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#179 Classic episode – Randy Nesse on why evolution left us so vulnerable to depression and anxiety (02:51:17)
Mental health problems like depression and anxiety affect enormous numbers of people and severely interfere with their lives. By contrast, we don’t see similar levels of physical ill health in young p...
Why 'Aligned AI' Would Still Kill Democracy | David Duvenaud, ex-Anthropic team lead (02:31:48)
Democracy might be a brief historical blip. That’s the unsettling thesis of a recent paper, which argues AI that can do all the work a human can do inevitably leads to the “gradual disempowerment” of ...
#145 Classic episode – Christopher Brown on why slavery abolition wasn't inevitable (02:56:17)
In many ways, humanity seems to have become more humane and inclusive over time. While there’s still a lot of progress to be made, campaigns to give people of different genders, races, sexualities, et...
#233 – James Smith on how to prevent a mirror life catastrophe (02:09:40)
When James Smith first heard about mirror bacteria, he was sceptical. But within two weeks, he’d dropped everything to work on it full time, considering it the worst biothreat that he’d seen described...
#144 Classic episode – Athena Aktipis on why cancer is a fundamental universal phenomena (03:30:30)
What’s the opposite of cancer? If you answered “cure,” “antidote,” or “antivenom” — you’ve obviously been reading the antonym section at www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cancer.But today’s guest Athe...
#142 Classic episode – John McWhorter on why the optimal number of languages might be one, and other provocative claims about language (01:35:05)
John McWhorter is a linguistics professor at Columbia University specialising in research on creole languages. He's also a content-producing machine, never afraid to give his frank opinion on anything...
2025 Highlight-o-thon: Oops! All Bests (01:40:17)
It’s that magical time of year once again — highlightapalooza! Stick around for one top bit from each episode we recorded this year, including:Kyle Fish explaining how Anthropic’s AI Claude descends i...
#232 – Andreas Mogensen on what we owe 'philosophical Vulcans' and unconscious beings (02:37:15)
Most debates about the moral status of AI systems circle the same question: is there something that it feels like to be them? But what if that’s the wrong question to ask? Andreas Mogensen — a senior ...
#231 – Paul Scharre on how AI-controlled robots will and won't change war (02:45:17)
In 1983, Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet lieutenant colonel, sat in a bunker watching a red screen flash “MISSILE LAUNCH.” Protocol demanded he report it to superiors, which would very likely trigger a ret...
AI might let a few people control everything — permanently (article by Rose Hadshar) (01:00:10)
Power is already concentrated today: over 800 million people live on less than $3 a day, the three richest men in the world are worth over $1 trillion, and almost six billion people live in countries ...
#230 – Dean Ball on how AI is a huge deal — but we shouldn’t regulate it yet (02:54:15)
Former White House staffer Dean Ball thinks it's very likely some form of 'superintelligence' arrives in under 20 years. He thinks AI being used for bioweapon research is "a real threat model, obvious...
#229 – Marius Hobbhahn on the race to solve AI scheming before models go superhuman (03:03:18)
We often worry about AI models “hallucinating” or making honest mistakes. But what happens when a model knows the truth, but decides to deceive you anyway to achieve a goal of its own? This isn’t sci-...
Rob & Luisa chat kids, the 2016 fertility crash, and how the 50s invented parenting that makes us miserable (01:59:09)
Global fertility rates aren’t just falling: the rate of decline is accelerating. From 2006 to 2016, fertility dropped gradually, but since 2016 the rate of decline has increased 4.5-fold. In many weal...
#228 – Eileen Yam on how we're completely out of touch with what the public thinks about AI (01:43:24)
If you work in AI, you probably think it’s going to boost productivity, create wealth, advance science, and improve your life. If you’re a member of the American public, you probably strongly disagree...
OpenAI: The nonprofit refuses to be killed (with Tyler Whitmer) (01:56:06)
Last December, the OpenAI business put forward a plan to completely sideline its nonprofit board. But two state attorneys general have now blocked that effort and kept that board very much alive and k...
#227 – Helen Toner on the geopolitics of AGI in China and the Middle East (02:20:02)
With the US racing to develop AGI and superintelligence ahead of China, you might expect the two countries to be negotiating how they’ll deploy AI, including in the military, without coming to blows. ...
#226 – Holden Karnofsky on unexploited opportunities to make AI safer — and all his AGI takes (04:30:19)
For years, working on AI safety usually meant theorising about the ‘alignment problem’ or trying to convince other people to give a damn. If you could find any way to help, the work was frustrating an...
#225 – Daniel Kokotajlo on what a hyperspeed robot economy might look like (02:12:01)
When Daniel Kokotajlo talks to security experts at major AI labs, they tell him something chilling: “Of course we’re probably penetrated by the CCP already, and if they really wanted something, they c...
#224 – There's a cheap and low-tech way to save humanity from any engineered disease | Andrew Snyder-Beattie (02:31:11)
Conventional wisdom is that safeguarding humanity from the worst biological risks — microbes optimised to kill as many as possible — is difficult bordering on impossible, making bioweapons humanity’s ...
Inside the Biden admin’s AI policy approach | Jake Sullivan, Biden’s NSA | via The Cognitive Revolution (01:05:58)
Jake Sullivan was the US National Security Advisor from 2021-2025. He joined our friends on The Cognitive Revolution podcast in August to discuss AI as a critical national security issue. We thought i...
#223 – Neel Nanda on leading a Google DeepMind team at 26 – and advice if you want to work at an AI company (part 2) (01:46:49)
At 26, Neel Nanda leads an AI safety team at Google DeepMind, has published dozens of influential papers, and mentored 50 junior researchers — seven of whom now work at major AI companies. His secret?...
#222 – Can we tell if an AI is loyal by reading its mind? DeepMind's Neel Nanda (part 1) (03:01:11)
We don’t know how AIs think or why they do what they do. Or at least, we don’t know much. That fact is only becoming more troubling as AIs grow more capable and appear on track to wield enormous cultu...
#221 – Kyle Fish on the most bizarre findings from 5 AI welfare experiments (02:28:53)
What happens when you lock two AI systems in a room together and tell them they can discuss anything they want?According to experiments run by Kyle Fish — Anthropic’s first AI welfare researcher — som...
How not to lose your job to AI (article by Benjamin Todd) (00:51:25)
About half of people are worried they’ll lose their job to AI. They’re right to be concerned: AI can now complete real-world coding tasks on GitHub, generate photorealistic video, drive a taxi more sa...
Rebuilding after apocalypse: What 13 experts say about bouncing back (04:26:38)
What happens when civilisation faces its greatest tests?This compilation brings together insights from researchers, defence experts, philosophers, and policymakers on humanity’s ability to survive and...
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