Consistently Candid
Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse
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#20 Frances Lorenz on the emotional side of AI x-risk, being a woman in a male-dominated online space & more
In this episode, I chatted with Frances Lorenz, events associate at the Centre for Effective Altruism. We covered our respective paths into AI safety, the emotional impact of learning about x-risk,…
#19 Gabe Alfour on why AI alignment is hard, what it would mean to solve it & what ordinary people can do about existential risk
Gabe Alfour is a co-founder of Conjecture and an advisor to Control AI, both organisations working to reduce risks from advanced AI. We discussed why AI poses an existential risk to humanity, what…
#18 Nathan Labenz on reinforcement learning, reasoning models, emergent misalignment & more
A lot has happened in AI since the last time I spoke to Nathan Labenz of The Cognitive Revolution, so I invited him back on for a whistlestop tour of the most important developments we've seen over…
#17 Fun Theory with Noah Topper
The Fun Theory Sequence is one of Eliezer Yudkowsky's cheerier works, and considers questions such as 'how much fun is there in the universe?', 'are we having fun yet' and 'could we be having more…
#16 John Sherman on the psychological experience of learning about x-risk and AI safety messaging strategies
John Sherman is the host of the For Humanity Podcast, which (much like this one!) aims to explain AI safety to a non-expert audience. In this episode, we compared our experiences of encountering AI…
#14 Buck Shlegeris on AI control
Buck Shlegeris is the CEO of Redwood Research, a non-profit working to reduce risks from powerful AI. We discussed Redwood's research into AI control, why we shouldn't feel confident that witnessing…
#13 Aaron Bergman and Max Alexander debate the Very Repugnant Conclusion
In this episode, Aaron Bergman and Max Alexander are back to battle it out for the philosophy crown, while I (attempt to) moderate. They discuss the Very Repugnant Conclusion, which, in the words of…
#12 Deger Turan on all things forecasting
Deger Turan is the CEO of forecasting platform Metaculus and president of the AI Objectives Institute. In this episode, we discuss how forecasting can be used to help humanity coordinate around…
#11 Katja Grace on the AI Impacts survey, the case for slowing down AI & arguments for and against x-risk
Katja Grace is the co-founder of AI Impacts, a non-profit focused on answering key questions about the future trajectory of AI development, which is best known for conducting the world's largest…
#10 Nathan Labenz on the current AI state-of-the-art, the Red Team in Public project, reasons for hope on AI x-risk & more
Nathan Labenz is the founder of AI content-generation platform Waymark and host of The Cognitive Revolution Podcast, who now works full-time on tracking and analysing developments in AI. We chatted…
#9 Sneha Revanur on founding Encode Justice, California's SB-1047, and youth advocacy for safe AI development
Sheha Revanur is a the founder of Encode Justice, an international, youth-led network campaigning for the responsible development of AI, which was among the sponsors of California's proposed AI bill…
#8 Nathan Young on forecasting, AI risk & regulation, and how not to lose your mind on Twitter
Nathan Young is a forecaster, software developer and tentative AI optimist. In this episode, we discussed how Nathan approaches forecasting, why his p(doom) is 2-9%, whether we should pause AGI…
#7 Noah Topper helps me understand Eliezer Yudkowsky
A while back, my self-confessed inability to fully comprehend the writings of Eliezer Yudkowsky elicited the sympathy of the author himself. In an attempt to more completely understand why AI is…
#6 Holly Elmore on pausing AI, protesting, warning shots & more
Holly Elmore is an AI pause advocate and Executive Director of PauseAI US. We chatted about the case for pausing AI, her experience of organising protests against frontier AGI research, the danger of…
#5 Joep Meindertsma on founding PauseAI and strategies for communicating AI risk
In this episode, I talked with Joep Meindertsma, founder of PauseAI, about how he discovered AI safety, the emotional experience of internalising existential risks, strategies for communicating AI…
#4 Émile P. Torres and I discuss where we agree and disagree on AI safety
Émile P. Torres is a philosopher and historian known for their research on the history and ethical implications of human extinction. They are also an outspoken critic of Effective Altruism,…
#3 Darren McKee on explaining AI risk to the public & navigating the AI safety debate
Darren McKee is an author, speaker and policy advisor who has recently penned a beginner-friendly introduction to AI Safety named Uncontrollable: The Threat of Artificial Superintelligence and the…
#1 Aaron Bergman and Max Alexander argue about moral realism while I smile and nod
In this inaugural episode of Consistently Candid, Aaron Bergman and Max Alexander each try to convince me of their position on moral realism, and I settle the issue once and for all. Featuring…
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Consistently Candid has published 18 episodes since December 2023, covering topics in Philosophy, Society & Culture.
Consistently Candid is currently sporadic with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 1h 18m.
