Zershaaneh Qureshi
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first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Sep
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So the title of the book, 80,000 Hours, is a reference to the number of hours in an average career.
Some people have joked that, hey, maybe the book should be called 8,000 Hours just because the next few years could be so crucial.
Can you walk us through what you think might actually happen in the next few years?
Okay, and just to be clear, so the reason that it matters how quickly we get AI R&D automated is that when that starts happening, that introduces some feedback loops where AIs are designing better AIs, right?
What would the world look like if that happened?
Why should we care about that particular moment in the future?
Yeah.
And the idea then is that once that happens, society changes very rapidly, right?
You're deploying AIs in all sorts of different fields.
Progress in all sorts of fields goes crazy.
Things are moving faster than we can keep track of.
And that throws up a bunch of risks.
Yeah, okay.
So you now think that AI R&D could be automated pretty soon, basically, that's your feeling?
He's at Anthropic.
I kind of want to dig into that a little bit because I wonder how fair it is to be doing this kind of extrapolation.
So my understanding is that a lot of this does rely on being able to increase the amount of compute that's going into these AI systems.
And it seems like there are some reasons to believe that it's going to get much, much harder to throw more and more compute at these systems in the coming years.
Yeah, how does that affect your story here?
Yeah.
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