80,000 Hours Podcast

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Emergency Pods (3)
Emergency pod episodes.
Classic Episodes (19)
Classic episode re-releases.
Numbered Episodes (126)
Regular numbered episodes (#123 – ...).
Highlights (4)
Highlight compilations and best-of episodes.
80,000 Hours Podcast (48)
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Episode highlights

Emergency pod: Did OpenAI give up, or is this just a new trap? (with Rose Chan Loui) from Emergency Pods • 2025-05-08
When attorneys general intervene in corporate affairs, it usually means something has gone seriously wrong. In OpenAI’s case, it appears to have…
Emergency pod: Judge plants a legal time bomb under OpenAI (with Rose Chan Loui) from Emergency Pods • 2025-03-07
When OpenAI announced plans to convert from nonprofit to for-profit control last October, it likely didn’t anticipate the legal labyrinth it now…
In 2023 Ajeya Cotra already knew what was coming (classic episode) from Classic Episodes • 2026-10-08
W e're rereleasing some of older episodes that seem more relevant than ever with new rogue AI incidents now seemingly announced every day. Ajeya was…
#179 Classic episode – Randy Nesse on why evolution left us so vulnerable to depression and anxiety from Classic Episodes • 2026-02-03
Mental health problems like depression and anxiety affect enormous numbers of people and severely interfere with their lives. By contrast, we don’t…
#257 – Tom Milton on how we could verify a US–China deal on AI from Numbered Episodes • 2026-10-23
If the US and China agreed to pause frontier AI training, how would either side confirm the other was complying? Today, Tom Milton argues, the most…
#256 – Simon Goldstein on the case for giving AI (some) legal rights from Numbered Episodes • 2026-10-01
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…
2025 Highlight-o-thon: Oops! All Bests from Highlights • 2025-12-29
It’s that magical time of year once again — highlightapalooza! Stick around for one top bit from each episode we recorded this year, including: Kyle…
2024 Highlightapalooza! (The best of The 80,000 Hours Podcast this year) from Highlights • 2024-12-27
"A shameless recycling of existing content to drive additional audience engagement on the cheap… or the single best, most valuable, and most…
3 new scandals show being a pain in the ass for AI labs is a legit job now | Rob Wiblin from 80,000 Hours Podcast • 2026-11-03
The big 3 AI companies all had serious scandals last month. Anthropic pushed a federal AI bill that would make it harder to stop dangerous model…
Luke Muehlhauser on the most important AI safety work nobody is doing from 80,000 Hours Podcast • 2026-10-29
The US government spends 25 times more on military marching bands than on its AI safety institute. And that’s just one of the many institutions…