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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 the co-author of After the…
#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.com/episodes/smeets In this…
#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 prizes in government through…
#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 and purchasing decisions. You…
#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 University of Cambridge. You can find…
#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 key trends and questions that…
#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 Cambridge. You can find links and…
#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…
#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 artificial intelligence. He also…
#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 philosophy of mind and the nature of…
#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 the belief that 'bioweapons…
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 "showcasing innovative and impactful…
#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 see more links and a full…
#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 FDA). In this episode we talk…
#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 College London. You can…
#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 Effective Giving, which has raised…
#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. Sometimes about Asia, but…
#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 written several books on topics…
#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, potential risks posed by emerging…
#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 Center for Human-Compatible AI.…
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