Future of Life Institute Podcast
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Sep 16, 2023
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Jan 5, 2020
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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 main strands: grantmaking for risk reduction, educational outreach, and advocacy within the United Nations, US government and European Union institutions.
FLI has become one of the world's leading voices on the governance of AI having created one of the earliest and most influential sets of governance principles: the Asilomar AI Principles.
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Liron Shapira on Superintelligence Goals
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War - a Second by Second Timeline
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Katja Grace on the Largest Survey of AI Researchers
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Holly Elmore on Pausing AI, Hardware Overhang, Safety Research, and Protesting
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Sneha Revanur on the Social Effects of AI
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Roman Yampolskiy on Shoggoth, Scaling Laws, and Evidence for AI being Uncontrollable
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Special: Flo Crivello on AI as a New Form of Life
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Carl Robichaud on Preventing Nuclear War
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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Frank Sauer on Autonomous Weapon Systems
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Darren McKee on Uncontrollable Superintelligence
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Mark Brakel on the UK AI Summit and the Future of AI Policy
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Dan Hendrycks on Catastrophic AI Risks
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Samuel Hammond on AGI and Institutional Disruption
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Imagine A World: What if AI advisors helped us make better decisions?
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Imagine A World: What if narrow AI fractured our shared reality?
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Steve Omohundro on Provably Safe AGI
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Imagine A World: What if AI enabled us to communicate with animals?
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Imagine A World: What if some people could live forever?
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Johannes Ackva on Managing Climate Change
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Imagine A World: What if we had digital nations untethered to geography?
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Imagine A World: What if global challenges led to more centralization?
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Tom Davidson on How Quickly AI Could Automate the Economy
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Imagine A World: What if we designed and built AI in an inclusive way?
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Imagine A World: What if new governance mechanisms helped us coordinate?
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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New: Imagine A World Podcast [TRAILER]
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Robert Trager on International AI Governance and Cybersecurity at AI Companies
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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Jason Crawford on Progress and Risks from AI
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Special: Jaan Tallinn on Pausing Giant AI Experiments
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Joe Carlsmith on How We Change Our Minds About AI Risk
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Dan Hendrycks on Why Evolution Favors AIs over Humans
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Roman Yampolskiy on Objections to AI Safety
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May 26, 2023 |
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Nathan Labenz on How AI Will Transform the Economy
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May 11, 2023 |
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Nathan Labenz on the Cognitive Revolution, Red Teaming GPT-4, and Potential Dangers of AI
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May 04, 2023 |
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Maryanna Saenko on Venture Capital, Philanthropy, and Ethical Technology
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Connor Leahy on the State of AI and Alignment Research
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Connor Leahy on AGI and Cognitive Emulation
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Lennart Heim on Compute Governance
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Lennart Heim on the AI Triad: Compute, Data, and Algorithms
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Liv Boeree on Poker, GPT-4, and the Future of AI
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Liv Boeree on Moloch, Beauty Filters, Game Theory, Institutions, and AI
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Tobias Baumann on Space Colonization and Cooperative Artificial Intelligence
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Tobias Baumann on Artificial Sentience and Reducing the Risk of Astronomical Suffering
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Neel Nanda on Math, Tech Progress, Aging, Living up to Our Values, and Generative AI
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Neel Nanda on Avoiding an AI Catastrophe with Mechanistic Interpretability
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Neel Nanda on What is Going on Inside Neural Networks
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Connor Leahy on Aliens, Ethics, Economics, Memetics, and Education
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Connor Leahy on AI Safety and Why the World is Fragile
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Connor Leahy on AI Progress, Chimps, Memes, and Markets
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Sean Ekins on Regulating AI Drug Discovery
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Sean Ekins on the Dangers of AI Drug Discovery
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Anders Sandberg on the Value of the Future
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Anders Sandberg on Grand Futures and the Limits of Physics
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Anders Sandberg on ChatGPT and the Future of AI
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Vincent Boulanin on Military Use of Artificial Intelligence
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Vincent Boulanin on the Dangers of AI in Nuclear Weapons Systems
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Robin Hanson on Predicting the Future of Artificial Intelligence
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Robin Hanson on Grabby Aliens and When Humanity Will Meet Them
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Ajeya Cotra on Thinking Clearly in a Rapidly Changing World
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Ajeya Cotra on how Artificial Intelligence Could Cause Catastrophe
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Ajeya Cotra on Forecasting Transformative Artificial Intelligence
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Alan Robock on Nuclear Winter, Famine, and Geoengineering
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Brian Toon on Nuclear Winter, Asteroids, Volcanoes, and the Future of Humanity
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Philip Reiner on Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Daniela and Dario Amodei on Anthropic
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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Anthony Aguirre and Anna Yelizarova on FLI's Worldbuilding Contest
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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David Chalmers on Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Rohin Shah on the State of AGI Safety Research in 2021
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Future of Life Institute's $25M Grants Program for Existential Risk Reduction
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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Filippa Lentzos on Global Catastrophic Biological Risks
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Susan Solomon and Stephen Andersen on Saving the Ozone Layer
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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James Manyika on Global Economic and Technological Trends
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Michael Klare on the Pentagon's view of Climate Change and the Risks of State Collapse
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Avi Loeb on UFOs and if they're Alien in Origin
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Avi Loeb on 'Oumuamua, Aliens, Space Archeology, Great Filters, and Superstructures
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Nicolas Berggruen on the Dynamics of Power, Wisdom, and Ideas in the Age of AI
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Bart Selman on the Promises and Perils of Artificial Intelligence
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May 20, 2021 |
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Jaan Tallinn on Avoiding Civilizational Pitfalls and Surviving the 21st Century
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Joscha Bach and Anthony Aguirre on Digital Physics and Moving Towards Beneficial Futures
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Roman Yampolskiy on the Uncontrollability, Incomprehensibility, and Unexplainability of AI
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Mar 20, 2021 |
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Stuart Russell and Zachary Kallenborn on Drone Swarms and the Riskiest Aspects of Autonomous Weapons
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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John Prendergast on Non-dual Awareness and Wisdom for the 21st Century
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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Beatrice Fihn on the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Max Tegmark and the FLI Team on 2020 and Existential Risk Reduction in the New Year
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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Future of Life Award 2020: Saving 200,000,000 Lives by Eradicating Smallpox
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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Sean Carroll on Consciousness, Physicalism, and the History of Intellectual Progress
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Mohamed Abdalla on Big Tech, Ethics-washing, and the Threat on Academic Integrity
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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Maria Arpa on the Power of Nonviolent Communication
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Stephen Batchelor on Awakening, Embracing Existential Risk, and Secular Buddhism
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Kelly Wanser on Climate Change as a Possible Existential Threat
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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Andrew Critch on AI Research Considerations for Human Existential Safety
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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Iason Gabriel on Foundational Philosophical Questions in AI Alignment
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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Peter Railton on Moral Learning and Metaethics in AI Systems
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Evan Hubinger on Inner Alignment, Outer Alignment, and Proposals for Building Safe Advanced AI
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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Barker - Hedonic Recalibration (Mix)
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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Sam Barker and David Pearce on Art, Paradise Engineering, and Existential Hope (With Guest Mix)
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Steven Pinker and Stuart Russell on the Foundations, Benefits, and Possible Existential Threat of AI
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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Sam Harris on Global Priorities, Existential Risk, and What Matters Most
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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FLI Podcast: On the Future of Computation, Synthetic Biology, and Life with George Church
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May 15, 2020 |
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FLI Podcast: On Superforecasting with Robert de Neufville
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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AIAP: An Overview of Technical AI Alignment in 2018 and 2019 with Buck Shlegeris and Rohin Shah
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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FLI Podcast: Lessons from COVID-19 with Emilia Javorsky and Anthony Aguirre
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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FLI Podcast: The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity with Toby Ord
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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AIAP: On Lethal Autonomous Weapons with Paul Scharre
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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FLI Podcast: Distributing the Benefits of AI via the Windfall Clause with Cullen O'Keefe
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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AIAP: On the Long-term Importance of Current AI Policy with Nicolas Moës and Jared Brown
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Feb 18, 2020 |
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FLI Podcast: Identity, Information & the Nature of Reality with Anthony Aguirre
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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AIAP: Identity and the AI Revolution with David Pearce and Andrés Gómez Emilsson
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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On Consciousness, Morality, Effective Altruism & Myth with Yuval Noah Harari & Max Tegmark
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Dec 31, 2019 |
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FLI Podcast: Existential Hope in 2020 and Beyond with the FLI Team
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Dec 28, 2019 |
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AIAP: On DeepMind, AI Safety, and Recursive Reward Modeling with Jan Leike
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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FLI Podcast: The Psychology of Existential Risk and Effective Altruism with Stefan Schubert
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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Not Cool Epilogue: A Climate Conversation
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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Not Cool Ep 26: Naomi Oreskes on trusting climate science
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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Not Cool Ep 25: Mario Molina on climate action
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Not Cool Ep 24: Ellen Quigley and Natalie Jones on defunding the fossil fuel industry
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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AIAP: Machine Ethics and AI Governance with Wendell Wallach
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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Not Cool Ep 23: Brian Toon on nuclear winter: the other climate change
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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Not Cool Ep 22: Cullen Hendrix on climate change and armed conflict
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Nov 13, 2019 |
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Not Cool Ep 21: Libby Jewett on ocean acidification
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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Not Cool Ep 20: Deborah Lawrence on deforestation
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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FLI Podcast: Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physical Reality with Anthony Aguirre
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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Not Cool Ep 19: Ilissa Ocko on non-carbon causes of climate change
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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Not Cool Ep 18: Glen Peters on the carbon budget and global carbon emissions
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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Not Cool Ep 17: Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, part 2
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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Not Cool Ep 16: Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, part 1
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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Not Cool Ep 15: Astrid Caldas on equitable climate adaptation
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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Not Cool Ep 14: Filippo Berardi on carbon finance and the economics of climate change
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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Not Cool Ep 13: Val Kapos on ecosystem-based adaptation
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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AIAP: Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control with Stuart Russell
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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Not Cool Ep 12: Kris Ebi on climate change, human health, and social stability
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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Not Cool Ep 11: Jakob Zscheischler on climate-driven compound weather events
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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Not Cool Ep 10: Stephanie Herring on extreme weather events and climate change attribution
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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FLI Podcast: Feeding Everyone in a Global Catastrophe with Dave Denkenberger & Joshua Pearce
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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Not Cool Ep 9: Andrew Revkin on climate communication, vulnerability, and information gaps
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Sep 26, 2019 |
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Not Cool Ep 8: Suzanne Jones on climate policy and government responsibility
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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Not Cool Ep 7: Lindsay Getschel on climate change and national security
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Sep 20, 2019 |
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Not Cool Ep 6: Alan Robock on geoengineering
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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AIAP: Synthesizing a human's preferences into a utility function with Stuart Armstrong
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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Not Cool Ep 5: Ken Caldeira on energy, infrastructure, and planning for an uncertain climate future
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Sep 12, 2019 |
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Not Cool Ep 4: Jessica Troni on helping countries adapt to climate change
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Sep 10, 2019 |
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Not Cool Ep 3: Tim Lenton on climate tipping points
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Sep 05, 2019 |
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Not Cool Ep 2: Joanna Haigh on climate modeling and the history of climate change
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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Not Cool Ep 1: John Cook on misinformation and overcoming climate silence
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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Not Cool Prologue: A Climate Conversation
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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FLI Podcast: Beyond the Arms Race Narrative: AI and China with Helen Toner and Elsa Kania
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Aug 30, 2019 |
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AIAP: China's AI Superpower Dream with Jeffrey Ding
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Aug 16, 2019 |
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FLI Podcast: The Climate Crisis as an Existential Threat with Simon Beard and Haydn Belfield
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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AIAP: On the Governance of AI with Jade Leung
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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FLI Podcast: Is Nuclear Weapons Testing Back on the Horizon? With Jeffrey Lewis and Alex Bell
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Jun 28, 2019 |
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FLI Podcast: Applying AI Safety & Ethics Today with Ashley Llorens & Francesca Rossi
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May 31, 2019 |
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AIAP: On Consciousness, Qualia, and Meaning with Mike Johnson and Andrés Gómez Emilsson
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May 23, 2019 |
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The Unexpected Side Effects of Climate Change with Fran Moore and Nick Obradovich
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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AIAP: An Overview of Technical AI Alignment with Rohin Shah (Part 2)
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Apr 25, 2019 |
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AIAP: An Overview of Technical AI Alignment with Rohin Shah (Part 1)
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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Why Ban Lethal Autonomous Weapons
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Apr 03, 2019 |
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AIAP: AI Alignment through Debate with Geoffrey Irving
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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Part 2: Anthrax, Agent Orange, and Yellow Rain With Matthew Meselson and Max Tegmark
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Feb 28, 2019 |
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Part 1: From DNA to Banning Biological Weapons With Matthew Meselson and Max Tegmark
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Feb 28, 2019 |
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AIAP: Human Cognition and the Nature of Intelligence with Joshua Greene
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Feb 21, 2019 |
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The Byzantine Generals' Problem, Poisoning, and Distributed Machine Learning with El Mahdi El Mhamdi
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Feb 07, 2019 |
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AI Breakthroughs and Challenges in 2018 with David Krueger and Roman Yampolskiy
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Jan 31, 2019 |
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Artificial Intelligence: American Attitudes and Trends with Baobao Zhang
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Jan 25, 2019 |
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AIAP: Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement Learning with Dylan Hadfield-Menell (Beneficial AGI 2019)
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Jan 17, 2019 |
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Existential Hope in 2019 and Beyond
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Dec 21, 2018 |
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AIAP: Inverse Reinforcement Learning and the State of AI Alignment with Rohin Shah
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Dec 18, 2018 |
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Governing Biotechnology: From Avian Flu to Genetically-Modified Babies With Catherine Rhodes
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Nov 30, 2018 |
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Avoiding the Worst of Climate Change with Alexander Verbeek and John Moorhead
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Oct 31, 2018 |
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AIAP: On Becoming a Moral Realist with Peter Singer
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Oct 18, 2018 |
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On the Future: An Interview with Martin Rees
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Oct 11, 2018 |
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AI and Nuclear Weapons - Trust, Accidents, and New Risks with Paul Scharre and Mike Horowitz
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Sep 28, 2018 |
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AIAP: Moral Uncertainty and the Path to AI Alignment with William MacAskill
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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AI: Global Governance, National Policy, and Public Trust with Allan Dafoe and Jessica Cussins
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Aug 31, 2018 |
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The Metaethics of Joy, Suffering, and Artificial Intelligence with Brian Tomasik and David Pearce
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Aug 16, 2018 |
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Six Experts Explain the Killer Robots Debate
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Jul 31, 2018 |
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AIAP: AI Safety, Possible Minds, and Simulated Worlds with Roman Yampolskiy
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Jul 16, 2018 |
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Mission AI - Giving a Global Voice to the AI Discussion With Charlie Oliver and Randi Williams
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Jun 29, 2018 |
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AIAP: Astronomical Future Suffering and Superintelligence with Kaj Sotala
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Jun 14, 2018 |
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Nuclear Dilemmas, From North Korea to Iran with Melissa Hanham and Dave Schmerler
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May 31, 2018 |
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What are the odds of nuclear war? A conversation with Seth Baum and Robert de Neufville
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Apr 30, 2018 |
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AIAP: Inverse Reinforcement Learning and Inferring Human Preferences with Dylan Hadfield-Menell
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Apr 25, 2018 |
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Navigating AI Safety -- From Malicious Use to Accidents
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Mar 30, 2018 |
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AI, Ethics And The Value Alignment Problem With Meia Chita-Tegmark And Lucas Perry
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Feb 28, 2018 |
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Top AI Breakthroughs and Challenges of 2017
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Jan 31, 2018 |
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Beneficial AI And Existential Hope In 2018
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Dec 21, 2017 |
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Balancing the Risks of Future Technologies With Andrew Maynard and Jack Stilgoe
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Nov 30, 2017 |
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AI Ethics, the Trolley Problem, and a Twitter Ghost Story with Joshua Greene And Iyad Rahwan
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Oct 31, 2017 |
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80,000 Hours with Rob Wiblin and Brenton Mayer
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Sep 29, 2017 |
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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence with Max Tegmark
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Aug 29, 2017 |
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The Art Of Predicting With Anthony Aguirre And Andrew Critch
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Jul 31, 2017 |
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Banning Nuclear & Autonomous Weapons With Richard Moyes And Miriam Struyk
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Jun 30, 2017 |
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Creative AI With Mark Riedl & Scientists Support A Nuclear Ban
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Jun 01, 2017 |
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Climate Change With Brian Toon And Kevin Trenberth
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Apr 27, 2017 |
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Law and Ethics of AI with Ryan Jenkins and Matt Scherer
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Mar 31, 2017 |
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UN Nuclear Weapons Ban With Beatrice Fihn And Susi Snyder
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Feb 28, 2017 |
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AI Breakthroughs With Ian Goodfellow And Richard Mallah
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Jan 31, 2017 |
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FLI 2016 - A Year In Reivew
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Dec 30, 2016 |
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Heather Roff and Peter Asaro on Autonomous Weapons
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Nov 30, 2016 |
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Nuclear Winter With Alan Robock and Brian Toon
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Oct 31, 2016 |
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Robin Hanson On The Age Of Em
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Sep 28, 2016 |
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Nuclear Risk In The 21st Century
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Sep 20, 2016 |
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Concrete Problems In AI Safety With Dario Amodei And Seth Baum
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Aug 30, 2016 |
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Earthquakes As Existential Risks?
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Jul 25, 2016 |
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Jan 14, 2016 |
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Climate interview with Seth Baum
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Dec 22, 2015 |