80,000 Hours

What superforecasters and experts think about existential risks | Ezra Karger

David Wallace on the Implications of the Many-Worlds Theory of Quantum Mechanics

The precipice and humanity's potential futures | Toby Ord (2020)

Flaws that make AI architecture unsafe & how to fix them | Stuart Russell (2020)

The most INSANE things fish can do | Sébastien Moro

Can policy keep up with AI advances? | OpenAI's Amanda Askell, Miles Brundage, & Jack Clark (2019)

Using paper mills and seaweed to feed everyone in a catastrophe | David Denkenberger (2021)

Highlights: Accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us | Ajeya Cotra (2023)

How much does a vote matter? | Rob Wiblin

Nate Silver: The 'Keys to the White House' is junk science and can't tell you who'll win

The 12 best ways to stop the next pandemic | Dr Cassidy Nelson (2020)

How to ensure the US remains a democratic country | Mike Berkowitz (2021)

The predictive brain & the quest to understand consciousness | Anil Seth

Off the Clock #6: Starting Small with Conor Barnes

Highlights: Dean Spears on why babies are born small in Uttar Pradesh — and how to save their lives

Highlights: Free will & the consequences of never experiencing guilt or shame | Luisa & Keiran

Michelle and Habiba on what they’d tell their younger selves, and the impact of the 1-1 team (2022)

Nate Silver: What issue has effective altruism totally missed?

Disinformation & synthetic media on the rise | Nina Schick (2021)

Nate Silver: Betting markets and superforecasters probably now overrated

Using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India | Varsha Venugopal (2021)

Strong longtermism, Pascal's mugging, and whether existing is good for us | Hilary Greaves (2020)

Highlights: How quickly AI could transform the world | Tom Davidson (2023)

Nate Silver on his theory of SBF and top criticisms of effective altruism

Highlights: The future of mental privacy in the age of neurotechnology | Nita Farahany (2023)

A security expert on why we MUST vote on paper | Bruce Schneier (2019)

Highlights: Interfering with wild nature & the origins of complex civilisation | Peter Godfrey-Smith

OpenAI's leadership drama, red-teaming frontier models, and recent AI breakthroughs | Nathan Labenz

Dismantling the myth that we can't do anything to help wild animals | Cameron Meyer Shorb

#19 - Samantha Pitts-Kiefer on working next to the White House trying to prevent nuclear war

What superforecasters and experts think about existential risks | Ezra Karger

Why your robot butler isn't here yet | Ken Goldberg

How to make a difference with your career

John McWhorter on why creole languages are fascinating

Can one person make a difference? (part 2a) @ Cambridge University

Are Anthropic's AI safety policies up to the task? | Nick Joseph

The cutting edge of anti-ageing science | Venki Ramakrishnan