Your AI crash course starts here: Our best episodes to get up to speed on transformative AI — 80,000 Hours Podcast

We make a lot of episodes about AI these days. We recently picked out the best 10 episodes of the show to really help deepen your understanding of AI and AGI and superintelligence and recursive self-improvement — and the impact all of those things might have.

We aimed for episodes that were entertaining as well as highly informative, and tried to choose 10 that didn't overlap too much, so between them could cover most of the core issues.

You can find them all now in a feed called The 80,000 Hours Podcast on Artificial Intelligence, available wherever you get podcasts.

And at https://80000hours.org/AIpod, you can sign up to get one of them sent to your email each week for 10 weeks — plus one week with our bonus episodes of article readings and how to pivot your career into AI.

Across the 10 core episodes, you will learn:

How AI could compress a century of intellectual progress into a decade
Why today's training techniques actively encourage models to lie to us
How the economy and geopolitics will shift in response to superhuman AI, and indeed are shifting already in response to superhuman AI
How superintelligent AI is in serious tension with maintaining democracy
the real nature of the AI arms race between the US and China
How AI shifts the risks of pandemics and bioweapons over time
how to think about AI consciousness and welfare and whether it matters, and the scramble to understand what AI models are really thinking about deep down.

If you're also looking to change your career to work in AI, we close out with an episode that lays out dozens of valuable concrete projects that need people to work on them right now, and an interview with the founder of 80,000 Hours explaining how to redirect your career towards this kind of work.

Learn more about what you can do to help: https://80000hours.org/ai/