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#84 – Dean Spears on the Case for People

Dean Spears is an an Economic Demographer, Development Economist, and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. With Michael Geruso, Dean is

#83 – Max Smeets on Barriers To Cyberweapons

Max Smeets is a Senior Researcher at ETH Zurich's Center for Security Studies and Co-Director of Virtual Routes You can find links and a transcript at www.hearthisidea.c

#82 – Tom Kalil on Institutions for Innovation (with Matt Clancy)

Tom Kalil is the CEO of Renaissance Philanthropy. He also served in the White House for two presidents (under Obama and Clinton); where he helped establish incentive pri

#81 – Cynthia Schuck on Quantifying Animal Welfare

Dr Cynthia Schuck-Paim is the Scientific Director of the Welfare Footprint Project, a scientific effort to quantify animal welfare to inform practice, policy, investing a

#80 – Dan Williams on How Persuasion Works

Dan Williams is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex and an Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) at the Universi

#79 – Tamay Besiroglu on Explosive Growth from AI

Tamay Besiroglu is a researcher working on the intersection of economics and AI. He is currently the Associate Director of Epoch AI, a research institute investigating ke

#78 – Jacob Trefethen on Global Health R&D

Jacob Trefethen oversees Open Philanthropy’s science and science policy programs. He was a Henry Fellow at Harvard University, and has a B.A. from the University of Cambr

#77 – Elizabeth Seger on Open Sourcing AI

Elizabeth Seger is the Director of Technology Policy at Demos, a cross-party UK think tank with a program on trustworthy AI. You can find links and a transcript at www.

#76 – Joe Carlsmith on Scheming AI

Joe Carlsmith is a writer, researcher, and philosopher. He works as a senior research analyst at Open Philanthropy, where he focuses on existential risk from advanced art

#75 – Eric Schwitzgebel on Digital Consciousness and the Weirdness of the World

Eric Schwitzgebel is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. His main interests include connections between empirical psychology and philoso

#74 – Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley on Barriers to Bioweapons

Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley is an associate professor at George Mason University and Deputy Director of their Biodefence Programme In this episode we talk about: Where

Bonus: 'How I Learned To Love Shrimp' & David Coman-Hidy

In this bonus episode we are sharing an episode by another podcast: How I Learned To Love Shrimp. It is co-hosted by Amy Odene and James Ozden, who together are "showcasi

#73 – Michelle Lavery on the Science of Animal Welfare

Michelle Lavery is a Program Associate with Open Philanthropy’s Farm Animal Welfare team, with a focus on the science and study of animal behaviour & welfare. You can se

#72 – Richard Bruns on Indoor Air Quality

Dr Richard Bruns is a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and before that was a Senior Economist at the US Food and Drug Administration (the F

#71 – Saloni Dattani on Malaria Vaccines and Missing Data in Global Health

Saloni Dattani is a Researcher at Our World in Data, and a founder & editor at the online magazine Works in Progress. She holds a PhD in psychiatric genetics from King’s

#70 – Liv Boeree on Healthy vs Unhealthy Competition

Liv Boeree is a former poker champion turned science communicator and podcaster, with a background in astrophysics. In 2014, she founded the nonprofit Raising for Effecti

#69 – Jon Y (Asianometry) on Problems And Progress in Semiconductor Manufacturing

Jon Y is the creator of the Asianometry YouTube channel and accompanying newsletter. He describes his channel as making "video essays on business, economics, and history.

#68 – Steven Teles on what the Conservative Legal Movement Teaches about Policy Advocacy

Steven Teles s is a Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University and a Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center. His work focuses on American politics and he wr

#67 – Guive Assadi on Whether Humanity Will Choose Its Future

Guive Assadi is a Research Scholar at the Center for the Governance of AI. Guive’s research focuses on the conceptual clarification of, and prioritisation among, potentia

#66 – Michael Cohen on Input Tampering in Advanced RL Agents

Michael Cohen is is a DPhil student at the University of Oxford with Mike Osborne. He will be starting a postdoc with Professor Stuart Russell at UC Berkeley, with the Ce