The most important conversations about artificial intelligence you won’t hear anywhere else.
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Hosted by Rob Wiblin, Luisa Rodriguez, Zershaaneh Qureshi, and Tom Reed.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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’…
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#254 – Max Nadeau on why ambitious people should start AI safety nonprofits
Sep 17, 2026
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Why the intelligence explosion can't happen inside a data centre | Tom Reed
Sep 10, 2026
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Inside the first AI-coordinated cyberattack on a real company
Sep 04, 2026
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#253 – AI 2027's author returns with a plan to change the ending | Daniel Kokotajlo
Aug 27, 2026
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#252 – Owain Evans on accidentally training AI models to be evil
Aug 20, 2026
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#251 – The UK's former head AI safety scientist on how to solve alignment before superintelligence arrives | Geoffrey Irving
Aug 11, 2026
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#250 – Toby Ord on where AGI timelines go wrong
Aug 06, 2026
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What the hell happened with AGI timelines in 2026? – Rob Wiblin
Aug 04, 2026
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#249 – Spencer Greenberg on staying sane while trying to save the world
Jul 28, 2026
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#248 – Jasmine Sun on what the people building AI really believe
Jul 21, 2026
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#247 – Anton Leicht on how middle powers avoid losing everything in a post-AI world
Jul 14, 2026
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#246 – Sneha Revanur on how a small team of activists helped pass America's landmark AI safety laws
Jul 08, 2026
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We can guess what intergalactic war would look like. And strangely, it matters.
Jun 18, 2026
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How AI could create the world’s biggest problems (article by Zershaaneh Qureshi)
Jun 11, 2026
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#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
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What makes for a dream job? | Benjamin Todd
May 28, 2026
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#244 – Benjamin Todd on how we’re updating our career advice for the strangest time in history
May 26, 2026
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Can AIs already start 'rogue deployments' inside AI companies? (Landmark new METR report)
May 20, 2026
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#243 – 'Godfather of AI' Yoshua Bengio: "I now see a path" to safe superintelligent AI
May 07, 2026
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'95% of AI Pilots Fail': The hidden agenda behind the viral stat that misled millions
Apr 28, 2026
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#242 – Will MacAskill on how we survive the 'intelligence explosion,' AI character, and the case for 'viatopia'
Apr 22, 2026
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Risks from power-seeking AI systems (article narration by Zershaaneh Qureshi)
Apr 16, 2026
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How scary is Claude Mythos? 303 pages in 21 minutes
Apr 10, 2026
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