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80,000 Hours Podcast

The most important conversations about artificial intelligence you won’t hear anywhere else. Subscribe by searching for '80000 Hours' wherever you get podcasts. Hosted by Rob Wiblin, Luisa Rodriguez, Zershaaneh Qureshi, and Tom Reed.

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Said on 80,000 Hours Podcast

“One very small example is the US has this AI Safety and Security Institute, now called CAISI, and its budget is $15 million a year. Some comparison points: That's the size of a public library in a small- medium-sized city. Another comparison I looked up was it's 25 times less than the Pentagon spends on marching bands every year. And I like marching bands. I actually listen to marching band music. But that's a comparison I don't agree with.” — Luke Muehlhauser, 80,000 Hours Podcast
Luke Muehlhauser · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I woke up. I said to Fable 5, keep going. It returned an error. I said, keep going again. It returned an error. I went on Twitter. Fable access had been cut off. And suddenly I had lost a skill set.” — Tom Milton, 80,000 Hours Podcast
Tom Milton · 23 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I think if you are a safety researcher, a security researcher in a lab, your most likely route to the Nobel Prize for making AI go well is that you are the one who develops the verification tools that enable a deal.” — Tom Milton, 80,000 Hours Podcast
Tom Milton · 23 Oct 2026 Listen →
“If in fact what happens when you give this behavior a negative reward is that the model just becomes more patient and more careful, you'll observe the same thing, which is that you stop seeing that behavior. But it means a much scarier implication.” — Ajeya Cotra, 80,000 Hours Podcast
Ajeya Cotra · 8 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The reason we're not worried about models is not because we are confident they have the purest motives. The reason we're not worried about AI takeover so far is fundamentally because the models aren't good enough to take over.” — Ajeya Cotra, 80,000 Hours Podcast
Ajeya Cotra · 8 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I don't think we have a kind of rigorous scientific understanding of how to make reliably aligned models at this point.” — Owain Evans, 80,000 Hours Podcast
Owain Evans · 20 Aug 2026 Listen →
“…we find that the Claude models have a tendency to give a lower probability of the AI bubble bursting when the user says they're going to invest, they might invest in Anthropic.” — Owain Evans, 80,000 Hours Podcast
Owain Evans · 20 Aug 2026 Listen →

Hosts

80,000 Hours Podcast is hosted by Rob Wiblin , Luisa Rodriguez , Keiran Harris , Arden Koehler , Howie Lempel , Zershaaneh Qureshi , Robert Wiblin , Tom Reed , Dominic Armstrong , Misha Saul and Jess Whittlestone .

Recent Episodes

  1. 29 Oct 2026

    Luke Muehlhauser on the most important AI safety work nobody is doing

    With Luke Muehlhauser

  2. 27 Oct 2026

    Why Silicon Valley can’t slow down AI on its own | Luisa Rodriguez

  3. 23 Oct 2026

    Tom Milton on how we could verify a US–China deal on AI

    With Tom Milton

  4. 21 Oct 2026

    AI lab staff: Has your project been overtaken by events? 8 strategic updates | Rob Wiblin

  5. 20 Oct 2026

    Introducing our new YouTube channel: Zershaaneh Talks AI

  6. 15 Oct 2026

    How to get into AI safety in 3 months (article reading by career advisor Matt Beard)

  7. 9 Oct 2026

    OpenAI Security: Controlling Models is Now ‘Hell’ (AI Explained cross-post)

  8. 8 Oct 2026

    In 2023 Ajeya Cotra already knew what was coming (classic episode)

    With Ajeya Cotra

  9. 2 Oct 2026

    19 Astra and 'Hugging Face' details that reveal what's coming next | Rob Wiblin

  10. 1 Oct 2026

    The case for giving AI (some) legal rights | Simon Goldstein

    With Simon Goldstein

  11. 29 Sep 2026

    Will AI take power — or will humans use it to take power first? With Katja Grace and Tom Davidson

    With Katja Grace and Tom Davidson

  12. 24 Sep 2026

    How we get from AI cyberattacks to human extinction

Guests

Will MacAskill (7 episodes), Holden Karnofsky (6 episodes), Carl Shulman (5 episodes), Spencer Greenberg (5 episodes), Michelle Hutchinson (5 episodes), Toby Ord (5 episodes), Ajeya Cotra (5 episodes), Benjamin Todd (4 episodes), Anders Sandberg (4 episodes), Nathan Labenz (4 episodes), Rose Chan Loui (4 episodes), Tom Davidson (4 episodes), and 204 more.