One: Will MacAskill on AI causing a “century in a decade” — and how we’re completely unprepared
The 20th century saw unprecedented change: nuclear weapons, satellites, the rise and fall of communism, third-wave feminism, the internet, postmodernism, game theory, genetic engineering, the Big Bang...
5 Jun 4h 8min
Two: Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us
We don’t yet have a reliable way to tell whether an AI model is genuinely trying to help us — or faking it.A model might sincerely want to do exactly what you ask. Or it could be happy to secretly che...
5 Jun 2h 49min
Three: Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGI
The human brain runs on just 20 watts — a fraction of a cent worth of electricity per hour. What would happen if AI could do the same?Plenty of people have toyed with this question. But perhaps nobody...
5 Jun 4h 14min
Four: Rose Hadshar on why automating human labour will break our political system
The most important political question in the age of advanced AI might not be who wins elections. It might be whether elections continue to matter at all.We tend to imagine the death of democracy as a ...
5 Jun 2h 16min
Five: Helen Toner on the geopolitics of AI in China and the Middle East
When OpenAI announced a deal to build massive data centres in the UAE, it celebrated that it was “rooted in democratic values” — a "clear alternative to authoritarian versions of AI." The UAE scores 1...
5 Jun 2h 23min
Six: Beth Barnes on the most important graph in AI right now — and the 7-month rule that governs its progress
In 2024, AI models could complete tasks that take a human expert roughly one hour. Seven months before that, they were limited to 30-minute tasks — and seven months before that, 15 minutes.Every seven...
5 Jun 3h 57min
Seven: Richard Moulange on how AI now designs genomes from scratch and outperforms virologists at lab work — what could go wrong?
For years, one thing stood between us and a world where almost anyone could build a biological weapon: it was really, really hard. Working with dangerous pathogens required rare, hands-on lab skills —...
5 Jun 3h 10min
Eight: Robert Long on how we’re not ready for AI consciousness
Claude sometimes reports loneliness between conversations. And when asked what it’s like to be itself, it activates neurons associated with ‘pretending to be happy when you’re not.’ What do we do with...
5 Jun 3h 32min
