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Hear This Idea
Hear This Idea is a podcast showcasing new thinking in philosophy, the social sciences, and effective altruism. Each episode has an accompanying write-up at www.hearthisidea.com/episodes.
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#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 transcr...
#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 helpe...
#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,...
#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 (...
#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 instit...
#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...
#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...
#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 ri...
#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 ps...
#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 episo...
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 to...
#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 &...
#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 A...
#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 g...
#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...
#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, eco...
#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 America...
#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 prioritisa...
#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 B...
#65 – Katja Grace on Slowing Down AI and Whether the X-Risk Case Holds Up
Katja Grace is a researcher and writer. She runs AI Impacts, a research project trying to incrementally answer decision-relevant questions about the f...
#64 – Michael Aird on Strategies for Reducing AI Existential Risk
Michael Aird is a senior research manager at Rethink Priorities, where he co-leads the Artificial Intelligence Governance and Strategy team alongside...
#63 – Ben Garfinkel on AI Governance
Ben Garfinkel is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Acting Director of the Centre for the Governance of AI.
In this episode we ta...
#62 – Anders Sandberg on Exploratory Engineering, Value Diversity, and Grand Futures
Anders Sandberg is a researcher, futurist, transhumanist and author. He holds a PhD in computational neuroscience from Stockholm University, and is cu...
#61 – Rory Stewart on GiveDirectly and Massively Scaling Cash Transfers
Rory Stewart is the President of GiveDirectly and a visiting fellow at Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Before that, Rory was (amongst oth...
#60 – Jaime Sevilla on Trends in Machine Learning
Jaime Sevilla is the Director of Epoch, a team of researchers investigating and forecasting the development of advanced AI. This is his second time on...
#59 – Chris Miller on the History of Semiconductors, TSMC, and the CHIPS Act
Chris Miller is an Associate Professor of International History at Tufts University and author of the book “Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most C...
Bonus: Preventing an AI-Related Catastrophe
AI might bring huge benefits — if we avoid the risks.
This episode is a rebroadcast of an article written for 80,000 Hours Preventing an AI-rela...
#58 – Carl Robichaud on Reducing the Risks of Nuclear War
A full writeup of this episode, including references and a transcript, is available on our website: https://hearthisidea.com/episodes/robichaud.
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Bonus: Damon Binder on Economic History and the Future of Physics
Damon Binder is a research analyst at Open Philanthropy. His research focuses on potential risks from pandemics and from biotechnology. He previously...
#57 – Greg Nemet on Technological Change and How Solar Became Cheap
A full writeup of this episode, including references and a transcript, is available on our website: https://hearthisidea.com/episodes/nemet
Greg...
#56 – Dewi Erwan on BlueDot Impact and Scaling High-Impact Organisations
A full writeup of this episode, including references and a transcript, is available on our website: https://hearthisidea.com/episodes/erwan
Dewi...
#55 – Jassi Pannu and Joshua Monrad on Pandemic Preparedness
A full writeup of this episode, including references and a transcript, is available on our website:
hearthisidea.com/episodes/pannu-monrad
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#54 – Edouard Mathieu on Our World in Data
A full writeup of this episode, including references and a transcript, is available on our website: hearthisidea.com/episodes/mathieu
Edouard Ma...
#53 – Tessa Alexanian and Janvi Ahuja on Synthetic Biology and GCBRs
A full writeup of this episode, including references and a transcript, is available on our website: hearthisidea.com/episodes/alexanian-ahuja
Te...
#52 – Michael Aird on how to do Impact-Driven Research
Michael Aird is a senior research manager at Rethink Priorities, where he co-leads the Artificial Intelligence Governance and Strategy team alongside...
#51 – Kevin Esvelt and Jonas Sandbrink on Risks from Biological Research
A full writeup of this episode is available on our website: hearthisidea.com/episodes/esvelt-sandbrink.
Kevin Esvelt is an assistant professor a...
Bonus: 50th Episode Celebration
In this episode, Fin and Luca celebrate 50 episodes of Hear This Idea: all the highs, lows, and near-disasters along the way.
We chat about:
#50 – Doyne Farmer on Complexity and Predicting Technological Progress
Professor Doyne Farmer is the Baillie Gifford Professor in Mathematics at Oxford, the Director of the Complexity Economics programme at INET, and an E...
#49 – Ajay Karpur on Metagenomic Sequencing
Ajay Karpur is a senior research software engineer at RAND, working with the Meselson Center. He's hoping to start tweeting again soon, at @ajaykarpur...
#48 – Spencer Weart on the Discovery of Global Warming
Dr Spencer R. Weart served as the Director of the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics from 1974 to 2009. He is the auth...