Interviews

TagLast edit: 26 Nov 2021 14:28 UTC by Multicore

Interviews

My Interview With Cade Metz on His Reporting About Slate Star Codex

Zack_M_Davis26 Mar 2024 17:18 UTC

203 points

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Bankless Podcast: 159 - We’re All Gonna Die with Eliezer Yudkowsky

bayesed20 Feb 2023 16:42 UTC

83 points

54 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

AXRP Episode 37 - Jaime Sevilla on Forecasting AI

DanielFilan4 Oct 2024 21:00 UTC

21 points

3 comments56 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 31 - Singular Learning Theory with Daniel Murfet

DanielFilan7 May 2024 3:50 UTC

72 points

4 comments71 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 44 - Peter Salib on AI Rights for Human Safety

DanielFilan28 Jun 2025 1:40 UTC

12 points

0 comments103 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 38.5 - Adrià Garriga-Alonso on Detecting AI Scheming

DanielFilan20 Jan 2025 0:40 UTC

9 points

0 comments16 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 22 - Shard Theory with Quintin Pope

DanielFilan15 Jun 2023 19:00 UTC

52 points

11 comments93 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 19 - Mechanistic Interpretability with Neel Nanda

DanielFilan4 Feb 2023 3:00 UTC

45 points

0 comments117 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 17 - Training for Very High Reliability with Daniel Ziegler

DanielFilan21 Aug 2022 23:50 UTC

16 points

0 comments35 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 6 - Debate and Imitative Generalization with Beth Barnes

DanielFilan8 Apr 2021 21:20 UTC

26 points

3 comments60 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 38.3 - Erik Jenner on Learned Look-Ahead

DanielFilan12 Dec 2024 5:40 UTC

20 points

0 comments16 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 38.2 - Jesse Hoogland on Singular Learning Theory

DanielFilan27 Nov 2024 6:30 UTC

34 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 41 - Lee Sharkey on Attribution-based Parameter Decomposition

DanielFilan3 Jun 2025 3:40 UTC

28 points

1 comment61 min readLW link

My Interview With Cade Metz on His Reporting About Lighthaven

Zack_M_Davis17 Aug 2025 2:30 UTC

151 points

15 comments5 min readLW link

Interview with Steven Byrnes on Brain-like AGI, Foom & Doom, and Solving Technical Alignment

Liron and Steven Byrnes

5 Aug 2025 0:05 UTC

46 points

1 comment89 min readLW link

(lironshapira.substack.com)

AXRP Episode 2 - Learning Human Biases with Rohin Shah

DanielFilan29 Dec 2020 20:43 UTC

13 points

0 comments35 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 16 - Preparing for Debate AI with Geoffrey Irving

DanielFilan1 Jul 2022 22:20 UTC

20 points

0 comments37 min readLW link

deluks917 on Online Weirdos

Jacob Falkovich24 Nov 2018 17:03 UTC

24 points

3 comments10 min readLW link

Duncan Sabien On Writing

lynettebye7 Apr 2022 16:09 UTC

36 points

3 comments16 min readLW link

Interview with Kelsey Piper on Self-Censorship and the Vibe Shift

Zack_M_Davis7 Aug 2025 2:51 UTC

57 points

0 comments15 min readLW link

(unremediatedgender.space)

AXRP Episode 13 - First Principles of AGI Safety with Richard Ngo

DanielFilan31 Mar 2022 5:20 UTC

25 points

1 comment48 min readLW link

Robin Hanson on the futurist focus on AI

abergal13 Nov 2019 21:50 UTC

31 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

(aiimpacts.org)

Evan Hubinger on Inner Alignment, Outer Alignment, and Proposals for Building Safe Advanced AI

Palus Astra1 Jul 2020 17:30 UTC

35 points

4 comments67 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 18 - Concept Extrapolation with Stuart Armstrong

DanielFilan3 Sep 2022 23:12 UTC

12 points

1 comment39 min readLW link

Interview on IQ, genes, and genetic engineering with expert (Hsu)

James_Miller28 May 2017 22:19 UTC

7 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

AXRP Episode 32 - Understanding Agency with Jan Kulveit

DanielFilan30 May 2024 3:50 UTC

20 points

0 comments53 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 45 - Samuel Albanie on DeepMind’s AGI Safety Approach

DanielFilan6 Jul 2025 23:00 UTC

31 points

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AXRP Episode 38.7 - Anthony Aguirre on the Future of Life Institute

DanielFilan9 Feb 2025 1:10 UTC

10 points

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AXRP Episode 27 - AI Control with Buck Shlegeris and Ryan Greenblatt

DanielFilan11 Apr 2024 21:30 UTC

69 points

10 comments107 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 38.8 - David Duvenaud on Sabotage Evaluations and the Post-AGI Future

DanielFilan1 Mar 2025 1:20 UTC

13 points

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AXRP Episode 29 - Science of Deep Learning with Vikrant Varma

DanielFilan25 Apr 2024 19:10 UTC

20 points

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AXRP Episode 42 - Owain Evans on LLM Psychology

DanielFilan6 Jun 2025 20:20 UTC

13 points

0 comments66 min readLW link

Robin Hanson and I talk about AI risk

KatjaGrace4 May 2023 22:20 UTC

39 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

AXRP Episode 14 - Infra-Bayesian Physicalism with Vanessa Kosoy

DanielFilan5 Apr 2022 23:10 UTC

25 points

10 comments52 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 36 - Adam Shai and Paul Riechers on Computational Mechanics

DanielFilan29 Sep 2024 5:50 UTC

25 points

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AXRP Episode 38.4 - Shakeel Hashim on AI Journalism

DanielFilan5 Jan 2025 0:20 UTC

11 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

Jim Babcock’s Mainline Doom Scenario: Human-Level AI Can’t Control Its Successor

Liron and jimrandomh

9 May 2025 5:20 UTC

30 points

4 comments62 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

On (Not) Feeling the AGI

Zvi25 Mar 2025 14:30 UTC

49 points

25 comments11 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

AXRP Episode 15 - Natural Abstractions with John Wentworth

DanielFilan23 May 2022 5:40 UTC

34 points

1 comment58 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 24 - Superalignment with Jan Leike

DanielFilan27 Jul 2023 4:00 UTC

55 points

3 comments69 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 7 - Side Effects with Victoria Krakovna

DanielFilan14 May 2021 3:50 UTC

34 points

6 comments43 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 38.6 - Joel Lehman on Positive Visions of AI

DanielFilan24 Jan 2025 23:00 UTC

10 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 40 - Jason Gross on Compact Proofs and Interpretability

DanielFilan28 Mar 2025 18:40 UTC

26 points

0 comments89 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 8 - Assistance Games with Dylan Hadfield-Menell

DanielFilan8 Jun 2021 23:20 UTC

22 points

1 comment72 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 23 - Mechanistic Anomaly Detection with Mark Xu

DanielFilan27 Jul 2023 1:50 UTC

22 points

0 comments72 min readLW link

Interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky on Rationality and Systematic Misunderstanding of AI Alignment

Liron15 Sep 2025 18:35 UTC

89 points

21 comments93 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

AXRP Episode 10 - AI’s Future and Impacts with Katja Grace

DanielFilan23 Jul 2021 22:10 UTC

34 points

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AXRP Episode 11 - Attainable Utility and Power with Alex Turner

DanielFilan25 Sep 2021 21:10 UTC

19 points

5 comments53 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 21 - Interpretability for Engineers with Stephen Casper

DanielFilan2 May 2023 0:50 UTC

12 points

1 comment66 min readLW link

EAI Alignment Speaker Series #1: Challenges for Safe & Beneficial Brain-Like Artificial General Intelligence with Steve Byrnes

Curtis Huebner and Steven Byrnes

23 Mar 2023 14:32 UTC

28 points

0 comments27 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

AXRP Episode 9 - Finite Factored Sets with Scott Garrabrant

DanielFilan24 Jun 2021 22:10 UTC

59 points

2 comments59 min readLW link

“Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization” Yudkowsky on Lex Fridman

DragonGod30 Mar 2023 15:43 UTC

38 points

33 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

[Interview w/ Quintin Pope] Evolution, values, and AI Safety

fowlertm24 Oct 2023 13:53 UTC

11 points

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AXRP Episode 39 - Evan Hubinger on Model Organisms of Misalignment

DanielFilan1 Dec 2024 6:00 UTC

41 points

0 comments67 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 35 - Peter Hase on LLM Beliefs and Easy-to-Hard Generalization

DanielFilan24 Aug 2024 22:30 UTC

21 points

0 comments74 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 38.1 - Alan Chan on Agent Infrastructure

DanielFilan16 Nov 2024 23:30 UTC

12 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 20 - ‘Reform’ AI Alignment with Scott Aaronson

DanielFilan12 Apr 2023 21:30 UTC

22 points

2 comments68 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 1 - Adversarial Policies with Adam Gleave

DanielFilan29 Dec 2020 20:41 UTC

12 points

5 comments34 min readLW link

A Key Power of the President is to Coordinate the Execution of Existing Concrete Plans

Ben Pace16 Jul 2019 5:06 UTC

152 points

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Ilya Sutskever’s thoughts on AI safety (July 2023): a transcript with my comments

mishka10 Aug 2023 19:07 UTC

22 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 5 - Infra-Bayesianism with Vanessa Kosoy

DanielFilan10 Mar 2021 4:30 UTC

35 points

12 comments36 min readLW link

Geoffrey Miller on Effective Altruism and Rationality

Jacob Falkovich15 Jun 2018 17:05 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(putanumonit.com)

AXRP Episode 38.0 - Zhijing Jin on LLMs, Causality, and Multi-Agent Systems

DanielFilan14 Nov 2024 7:00 UTC

14 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

I wanted to interview Eliezer Yudkowsky but he’s busy so I simulated him instead

lsusr16 Sep 2021 7:34 UTC

114 points

33 comments5 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 12 - AI Existential Risk with Paul Christiano

DanielFilan2 Dec 2021 2:20 UTC

38 points

0 comments126 min readLW link

AI Alignment Podcast: An Overview of Technical AI Alignment in 2018 and 2019 with Buck Shlegeris and Rohin Shah

Palus Astra16 Apr 2020 0:50 UTC

58 points

27 comments89 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 43 - David Lindner on Myopic Optimization with Non-myopic Approval

DanielFilan15 Jun 2025 1:20 UTC

12 points

0 comments56 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 30 - AI Security with Jeffrey Ladish

DanielFilan1 May 2024 2:50 UTC

25 points

0 comments79 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 34 - AI Evaluations with Beth Barnes

DanielFilan28 Jul 2024 3:30 UTC

23 points

0 comments69 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 25 - Cooperative AI with Caspar Oesterheld

DanielFilan3 Oct 2023 21:50 UTC

43 points

0 comments92 min readLW link

Gwern Branwen interview on Dwarkesh Patel’s podcast: “How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI’s Trajectory”

Said Achmiz14 Nov 2024 23:53 UTC

87 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.dwarkeshpatel.com)

Podcast with Divia Eden on operant conditioning

DanielFilan15 Jan 2023 2:44 UTC

14 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

Podcast with Oli Habryka on LessWrong / Lightcone Infrastructure

DanielFilan5 Feb 2023 2:52 UTC

88 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

(thefilancabinet.com)

AXRP Episode 46 - Tom Davidson on AI-enabled Coups

DanielFilan7 Aug 2025 5:10 UTC

11 points

0 comments68 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 28 - Suing Labs for AI Risk with Gabriel Weil

DanielFilan17 Apr 2024 21:42 UTC

12 points

0 comments65 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 33 - RLHF Problems with Scott Emmons

DanielFilan12 Jun 2024 3:30 UTC

34 points

0 comments56 min readLW link

Me (Steve Byrnes) on the “Brain Inspired” podcast

Steven Byrnes30 Oct 2022 19:15 UTC

26 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(braininspired.co)

AXRP Episode 3 - Negotiable Reinforcement Learning with Andrew Critch

DanielFilan29 Dec 2020 20:45 UTC

27 points

0 comments28 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 26 - AI Governance with Elizabeth Seger

DanielFilan26 Nov 2023 23:00 UTC

14 points

0 comments66 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 7.5 - Forecasting Transformative AI from Biological Anchors with Ajeya Cotra

DanielFilan28 May 2021 0:20 UTC

24 points

1 comment67 min readLW link

AXRP Episode 4 - Risks from Learned Optimization with Evan Hubinger

DanielFilan18 Feb 2021 0:03 UTC

43 points

10 comments87 min readLW link

BHTV: Jaron Lanier and Yudkowsky

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Nov 2008 17:04 UTC

8 points

66 comments1 min readLW link

BHTV: Yudkowsky / Wilkinson

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Jan 2009 1:10 UTC

4 points

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Q&A with experts on risks from AI #2

XiXiDu9 Jan 2012 19:40 UTC

22 points

29 comments7 min readLW link

Aella on Rationality and the Void

Jacob Falkovich31 Oct 2019 21:40 UTC

27 points

8 comments15 min readLW link

Interview with Putanumonit

Jacob Falkovich24 Apr 2019 14:53 UTC

15 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

FLI Podcast: The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity with Toby Ord

Palus Astra1 Apr 2020 1:02 UTC

7 points

1 comment46 min readLW link

Ethan Perez on the Inverse Scaling Prize, Language Feedback and Red Teaming

Michaël Trazzi24 Aug 2022 16:35 UTC

26 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(theinsideview.ai)

Q&A with experts on risks from AI #1

XiXiDu8 Jan 2012 11:46 UTC

45 points

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Notes from a conversation with Ing. Agr. Adriana Balzarini

Pablo Repetto8 May 2022 15:56 UTC

5 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(pabloernesto.github.io)

[Link] My Interview with Dilbert creator Scott Adams

James_Miller13 Sep 2016 5:22 UTC

17 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

Muehlhauser-Wang Dialogue

lukeprog22 Apr 2012 22:40 UTC

34 points

288 comments12 min readLW link

AI Alignment Podcast: On Lethal Autonomous Weapons with Paul Scharre

Palus Astra16 Mar 2020 23:00 UTC

12 points

0 comments48 min readLW link

Transcription of Eliezer’s January 2010 video Q&A

curiousepic14 Nov 2011 17:02 UTC

112 points

9 comments56 min readLW link

Interview with Matt Freeman

Evenflair21 Nov 2022 18:17 UTC

15 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(overcast.fm)

Bloggingheads: Yudkowsky and Horgan

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Jun 2008 22:09 UTC

7 points

37 comments1 min readLW link

Interview with Christine M. Korsgaard: Animal Ethics, Kantianism, Utilitarianism

Erich_Grunewald8 May 2021 11:44 UTC

11 points

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(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Podcast: Eye4AI on 2023 Survey

KatjaGrace16 May 2024 7:40 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Interview with Olle Häggström: Reason, COVID-19 and Academic Freedom in Sweden

Erich_Grunewald21 Aug 2021 15:08 UTC

8 points

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(www.erichgrunewald.com)

See Eliezer talk with PZ Myers and David Brin (and me) about immortality this Sunday

Eneasz17 Jul 2013 15:56 UTC

26 points

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BHTV: de Grey and Yudkowsky

Eliezer Yudkowsky13 Dec 2008 15:28 UTC

10 points

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Q&A with Abram Demski on risks from AI

XiXiDu17 Jan 2012 9:43 UTC

33 points

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Conversation with Paul Christiano

abergal11 Sep 2019 23:20 UTC

44 points

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(aiimpacts.org)

Q&A with Stan Franklin on risks from AI

XiXiDu11 Jun 2011 15:22 UTC

36 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

[Transcript] Richard Feynman on Why Questions

Grognor8 Jan 2012 19:01 UTC

116 points

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Rohin Shah on reasons for AI optimism

abergal31 Oct 2019 12:10 UTC

40 points

58 comments1 min readLW link

(aiimpacts.org)

BHTV: Yudkowsky / Robert Greene

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Nov 2009 20:26 UTC

16 points

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[Question] Journalism student looking for sources

pinkerton4 Feb 2025 18:58 UTC

11 points

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FLI Podcast: On Superforecasting with Robert de Neufville

Palus Astra30 Apr 2020 23:08 UTC

6 points

0 comments52 min readLW link

My hour-long interview with Yudkowsky on “Becoming a Rationalist”

lukeprog6 Feb 2011 3:19 UTC

33 points

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Did you enjoy Ramez Naam’s “Nexus” trilogy? Check out this interview on neurotech and the law.

fowlertm11 Oct 2022 11:10 UTC

5 points

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GiveWell interview with major SIAI donor Jaan Tallinn

jsalvatier19 Jul 2011 15:10 UTC

25 points

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Q&A with Jürgen Schmidhuber on risks from AI

XiXiDu15 Jun 2011 15:51 UTC

63 points

45 comments4 min readLW link

Link: Interview with Vladimir Vapnik

Daniel_Burfoot25 Jul 2009 13:36 UTC

22 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Value of Querying 100+ People About Humanity’s Future

T4318 Nov 2022 0:41 UTC

9 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Interview with Bill O’Rourke—Russian Corruption, Putin, Applied Ethics, and More

JohnGreer27 Oct 2024 17:11 UTC

2 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Quotes from the WWMoR Podcast Episode with Eliezer

MondSemmel13 Mar 2021 21:43 UTC

97 points

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Situating LessWrong in contemporary philosophy: An interview with Jon Livengood

Suspended Reason1 Jul 2020 0:37 UTC

117 points

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