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Dwarquesh Podcast
Website: https://www.dwarkesh.com/podcast
For ambitiously comprehensive coverage of efforts to build superintelligence, told by the CEOs of the Big Five tech companies.
Features deeply researched interviews with tech leaders like Mark Zuckerberg, Ilya Sustkever, and Dario Amodei. Dwarkesh Patel has built one of the most deeply-researched podcasts on artificial intelligence.
The Cognitive Revolution
Website:
https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/
A string of interviews with Ceos, developers, researchers who are themselves Integrating Frontier models. by exploring present capabilities, It stays grounded while still Offering a heady existential punch.
The 80,000 Hours Podcast
Website: https://80000hours.org/podcast/ Apple Podcasts:
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Deeply theoretical Cambridge-core, series of multi hour interviews with PhDs attempts to tip the scales tours The Good in our oncoming sci fi reality. While it's not immediately practical, It gives you a big picture framework vital this complicated world. If you're seeking known unknowns, or just conversations well worth your curiosity. start here.
reminds me a little of This American Life
Latest Apocalypse Episode: The recent episode with Athena Aktipis covers "cancer, cooperation, and the apocalypse," including staying happy while thinking about the apocalypse and practical steps to prepare.
AI Explained
Website:
https://aiexplainedopodcast.buzzsprout.com/
Some of the best content out there. If you're going to listen to nothing else, listen to this. Your monthly Grand Rounds of the Scholarly literature and model deployments. Each 10 minute Soliloquy is an absolute banger of a paper. This guy could probably work at one of the big 5 labs if he wanted to.
Website:
https://www.lastweekinai.com/
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Moving closer to the front lines Jeremy and Andrey tackle the relentless barrage of daily News for hours on end. His national security perspective perfectly situates, what would otherwise be bland headlines. If Data centers start getting bombed, he’ll be the first voice I turn to for reassurance even if the daily reminders of the Our uncertain future may have tipped Jeremy into a frantically optimistic hypomania characterized by dad jokes and galaxy brain thoughts.