This is a selection of highlights from episode #170 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Santosh Harish on how air pollution is responsible for ~12% of global deaths — and how to get that number down

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Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong

This is a selection of highlights from episode #169 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode:

Paul Niehaus on whether cash transfers cause economic growth, and keeping theft to acceptable levels

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Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong

This is a selection of highlights from episode #168 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode:

Ian Morris on whether deep history says we’re heading for an intelligence explosion

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Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong

This is a selection of highlights from episode #167 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode:

Seren Kell on the research gaps holding back alternative proteins from mass adoption

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Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong

This is a selection of highlights from episode #166 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode:

Tantum Collins on what he’s learned as an AI policy insider at the White House, DeepMind and elsewhere

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Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong

This is a selection of highlights from episode #165 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode:

Anders Sandberg on war in space, whether civilisations age, and the best things possible in our universe

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #164 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Kevin Esvelt on cults that want to kill everyone, stealth vs wildfire pandemics, and how he felt inventing gene drives

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #163 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Toby Ord on the perils of maximising the good that you do

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #162 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Mustafa Suleyman on getting Washington and Silicon Valley to tame AI

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #161 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Michael Webb on whether AI will soon cause job loss, lower incomes, and higher inequality — or the opposite

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Highlights put together by Simon Monsour and Milo McGuire