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

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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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This is a selection of highlights from episode #160 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Hannah Ritchie on why it makes sense to be optimistic about the environment

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #159 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Jan Leike on OpenAI’s massive push to make superintelligence safe in 4 years or less

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #158 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Holden Karnofsky on how AIs might take over even if they’re no smarter than humans, and his four-part playbook for AI risk

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #157 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Ezra Klein on existential risk from AI and what DC could do about it

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #156 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Markus Anderljung on how to regulate cutting-edge AI models

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