Nine: Neel Nanda on the race to read AI minds
Nobody knows how AIs think, or why they do what they do. Or at least, we don’t know much. Not the companies building them, the researchers studying them, or the governments beginning to rely on them.T...
5 Jun 3h 2min
Ten: Holden Karnofsky on dozens of opportunities to make AI safer lying on the table — and all his AGI takes
For years, AI safety work mostly meant theorising about the ‘alignment problem’ or trying to convince people to give a damn. If you could find a way to help, the work was frustrating and low-feedback....
5 Jun 4h 34min
Bonus: How AI could create the world's biggest problems (article narration by Zershaaneh Qureshi)
Imagine you’re living 15,000 years ago. Your people are hunter-gatherers and you sleep under the stars. If someone told you humans would one day build cities with millions of people, fly through the a...
5 Jun 1h 29min
Bonus: Risks from power-seeking AI systems (article narration by Zershaaneh Qureshi)
Hundreds of prominent AI scientists and other notable figures signed a statement in 2023 saying that mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority. At 80,000 Hours, we’ve consi...
5 Jun 1h 29min
Bonus: Benjamin Todd on why we’re updating our career advice for the strangest time in history
The average career is 80,000 hours long. With AI advancing so rapidly, the hours you have left in your career matter more than ever.Some leading AI researchers think there’s a 10% chance that AI syste...
5 Jun 1h 6min
Zero: What to expect in this series
What might it be like to live through the creation of AI that surpasses human abilities? That future may be closer than you think. In this series, one expert interview at a time, we'll walk you throug...
5 Jun 1min
