Thanks for compiling this.
I've created a ListenNotes list with all the "Strongly EA-related podcasts" and a few others here. It displays the most recent episode from each of those podcasts and lets you import them all easily to your favorite podcast app.
Luke Muehlhauser's Conversations from the Pale Blue Dot had an episode interviewing Toby Ord back in January 2011. This is from before the term "effective altruism" was being used to describe the movement. I think it may be the first podcast episode to really discuss what would eventually be called EA, with the second oldest podcast episode being Massimo Pigliucci's interview with Holden Karnofsky on Rationally Speaking in July 2011.
(There was plenty of discussion online about these issues in years prior to this, but as far as I can tell, discussion didn't appear in podcast form until 2011.)
(I haven't listened yet and am not yet able to recommend it, but it seems EA-relevant)
Radio Bostrom - "Audio narrations of academic papers by Nick Bostrom."
Fin Moorhouse and a friend started the podcast Hear This Idea. Fin writes about the podcast here, and says:
A few months ago, I started a podcast with a friend at uni interviewing (mostly) academics in the social sciences and philosophy. Since we're both involved with EA, about half of the episodes ended up addressing topics either relevant to or directly concerning effective altruism.
And a few of the interviewees are EAs whose names I recognise. (Some others maybe be EAs who I just happen to not know of.)
The Inside View also focuses on AI alignment. There's a YouTube channel with videos of the interviews. Sometimes there are interview highlights on LessWrong.
Alignment Newsletter Podcast: http://alignment-newsletter.libsyn.com/
A machine-read audio version of the Future Matters newsletter, which is:
a newsletter about longtermism written by Matthew van der Merwe & Pablo Stafforini. Each month we collect and summarize longtermism-relevant research, share news from the longtermism community, and feature a conversation with a prominent longtermist.
Also the Future Matters Reader:
Future Matters Reader uses text-to-speech software to convert into audio the writings summarized in the Future Matters newsletter.
It seems like a lot of those writings weren't on Nonlinear's podcast feeds, either due to not being on the EA Forum / LessWrong / Alignment Forum or for some other reasons.
It would be real great if these were hyperlinks...
Would take some time, but might be useful for people gathering EA resources?
Done. Thanks for the nudge to put a little more time into it.
Nice! Thanks
Yes, agree that it would have been natural to include hyperlinks in this otherwise very helpful post.
Pablo's list does include links.
Cold Takes Audio is Holden Karnofsky reading posts from his new-ish blog site. I'd highly recommend it.
Nonlinear Library has machine-read (but still pretty good) versions of a large and increasing number of posts from the EA Forum, LessWrong, and the Alignment Forum. See https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/JTZTBienqWEAjGDRv/listen-to-more-ea-content-with-the-nonlinear-library This is probably the podcast I've listened to most often since it came out, and will probably remain the podcast I listen to most often for the indefinite future.
Nonlinear Fund also now have additional podcast feeds:
I imagine they might release more feeds in future, so it may be worth occasionally searching for podcasts by "The Nonlinear Fund" in podcast apps to see if others come up.
I've been hitting these feeds pretty hard and really valuing them. Examples of cool things that this had allowed me to do are easily fit into my schedule Richard Ngo's sequence on AGI Safety from First Principles, some old Luke Muehlhauser posts on science/rationality-based self-help approaches, and all core readings in the AGI Safety Fundamental governance course.
Founders Pledge now has a podcast, featuring interviews with their members and researchers: https://founderspledge.com/stories/category/podcasts
Two book-length series of rationality-related posts by Eliezer Yudkowsky have been made into podcast versions:
(Not sure if those are the most useful links. Personally I just found the podcasts via searching the Apple Podcasts app.)
I found Rationality: From AI to Zombies very useful and quite interesting, and HPMOR fairly useful and very surprisingly engaging. I've ranked them as the 4th and 30th (respectively) most useful EA-related books I've read so far.
Naked Scientists (BBC radio show and podcast) have done a bunch of interviews with CSER researchers:
https://www.cser.ac.uk/news/naked-scientists-planet-b/
https://www.cser.ac.uk/news/haydn-belfield-interviewed-naked-scientists/
https://www.cser.ac.uk/news/workshop-featured-on-the-naked-scientists-podcast/
https://www.cser.ac.uk/news/podcast-countdown-artificial-intelligence/
One person on a forum recommending a podcast doesn't entail that podcast being recommended by the movement as a whole; this is true even if a large EA-aligned organization recommends something, let alone an individual creating a list of resources they like.
To the extent that Lomborg's name comes up on the Forum elsewhere, he seems to be regarded as a controversial figure; see this discussion, for example.
Something I'm surprised neither I nor anyone else has mentioned yet: the Slate Star Codex Podcast. This consists almost entirely of audio versions of SSC articles, along with a handful of recordings of SSC meetups (presentations + Q&As).
(I think this is my second favourite EA-related podcast, with the 80k podcast being first.)
Un equilibrio inadecuado (Spotify - Apple Podcasts - Google Podcasts)
Interviews in Spanish on EA topics. I particularly enjoyed the episode with Andrés Gómez Emilsson from Qualia Research Institute. Sadly, no new content since October 2021.
Sorry for the late comment. I've recently been listening to, and enjoying, The End of the World with Josh Clark. It seems like a really solid and approachable introduction to existential risks. It starts by covering why x-risks might be things that we should be concerned about, and then talks about AI, biosecurity and other possible threats. Includes interviews with Nick Bostrom, Toby Ord, Anders Sandberg, Robin Hanson and others :)
Alex Lintz made a collection of AI Governance-related Podcasts, Newsletters, Blogs, and more, through which I've found some podcasts or individual podcast episodes that I've found helpful.
There are some biorisk and biosecurity podcasts or podcast episodes collected in the "Talks, Podcasts, and Videos" section of A Biosecurity and Biorisk Reading+ List
I also recommend Joe Carlsmith Audio.
Audio versions of essays by Joe Carlsmith. Philosophy, futurism, and other topics. Text versions at joecarlsmith.com.
Joe reads the essays himself.
I'd recommend this for people interested in AI governance or otherwise interested in things like Chinese policymaking.
National Security Commission on AI
A podcast related to the Final Report of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI, 2021).
I'd recommend people focused on AI governance listen to at least some episodes. But unfortunately I often felt that the interviews (a) didn't grab my attention and (b) weren't really saying much of substance in a crisp and clear way (I had a feeling sort-of as if they were talking in platitudes or talking vaguely around some topics - but this may have been just because I already knew a decent amount of because I was spacing out).
I've found this podcast really useful for getting up to speed on some topics relevant to compute governance (which I'm interested in due to my and my colleague's AI governance work). So, to be clear, this is an "EA-relevant" podcast that I'd recommend for people with an interest in that area, but it's not an "EA podcast" (I don't think the host is involved in the EA community and I'm not sure if he's even aware of it).
Recent addition: Founders Pledge have started a podcast called How I Give.
There's also the podcast NonProphets:
NonProphets is a podcast about forecasting by three superforecasters. We earned the right to be called superforecasters by being among the top forecasters in the Good Judgment Project, an experimental forecasting tournament sponsored by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity. We now forecast professionally for Good Judgment, Inc.
I came across it because one of the three hosts is Robert de Neufville, who works with the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute.
I've only listened to one episode so far, but several seem fairly EA-related (e.g., one with Shahar Avin from CSER talking about AI), as one might expect given de Neufville's involvement.
A new podcast transcription of Nate Soares Replacing Guilt - https://anchor.fm/guilt
There's also the podcast Utilitarian. Only two episodes so far, but one is with Anders Sandberg, and the podcast's creator posted about that episode on the Forum, so this can probably be considered an EA-related podcast.
(I'm currently halfway through the Anders episode, and enjoying it so far.)
Sentience Institute released a new podcast on effective animal advocacy just today!
Very Bad Wizards: The One with Peter Singer (released in April, 2020)
These are some links to podcast links aimed at children that touch on EA topics.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1018843/episodes/9252374 -Meet Vaidehi Agarwalla - An Effective Altruism Community Builder
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1018843/episodes/8940898 Meet Wanyi Zeng - The Executive Director of Effective Altruism Singapore
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1018843/episodes/3754505
Meet Elissa Lane - A Farm Animal Welfare Expert
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1018843/episodes/4040834 Meet Abhay Rangan - A man dedicated to make plant based milk affordable and accessible
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1018843/episodes/3950246 Meet Varun Deshpande - A man on a mission for smart food systems
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1018843/episodes/3858503 Meet Manjunath - A Free-range egg farmer
This is the general link to the podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/curious-vedanth/id1508532011
Updating with another recent podcast: GiveDirectly's Michael Faye and Caroline Teti on Important, Not Important. A really interesting and easy to listen to interview on the value of unconditional cash transfers and their underlying philosophy.
Podcasts are a great way to learn about EA. Here’s a list of the EA-related podcasts I’ve come across over the last few years of my podcast obsession.
I’ve split them up into two categories:
Please add to the comments any podcasts that I have missed. I am always excited to find out about more interesting podcasts!
*Edited to include hyperlinks.
Two more podcasts:
Increments by Ben Chugg and Vaden Masrani.
Clearer Thinking by Spencer Greenberg of Spark Wave.