80,000 Hours Podcast
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Shows
- Emergency Pods (3)Emergency pod episodes.
- Classic Episodes (22)Classic episode re-releases.
- Numbered Episodes (133)Regular numbered episodes (#123 – ...).
- Highlights (4)Highlight compilations and best-of episodes.
- 80,000 Hours Podcast (38)Everything else in the feed.
Episode highlights
- Emergency pod: Did OpenAI give up, or is this just a new trap? (with Rose Chan Loui) from Emergency Pods • 2025-05-08When 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 • 2025-03-07When OpenAI announced plans to convert from nonprofit to for-profit control last October, it likely didn’t anticipate the legal labyrinth it now…
- #179 Classic episode – Randy Nesse on why evolution left us so vulnerable to depression and anxiety from Classic Episodes • 2026-02-03Mental health problems like depression and anxiety affect enormous numbers of people and severely interfere with their lives. By contrast, we don’t…
- #145 Classic episode – Christopher Brown on why slavery abolition wasn't inevitable from Classic Episodes • 2026-01-20In many ways, humanity seems to have become more humane and inclusive over time. While there’s still a lot of progress to be made, campaigns to give…
- #245 – Rohin Shah on what it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') from Numbered Episodes • 2026-06-02Most people working on AI safety think without a massive effort AI systems will probably end up with goals catastrophically different from…
- #244 – Benjamin Todd on how we’re updating our career advice for the strangest time in history from Numbered Episodes • 2026-05-26The average career is 80,000 hours long. With AI advancing so rapidly, the hours you have left in your career matter more than ever. Some leading AI…
- 2025 Highlight-o-thon: Oops! All Bests from Highlights • 2025-12-29It’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…
- How a small team of activists helped pass America's landmark AI safety laws | Sneha Revanur, Encode AI from 80,000 Hours Podcast • 2026-07-08Six years ago, aged just 15, Sneha Revanur founded the AI advocacy nonprofit Encode AI — back when AI felt like a niche issue. Now the world’s…
- We can guess what intergalactic war would look like. And strangely, it matters. from 80,000 Hours Podcast • 2026-06-18Intergalactic war is probably billions of years away — yet physics can already tell us how it ends. And strangely that conclusion is relevant to…