#214 – Buck Shlegeris on controlling AI that wants to take over – so we can use it anyway
Most AI safety conversations centre on alignment: ensuring AI systems share our values and goals. But despite progress, we’re unlikely to know we’ve solved the problem before the arrival of human-leve...
4 Apr 20252h 16min
15 expert takes on infosec in the age of AI
"There’s almost no story of the future going well that doesn’t have a part that’s like '…and no evil person steals the AI weights and goes and does evil stuff.' So it has highlighted the importance of...
28 Mar 20252h 35min
#213 – 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...
11 Mar 20253h 57min
Emergency pod: Judge plants a legal time bomb under OpenAI (with Rose Chan Loui)
When OpenAI announced plans to convert from nonprofit to for-profit control last October, it likely didn’t anticipate the legal labyrinth it now faces. A recent court order in Elon Musk’s lawsuit agai...
7 Mar 202536min
#139 Classic episode – Alan Hájek on puzzles and paradoxes in probability and expected value
A casino offers you a game. A coin will be tossed. If it comes up heads on the first flip you win $2. If it comes up on the second flip you win $4. If it comes up on the third you win $8, the fourth y...
25 Feb 20253h 41min
#143 Classic episode – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuclear weapons
America aims to avoid nuclear war by relying on the principle of 'mutually assured destruction,' right? Wrong. Or at least... not officially.As today's guest — Jeffrey Lewis, founder of Arms Control W...
19 Feb 20252h 40min
#212 – Allan Dafoe on why technology is unstoppable & how to shape AI development anyway
Technology doesn’t force us to do anything — it merely opens doors. But military and economic competition pushes us through.That’s how today’s guest Allan Dafoe — director of frontier safety and gover...
14 Feb 20252h 44min
Emergency pod: Elon tries to crash OpenAI's party (with Rose Chan Loui)
On Monday Musk made the OpenAI nonprofit foundation an offer they want to refuse, but might have trouble doing so: $97.4 billion for its stake in the for-profit company, plus the freedom to stick with...
12 Feb 202557min
