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On restraining AI development for the sake of safety
Mar 19, 2026
1h 22m 21s
Building AIs that do human-like philosophy
Jan 29, 2026
33m 33s
How human-like do safe AI motivations need to be?
Nov 12, 2025
1h 23m 32s
Leaving Open Philanthropy, going to Anthropic
Nov 3, 2025
32m 09s
Controlling the options AIs can pursue
Sep 29, 2025
55m 34s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 3/19/26 |  On restraining AI development for the sake of safety | My take on slowing down AI. Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2026/03/19/on-restraining-ai-development-for-the-sake-of-safety/ | 1h 22m 21s | ||||||
| 1/29/26 |  Building AIs that do human-like philosophy | AIs will face philosophical questions humans can't answer for them. Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2026/01/29/building-ais-that-do-human-like-philosophy/ | 33m 33s | ||||||
| 11/12/25 |  How human-like do safe AI motivations need to be? | AIs with alien motivations can still follow instructions safely on the inputs that matter. Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2025/11/12/how-human-like-do-safe-ai-motivations-need-to-be/ | 1h 23m 32s | ||||||
| 11/3/25 |  Leaving Open Philanthropy, going to Anthropic | On a career move, and on AI-safety-focused people working at AI companies. Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2025/11/03/leaving-open-philanthropy-going-to-anthropic/ | 32m 09s | ||||||
| 9/29/25 |  Controlling the options AIs can pursue | On boxing AIs, and on making deals with them. Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2025/09/29/controlling-the-options-ais-can-pursue | 55m 34s | ||||||
| 8/18/25 |  Giving AIs safe motivations | A four-step picture. Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2025/08/18/giving-ais-safe-motivations | 1h 23m 25s | ||||||
| 5/21/25 |  The stakes of AI moral status | On seeing and not seeing souls. Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2025/05/21/the-stakes-of-ai-moral-status/ | 37m 29s | ||||||
| 4/30/25 |  Can we safely automate alignment research? | It's really important; we've got a real shot; there are a ton of ways to fail. Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2025/04/30/can-we-safely-automate-alignment-research/. There's also a video and transcript of a talk I gave on this topic here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2025/04/30/video-and-transcript-of-talk-on-automating-alignment-research/ | 1h 29m 38s | ||||||
| 3/14/25 |  AI for AI safety | We should try extremely hard to use AI labor to help address the alignment problem. Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2025/03/14/ai-for-ai-safety | 27m 51s | ||||||
| 3/11/25 |  Paths and waystations in AI safety | On the structure of the path to safe superintelligence, and some possible milestones along the way. Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.substack.com/p/paths-and-waystations-in-ai-safety | 18m 07s | ||||||
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| 2/19/25 |  When should we worry about AI power-seeking? | Examining the conditions required for rogue AI behavior. Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.substack.com/p/when-should-we-worry-about-ai-power | 46m 54s | ||||||
| 2/13/25 |  What is it to solve the alignment problem? | Also: to avoid it? Handle it? Solve it forever? Solve it completely? Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.substack.com/p/what-is-it-to-solve-the-alignment | 40m 13s | ||||||
| 2/13/25 |  How do we solve the alignment problem? | Introduction to a series of essays about paths to safe and useful superintelligence. Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.substack.com/p/how-do-we-solve-the-alignment-problem | 8m 43s | ||||||
| 1/28/25 |  Fake thinking and real thinking | When the line pulls at your hand. Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2025/01/28/fake-thinking-and-real-thinking/. | 1h 18m 47s | ||||||
| 12/18/24 |  Takes on "Alignment Faking in Large Language Models" | What can we learn from recent empirical demonstrations of scheming in frontier models? Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/12/18/takes-on-alignment-faking-in-large-language-models/ | 1h 27m 54s | ||||||
| 9/30/24 |  (Part 2, AI takeover) Extended audio from my conversation with Dwarkesh Patel | Extended audio from my conversation with Dwarkesh Patel. This part focuses on the basic story about AI takeover. Transcript available on my website here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/09/30/part-2-ai-takeover-extended-audio-transcript-from-my-conversation-with-dwarkesh-patel | 2h 07m 33s | ||||||
| 9/30/24 |  (Part 1, Otherness) Extended audio from my conversation with Dwarkesh Patel | Extended audio from my conversation with Dwarkesh Patel. This part focuses on my series "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." Transcript available on my website here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/09/30/part-1-otherness-extended-audio-transcript-from-my-conversation-with-dwarkesh-patel/ | 3h 58m 38s | ||||||
| 6/21/24 |  Introduction and summary for "Otherness and control in the age of AGI" | This is the introduction and summary for my series "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi | 12m 23s | ||||||
| 6/18/24 |  Second half of full audio for "Otherness and control in the age of AGI" | Second half of the full audio for my series on how agents with different values should relate to one another, and on the ethics of seeking and sharing power. First half here: https://joecarlsmithaudio.buzzsprout.com/2034731/15266490-first-half-of-full-audio-for-otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi PDF of the full series here: https://jc.gatspress.com/pdf/otherness_full.pdf Summary of the series here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi | 4h 11m 02s | ||||||
| 6/17/24 |  First half of full audio for "Otherness and control in the age of AGI" | First half of the full audio for my series on how agents with different values should relate to one another, and on the ethics of seeking and sharing power. Second half here: https://joecarlsmithaudio.buzzsprout.com/2034731/15272132-second-half-of-full-audio-for-otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi PDF of the full series here: https://jc.gatspress.com/pdf/otherness_full.pdf Summary of the series here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi | 3h 07m 29s | ||||||
| 6/17/24 |  Loving a world you don't trust | Garden, campfire, healing water. Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/06/18/loving-a-world-you-dont-trust This essay is part of a series I'm calling "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." I'm hoping that individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief text summaries of the essays that have been released thus far: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi | 1h 03m 54s | ||||||
| 3/25/24 |  On attunement | Examining a certain kind of meaning-laden receptivity to the world. Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/03/25/on-attunement This essay is part of a series I'm calling "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." I'm hoping that individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief text summaries of the essays that have been released thus far: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi (Though: note that I haven't put the... | 44m 14s | ||||||
| 3/21/24 |  On green | Examining a philosophical vibe that I think contrasts in interesting ways with "deep atheism." Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/03/21/on-green This essay is part of a series I'm calling "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." I'm hoping that individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief text summaries of the essays that have been released thus far: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi (Though: note t... | 1h 15m 13s | ||||||
| 1/18/24 |  On the abolition of man | What does it take to avoid tyranny towards to the future? Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/18/on-the-abolition-of-man This essay is part of a series I'm calling "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." I'm hoping that individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief text summaries of the essays that have been released thus far: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi (Though: note that I haven't put the... | 1h 09m 22s | ||||||
| 1/16/24 |  Being nicer than Clippy | Let's be the sort of species that aliens wouldn't fear the way we fear paperclippers. Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/16/being-nicer-than-clippy/ This essay is part of a series I'm calling "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." I'm hoping that individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief text summaries of the essays that have been released thus far: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi (Thoug... | 47m 30s | ||||||
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