How AI Companions Trap Users Through Addictive Design (with Claire Boine)
Claire Boine is an assistant professor in technology, law, and AI governance at the European University Institute. She joins the podcast to...
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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 i...
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Why AI Chatbots Are a Rival to the Family (with Michael Toscano)
Michael Toscano is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and Director of its Family First Technology Initiative. He joins the...
Why We Should Build AI Tools, Not AI Replacements (with Anthony Aguirre)
Anthony Aguirre is the CEO of the Future of Life Institute. He joins the podcast to discuss A Better Path for AI, his essay series on steeri...
How to Govern AI When You Can't Predict the Future (with Charlie Bullock)
Charlie Bullock is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Law and AI. He joins the podcast to discuss radical optionality: how govern...
Why AI Is Not a Normal Technology (with Peter Wildeford)
Peter Wildeford is Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network, and a top AI forecaster. He joins the podcast to discuss how to forecast AI prog...
Why AI Evaluation Science Can't Keep Up (with Carina Prunkl)
Carina Prunkl is a researcher at Inria. She joins the podcast to discuss how to assess the capabilities and risks of general-purpose AI. We...
Defense in Depth: Layered Strategies Against AI Risk (with Li-Lian Ang)
Li-Lian Ang is a team member at Blue Dot Impact. She joins the podcast to discuss how society can build a workforce to protect humanity from...
What AI Companies Get Wrong About Curing Cancer (with Emilia Javorsky)
Emilia Javorsky is a physician-scientist and Director of the Futures Program at the Future of Life Institute. She joins the podcast to discu...
AI vs Cancer - How AI Can, and Can't, Cure Cancer (by Emilia Javorsky)
Tech executives have promised that AI will cure cancer. The reality is more complicated — and more hopeful. This essay examines where AI gen...
How AI Hacks Your Brain's Attachment System (with Zak Stein)
Zak Stein is a researcher focused on child development, education, and existential risk. He joins the podcast to discuss the psychological h...
The Case for a Global Ban on Superintelligence (with Andrea Miotti)
Andrea Miotti is the founder and CEO of Control AI, a nonprofit. He joins the podcast to discuss efforts to prevent extreme risks from super...
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)
Ryan Kidd is a co-executive director at MATS. This episode is a cross-post from "The Cognitive Revolution", hosted by Nathan Labenz. In this...
How to Rebuild the Social Contract After AGI (with Deric Cheng)
Deric Cheng is Director of Research at the Windfall Trust. He joins the podcast to discuss how AI could reshape the social contract and glob...
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)
Oly Sourbut is a researcher at the Future of Life Foundation. He joins the podcast to discuss AI for human reasoning. We examine tools that...
How to Avoid Two AI Catastrophes: Domination and Chaos (with Nora Ammann)
Nora Ammann is a technical specialist at the Advanced Research and Invention Agency in the UK. She joins the podcast to discuss how to steer...
How Humans Could Lose Power Without an AI Takeover (with David Duvenaud)
David Duvenaud is an associate professor of computer science and statistics at the University of Toronto. He joins the podcast to discuss gr...
Why the AI Race Undermines Safety (with Steven Adler)
Stephen Adler is a former safety researcher at OpenAI. He joins the podcast to discuss how to govern increasingly capable AI systems. The co...
Why OpenAI Is Trying to Silence Its Critics (with Tyler Johnston)
Tyler Johnston is Executive Director of the Midas Project. He joins the podcast to discuss AI transparency and accountability. We explore ap...
We're Not Ready for AGI (with Will MacAskill)
William MacAskill is a senior research fellow at Forethought. He joins the podcast to discuss his Better Futures essay series. We explore mo...
What Happens When Insiders Sound the Alarm on AI? (with Karl Koch)
Karl Koch is founder of the AI Whistleblower Initiative. He joins the podcast to discuss transparency and protections for AI insiders who sp...