to discuss scaling, AI capabilities in 2030, breakthroughs in AI a

Ryan Greenblatt on AI Control, Timelines, and Slowing Down Around Human-Level AI

2024/9/27

Ryan Greenblatt joins the podcast to discuss AI control, timelines, takeoff speeds, misalignment, an

Tom Barnes on How to Build a Resilient World

2024/9/12

Tom Barnes joins the podcast to discuss how much the world spends on AI capabilities versus AI safet

Samuel Hammond on why AI Progress is Accelerating - and how Governments Should Respond

2024/8/22

Samuel Hammond joins the podcast to discuss whether AI progress is slowing down or speeding up, AI a

Anousheh Ansari on Innovation Prizes for Space, AI, Quantum Computing, and Carbon Removal

2024/8/9

Anousheh Ansari joins the podcast to discuss how innovation prizes can incentivize technical innovat

Mary Robinson (Former President of Ireland) on Long-View Leadership

2024/7/25

Mary Robinson joins the podcast to discuss long-view leadership, risks from AI and nuclear weapons,

Emilia Javorsky on how AI Concentrates Power

2024/7/11

Emilia Javorsky joins the podcast to discuss AI-driven power concentration and how we might mitigate

Anton Korinek on Automating Work and the Economics of an Intelligence Explosion

2024/6/21

Anton Korinek joins the podcast to discuss the effects of automation on wages and labor, how we meas

Christian Ruhl on Preventing World War III, US-China Hotlines, and Ultraviolet Germicidal Light

2024/6/7

Christian Ruhl joins the podcast to discuss US-China competition and the risk of war, official versu

Christian Nunes on Deepfakes (with Max Tegmark)

2024/5/24

Christian Nunes joins the podcast to discuss deepfakes, how they impact women in particular, how we

Dan Faggella on the Race to AGI

2024/5/3

Dan Faggella joins the podcast to discuss whether humanity should eventually create AGI, how AI will

Liron Shapira on Superintelligence Goals

2024/4/19

Liron Shapira joins the podcast to discuss superintelligence goals, what makes AI different from oth

Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War - a Second by Second Timeline

2024/4/5

Annie Jacobsen joins the podcast to lay out a second by second timeline for how nuclear war could ha

Katja Grace on the Largest Survey of AI Researchers

2024/3/14

Katja Grace joins the podcast to discuss the largest survey of AI researchers conducted to date, AI

Holly Elmore on Pausing AI, Hardware Overhang, Safety Research, and Protesting

2024/2/29

Holly Elmore joins the podcast to discuss pausing frontier AI, hardware overhang, safety research du

Sneha Revanur on the Social Effects of AI

2024/2/16

Sneha Revanur joins the podcast to discuss the social effects of AI, the illusory divide between AI

Roman Yampolskiy on Shoggoth, Scaling Laws, and Evidence for AI being Uncontrollable

2024/2/2

Roman Yampolskiy joins the podcast again to discuss whether AI is like a Shoggoth, whether scaling l

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