Why OpenAI Is Trying to Silence Its Critics (with Tyler Johnston)
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tyler Johnston is Executive Director of the Midas Project. He joins the podcast to discuss AI transp...
We're Not Ready for AGI (with Will MacAskill)
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
William MacAskill is a senior research fellow at Forethought. He joins the podcast to discuss his Be...
What Happens When Insiders Sound the Alarm on AI? (with Karl Koch)
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Karl Koch is founder of the AI Whistleblower Initiative. He joins the podcast to discuss transparenc...
Can Machines Be Truly Creative? (with Maya Ackerman)
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Maya Ackerman is an AI researcher, co-founder and CEO of WaveAI, and author of the book "Creative Ma...
From Research Labs to Product Companies: AI's Transformation (with Parmy Olson)
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Parmy Olson is a technology columnist at Bloomberg and the author of Supremacy, which won the 2024 F...
Can Defense in Depth Work for AI? (with Adam Gleave)
03 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Gleave is co-founder and CEO of FAR.AI. In this cross-post from The Cognitive Revolution Podcas...
How We Keep Humans in Control of AI (with Beatrice Erkers)
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Beatrice works at the Foresight Institute running their Existential Hope program. She joins the podc...
Why Building Superintelligence Means Human Extinction (with Nate Soares)
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nate Soares is president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. He joins the podcast to dis...
Breaking the Intelligence Curse (with Luke Drago)
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Luke Drago is the co-founder of Workshop Labs and co-author of the essay series "The Intelligence Cu...
What Markets Tell Us About AI Timelines (with Basil Halperin)
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Basil Halperin is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Virginia. He joins the po...
AGI Security: How We Defend the Future (with Esben Kran)
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Esben Kran joins the podcast to discuss why securing AGI requires more than traditional cybersecurit...
Reasoning, Robots, and How to Prepare for AGI (with Benjamin Todd)
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Benjamin Todd joins the podcast to discuss how reasoning models changed AI, why agents may be next, ...
From Peak Horse to Peak Human: How AI Could Replace Us (with Calum Chace)
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Calum Chace joins me to discuss the transformative impact of AI on employment, comp...
How AI Could Help Overthrow Governments (with Tom Davidson)
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Tom Davidson joins me to discuss the emerging threat of AI-enabled coups, where adv...
What Happens After Superintelligence? (with Anders Sandberg)
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anders Sandberg joins me to discuss superintelligence and its profound implications for human psycho...
Why the AI Race Ends in Disaster (with Daniel Kokotajlo)
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Daniel Kokotajlo joins me to discuss why artificial intelligence may surpass the tr...
Preparing for an AI Economy (with Daniel Susskind)
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Daniel Susskind joins me to discuss disagreements between AI researchers and econom...
Will AI Companies Respect Creators' Rights? (with Ed Newton-Rex)
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ed Newton-Rex joins me to discuss the issue of AI models trained on copyrighted data, and how we mig...
AI Timelines and Human Psychology (with Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse)
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse joins me to discuss what benchmarks actually measure, AI’...
Could Powerful AI Break Our Fragile World? (with Michael Nielsen)
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Michael Nielsen joins me to discuss how humanity's growing understanding of nature ...
Facing Superintelligence (with Ben Goertzel)
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Ben Goertzel joins me to discuss what distinguishes the current AI boom from previo...
Will Future AIs Be Conscious? (with Jeff Sebo)
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Jeff Sebo joins me to discuss artificial consciousness, substrate-independence, pos...
Understanding AI Agents: Time Horizons, Sycophancy, and Future Risks (with Zvi Mowshowitz)
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Zvi Mowshowitz joins me to discuss sycophantic AIs, bottlenecks limiting autonomous...
Inside China's AI Strategy: Innovation, Diffusion, and US Relations (with Jeffrey Ding)
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Jeffrey Ding joins me to discuss diffusion of AI versus AI innovation, how US-China...
How Will We Cooperate with AIs? (with Allison Duettmann)
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Allison Duettmann joins me to discuss centralized versus decentralized AI, how inte...
Brain-like AGI and why it's Dangerous (with Steven Byrnes)
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Steven Byrnes joins me to discuss brain-like AGI safety. We discuss learning versus...
How Close Are We to AGI? Inside Epoch's GATE Model (with Ege Erdil)
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Ege Erdil from Epoch AI joins me to discuss their new GATE model of AI development,...
Special: Defeating AI Defenses (with Nicholas Carlini and Nathan Labenz)
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode, we feature Nathan Labenz interviewing Nicholas Carlini on the Cognitive Rev...
Keep the Future Human (with Anthony Aguirre)
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, I interview Anthony Aguirre, Executive Director of the Future of Life Institute, ab...
We Created AI. Why Don't We Understand It? (with Samir Varma)
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, physicist and hedge fund manager Samir Varma joins me to discuss whether AIs could ...
Why AIs Misbehave and How We Could Lose Control (with Jeffrey Ladish)
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Jeffrey Ladish from Palisade Research joins me to discuss the rapid pace of AI prog...
Ann Pace on using Biobanking and Genomic Sequencing to Conserve Biodiversity
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ann Pace joins the podcast to discuss the work of Wise Ancestors. We explore how biobanking could he...
Michael Baggot on Superintelligence and Transhumanism from a Catholic Perspective
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fr. Michael Baggot joins the podcast to provide a Catholic perspective on transhumanism and superint...
David Dalrymple on Safeguarded, Transformative AI
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David "davidad" Dalrymple joins the podcast to explore Safeguarded AI — an approach to ensuring th...
Nick Allardice on Using AI to Optimize Cash Transfers and Predict Disasters
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Allardice joins the podcast to discuss how GiveDirectly uses AI to target cash transfers and pr...
Nathan Labenz on the State of AI and Progress since GPT-4
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Labenz joins the podcast to provide a comprehensive overview of AI progress since the release...
Connor Leahy on Why Humanity Risks Extinction from AGI
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Connor Leahy joins the podcast to discuss the motivations of AGI corporations, how modern AI is "gro...
Suzy Shepherd on Imagining Superintelligence and "Writing Doom"
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Suzy Shepherd joins the podcast to discuss her new short film "Writing Doom", which deals with AI ri...
Andrea Miotti on a Narrow Path to Safe, Transformative AI
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andrea Miotti joins the podcast to discuss "A Narrow Path" — a roadmap to safe, transformative AI....
Tamay Besiroglu on AI in 2030: Scaling, Automation, and AI Agents
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tamay Besiroglu joins the podcast to discuss scaling, AI capabilities in 2030, breakthroughs in AI a...
Ryan Greenblatt on AI Control, Timelines, and Slowing Down Around Human-Level AI
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Greenblatt joins the podcast to discuss AI control, timelines, takeoff speeds, misalignment, an...
Tom Barnes on How to Build a Resilient World
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Barnes joins the podcast to discuss how much the world spends on AI capabilities versus AI safet...
Samuel Hammond on why AI Progress is Accelerating - and how Governments Should Respond
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Samuel Hammond joins the podcast to discuss whether AI progress is slowing down or speeding up, AI a...
Anousheh Ansari on Innovation Prizes for Space, AI, Quantum Computing, and Carbon Removal
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anousheh Ansari joins the podcast to discuss how innovation prizes can incentivize technical innovat...
Mary Robinson (Former President of Ireland) on Long-View Leadership
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Robinson joins the podcast to discuss long-view leadership, risks from AI and nuclear weapons, ...
Emilia Javorsky on how AI Concentrates Power
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Emilia Javorsky joins the podcast to discuss AI-driven power concentration and how we might mitigate...
Anton Korinek on Automating Work and the Economics of an Intelligence Explosion
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anton Korinek joins the podcast to discuss the effects of automation on wages and labor, how we meas...
Christian Ruhl on Preventing World War III, US-China Hotlines, and Ultraviolet Germicidal Light
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Christian Ruhl joins the podcast to discuss US-China competition and the risk of war, official versu...
Christian Nunes on Deepfakes (with Max Tegmark)
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Christian Nunes joins the podcast to discuss deepfakes, how they impact women in particular, how we ...
Dan Faggella on the Race to AGI
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Faggella joins the podcast to discuss whether humanity should eventually create AGI, how AI will...
Liron Shapira on Superintelligence Goals
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Liron Shapira joins the podcast to discuss superintelligence goals, what makes AI different from oth...
Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War - a Second by Second Timeline
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Annie Jacobsen joins the podcast to lay out a second by second timeline for how nuclear war could ha...
Katja Grace on the Largest Survey of AI Researchers
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Katja Grace joins the podcast to discuss the largest survey of AI researchers conducted to date, AI ...
Holly Elmore on Pausing AI, Hardware Overhang, Safety Research, and Protesting
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Holly Elmore joins the podcast to discuss pausing frontier AI, hardware overhang, safety research du...
Sneha Revanur on the Social Effects of AI
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sneha Revanur joins the podcast to discuss the social effects of AI, the illusory divide between AI ...
Roman Yampolskiy on Shoggoth, Scaling Laws, and Evidence for AI being Uncontrollable
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Roman Yampolskiy joins the podcast again to discuss whether AI is like a Shoggoth, whether scaling l...
Special: Flo Crivello on AI as a New Form of Life
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this special episode of the podcast, Flo Crivello talks with Nathan Labenz about AI as a new form...
Carl Robichaud on Preventing Nuclear War
06 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Carl Robichaud joins the podcast to discuss the new nuclear arms race, how much world leaders and id...
Frank Sauer on Autonomous Weapon Systems
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Frank Sauer joins the podcast to discuss autonomy in weapon systems, killer drones, low-tech defense...
Darren McKee on Uncontrollable Superintelligence
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Darren McKee joins the podcast to discuss how AI might be difficult to control, which goals and trai...
Mark Brakel on the UK AI Summit and the Future of AI Policy
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Brakel (Director of Policy at the Future of Life Institute) joins the podcast to discuss the AI...
Dan Hendrycks on Catastrophic AI Risks
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Hendrycks joins the podcast again to discuss X.ai, how AI risk thinking has evolved, malicious u...
Samuel Hammond on AGI and Institutional Disruption
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Samuel Hammond joins the podcast to discuss how AGI will transform economies, governments, instituti...
Imagine A World: What if AI advisors helped us make better decisions?
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Are we doomed to a future of loneliness and unfulfilling online interactions? What if technology mad...
Imagine A World: What if narrow AI fractured our shared reality?
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s imagine a future where AGI is developed but kept at a distance from practically impacting th...
Steve Omohundro on Provably Safe AGI
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Omohundro joins the podcast to discuss Provably Safe Systems, a paper he co-authored with FLI ...
Imagine A World: What if AI enabled us to communicate with animals?
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What if AI allowed us to communicate with animals? Could interspecies communication lead to new leve...
Imagine A World: What if some people could live forever?
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you could extend your life, would you? How might life extension technologies create new social an...
Johannes Ackva on Managing Climate Change
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Johannes Ackva joins the podcast to discuss the main drivers of climate change and our best technolo...
Imagine A World: What if we had digital nations untethered to geography?
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do low income countries affected by climate change imagine their futures? How do they overcome t...
Imagine A World: What if global challenges led to more centralization?
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What if we had one advanced AI system for the entire world? Would this led to a world 'beyond' natio...
Tom Davidson on How Quickly AI Could Automate the Economy
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Davidson joins the podcast to discuss how AI could quickly automate most cognitive tasks, includ...
Imagine A World: What if we designed and built AI in an inclusive way?
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How does who is involved in the design of AI affect the possibilities for our future? Why isn’t th...
Imagine A World: What if new governance mechanisms helped us coordinate?
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Are today's democratic systems equipped well enough to create the best possible future for everyone?...
New: Imagine A World Podcast [TRAILER]
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Coming Soon… The year is 2045. Humanity is not extinct, nor living in a dystopia. It has averted ...
Robert Trager on International AI Governance and Cybersecurity at AI Companies
20 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Trager joins the podcast to discuss AI governance, the incentives of governments and companie...
Jason Crawford on Progress and Risks from AI
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Crawford joins the podcast to discuss the history of progress, the future of economic growth, ...
Special: Jaan Tallinn on Pausing Giant AI Experiments
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this special episode of the podcast, Jaan Tallinn talks with Nathan Labenz about Jaan's model of ...
Joe Carlsmith on How We Change Our Minds About AI Risk
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Carlsmith joins the podcast to discuss how we change our minds about AI risk, gut feelings versu...
Dan Hendrycks on Why Evolution Favors AIs over Humans
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Hendrycks joins the podcast to discuss evolutionary dynamics in AI development and how we could ...
Roman Yampolskiy on Objections to AI Safety
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Roman Yampolskiy joins the podcast to discuss various objections to AI safety, impossibility results...
Nathan Labenz on How AI Will Transform the Economy
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Labenz joins the podcast to discuss the economic effects of AI on growth, productivity, and e...
Nathan Labenz on the Cognitive Revolution, Red Teaming GPT-4, and Potential Dangers of AI
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Labenz joins the podcast to discuss the cognitive revolution, his experience red teaming GPT-...
Maryanna Saenko on Venture Capital, Philanthropy, and Ethical Technology
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Maryanna Saenko joins the podcast to discuss how venture capital works, how to fund innovation, and ...
Connor Leahy on the State of AI and Alignment Research
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Connor Leahy joins the podcast to discuss the state of the AI. Which labs are in front? Which alignm...
Connor Leahy on AGI and Cognitive Emulation
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Connor Leahy joins the podcast to discuss GPT-4, magic, cognitive emulation, demand for human-like A...
Lennart Heim on Compute Governance
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lennart Heim joins the podcast to discuss options for governing the compute used by AI labs and pote...
Lennart Heim on the AI Triad: Compute, Data, and Algorithms
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lennart Heim joins the podcast to discuss how we can forecast AI progress by researching AI hardware...
Liv Boeree on Poker, GPT-4, and the Future of AI
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Liv Boeree joins the podcast to discuss poker, GPT-4, human-AI interaction, whether this is the most...
Liv Boeree on Moloch, Beauty Filters, Game Theory, Institutions, and AI
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Liv Boeree joins the podcast to discuss Moloch, beauty filters, game theory, institutional change, a...
Tobias Baumann on Space Colonization and Cooperative Artificial Intelligence
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tobias Baumann joins the podcast to discuss suffering risks, space colonization, and cooperative art...
Tobias Baumann on Artificial Sentience and Reducing the Risk of Astronomical Suffering
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tobias Baumann joins the podcast to discuss suffering risks, artificial sentience, and the problem o...
Neel Nanda on Math, Tech Progress, Aging, Living up to Our Values, and Generative AI
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Neel Nanda joins the podcast for a lightning round on mathematics, technological progress, aging, li...
Neel Nanda on Avoiding an AI Catastrophe with Mechanistic Interpretability
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Neel Nanda joins the podcast to talk about mechanistic interpretability and how it can make AI safer...
Neel Nanda on What is Going on Inside Neural Networks
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Neel Nanda joins the podcast to explain how we can understand neural networks using mechanistic inte...
Connor Leahy on Aliens, Ethics, Economics, Memetics, and Education
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Connor Leahy from Conjecture joins the podcast for a lightning round on a variety of topics ranging ...
Connor Leahy on AI Safety and Why the World is Fragile
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Connor Leahy from Conjecture joins the podcast to discuss AI safety, the fragility of the world, slo...
Connor Leahy on AI Progress, Chimps, Memes, and Markets
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Connor Leahy from Conjecture joins the podcast to discuss AI progress, chimps, memes, and markets. L...
Sean Ekins on Regulating AI Drug Discovery
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this special episode of the podcast, Emilia Javorsky interviews Sean Ekins about regulating AI dr...
Sean Ekins on the Dangers of AI Drug Discovery
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this special episode of the podcast, Emilia Javorsky interviews Sean Ekins about the dangers of A...