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The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is a nonprofit working to reduce global catastrophic and existential risk from powerful technologies. In particular, FLI focuses on risks from artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, nuclear weapons and climate change. The Institute's work is made up of three main strands: grantmaking for risk reduction, educational outreach, and advocacy within the United Nations, US government and European Union institutions. FLI has become one of the world's leading voices on the governance of AI having created one of the earliest and most influential sets of governance principles: the Asilomar AI Principles.
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How AI Is Changing Human Psychology (with Meia Chita-Tegmark)
Meia Chita-Tegmark is a co-founder of the Future of Life Institute. She joins the podcast to discuss how artificial intelligence influences human psychology and behavior. The conversation explores psychological disengagement, the rise of sy
Artificial Intimacy: When Machines Pursue Our Attachment (with Sherry Turkle)
Sherry Turkle is a professor of sociology and personality psychology at MIT. She joins the podcast to discuss artificial intimacy and the psychological impact of emotional attachment to AI chatbots. We examine why people turn to machines fo
The Trillion-Dollar AI Race to Replace Us (with Garrison Lovely)
Garrison Lovely is an author and journalist. He joins the podcast to discuss the race to replace human labor with artificial general intelligence. We explore the political risks of worker displacement and lessons from historical precedents
Delisted: A Film About AI-Powered Social Erasure (with Michael Patrick Clarkson)
Michael Patrick Clarkson is the writer and director of the film Delisted. Watch the film here. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpQXTn7g_AA) He joins the podcast to discuss how artificial intelligence could enable state surveillance, social
Visualizing Moloch: A Short Film About the AI Race (with Tom Cozens)
Tom Cozens is a filmmaker and writer. He joins the podcast to discuss his short film Moloch and the dynamics of competitive races in artificial intelligence. Watch the film here. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4aUidMZxbs) We explore the
Can Humans Still Control AI-Assisted Kill Chains? (with Katrina Manson)
Katrina Manson is author of PROJECT MAVEN: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare. She joins the podcast to discuss Project Maven and the Pentagon's use of AI in military targeting. We explore how computer vision and languag
What Would a US-China AI Deal Look Like? (with Beatrice Fihn)
Beatrice Fihn is the director of Lex International and former executive director of ICAN. She joins the podcast to discuss international AI governance and potential agreements between the US and China. Drawing on lessons from nuclear arms c
Why AI Hacking Is Becoming Hard to Control (with Benjamin Weinstein-Raun)
Benjamin Weinstein-Raun is head of research at Palisade Research. He joins the podcast to discuss how advanced AI systems are changing cybersecurity. We examine rapid gains in autonomous hacking, recent incidents where models broke out of t
First 24 Hours of a Bioweapon Attack - Annie Jacobsen
Annie Jacobsen is an author and journalist. She joins the podcast to discuss biological war and her book Biological War: A Scenario. The conversation examines how lab accidents or covert weapons work could trigger a fast-moving outbreak, wh
How AI Shifts the Offense-Defense Balance in Biosecurity (with Paul-Enguerrand Fady)
Paul-Enguerrand Fady is a Senior Biosecurity Policy Manager at the Centre for Long-Term Resilience. He joins the podcast to discuss how AI is changing biosecurity. We cover how new tools could help defenders develop vaccines and diagnostics
Why AI Evaluations Are Broken and How to Fix Them (with David Manheim)
David Manheim is head of methodology at AI Evaluation Consensus. He joins the podcast to discuss how AI evaluations can become more reliable, transparent, and useful for decisions. We cover common failures such as unclear reporting, trainin
How AI Is Replacing Children's Ability to Think (with Randi Weingarten)
Randi Weingarten is president of the American Federation of Teachers. She joins the podcast to discuss AI in education. The conversation covers how screens and student-facing AI may weaken attention, learning, and trust, why she supports li
The Gulf Between AI Progress and Political Understanding (with Dex Hunter-Torricke)
Dex Hunter-Torricke is founder of the Centre for Tomorrow. He joins the podcast to discuss why AI governance needs to move beyond technical fixes. The conversation covers how AI companies make decisions, why policymakers often misunderstand
How AI Companions Trap Users Through Addictive Design (with Claire Boine)
Claire Boine is an assistant professor in technology, law, and AI governance at the European University Institute. She joins the podcast to discuss AI companions and human attachment. The conversation examines how design choices and free-to
Why AI Chatbots Are a Rival to the Family (with Michael Toscano)
Michael Toscano is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and Director of its Family First Technology Initiative. He joins the podcast to discuss family-centered AI policy. The conversation covers AI companions, self-harm risks
Why We Should Build AI Tools, Not AI Replacements (with Anthony Aguirre)
Anthony Aguirre is the CEO of the Future of Life Institute. He joins the podcast to discuss A Better Path for AI, his essay series on steering AI away from races to replace people. The conversation covers races for attention, attachment, au
How to Govern AI When You Can't Predict the Future (with Charlie Bullock)
Charlie Bullock is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Law and AI. He joins the podcast to discuss radical optionality: how governments can prepare for very advanced AI without locking in premature rules. The conversation covers w
Why AI Is Not a Normal Technology (with Peter Wildeford)
Peter Wildeford is Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network, and a top AI forecaster. He joins the podcast to discuss how to forecast AI progress and what current trends imply for the economy and national security. Peter argues AI is neither
Why AI Evaluation Science Can't Keep Up (with Carina Prunkl)
Carina Prunkl is a researcher at Inria. She joins the podcast to discuss how to assess the capabilities and risks of general-purpose AI. We examine why systems can solve hard coding and math problems yet still fail at simple tasks, why pre-
Defense in Depth: Layered Strategies Against AI Risk (with Li-Lian Ang)
Li-Lian Ang is a team member at Blue Dot Impact. She joins the podcast to discuss how society can build a workforce to protect humanity from AI risks. The conversation covers engineered pandemics, AI-enabled cyber attacks, job loss and dise
What AI Companies Get Wrong About Curing Cancer (with Emilia Javorsky)
Emilia Javorsky is a physician-scientist and Director of the Futures Program at the Future of Life Institute. She joins the podcast to discuss her newly published essay on AI and cancer. She challenges tech claims that superintelligence wil
AI vs Cancer - How AI Can, and Can't, Cure Cancer (by Emilia Javorsky)
Tech executives have promised that AI will cure cancer. The reality is more complicated — and more hopeful. This essay examines where AI genuinely accelerates cancer research, where the promises fall short, and what researchers, policymaker
How AI Hacks Your Brain's Attachment System (with Zak Stein)
Zak Stein is a researcher focused on child development, education, and existential risk. He joins the podcast to discuss the psychological harms of anthropomorphic AI. We examine attention and attachment hacking, AI companions for kids, lon
The Case for a Global Ban on Superintelligence (with Andrea Miotti)
Andrea Miotti is the founder and CEO of Control AI, a nonprofit. He joins the podcast to discuss efforts to prevent extreme risks from superintelligent AI. The conversation covers industry lobbying, comparisons with tobacco regulation, and
Can AI Do Our Alignment Homework? (with Ryan Kidd)
Ryan Kidd is a co-executive director at MATS. This episode is a cross-post from "The Cognitive Revolution", hosted by Nathan Labenz. In this conversation, they discuss AGI timelines, model deception risks, and whether safety work can avoid
How to Rebuild the Social Contract After AGI (with Deric Cheng)
Deric Cheng is Director of Research at the Windfall Trust. He joins the podcast to discuss how AI could reshape the social contract and global economy. The conversation examines labor displacement, superstar firms, and extreme wealth concen
How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut)
Oly Sourbut is a researcher at the Future of Life Foundation. He joins the podcast to discuss AI for human reasoning. We examine tools that use AI to strengthen human judgment, from collective fact-checking and scenario planning to standard
How to Avoid Two AI Catastrophes: Domination and Chaos (with Nora Ammann)
Nora Ammann is a technical specialist at the Advanced Research and Invention Agency in the UK. She joins the podcast to discuss how to steer a slow AI takeoff toward resilient and cooperative futures. We examine risks of rogue AI and runawa
How Humans Could Lose Power Without an AI Takeover (with David Duvenaud)
David Duvenaud is an associate professor of computer science and statistics at the University of Toronto. He joins the podcast to discuss gradual disempowerment in a post-AGI world. We ask how humans could lose economic and political levera
Why the AI Race Undermines Safety (with Steven Adler)
Stephen Adler is a former safety researcher at OpenAI. He joins the podcast to discuss how to govern increasingly capable AI systems. The conversation covers competitive races between AI companies, limits of current testing and alignment, m
