Future of Life Institute Podcast
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Future of Life Institute Podcast
The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is a nonprofit working to reduce global catastrophic and existential risk from powerful technologies. In particular, FLI focuses on risks from artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, nuclear weapons and climate change. The Institute's work is made up of three...
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From Research Labs to Product Companies: AI's Transformation (with Parmy Olson)
Parmy Olson is a technology columnist at Bloomberg and the author of Supremacy, which won the 2024 Financial Times Business Book of the Year. She join...
Can Defense in Depth Work for AI? (with Adam Gleave)
Adam Gleave is co-founder and CEO of FAR.AI. In this cross-post from The Cognitive Revolution Podcast, he joins to discuss post-AGI scenarios and AI s...
How We Keep Humans in Control of AI (with Beatrice Erkers)
Beatrice works at the Foresight Institute running their Existential Hope program. She joins the podcast to discuss the AI pathways project, which expl...
Why Building Superintelligence Means Human Extinction (with Nate Soares)
Nate Soares is president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. He joins the podcast to discuss his new book "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone D...
Breaking the Intelligence Curse (with Luke Drago)
Luke Drago is the co-founder of Workshop Labs and co-author of the essay series "The Intelligence Curse". The essay series explores what happens if AI...
What Markets Tell Us About AI Timelines (with Basil Halperin)
Basil Halperin is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Virginia. He joins the podcast to discuss what economic indicators reveal a...
AGI Security: How We Defend the Future (with Esben Kran)
Esben Kran joins the podcast to discuss why securing AGI requires more than traditional cybersecurity, exploring new attack surfaces, adaptive malware...
Reasoning, Robots, and How to Prepare for AGI (with Benjamin Todd)
Benjamin Todd joins the podcast to discuss how reasoning models changed AI, why agents may be next, where progress could stall, and what a self-improv...
From Peak Horse to Peak Human: How AI Could Replace Us (with Calum Chace)
On this episode, Calum Chace joins me to discuss the transformative impact of AI on employment, comparing the current wave of cognitive automation to...
How AI Could Help Overthrow Governments (with Tom Davidson)
On this episode, Tom Davidson joins me to discuss the emerging threat of AI-enabled coups, where advanced artificial intelligence could empower covert...
What Happens After Superintelligence? (with Anders Sandberg)
Anders Sandberg joins me to discuss superintelligence and its profound implications for human psychology, markets, and governance. We talk about physi...
Why the AI Race Ends in Disaster (with Daniel Kokotajlo)
On this episode, Daniel Kokotajlo joins me to discuss why artificial intelligence may surpass the transformative power of the Industrial Revolution, a...
Preparing for an AI Economy (with Daniel Susskind)
On this episode, Daniel Susskind joins me to discuss disagreements between AI researchers and economists, how we can best measure AI’s economic impact...
Will AI Companies Respect Creators' Rights? (with Ed Newton-Rex)
Ed Newton-Rex joins me to discuss the issue of AI models trained on copyrighted data, and how we might develop fairer approaches that respect human cr...
AI Timelines and Human Psychology (with Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse)
On this episode, Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse joins me to discuss what benchmarks actually measure, AI’s development trajectory in comparison to other tec...
Could Powerful AI Break Our Fragile World? (with Michael Nielsen)
On this episode, Michael Nielsen joins me to discuss how humanity's growing understanding of nature poses dual-use challenges, whether existing instit...
Facing Superintelligence (with Ben Goertzel)
On this episode, Ben Goertzel joins me to discuss what distinguishes the current AI boom from previous ones, important but overlooked AI research, sim...
Will Future AIs Be Conscious? (with Jeff Sebo)
On this episode, Jeff Sebo joins me to discuss artificial consciousness, substrate-independence, possible tensions between AI risk and AI consciousnes...
Understanding AI Agents: Time Horizons, Sycophancy, and Future Risks (with Zvi Mowshowitz)
On this episode, Zvi Mowshowitz joins me to discuss sycophantic AIs, bottlenecks limiting autonomous AI agents, and the true utility of benchmarks in...
Inside China's AI Strategy: Innovation, Diffusion, and US Relations (with Jeffrey Ding)
On this episode, Jeffrey Ding joins me to discuss diffusion of AI versus AI innovation, how US-China dynamics shape AI’s global trajectory, and whethe...
How Will We Cooperate with AIs? (with Allison Duettmann)
On this episode, Allison Duettmann joins me to discuss centralized versus decentralized AI, how international governance could shape AI’s trajectory,...
Brain-like AGI and why it's Dangerous (with Steven Byrnes)
On this episode, Steven Byrnes joins me to discuss brain-like AGI safety. We discuss learning versus steering systems in the brain, the distinction be...
How Close Are We to AGI? Inside Epoch's GATE Model (with Ege Erdil)
On this episode, Ege Erdil from Epoch AI joins me to discuss their new GATE model of AI development, what evolution and brain efficiency tell us about...
Special: Defeating AI Defenses (with Nicholas Carlini and Nathan Labenz)
In this special episode, we feature Nathan Labenz interviewing Nicholas Carlini on the Cognitive Revolution podcast. Nicholas Carlini works as a secur...
Keep the Future Human (with Anthony Aguirre)
On this episode, I interview Anthony Aguirre, Executive Director of the Future of Life Institute, about his new essay Keep the Future Human: https://k...
We Created AI. Why Don't We Understand It? (with Samir Varma)
On this episode, physicist and hedge fund manager Samir Varma joins me to discuss whether AIs could have free will (and what that means), the emerging...
Why AIs Misbehave and How We Could Lose Control (with Jeffrey Ladish)
On this episode, Jeffrey Ladish from Palisade Research joins me to discuss the rapid pace of AI progress and the risks of losing control over powerful...
Ann Pace on using Biobanking and Genomic Sequencing to Conserve Biodiversity
Ann Pace joins the podcast to discuss the work of Wise Ancestors. We explore how biobanking could help humanity recover from global catastrophes, how...
Michael Baggot on Superintelligence and Transhumanism from a Catholic Perspective
Fr. Michael Baggot joins the podcast to provide a Catholic perspective on transhumanism and superintelligence. We also discuss the meta-narratives, th...
David Dalrymple on Safeguarded, Transformative AI
David "davidad" Dalrymple joins the podcast to explore Safeguarded AI — an approach to ensuring the safety of highly advanced AI systems. We discuss t...
Nick Allardice on Using AI to Optimize Cash Transfers and Predict Disasters
Nick Allardice joins the podcast to discuss how GiveDirectly uses AI to target cash transfers and predict natural disasters. Learn more about Nick's w...
Nathan Labenz on the State of AI and Progress since GPT-4
Nathan Labenz joins the podcast to provide a comprehensive overview of AI progress since the release of GPT-4.
You can find Nathan's podcast he...
Connor Leahy on Why Humanity Risks Extinction from AGI
Connor Leahy joins the podcast to discuss the motivations of AGI corporations, how modern AI is "grown", the need for a science of intelligence, the e...
Suzy Shepherd on Imagining Superintelligence and "Writing Doom"
Suzy Shepherd joins the podcast to discuss her new short film "Writing Doom", which deals with AI risk. We discuss how to use humor in film, how to wr...
Andrea Miotti on a Narrow Path to Safe, Transformative AI
Andrea Miotti joins the podcast to discuss "A Narrow Path" — a roadmap to safe, transformative AI. We talk about our current inability to precisely pr...
Tamay Besiroglu on AI in 2030: Scaling, Automation, and AI Agents
Tamay Besiroglu joins the podcast to discuss scaling, AI capabilities in 2030, breakthroughs in AI agents and planning, automating work, the uncertain...
Ryan Greenblatt on AI Control, Timelines, and Slowing Down Around Human-Level AI
Ryan Greenblatt joins the podcast to discuss AI control, timelines, takeoff speeds, misalignment, and slowing down around human-level AI.
You c...
Tom Barnes on How to Build a Resilient World
Tom Barnes joins the podcast to discuss how much the world spends on AI capabilities versus AI safety, how governments can prepare for advanced AI, an...
Samuel Hammond on why AI Progress is Accelerating - and how Governments Should Respond
Samuel Hammond joins the podcast to discuss whether AI progress is slowing down or speeding up, AI agents and reasoning, why superintelligence is an i...
Anousheh Ansari on Innovation Prizes for Space, AI, Quantum Computing, and Carbon Removal
Anousheh Ansari joins the podcast to discuss how innovation prizes can incentivize technical innovation in space, AI, quantum computing, and carbon re...