The 80,000 Hours Podcast is a podcast by 80,000 Hours. It is primarily hosted by Robert Wiblin, and produced by Keiran Harris. The first episode was released in June 2017.

Past guests of the show include Sam Bankman-Fried,^[1] Nick Beckstead,^[2] Alexander Berger,^[3] Vitalik Buterin,^[4] Bryan Caplan,^[5]^[6] David Chalmers,^[7] Paul Christiano,^[8]^[9] Tyler Cowen,^[10] Julia Galef,^[11] Hilary Greaves,^[12]^[13] Robin Hanson,^[14] Holden Karnofsky,^[15]^[16]^[17] William MacAskill,^[18]^[19] Yew-Kwang Ng,^[20] Toby Ord,^[21]^[22] Kelsey Piper,^[23] Stuart Russell,^[24] Anders Sandberg,^[25]^[26] Carl Shulman,^[27] Peter Singer,^[28] Philip Tetlock^[29]^[30] and many other notable figures in the effective altruism community or adjacent to it.

External links

80,000 Hours Podcast. Official website.

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Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2022) Sam Bankman-Fried on taking a high-risk approach to crypto and doing good, 80,000 Hours, April 14.
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Wiblin, Robert (2017) You want to do as much good as possible and have billions of dollars. What do you do?, 80,000 Hours, October 11.
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Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2021) Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways, 80,000 Hours, July 12.
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Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2019) Vitalik Buterin on effective altruism, better ways to fund public goods, the blockchain’s problems so far, and how it could yet change the world, 80,000 Hours, September 3.
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Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2018) Economist Bryan Caplan thinks education is mostly pointless showing off. We test the strength of his case, 80,000 Hours, May 22.
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Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2022) Bryan Caplan on why lazy parenting is actually OK, 80,000 Hours, April 5.
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Wiblin, Robert, Arden Koehler & Keiran Harris (2019) David Chalmers on the nature and ethics of consciousness, 80,000 Hours, December 16.
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Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2018) Dr Paul Christiano on how OpenAI is developing real solutions to the “AI Alignment Problem”, and his vision of how humanity will progressively hand over decision-making to AI systems, 80,000 Hours, October 2.
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Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2019) Should we leave a helpful message for future civilizations, just in case humanity dies out?, 80,000 Hours, August 5.
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Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2018) Economics prof Tyler Cowen says our overwhelming priorities should be maximising economic growth and making civilisation more stable. Is he right?, 80,000 Hours, October 17.
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Wiblin, Robert (2017) Julia Galef on making humanity more rational, what EA does wrong, and why Twitter isn’t all bad, 80,000 Hours, September 13.
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Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2018) Philosopher Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness, population ethics, probability within a multiverse, & harnessing the brainpower of academia to tackle the most important research questions, 80,000 Hours, October 23.
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Koehler, Arden, Robert Wiblin & Keiran Harris (2020) Hilary Greaves on Pascal’s mugging, strong longtermism, and whether existing can be good for us, 80,000 Hours, October 21.
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Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2018) Why we have to lie to ourselves about why we do what we do, according to Prof Robin Hanson, 80,000 Hours, March 28.
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Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2018) The world’s most intellectual foundation is hiring. Holden Karnofsky, founder of GiveWell, on how philanthropy can have maximum impact by taking big risks, 80,000 Hours, February 27.
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Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2021) Holden Karnofsky on the most important century, 80,000 Hours, August 19.
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Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2021) Holden Karnofsky on building aptitudes and kicking ass, 80,000 Hours, August 26.
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Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2018) Our descendants will probably see us as moral monsters. what should we do about that?, 80,000 Hours, January 19.
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Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2020) Will MacAskill on the moral case against ever leaving the house, whether now is the hinge of history, and the culture of effective altruism, 80,000 Hours, January 24.
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Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2018) Prof Yew-Kwang Ng on ethics and how to create a much happier world, 80,000 Hours, July 26.
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Wiblin, Robert (2017) Toby Ord on why the long-term future of humanity matters more than anything else, and what we should do about it, 80,000 Hours, September 6.
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Wiblin, Robert, Arden Koehler & Keiran Harris (2020) Toby Ord on the precipice and humanity’s potential futures, 80,000 Hours, March 7.
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Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2019) Can journalists still write about important things?, 80,000 Hours, February 27.
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Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2020) The flaws that make today’s AI architecture unsafe and a new approach that could fix it, 80,000 Hours, June 22.
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Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2018) Where are the aliens? Three new resolutions to the fermi paradox. And how we could easily colonise the whole universe, 80,000 Hours, May 8.
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Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2018) Oxford university’s Dr Anders Sandberg on if dictators could live forever, the annual risk of nuclear war, solar flares, and more, 80,000 Hours, May 29.
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Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2021) Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications, 80,000 Hours, October 5.
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Wiblin, Robert, Arden Koehler & Keiran Harris (2019) Peter Singer on being provocative, EA, how his moral views have changed, & rescuing children drowning in ponds, 80,000 Hours, December 5.
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Wiblin, Robert (2017) Prof Tetlock on predicting catastrophes, why keep your politics secret, and when experts know more than you, 80,000 Hours, November 20.
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Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2019) Accurately predicting the future is central to absolutely everything. Professor Tetlock has spent 40 years studying how to do it better, 80,000 Hours, June 28.