Highlights: #206 – Anil Seth on the predictive brain and how to study consciousness

Highlights: #205 – Sébastien Moro on the most insane things fish can do

Highlights: #204 – Nate Silver on making sense of SBF, and his biggest critiques of effective altruism

Highlights: Luisa and Keiran on free will, and the consequences of never feeling enduring guilt or shame

Highlights: #203 – Peter Godfrey-Smith on interfering with wild nature, accepting death, and the origin of complex civilisation

Off the Clock #6: Starting Small with Conor Barnes

Highlights: #202 – Venki Ramakrishnan on the cutting edge of anti-ageing science

Highlights: #201 – Ken Goldberg on why your robot butler isn’t here yet

Highlights: #200 – Ezra Karger on what superforecasters and experts think about existential risks

Highlights: #199 – Nathan Calvin on California’s AI bill SB 1047 and its potential to shape US AI policy

Highlights: #198 – Meghan Barrett on challenging our assumptions about insects

Highlights: #197 – Nick Joseph on whether Anthropic’s AI safety policy is up to the task

Highlights: #196 – Jonathan Birch on the edge cases of sentience and why they matter

Highlights: #195 – Sella Nevo on who's trying to steal frontier AI models, and what they could do with them

Highlights: #194 – Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government

Highlights: #193 – Sihao Huang on the risk that US–China AI competition leads to war

Highlights: #192 – Annie Jacobsen on what would happen if North Korea launched a nuclear weapon at the US

Off the Clock #5: Leaving 80k with Maria Gutierrez Rojas

Highlights: #191 (Part 2) – Carl Shulman on government and society after AGI

Highlights: #191 (Part 1) – Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGI