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Darren McKee on Uncontrollable

Darren McKee joins the podcast to discuss how AI might be difficult to control, which goals and traits AI systems will develop, and whether there's a unified solution to AI alignment.

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Mark Brakel on the UK AI Summit and the Future of AI Policy

Mark Brakel (Director of Policy at the Future of Life Institute) joins the podcast to discuss the AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park, objections to AI policy, AI regulation in the EU and US, global in

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Dan Hendrycks on Catastrophic AI Risks

Dan Hendrycks joins the podcast again to discuss X.ai, how AI risk thinking has evolved, malicious use of AI, AI race dynamics between companies and militaries, making AI organizations safer, and how

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Samuel Hammond on AGI and Institutional Disruption

Samuel Hammond joins the podcast to discuss how AGI will transform economies, governments, institutions, and other power structures. You can read Samuel's blog at secondbest.ca Timestamps: 00:00 Is AG

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Imagine A World: What if AI advisors helped us make better decisions?

Are we doomed to a future of loneliness and unfulfilling online interactions? What if technology made us feel more connected a World is a podcast exploring a range of plausible and pos

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Imagine A World: What if narrow AI fractured our shared reality?

Let’s imagine a future where AGI is developed but kept at a distance from practically impacting the world, while narrow AI remakes the world completely. Most people don’t know or care about the differ

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Steve Omohundro on Provably Safe AGI

Steve Omohundro joins the podcast to discuss Provably Safe Systems, a paper he co-authored with FLI President Max Tegmark. You can read the paper here: Pr

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Imagine A World: What if AI enabled us to communicate with animals?

What if AI allowed us to communicate with animals? Could interspecies communication lead to new levels of empathy? How might communicating with animals lead humans to reimagine our place in the natura

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Modern Bard Dr. Martin Shaw: Be a Story-maker for Your Times

Dr. Martin Shaw is the best oral storyteller that I know of. He is also the only person who can impromptu tell the entire Odyssey by his imagination alone. Martin is well versed in a variety of storie

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Imagine A World: What if some people could live forever?

If you could extend your life, would you? How might life extension technologies create new social and political divides? How can the world unite to solve the great problems of our time, like AI risk?

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Johannes Ackva on Managing Climate Change

Johannes Ackva joins the podcast to discuss the main drivers of climate change and our best technological and governmental options for managing it. You can read more about Johannes' work at founderspl

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Imagine A World: What if we had digital nations untethered to geography?

How do low income countries affected by climate change imagine their futures? How do they overcome these twin challenges? Will all nations eventually choose or be forced to go a World

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Imagine A World: What if global challenges led to more

What if we had one advanced AI system for the entire world? Would this led to a world 'beyond' nation states - and do we want this?Imagine a World is a podcast exploring a range of plausible and posit

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Tom Davidson on How Quickly AI Could Automate the Economy

Tom Davidson joins the podcast to discuss how AI could quickly automate most cognitive tasks, including AI research, and why this would be risky. The current pace of AI 03:58 Near-ter

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Peter Thiel // The Diversity Myth, 30 Years Later

Nearly 30 years after publishing “The Diversity Myth,” Peter Thiel sits down with Mike Solana to unpack what the book got right and wrong. Thiel argues that social distractions have stunted scientific

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Imagine A World: What if we designed and built AI in an inclusive way?

How does who is involved in the design of AI affect the possibilities for our future? Why isn’t the design of AI inclusive already? Can technology solve all our problems? Can human nature change? Do w

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Imagine A World: What if new governance mechanisms helped us coordinate?

Are today's democratic systems equipped well enough to create the best possible future for everyone? If they're not, what systems might work better? And are governments around the world taking the des

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New: Imagine A World Podcast [TRAILER]

Coming Soon…The year is 2045. Humanity is not extinct, nor living in a dystopia. It has averted climate disaster and major wars. Instead, AI and other new technologies are helping to make the world mo

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Robert Trager on International AI Governance and Cybersecurity at AI Companies

Robert Trager joins the podcast to discuss AI governance, the incentives of governments and companies, the track record of international regulation, the security dilemma in AI, cybersecurity at AI com

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Jason Crawford on Progress and Risks from AI

Jason Crawford joins the podcast to discuss the history of progress, the future of economic growth, and the relationship between progress and risks from AI. You can read more about Jason's work at roo

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Special: Jaan Tallinn on Pausing Giant AI Experiments

On this special episode of the podcast, Jaan Tallinn talks with Nathan Labenz about Jaan's model of AI risk, the future of AI development, and pausing giant AI 0:00 Nathan intr

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Joe Carlsmith on How We Change Our Minds About AI Risk

Joe Carlsmith joins the podcast to discuss how we change our minds about AI risk, gut feelings versus abstract models, and what to do if transformative AI is coming soon. You can read more about Joe's

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Kevin Kelly on Wisdom and Excellent Advice for Living

When I started blogging and podcasting back in 2009 topics like wisdom were if not considered irrelevant to the conversations of AI, transhumanism, genetic engineering, and human enhan

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Dan Hendrycks on Why Evolution Favors AIs over Humans

Dan Hendrycks joins the podcast to discuss evolutionary dynamics in AI development and how we could develop AI safely. You can read more about Dan's work at safe.ai Timestamps: 00:00 Corporate AI race

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60: Deep Fakes | Sam Harris and Zohaib Ahmed

Will the glittering dawn of the genai era be accompanied by a dark tsunami of pixel-perfect deep fakes? I discuss this prospect with Sam Harris, as well as the CEO of synthetic audio pioneer Resemble.

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Roman Yampolskiy on Objections to AI Safety

Roman Yampolskiy joins the podcast to discuss various objections to AI safety, impossibility results for AI, and how much risk civilization should accept from emerging technologies. You can read more

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Nathan Labenz on How AI Will Transform the Economy

Nathan Labenz joins the podcast to discuss the economic effects of AI on growth, productivity, and employment. We also talk about whether AI might have catastrophic effects on the world. You can read

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Nathan Labenz on the Cognitive Revolution, Red Teaming GPT-4, and Potential Dangers of AI

Nathan Labenz joins the podcast to discuss the cognitive revolution, his experience red teaming GPT-4, and the potential near-term dangers of AI. You can read more about Nathan's work at cognitiverevo

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Émile Torres on Transhumanism, Longtermism and Existential Risks

My goal with this podcast has always been to be a bit of a gadfly to your as well as my intellectual growth and, hopefully, a midwife to your best ideas rather than a disseminator of a specific moveme

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Maryanna Saenko on Venture Capital, Philanthropy, and Ethical Technology

Maryanna Saenko joins the podcast to discuss how venture capital works, how to fund innovation, and what the fields of investing and philanthropy could learn from each other. You can read more about M

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Connor Leahy on the State of AI and Alignment Research

Connor Leahy joins the podcast to discuss the state of the AI. Which labs are in front? Which alignment solutions might work? How will the public react to more capable AI? You can read more about Conn

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Connor Leahy on AGI and Cognitive Emulation

Dan Hendrycks joins the podcast again to discuss X.ai, how AI risk thinking has evolved, malicious use of AI, AI race dynamics between companies and militaries, making AI organizations safer, and how3