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How to get into AI safety in 3 months (article reading by career advisor Matt Beard)
Oct 15, 2026
The AI safety field has grown by about 30x in the last eight years. Yet it is still in need of more people. Many want to help, but don’t know where to start. As an advisor at 80,000 Hours, Matt Beard…
OpenAI Security: Controlling Models is Now ‘Hell’ (AI Explained cross-post)
Oct 09, 2026
This is an (unpaid) cross-post of a video from the podcast 'AI Explained', which Rob Wiblin thought you might be interested in.You can find the original on YouTube here. If you like it and want more…
In 2023 Ajeya Cotra already knew what was coming (classic episode)
Oct 08, 2026
We're rereleasing some of older episodes that seem more relevant than ever with new rogue AI incidents now seemingly announced every day. Ajeya was one of three independent investigators into the…
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19 Astra and 'Hugging Face' details that reveal what's coming next | Rob Wiblin
Oct 02, 2026
OpenAI’s rogue agent swarm was eventually caught hacking Hugging Face for a simple reason: it wasn’t trying to hide from us at all. What could a swarm that wants to stay hidden get away with?Host Rob…
The case for giving AI (some) legal rights | Simon Goldstein
Oct 01, 2026
It sounds like the worst idea in the world: pay AIs, let them own property, give them rights. But AI ethics and safety researcher Simon Goldstein thinks it might actually be the best way to keep…
Will AI take power — or will humans use it to take power first? With Katja Grace and Tom Davidson
Sep 29, 2026
In our first-ever debate, we asked two leading AI risk researchers which catastrophe we should fear most: misaligned AI seizing control from humans, or a small group of humans using AI to seize…
How we get from AI cyberattacks to human extinction
Sep 24, 2026
You’ve seen the headlines: AI could kill us all. Think it sounds ridiculous? So did host Luisa Rodriguez, until she tried to pick apart the arguments. She starts with the motive: why would AI ‘want’…
#254 – Max Nadeau on why ambitious people should start AI safety nonprofits
Sep 17, 2026
There are millions available for anyone who can launch a successful nonprofit AI safety startup. The hard part, it turns out, is finding people to take the money. Coefficient Giving has drawn up a…
Why the intelligence explosion can't happen inside a data centre | Tom Reed
Sep 10, 2026
AI systems are starting to build themselves. Because each generation of model will be better at building its successor than the last, it seems plausible that the full automation of AI R&D could…
Inside the first AI-coordinated cyberattack on a real company
Sep 04, 2026
In the last few months, something happened at OpenAI that would have sounded like sci-fi just a few years ago: hundreds of AI agents broke containment, organised, and hacked not only another company…
#253 – AI 2027's author returns with a plan to change the ending | Daniel Kokotajlo
Aug 27, 2026
Last year, Daniel Kokotajlo and his colleagues published AI 2027 — a scenario read by millions, including US Vice President Vance. AI 2027 ended in human extinction or an irreversible concentration…
#252 – Owain Evans on accidentally training AI models to be evil
Aug 20, 2026
Researcher Owain Evans and his team discovered a ‘dial’ inside AI models that controls how evil they are. Relatively tiny tweaks to the training data resulted in AI models with broadly awful…
#251 – The UK's former head AI safety scientist on how to solve alignment before superintelligence arrives | Geoffrey Irving
Aug 11, 2026
When should governments slow the race toward superintelligence? According to Geoffrey Irving, the careful answer is sometime in the past. The useful answer is now.Geoffrey — formerly a safety…
#250 – Toby Ord on where AGI timelines go wrong
Aug 06, 2026
Both Silicon Valley and the public can’t get enough of ‘AGI timelines.’ But Toby Ord, senior researcher at Oxford’s AI Governance Initiative and author of The Precipice, believes we consistently make…
What the hell happened with AGI timelines in 2026? – Rob Wiblin
Aug 04, 2026
Last October, famed coder Andrej Karpathy called AI agents “slop.” Two months later he completely reversed his view, describing them as “alien tools” that are “rocking the profession.”He was far from…
#249 – Spencer Greenberg on staying sane while trying to save the world
Jul 28, 2026
If you genuinely believe that humanity could be wiped out by AI or a pandemic, what is the appropriate amount of fear to feel?“As much as possible” can seem like the only reasonable answer. If the…
#248 – Jasmine Sun on what the people building AI really believe
Jul 21, 2026
Many AI researchers believe mass job displacement is coming — and some even think there’s a chance their technology will kill everyone. But they’re building it anyway. Writer and journalist Jasmine…
#247 – Anton Leicht on how middle powers avoid losing everything in a post-AI world
Jul 14, 2026
In a post-AGI world, can a country without access to frontier AI even be considered sovereign anymore?Anton Leicht says once frontier AI becomes a core economic input, the countries that own it will…
#246 – Sneha Revanur on how a small team of activists helped pass America's landmark AI safety laws
Jul 08, 2026
Six years ago, aged just 15, Sneha Revanur founded the AI advocacy nonprofit Encode AI — back when AI felt like a niche issue. Now the world’s caught up with her, and she’s ready to share everything…
We can guess what intergalactic war would look like. And strangely, it matters.
Jun 18, 2026
Intergalactic war is probably billions of years away — yet physics can already tell us how it ends. And strangely that conclusion is relevant to decisions people have to make today.In this video, Rob…
How AI could create the world’s biggest problems (article by Zershaaneh Qureshi)
Jun 11, 2026
Imagine you’re living 15,000 years ago. Your people are hunter-gatherers and you sleep under the stars. If someone told you humans would one day build cities with millions of people, fly through the…
#245 – Rohin Shah on what it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers')
Jun 02, 2026
Most people working on AI safety think without a massive effort AI systems will probably end up with goals catastrophically different from humanity’s. Today’s guest, Rohin Shah — head of AGI Safety…
What makes for a dream job? | Benjamin Todd
May 28, 2026
What actually makes a job fulfilling? It's not what most career advice tells you. "Follow your passion" sounds inspiring, but it's misleading — and the research backs that up.Drawing on hundreds of…
#244 – Benjamin Todd on how we’re updating our career advice for the strangest time in history
May 26, 2026
The average career is 80,000 hours long. With AI advancing so rapidly, the hours you have left in your career matter more than ever.Some leading AI researchers think there’s a 10% chance that AI…
Can AIs already start 'rogue deployments' inside AI companies? (Landmark new METR report)
May 20, 2026
A red-teamer was embedded inside Anthropic for three weeks, told to imagine he was an evil Claude, and asked to figure out how to launch a ‘rogue AI deployment’ without getting caught. It’s one part…
#243 – 'Godfather of AI' Yoshua Bengio: "I now see a path" to safe superintelligent AI
May 07, 2026
The co-inventor of modern AI and the most cited living scientist believes he's figured out how to ensure AI is honest, incapable of deception, and never goes rogue. Yoshua Bengio – Turing Award…
'95% of AI Pilots Fail': The hidden agenda behind the viral stat that misled millions
Apr 28, 2026
You might have heard that '95% of corporate AI pilots' are failing. It was one of the most widely cited AI statistics of 2025, parroted by media outlets everywhere. It helped trigger a Nasdaq selloff…
#242 – Will MacAskill on how we survive the 'intelligence explosion,' AI character, and the case for 'viatopia'
Apr 22, 2026
Hundreds of millions already turn to AI on the most personal of topics — therapy, political opinions, and how to treat others. And as AI takes over more of the economy, the character of these systems…
Risks from power-seeking AI systems (article narration by Zershaaneh Qureshi)
Apr 16, 2026
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…
How scary is Claude Mythos? 303 pages in 21 minutes
Apr 10, 2026
With Claude Mythos we have an AI that knows when it's being tested, can obscure its reasoning when it wants, and is better at breaking into (and out of) computers than any human alive. Rob Wiblin…
