Zershaaneh Qureshi

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853 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 17 Sep

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80,000 Hours Podcast · #246 – Sneha Revanur on how a small team of activists helped pass America's landmark AI safety laws · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

You've also got the emergence of a counter PAC that's backed by Anthropic.

I'm kind of interested in how this influx in cash and attention actually shapes your agenda.

Yeah, I'm also interested in how Encode is thinking about the midterms and the 2028 elections.

With AI becoming this really big electoral issue, do you have a strategy around that?

Something Encode's been working on recently is whistleblower protections, which, as I understand it, are relatively popular from an industry perspective, at least within people who work at AI companies.

So one example of this is there was this right to warn letter that came out a couple of years ago where a bunch of current and previous business

employees of AI companies wrote this public statement calling for more whistleblower protections.

I do definitely see the value in targeting some of these easier wins, which do have real genuine value.

But I'm interested in how you...

kind of think about targeting these sorts of easier wins versus the strategy of targeting interventions that are more controversial, but potentially even more important.

So things that spring to mind potentially here are things to make

companies like financially liable for the harms that their systems cause or tougher restrictions on deployment both of which I think are like especially controversial but also really important yeah how do you think about the strategy of balancing these these different focuses?

Yeah, yeah.

If you're willing to speak about this, what do you think actually needs to happen for the moment to be right for some of these more aggressive interventions, say, on the side of liability?

If somebody listening wanted to do sort of what you do, maybe they want to go into advocacy or lobbying, maybe they even want to start their own organization like you did, what advice would you give to them?

And specifically, is there anything that you think is really driven and codes successes that you'd recommend they try to replicate?

I think that's all we've got time for.

But Sneha, you've been wonderful.

Thank you so much for coming on the show.

Thank you so much.

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