Future of Life Institute Podcast
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.
Latest Episode
Can Machines Be Truly Creative? (with Maya Ackerman) (24.10.2025)
Previous Episodes
- From Research Labs to Product Companies: AI's Transformation (with Parmy Olson)
- Can Defense in Depth Work for AI? (with Adam Gleave)
- How We Keep Humans in Control of AI (with Beatrice Erkers)
- Why Building Superintelligence Means Human Extinction (with Nate Soares)
- Breaking the Intelligence Curse (with Luke Drago)
- What Markets Tell Us About AI Timelines (with Basil Halperin)
- AGI Security: How We Defend the Future (with Esben Kran)
- Reasoning, Robots, and How to Prepare for AGI (with Benjamin Todd)
- From Peak Horse to Peak Human: How AI Could Replace Us (with Calum Chace)
- How AI Could Help Overthrow Governments (with Tom Davidson)
- What Happens After Superintelligence? (with Anders Sandberg)
- Why the AI Race Ends in Disaster (with Daniel Kokotajlo)
- Preparing for an AI Economy (with Daniel Susskind)
- Will AI Companies Respect Creators' Rights? (with Ed Newton-Rex)
- AI Timelines and Human Psychology (with Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse)
- Could Powerful AI Break Our Fragile World? (with Michael Nielsen)
- Facing Superintelligence (with Ben Goertzel)
- Will Future AIs Be Conscious? (with Jeff Sebo)
- Understanding AI Agents: Time Horizons, Sycophancy, and Future Risks (with Zvi Mowshowitz)
- Inside China's AI Strategy: Innovation, Diffusion, and US Relations (with Jeffrey Ding)
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