How AI Is Changing Human Psychology (with Meia Chita-Tegmark)
Meia Chita-Tegmark is a co-founder of the Future of Life Institute. She joins the podcast to discuss how artificial intelligence influences...
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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 i...
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Artificial Intimacy: When Machines Pursue Our Attachment (with Sherry Turkle)
Sherry Turkle is a professor of sociology and personality psychology at MIT. She joins the podcast to discuss artificial intimacy and the ps...
The Trillion-Dollar AI Race to Replace Us (with Garrison Lovely)
Garrison Lovely is an author and journalist. He joins the podcast to discuss the race to replace human labor with artificial general intelli...
Delisted: A Film About AI-Powered Social Erasure (with Michael Patrick Clarkson)
Michael Patrick Clarkson is the writer and director of the film Delisted. Watch the film here. He joins the podcast to discuss how artificia...
Visualizing Moloch: A Short Film About the AI Race (with Tom Cozens)
Tom Cozens is a filmmaker and writer. He joins the podcast to discuss his short film Moloch and the dynamics of competitive races in artific...
Can Humans Still Control AI-Assisted Kill Chains? (with Katrina Manson)
Katrina Manson is author of PROJECT MAVEN: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare. She joins the podcast to discuss Project...
What Would a US-China AI Deal Look Like? (with Beatrice Fihn)
Beatrice Fihn is the director of Lex International and former executive director of ICAN. She joins the podcast to discuss international AI...
Why AI Hacking Is Becoming Hard to Control (with Benjamin Weinstein-Raun)
Benjamin Weinstein-Raun is head of research at Palisade Research. He joins the podcast to discuss how advanced AI systems are changing cyber...
First 24 Hours of a Bioweapon Attack - Annie Jacobsen
Annie Jacobsen is an author and journalist. She joins the podcast to discuss biological war and her book Biological War: A Scenario. The con...
How AI Shifts the Offense-Defense Balance in Biosecurity (with Paul-Enguerrand Fady)
Paul-Enguerrand Fady is a Senior Biosecurity Policy Manager at the Centre for Long-Term Resilience. He joins the podcast to discuss how AI i...
Why AI Evaluations Are Broken and How to Fix Them (with David Manheim)
David Manheim is head of methodology at AI Evaluation Consensus. He joins the podcast to discuss how AI evaluations can become more reliable...
How AI Is Replacing Children's Ability to Think (with Randi Weingarten)
Randi Weingarten is president of the American Federation of Teachers. She joins the podcast to discuss AI in education. The conversation cov...
The Gulf Between AI Progress and Political Understanding (with Dex Hunter-Torricke)
Dex Hunter-Torricke is founder of the Centre for Tomorrow. He joins the podcast to discuss why AI governance needs to move beyond technical...
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...
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...