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80,000 Hours Podcast

80,000 Hours Podcast

The most important conversations about artificial intelligence you won’t hear anywhere else.

The 80,000 Hours team · The 80000 Hours Podcast

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Show overview

80,000 Hours Podcast has been publishing since 2017, and across the 9 years since has built a catalogue of 354 episodes, alongside 1 trailer or bonus episode. That works out to roughly 780 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.

Episodes typically run over ninety minutes — most land between 1h 30m and 2h 50m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. It is catalogued as a EN-language Education show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 days ago, with 42 episodes already out so far this year. Published by The 80000 Hours Podcast.

Episodes
354
Running
2017–2026 · 9y
Median length
2h 18m
Cadence
Fortnightly

From the publisher

The most important conversations about artificial intelligence you won’t hear anywhere else. Subscribe by searching for '80000 Hours' wherever you get podcasts. Hosted by Rob Wiblin, Luisa Rodriguez, and Zershaaneh Qureshi.

Latest Episodes

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Will AI take power — or will humans use it to take power first? With Katja Grace and Tom Davidson

Sep 29, 20261h 28m

How we get from AI cyberattacks to human extinction

Sep 24, 202627 min

Max Nadeau on why ambitious people should start AI safety nonprofits

Sep 17, 20261h 3m

Why the intelligence explosion can't happen inside a data centre | Tom Reed

Sep 10, 202622 min

Inside the first AI-coordinated cyberattack on a real company

Sep 4, 202622 min

AI 2027's author returns with a plan to change the ending | Daniel Kokotajlo

Aug 27, 20263h 47m

Owain Evans on accidentally training AI models to be evil

Aug 20, 20262h 15m

The UK's former head AI safety scientist on how to solve alignment before superintelligence arrives | Geoffrey Irving

Aug 11, 20262h 2m

Where AGI timelines go wrong | Toby Ord, Oxford University

Aug 6, 20262h 46m

What the hell happened with AGI timelines in 2026? – Rob Wiblin

Aug 4, 202649 min

Spencer Greenberg on staying sane while trying to save the world

Jul 28, 20262h 9m

Jasmine Sun on what the people building AI really believe

Jul 21, 20261h 6m

#247 – Anton Leicht on how middle powers avoid losing everything in a post-AI world

Jul 14, 20261h 33m

#246 – Sneha Revanur on how a small team of activists helped pass America's landmark AI safety laws

Jul 8, 202652 min

We can guess what intergalactic war would look like. And strangely, it matters.

Jun 18, 202615 min

How AI could create the world’s biggest problems (article by Zershaaneh Qureshi)

Jun 11, 20261h 29m

What it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') | Rohin Shah

Jun 2, 20262h 48m

What makes for a dream job? | Benjamin Todd

May 28, 202628 min

We’re updating our career advice for the strangest time in history | Benjamin Todd, author of 80,000 Hours

May 26, 20261h 6m

Can AIs already start 'rogue deployments' inside AI companies? (Landmark new METR report)

May 20, 202620 min
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