Rohin Shah

speaker

1,071 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 2 Jun

Rohin Shah’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

80,000 Hours Podcast · #245 – Rohin Shah on what it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers') · 2 Jun 2026 podcast

And nowadays, we have these incredible computer-aided design software tools that automate the vast majority of this kind of work.

And you just see the line continuing to be straight.

In fact, you need exponentially more people working on this in order to have that happen.

Are the researchers that we have today 10x more productive than the ones from two decades ago?

Probably.

That would be my guess.

Is that a sign of an intelligence explosion in chip design?

No.

I think a similar thing might be true in AI.

In fact, it's kind of unclear.

We already use language models quite a lot, for example, for auto-rating and for conducting evaluations and auto-rating the responses of other models.

How much less productive would we be without that?

I don't know.

Probably not 10x less productive, but a substantial amount.

But AI progress continues to look pretty linear, according to me.

Yeah, that's right.

That's very impressive.

I was worried that I was soliloquing for way too long.

But great summary.

Yeah, I agree.

Showing 781–800 of 1,071 · page 40 of 54