Athena Aktipis

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80,000 Hours Podcast · #144 Classic episode – Athena Aktipis on why cancer is a fundamental universal phenomena · 9 Jan 2026 podcast

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There also might be things about the way society is working that can definitely be improved, right?

And when a lot of things change, that I think opens up some opportunities to think differently about how we're doing things.

Yeah, well, off the top of my head, I've got three.

So certainly nuclear events.

Very of the moment now and I think also will not go away as a threat because we have the technological capacity to do this.

And I don't think that we're going to be able to get to a point where every –

entity who could make a nuclear weapon would refrain from doing that.

So I think it's something that is likely to be there for the long term.

Future pandemics?

Absolutely.

I think we saw with COVID just how vulnerable our systems were.

And I

Unfortunately, we haven't done a huge amount to try to fix the weaknesses and vulnerabilities in the systems that we have for, you know, early response to emerging pandemics.

So I worry about that.

And

My AI worry is less of what happens with AI on its own.

My worry is much more what happens with AI in combination with humans that have goals that are nefarious.

I think that there's a sort of leveraging that you can get when you bring together

human minds and the, you know, artificial minds that allows for a level of, you know, exploitation and undermining of, you know, systems that you just can't get with one or the other separately.

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