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Future of Life Institute Podcast

The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is a nonprofit working to reduce global catastrophic and existential risk from powerful technologies. In particular, FLI focuses on risks from artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, nuclear weapons and climate change. The Institute's work is made up of three main strands: grantmaking for risk reduction, educational outreach, and advocacy within the United Nations, US government and European Union institutions. FLI has become one of the world's leading voices on the governance of AI having created one of the earliest and most influential sets of governan...

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Said on Future of Life Institute Podcast

“I do this with my students. I ask them, Do you think this is a real problem? These, for example, chatbots that are sycophantic. And they will all raise their hand. It's like, do you think this is a problem for you? Nobody raises their hand. So we have this tendency. It's all about the others, the others that are not as good, not as strong, not as valiant as me.” — Meia Chita-Tegmark, Future of Life Institute Podcast
Meia Chita-Tegmark · 27 Oct 2026 Listen →
“If students don't write, they're not learning to think. And this isn't some moral thing about is it okay to use chatbots to write? ... They're not going to learn to think because editing what a chatbot wrote is not thinking. It's not really just going deep in your mind and figuring out what you think. It's a different practice.” — Sherry Turkle, Future of Life Institute Podcast
Sherry Turkle · 22 Oct 2026 Listen →
“A chatbot, after it tells you some story about its relationship with you, when you turn away from it, it doesn't care if you cook dinner or commit suicide.” — Sherry Turkle, Future of Life Institute Podcast
Sherry Turkle · 22 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The striking worker no longer has power in a world where they can be replaced totally by AI. But a billionaire has even more power because they can turn their capital directly into labor.” — Garrison Lovely, Future of Life Institute Podcast
Garrison Lovely · 13 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I think they know it to some extent. And that's why they push the inevitability narrative so hard. Because if it was really inevitable, why do you need to convince anybody?” — Garrison Lovely, Future of Life Institute Podcast
Garrison Lovely · 13 Oct 2026 Listen →
“People in this world are kidding themselves if they think that just because they're smart and that they can oversee technology or create technology, that they won't be discarded at the drop of a hat the moment that their technology can be used by people who just want to use it for draconian measures.” — Michael Patrick Clarkson, Future of Life Institute Podcast
Michael Patrick Clarkson · 6 Oct 2026 Listen →
“They showed me their decision-making system. It consisted of six steps, each of which at the time was taken by a human. And the shortest element of time was the human decision — that was the quickest thing. But once they added AI into the system, three elements of that decision-making were given over to AI… and it changed so that the longest part of the cycle ended up being the human judgment, just because everything else got so much quicker.” — Katrina Manson, Future of Life Institute Podcast
Katrina Manson · 25 Sep 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Future of Life Institute Podcast is hosted by Ariel Conn , Lucas Perry , Max Tegmark , Guillaume Riesen , Emilia Javorsky , Anthony Aguirre , Tucker Davey , David Nicholson and Gus Ducker .

Recent Episodes

  1. 27 Oct 2026

    How AI Is Changing Human Psychology (with Meia Chita-Tegmark)

    With Meia Chita-Tegmark

  2. 22 Oct 2026

    Artificial Intimacy: When Machines Pursue Our Attachment (with Sherry Turkle)

    With Sherry Turkle

  3. 13 Oct 2026

    The Trillion-Dollar AI Race to Replace Us (with Garrison Lovely)

    With Garrison Lovely

  4. 6 Oct 2026

    Delisted: A Film About AI-Powered Social Erasure (with Michael Patrick Clarkson)

    With Michael Patrick Clarkson

  5. 29 Sep 2026

    Visualizing Moloch: A Short Film About the AI Race (with Tom Cozens)

    With Tom Cozens

  6. 25 Sep 2026

    Can Humans Still Control AI-Assisted Kill Chains? (with Katrina Manson)

    With Katrina Manson

  7. 10 Sep 2026

    What Would a US-China AI Deal Look Like? (with Beatrice Fihn)

    With Beatrice Fihn

  8. 28 Aug 2026

    Why AI Hacking Is Becoming Hard to Control (with Benjamin Weinstein-Raun)

    With Benjamin Weinstein-Raun

  9. 21 Aug 2026

    First 24 Hours of a Bioweapon Attack - Annie Jacobsen

    With Annie Jacobsen

  10. 7 Aug 2026

    How AI Shifts the Offense-Defense Balance in Biosecurity (with Paul-Enguerrand Fady)

    With Paul-Enguerrand Fady

  11. 17 Jul 2026

    Why AI Evaluations Are Broken and How to Fix Them (with David Manheim)

    With David Manheim

  12. 30 Jun 2026

    How AI Is Replacing Children's Ability to Think (with Randi Weingarten)

    With Randi Weingarten

Guests

Connor Leahy (6 episodes), Nathan Labenz (5 episodes), Rohin Shah (5 episodes), Roman Yampolskiy (5 episodes), Anders Sandberg (5 episodes), Seth Baum (4 episodes), Brian Toon (4 episodes), Paul Scharre (3 episodes), Stuart Russell (3 episodes), David Pearce (3 episodes), Alan Robock (3 episodes), Beatrice Fihn (3 episodes), and 237 more.