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Hear This Idea

Hear This Idea is a podcast showcasing new thinking in philosophy, the social sciences, and effective altruism. Each episode has an accompanying write-up at www.hearthisidea.com/episodes.

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#68 – Steven Teles on what the Conservative Legal Movement Teaches about Policy Advocacy

#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 Cente... Read more

4 Aug 2023

1hr 39mins

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#67 – Guive Assadi on Whether Humanity Will Choose Its Future

#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 cl... Read more

18 Jul 2023

2hr

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#66 – Michael Cohen on Input Tampering in Advanced RL Agents

#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 Pr... Read more

25 Jun 2023

2hr 32mins

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#65 – Katja Grace on Slowing Down AI and Whether the X-Risk Case Holds Up

#65 – Katja Grace on Slowing Down AI and Whether the X-Risk Case Holds Up

Katja Grace is a researcher and writer. She runs AI Impacts, a research project trying to incrementally answer decision-... Read more

10 Jun 2023

1hr 43mins

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#64 – Michael Aird on Strategies for Reducing AI Existential Risk

#64 – Michael Aird on Strategies for Reducing AI Existential Risk

Michael Aird is a senior research manager at Rethink Priorities, where he co-leads the Artificial Intelligence Governanc... Read more

7 Jun 2023

3hr 12mins

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#63 – Ben Garfinkel on AI Governance

#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 A... Read more

13 May 2023

2hr 58mins

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#62 – Anders Sandberg on Exploratory Engineering, Value Diversity, and Grand Futures

#62 – Anders Sandberg on Exploratory Engineering, Value Diversity, and Grand Futures

Anders Sandberg is a researcher, futurist, transhumanist and author. He holds a PhD in computational neuroscience from S... Read more

20 Apr 2023

52mins

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#61 – Rory Stewart on GiveDirectly and Massively Scaling Cash Transfers

#61 – Rory Stewart on GiveDirectly and Massively Scaling Cash Transfers

Rory Stewart is the President of GiveDirectly and a visiting fellow at Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Befo... Read more

3 Apr 2023

1hr

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#60 – Jaime Sevilla on Trends in Machine Learning

#60 – Jaime Sevilla on Trends in Machine Learning

Jaime Sevilla is the Director of Epoch, a team of researchers investigating and forecasting the development of advanced ... Read more

15 Mar 2023

1hr 30mins

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#59 – Chris Miller on the History of Semiconductors, TSMC, and the CHIPS Act

#59 – Chris Miller on the History of Semiconductors, TSMC, and the CHIPS Act

Chris Miller is an Associate Professor of International History at Tufts University and author of the book “Chip War: Th... Read more

2 Mar 2023

32mins

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