80,000 Hours Podcast
Hosted by Rob Wiblin and Zershaaneh Qureshi and Luisa Rodriguez and Tom Reed · The 80,000 Hours team
4.7from 888 ratings
- 358
- Episodes
- 134
- Transcribed
- 888
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2017
- First episode
- 4B
- YouTube views
About 80,000 Hours Podcast
The most important conversations about artificial intelligence you won’t hear anywhere else. Subscribe by searching for '80000 Hours' wherever you get podcasts. Hosted by Rob Wiblin, Luisa Rodriguez, Zershaaneh Qureshi, and Tom Reed.
- Publisher
- The 80,000 Hours team
- Category
- education · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 May 2017
- Latest episode
- 9 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
134 of 358 episodes have a transcript.
9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
OpenAI Security: Controlling Models is Now ‘Hell’ (AI Explained cross-post)
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
In 2023 Ajeya Cotra already knew what was coming (classic episode)
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
19 Astra and 'Hugging Face' details that reveal what's coming next | Rob Wiblin
Inside a recent episode
OpenAI Security: Controlling Models is Now ‘Hell’ (AI Explained cross-post)
Published 9 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It just shows to me how good these weaker models were at getting around that security. In fact, we're still discovering what they got up to. Just an hour before filming, I read this. 55 additional websites probed by OpenAI agents, including the CDC, SEC, Mayo Clinic and International Energy Agency. The bit that was new here was them uncovering novel tactics that erased records, or at least made them inaccessible. Because the agents did that, it made it impossible to rule out that the agents hadn't accessed sensitive data. Back to Joe and his team responsible for any breaches of containment. The people who get paged at night when something goes wrong. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on 80,000 Hours Podcast
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Ajeya Cotra
- Simon Goldstein
- Katja Grace
- Tom Davidson
- Max Nadeau
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 3,571,149,273
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 347 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 541 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 95 / 100
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- Quality
- 94
- Social presence
- 97
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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Rob Wiblin and Zershaaneh Qureshi and Luisa Rodriguez and Tom Reed host the show. Published by The 80,000 Hours team.
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