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1) #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 talk about: An overview of AI governance space, and disen...Show More
2) #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 Spi...Show More
3) #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 epi...Show More
4) #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 chall...Show More
5) #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 c...Show More
6) #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 ...Show More
7) #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 wi...Show More
8) #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 a...Show More
9) #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 www.hearthisidea.com/episodes/seger...Show More
10) #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 ...Show More