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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

Connor Leahy joins the podcast to discuss GPT-4, magic, cognitive emulation, demand for human-like AI, and aligning You can read more about Connor's work at

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Lennart Heim on Compute Governance

Lennart Heim joins the podcast to discuss options for governing the compute used by AI labs and potential problems with this approach to AI safety. You can read more about Lennart's work here: heim.xy

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ep.365: ReRun An Open Source Package For Beautiful with Nikolaus West

Nico and Emil dive deep into why they built ReRun, a tool for powerful, simple, and beautiful visualizations for Computer Vision.

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Lennart Heim on the AI Triad: Compute, Data, and Algorithms

Lennart Heim joins the podcast to discuss how we can forecast AI progress by researching AI hardware. You can read more about Lennart's work here: 00:00 Introduction 01:00 T

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Liv Boeree on Poker, GPT-4, and the Future of AI

Liv Boeree joins the podcast to discuss poker, GPT-4, human-AI interaction, whether this is the most important century, and building a dataset of human wisdom. You can read more about Liv's work here:

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Liv Boeree on Moloch, Beauty Filters, Game Theory, Institutions, and AI

Liv Boeree joins the podcast to discuss Moloch, beauty filters, game theory, institutional change, and artificial intelligence. You can read more about Liv's work here: 00:00

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Tobias Baumann on Space Colonization and Cooperative Artificial Intelligence

Tobias Baumann joins the podcast to discuss suffering risks, space colonization, and cooperative artificial intelligence. You can read more about Tobias' work here: Tim

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59: Generative AI | What’s New & What’s Next

My thoughts on what's happening in the mad world of generative AI, announcing my new home online at and more.

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Tobias Baumann on Artificial Sentience and Reducing the Risk of Astronomical Suffering

Tobias Baumann joins the podcast to discuss suffering risks, artificial sentience, and the problem of knowing which actions reduce suffering in the long-term future. You can read more about Tobias' wo

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Neel Nanda on Math, Tech Progress, Aging, Living up to Our Values, and Generative AI

Neel Nanda joins the podcast for a lightning round on mathematics, technological progress, aging, living up to our values, and generative AI. You can find his blog here: 00:00

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ep.364: Shaking Up The Sheetmetal Industry, with Ed Mehr

Ed Mehr on how Machina Labs is using Robotic arms to rapidly form sheet metal parts.

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Neel Nanda on Avoiding an AI Catastrophe with Mechanistic

Neel Nanda joins the podcast to talk about mechanistic and how it can make AI safer. Neel is an independent AI safety researcher. You can find his blog here: 0

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Nikolas Badminton on Facing Our Futures: Futurism is Activism

My podcast guest today is Nikolas Badminton. Nik is the Chief Futurist at futurist.com. He has worked with over 300 organizations in foresight, strategy, and disruption – including NASA, the Uni

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Neel Nanda on What is Going on Inside Neural Networks

Neel Nanda joins the podcast to explain how we can understand neural networks using mechanistic Neel is an independent AI safety researcher. You can find his blog here: neelnanda.ioT

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Connor Leahy on Aliens, Ethics, Economics, Memetics, and Education

Connor Leahy from Conjecture joins the podcast for a lightning round on a variety of topics ranging from aliens to education. Learn more about Connor's work at Media Links:➡️ WEBS

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Connor Leahy on AI Safety and Why the World is Fragile

Connor Leahy from Conjecture joins the podcast to discuss AI safety, the fragility of the world, slowing down AI development, regulating AI, and the optimal funding model for AI safety research. Learn

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My NBF Contest Pitch: The Greatest Leadership Opportunity of the 21st Century

This is my 4 min video pitch for the 2023 Nordic Business Forum Speaker Contest. Hope you enjoy it but feel free to let me know if that's not the case 😉  The Greatest Leadership Opportunity in the 21

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Connor Leahy on AI Progress, Chimps, Memes, and Markets

Connor Leahy from Conjecture joins the podcast to discuss AI progress, chimps, memes, and markets. Learn more about Connor's work at conjecture.dev Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:00 Defining artifi

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Sean Ekins on Regulating AI Drug Discovery

On this special episode of the podcast, Emilia Javorsky interviews Sean Ekins about regulating AI drug Introduction 00:31 Ethical guidelines and regulation of AI drug disco

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Sean Ekins on the Dangers of AI Drug Discovery

On this special episode of the podcast, Emilia Javorsky interviews Sean Ekins about the dangers of AI drug discovery. They talk about how Sean discovered an extremely toxic chemical (VX) by reversing

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Anders Sandberg on the Value of the Future

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 enhan3