Best Sarah Hastings Woodhouse Podcasts (2025)

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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 51:42

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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, what it's like to be female in a male-dominated community and more! Follow Frances on Twitter Subscribe to her Substack Apply for EAG London!…

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#19 Gabe Alfour on why AI alignment is hard, what it would mean to solve it & what ordinary people can do about existential risk 1:36:40

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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 makes this problem very hard to solve, why Gabe believes we need to prevent the development of superintelligence for at least the next two decades, and m…

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#18 Nathan Labenz on reinforcement learning, reasoning models, emergent misalignment & more 1:46:17

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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 the last year! We covered reasoning models, DeepSeek, the many spooky alignment failures we've observed in the last few months & much more! Follow Natha…

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#17 Fun Theory with Noah Topper 1:25:53

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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 fun?'. It tries to answer some of the philosophical quandries we might encounter when envisioning a post-AGI utopia. In this episode, I discussed Fun The…

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#16 John Sherman on the psychological experience of learning about x-risk and AI safety messaging strategies 52:49

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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 safety arguments for the first time and the psychological experience of being aware of x-risk, as well as what messaging strategies the AI safety commun…

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#15 Should we be engaging in civil disobedience to protest AGI development? 1:18:20

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StopAI are a non-profit aiming to achieve a permanent ban on the development of AGI through peaceful protest. In this episode, I chatted with three of founders of StopAI – Remmelt Ellen, Sam Kirchner and Guido Reichstadter. We talked about what protest tactics StopAI have been using, and why they want a stop (and not just a pause!) in the developme…

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#14 Buck Shlegeris on AI control 49:19

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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 an AI escape attempt would persuade labs to undeploy dangerous models, lessons from the vetoing of SB1047, the importance of lab security and more. Pos…

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#13 Aaron Bergman and Max Alexander debate the Very Repugnant Conclusion 1:53:51

9M ago1:53:51

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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 Claude, "posits that a world with a vast population living lives barely worth living could be considered ethically inferior to a world with an even lar…

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#12 Deger Turan on all things forecasting 54:21

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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 reducing existential risks, Deger's advice for aspiring forecasters, the future of using AI for forecasting and more! Enter Metaculus's Q3 AI Forecasting Be…

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#11 Katja Grace on the AI Impacts survey, the case for slowing down AI & arguments for and against x-risk 1:16:34

12M ago1:16:34

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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 survey of machine learning researchers. We talked about the most interesting results from the survey, Katja's views on whether we should slow down AI progr…

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#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 1:54:22

12M ago1:54:22

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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 about where we currently stand with state-of-art AI capabilities, whether we should be advocating for a pause on scaling frontier models, Nathan's Red T…

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#9 Sneha Revanur on founding Encode Justice, California's SB-1047, and youth advocacy for safe AI development 49:50

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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 SB-1047. We chatted about why Sheha founded Encode Justice, the importance of youth advocacy in AI safety, and what the movement can learn from climate…

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#8 Nathan Young on forecasting, AI risk & regulation, and how not to lose your mind on Twitter 1:28:07

1y ago1:28:07

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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 research, and more! Follow Nathan on Twitter: Nathan 🔍 (@NathanpmYoung) / X (twitter.com) Nathan's substack: Predictive Text | Nathan Young | Substack My Tw…

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#7 Noah Topper helps me understand Eliezer Yudkowsky 1:28:31

1y ago1:28:31

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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 going to kill us all, I enlisted the help of Noah Topper, recent Computer Science Masters graduate and long-time EY fan, to help me break down A List of Le…

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#6 Holly Elmore on pausing AI, protesting, warning shots & more 1:48:01

1y ago1:48:01

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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 relying on warning shots, the prospect of techno-utopia, possible risks of pausing and more! Follow Holly on Twitter: Holly ⏸️ Elmore (@ilex_ulmus) / …

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#5 Joep Meindertsma on founding PauseAI and strategies for communicating AI risk 46:43

1+ y ago46:43

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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 risk, his assessment of recent AI policy developments and more! Find out more about PauseAI at www.pauseai.info…

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#4 Émile P. Torres and I discuss where we agree and disagree on AI safety 1:47:21

1+ y ago1:47:21

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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, longtermism and the AI safety movement. In this episode, we chatted about why Émile opposes both the 'doomer' and accelerationist factions, and identified some …

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#3 Darren McKee on explaining AI risk to the public & navigating the AI safety debate 51:40

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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 Race to Save the World. We chatted about the best arguments for worrying about AI, responses to common objections, how to navigate the online AI safety s…

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#2 Akash Wasil on transitioning into AI policy & promising proposals for national security 1:10:57

1+ y ago1:10:57

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Akash is an AI policy researcher working on ways to reduce global security risks from advanced AI. He has worked at the Center for AI Safety, Center for AI Policy, and Control AI. Before getting involved in AI safety, he was a PhD student studying technology & mental health at the University of Pennsylvania. We chatted about why he decided to work …

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#1 Aaron Bergman and Max Alexander argue about moral realism while I smile and nod 1:08:17

1+ y ago1:08:17

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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 occasional interjections from the sat-nav in the Uber Aaron was taking at the time.My Twitter: https://twitter.com/littIeramblings Max's Twitter: https://twi…

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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 51:42

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#19 Gabe Alfour on why AI alignment is hard, what it would mean to solve it & what ordinary people can do about existential risk 1:36:40

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#18 Nathan Labenz on reinforcement learning, reasoning models, emergent misalignment & more 1:46:17

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#17 Fun Theory with Noah Topper 1:25:53

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#16 John Sherman on the psychological experience of learning about x-risk and AI safety messaging strategies 52:49

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#15 Should we be engaging in civil disobedience to protest AGI development? 1:18:20

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#14 Buck Shlegeris on AI control 49:19

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#13 Aaron Bergman and Max Alexander debate the Very Repugnant Conclusion 1:53:51

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#12 Deger Turan on all things forecasting 54:21

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#11 Katja Grace on the AI Impacts survey, the case for slowing down AI & arguments for and against x-risk 1:16:34

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#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 1:54:22

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#9 Sneha Revanur on founding Encode Justice, California's SB-1047, and youth advocacy for safe AI development 49:50

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#8 Nathan Young on forecasting, AI risk & regulation, and how not to lose your mind on Twitter 1:28:07

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#7 Noah Topper helps me understand Eliezer Yudkowsky 1:28:31

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#6 Holly Elmore on pausing AI, protesting, warning shots & more 1:48:01

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#5 Joep Meindertsma on founding PauseAI and strategies for communicating AI risk 46:43

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#4 Émile P. Torres and I discuss where we agree and disagree on AI safety 1:47:21

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#3 Darren McKee on explaining AI risk to the public & navigating the AI safety debate 51:40

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#2 Akash Wasil on transitioning into AI policy & promising proposals for national security 1:10:57

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#1 Aaron Bergman and Max Alexander argue about moral realism while I smile and nod 1:08:17