Technology & Future April 25, 2025 Inside China's AI Strategy: Innovation, Diffusion, and US Relations
Existential Risk February 14, 2025 Ann Pace on using Biobanking and Genomic Sequencing to Conserve Biodiversity
Ethics & Philosophy January 24, 2025 Michael Baggot on Superintelligence and Transhumanism from a Catholic Perspective
Technology & Future December 19, 2024 Nick Allardice on Using AI to Optimize Cash Transfers and Predict Disasters
Technology & Future October 11, 2024 Tamay Besiroglu on AI in 2030: Scaling, Automation, and AI Agents
Technology & Future September 27, 2024 Ryan Greenblatt on AI Control, Timelines, and Slowing Down Around Human-Level AI
Technology & Future August 22, 2024 Samuel Hammond on why AI Progress is Accelerating - and how Governments Should Respond
Technology & Future August 9, 2024 Anousheh Ansari on Innovation Prizes for Space, AI, Quantum Computing, and Carbon Removal
Governance & Policy July 25, 2024 Mary Robinson (Former President of Ireland) on Long-View Leadership
Technology & Future June 21, 2024 Anton Korinek on Automating Work and the Economics of an Intelligence Explosion
Existential Risk June 7, 2024 Christian Ruhl on Preventing World War III, US-China Hotlines, and Ultraviolet Germicidal Light
Existential Risk February 29, 2024 Holly Elmore on Pausing AI, Hardware Overhang, Safety Research, and Protesting
Existential Risk February 2, 2024 Roman Yampolskiy on Shoggoth, Scaling Laws, and Evidence for AI being Uncontrollable
Technology & Future October 17, 2023 Imagine A World: What if AI advisors helped us make better decisions?
Technology & Future October 10, 2023 Imagine A World: What if narrow AI fractured our shared reality?
Technology & Future October 3, 2023 Imagine A World: What if AI enabled us to communicate with animals?
Technology & Future September 19, 2023 Imagine A World: What if we had digital nations untethered to geography?
Technology & Future September 12, 2023 Imagine A World: What if global challenges led to more centralization?
Technology & Future September 5, 2023 Imagine A World: What if new governance mechanisms helped us coordinate?
Technology & Future September 5, 2023 Imagine A World: What if we designed and built AI in an inclusive way?
Governance & Policy August 20, 2023 Robert Trager on International AI Governance and Cybersecurity at AI Companies
Existential Risk May 4, 2023 Nathan Labenz on the Cognitive Revolution, Red Teaming GPT-4, and Potential Dangers of AI
Ethics & Philosophy April 27, 2023 Maryanna Saenko on Venture Capital, Philanthropy, and Ethical Technology
Technology & Future March 16, 2023 Liv Boeree on Moloch, Beauty Filters, Game Theory, Institutions, and AI
Technology & Future March 9, 2023 Tobias Baumann on Space Colonization and Cooperative Artificial Intelligence
Existential Risk March 2, 2023 Tobias Baumann on Artificial Sentience and Reducing the Risk of Astronomical Suffering
Technology & Future February 23, 2023 Neel Nanda on Math, Tech Progress, Aging, Living up to Our Values, and Generative AI
Existential Risk February 16, 2023 Neel Nanda on Avoiding an AI Catastrophe with Mechanistic Interpretability
Ethics & Philosophy February 2, 2023 Connor Leahy on Aliens, Ethics, Economics, Memetics, and Education
Technology & Future November 24, 2022 Robin Hanson on Predicting the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Technology & Future October 27, 2022 Ajeya Cotra on Forecasting Transformative Artificial Intelligence
Existential Risk October 13, 2022 Brian Toon on Nuclear Winter, Asteroids, Volcanoes, and the Future of Humanity
Technology & Future April 22, 2022 David Pearce and Andrés Gómez Emilsson on Identity and the AI Revolution
Existential Risk April 22, 2022 George Church on the Future of Computation, Synthetic Biology, and Life
Technology & Future April 22, 2022 Max Tegmark on Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Ethics & Philosophy January 26, 2022 David Chalmers on Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
Technology & Future October 18, 2021 Future of Life Institute's $25M Grants Program for Existential Risk Reduction
Existential Risk July 30, 2021 Michael Klare on the Pentagon's view of Climate Change and the Risks of State Collapse
Existential Risk July 9, 2021 Avi Loeb on 'Oumuamua, Aliens, Space Archeology, Great Filters, and Superstructures
Technology & Future June 1, 2021 Nicolas Berggruen on the Dynamics of Power, Wisdom, and Ideas in the Age of AI
Technology & Future April 21, 2021 Jaan Tallinn on Avoiding Civilizational Pitfalls and Surviving the 21st Century
Technology & Future April 1, 2021 Joscha Bach and Anthony Aguirre on Digital Physics and Moving Towards Beneficial Futures
Technology & Future March 20, 2021 Roman Yampolskiy on the Uncontrollability, Incomprehensibility, and Unexplainability of AI
Technology & Future February 25, 2021 Stuart Russell and Zachary Kallenborn on Drone Swarms and the Riskiest Aspects of Autonomous Weapons
Technology & Future February 9, 2021 John Prendergast on Non-dual Awareness and Wisdom for the 21st Century
Technology & Future January 8, 2021 Max Tegmark and the FLI Team on 2020 and Existential Risk Reduction in the New Year
Technology & Future December 11, 2020 Future of Life Award 2020: Saving 200,000,000 Lives by Eradicating Smallpox
Ethics & Philosophy December 2, 2020 Sean Carroll on Consciousness, Physicalism, and the History of Intellectual Progress
Technology & Future November 17, 2020 Mohamed Abdalla on Big Tech, Ethics-washing, and the Threat on Academic Integrity
Existential Risk October 15, 2020 Stephen Batchelor on Awakening, Embracing Existential Risk, and Secular Buddhism
Technology & Future September 16, 2020 Andrew Critch on AI Research Considerations for Human Existential Safety
Ethics & Philosophy September 3, 2020 Iason Gabriel on Foundational Philosophical Questions in AI Alignment
Technology & Future July 1, 2020 Evan Hubinger on Inner Alignment, Outer Alignment, and Proposals for Building Safe Advanced AI
Positive Futures June 24, 2020 Sam Barker and David Pearce on Art, Paradise Engineering, and Existential Hope
Existential Risk June 15, 2020 Steven Pinker and Stuart Russell on the Foundations, Benefits, and Possible Existential Threat of AI
Existential Risk June 1, 2020 Sam Harris on Global Priorities, Existential Risk, and What Matters Most
Existential Risk May 15, 2020 FLI Podcast: On the Future of Computation, Synthetic Biology, and Life with George Church
Ethics & Philosophy April 22, 2020 On Consciousness, Morality, Effective Altruism & Myth with Yuval Noah Harari and Max Tegmark
Technology & Future April 15, 2020 AIAP: An Overview of Technical AI Alignment in 2018 and 2019 with Buck Shlegeris and Rohin Shah
Technology & Future April 9, 2020 FLI Podcast: Lessons from COVID-19 with Emilia Javorsky and Anthony Aguirre
Technology & Future April 1, 2020 FLI Podcast: The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity with Toby Ord
Technology & Future February 28, 2020 FLI Podcast: Distributing the Benefits of AI via the Windfall Clause with Cullen O'Keefe
Technology & Future February 18, 2020 AIAP: On the Long-term Importance of Current AI Policy with Nicolas Moës and Jared Brown
Technology & Future January 31, 2020 FLI Podcast: Identity, Information & the Nature of Reality with Anthony Aguirre
Technology & Future January 16, 2020 AIAP: Identity and the AI Revolution with David Pearce and Andrés Gómez Emilsson
Technology & Future December 28, 2019 FLI Podcast: Existential Hope in 2020 and Beyond with the FLI Team
Technology & Future December 16, 2019 AIAP: On DeepMind, AI Safety, and Recursive Reward Modeling with Jan Leike
Technology & Future December 2, 2019 FLI Podcast: The Psychology of Existential Risk and Effective Altruism with Stefan Schubert
Technology & Future November 19, 2019 Not Cool Ep 24: Ellen Quigley and Natalie Jones on defunding the fossil fuel industry
Technology & Future November 15, 2019 Not Cool Ep 23: Brian Toon on nuclear winter: the other climate change
Technology & Future November 13, 2019 Not Cool Ep 22: Cullen Hendrix on climate change and armed conflict
Technology & Future October 31, 2019 Not Cool Ep 19: Ilissa Ocko on non-carbon causes of climate change
Technology & Future October 31, 2019 FLI Podcast: Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physical Reality with Anthony Aguirre
Technology & Future October 30, 2019 Not Cool Ep 18: Glen Peters on the carbon budget and global carbon emissions
Technology & Future October 24, 2019 Not Cool Ep 17: Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, part 2
Technology & Future October 22, 2019 Not Cool Ep 16: Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, part 1
Technology & Future October 15, 2019 Not Cool Ep 14: Filippo Berardi on carbon finance and the economics of climate change
Technology & Future October 8, 2019 Not Cool Ep 12: Kris Ebi on climate change, human health, and social stability
Technology & Future October 8, 2019 AIAP: Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control with Stuart Russell
Technology & Future October 3, 2019 Not Cool Ep 11: Jakob Zscheischler on climate-driven compound weather events
Technology & Future October 1, 2019 Not Cool Ep 10: Stephanie Herring on extreme weather events and climate change attribution
Technology & Future September 30, 2019 FLI Podcast: Feeding Everyone in a Global Catastrophe with Dave Denkenberger & Joshua Pearce
Technology & Future September 26, 2019 Not Cool Ep 9: Andrew Revkin on climate communication, vulnerability, and information gaps
Technology & Future September 24, 2019 Not Cool Ep 8: Suzanne Jones on climate policy and government responsibility
Technology & Future September 20, 2019 Not Cool Ep 7: Lindsay Getschel on climate change and national security
Technology & Future September 17, 2019 AIAP: Synthesizing a human's preferences into a utility function with Stuart Armstrong
Technology & Future September 12, 2019 Not Cool Ep 5: Ken Caldeira on energy, infrastructure, and planning for an uncertain climate future
Technology & Future September 10, 2019 Not Cool Ep 4: Jessica Troni on helping countries adapt to climate change
Technology & Future September 3, 2019 Not Cool Ep 1: John Cook on misinformation and overcoming climate silence
Technology & Future September 3, 2019 Not Cool Ep 2: Joanna Haigh on climate modeling and the history of climate change
Technology & Future August 30, 2019 FLI Podcast: Beyond the Arms Race Narrative: AI and China with Helen Toner and Elsa Kania
Technology & Future August 1, 2019 FLI Podcast: The Climate Crisis as an Existential Threat with Simon Beard and Haydn Belfield
Technology & Future June 28, 2019 FLI Podcast: Is Nuclear Weapons Testing Back on the Horizon? With Jeffrey Lewis and Alex Bell
Technology & Future May 31, 2019 FLI Podcast: Applying AI Safety & Ethics Today with Ashley Llorens & Francesca Rossi
Technology & Future May 23, 2019 AIAP: On Consciousness, Qualia, and Meaning with Mike Johnson and Andrés Gómez Emilsson
Technology & Future April 30, 2019 The Unexpected Side Effects of Climate Change with Fran Moore and Nick Obradovich
Technology & Future April 25, 2019 AIAP: An Overview of Technical AI Alignment with Rohin Shah (Part 2)
Technology & Future April 11, 2019 AIAP: An Overview of Technical AI Alignment with Rohin Shah (Part 1)
Technology & Future February 28, 2019 Part 1: From DNA to Banning Biological Weapons With Matthew Meselson and Max Tegmark
Technology & Future February 28, 2019 Part 2: Anthrax, Agent Orange, and Yellow Rain With Matthew Meselson and Max Tegmark
Technology & Future February 21, 2019 AIAP: Human Cognition and the Nature of Intelligence with Joshua Greene
Technology & Future February 7, 2019 The Byzantine Generals' Problem, Poisoning, and Distributed Machine Learning with El Mahdi El Mhamdi
Technology & Future January 31, 2019 AI Breakthroughs and Challenges in 2018 with David Krueger and Roman Yampolskiy
Technology & Future January 25, 2019 Artificial Intelligence: American Attitudes and Trends with Baobao Zhang
Technology & Future January 17, 2019 AIAP: Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement Learning with Dylan Hadfield-Menell (Beneficial AGI 2019)
Technology & Future December 18, 2018 AIAP: Inverse Reinforcement Learning and the State of AI Alignment with Rohin Shah
Technology & Future November 30, 2018 Governing Biotechnology: From Avian Flu to Genetically-Modified Babies With Catherine Rhodes
Technology & Future October 31, 2018 Avoiding the Worst of Climate Change with Alexander Verbeek and John Moorhead
Technology & Future September 28, 2018 AI and Nuclear Weapons - Trust, Accidents, and New Risks with Paul Scharre and Mike Horowitz
Technology & Future September 18, 2018 AIAP: Moral Uncertainty and the Path to AI Alignment with William MacAskill
Technology & Future August 31, 2018 AI: Global Governance, National Policy, and Public Trust with Allan Dafoe and Jessica Cussins
Technology & Future August 16, 2018 The Metaethics of Joy, Suffering, and Artificial Intelligence with Brian Tomasik and David Pearce
Technology & Future July 16, 2018 AIAP: AI Safety, Possible Minds, and Simulated Worlds with Roman Yampolskiy
Technology & Future June 29, 2018 Mission AI - Giving a Global Voice to the AI Discussion With Charlie Oliver and Randi Williams
Technology & Future June 14, 2018 AIAP: Astronomical Future Suffering and Superintelligence with Kaj Sotala
Technology & Future May 31, 2018 Nuclear Dilemmas, From North Korea to Iran with Melissa Hanham and Dave Schmerler
Technology & Future April 30, 2018 What are the odds of nuclear war? A conversation with Seth Baum and Robert de Neufville
Technology & Future April 25, 2018 AIAP: Inverse Reinforcement Learning and Inferring Human Preferences with Dylan Hadfield-Menell
Technology & Future February 28, 2018 AI, Ethics And The Value Alignment Problem With Meia Chita-Tegmark And Lucas Perry
Technology & Future November 30, 2017 Balancing the Risks of Future Technologies With Andrew Maynard and Jack Stilgoe
Technology & Future October 31, 2017 AI Ethics, the Trolley Problem, and a Twitter Ghost Story with Joshua Greene And Iyad Rahwan
Technology & Future August 29, 2017 Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence with Max Tegmark
Technology & Future June 30, 2017 Banning Nuclear & Autonomous Weapons With Richard Moyes And Miriam Struyk