80,000 Hours: Toby Ord on The Precipice
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A long-running podcast from the 80,000 Hours career advice organization; widely listened to in the EA and AI safety communities as a source of accessible, substantive conversations with key researchers and thinkers.
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The 80,000 Hours Podcast hosts in-depth interviews with leading researchers and thinkers on AI safety, existential risk, effective altruism, and related high-impact topics. It covers technical AI safety, governance, alignment, superintelligence, AI deception, and emerging risks like AI-nuclear intersections. It serves as an accessible entry point and ongoing reference for the AI safety and EA communities.
Key Points
- •Features long-form interviews with prominent AI safety researchers including Ajeya Cotra, Toby Ord, and MIRI researchers on topics like deceptive alignment and corrigibility.
- •Covers a broad range from technical alignment (superintelligence, gradual disempowerment) to governance and policy (AI nuclear deterrence, AI timelines).
- •Includes episodes on adjacent topics like AI welfare research, consciousness, and effective altruism strategy to provide broader context for safety work.
- •Freely available across major podcast platforms and YouTube, making cutting-edge safety discussions widely accessible.
- •One of the most prominent public-facing media channels for communicating AI safety ideas beyond academic circles.
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About the show
What can I expect?
The 80,000 Hours Podcast features unusually in-depth conversations about the world's most pressing problems and how you can use your career to solve them. We invite guests pursuing a wide range of career paths – from academics and activists to entrepreneurs and policymakers — to analyse the case for and against working on different issues and figure out which approaches are best for solving them.
What is 80,000 Hours?
80,000 Hours is a nonprofit dedicated to helping people have a larger positive influence on the world with their careers. If you're new here, read our career guide to get our current take on how to think about careers that have a positive impact and where the best opportunities may lie.
The podcast has substantially changed how I think about the entire world… — Steven Bills What can I expect?
The 80,000 Hours Podcast features unusually in-depth conversations about the world's most pressing problems and how you can use your career to solve them. We invite guests pursuing a wide range of career paths – from academics and activists to entrepreneurs and policymakers — to analyse the case for and against working on different issues and figure out which approaches are best for solving them.
What is 80,000 Hours?
80,000 Hours is a nonprofit dedicated to helping people have a larger positive influence on the world with their careers. If you're new here, read our career guide to get our current take on how to think about careers that have a positive impact and where the best opportunities may lie.
The podcast has substantially changed how I think about the entire world… — Steven Bills What can I expect?
The 80,000 Hours Podcast features unusually in-depth conversations about the world's most pressing problems and how you can use your career to solve them. We invite guests pursuing a wide range of career paths – from academics and activists to entrepreneurs and policymakers — to analyse the case for and against working on different issues and figure out which approaches are best for solving them.
What is 80,000 Hours?
80,000 Hours is a nonprofit dedicated to helping people have a larger positive influence on the world with their careers. If you're new here, read our career guide to get our current take on how to think about careers that have a positive impact and where the best opportunities may lie.
The podcast has substantially changed how I think about the entire world… — Steven Bills Our hosts
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