{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"80,000 Hours Podcast","title":"#0 – Introducing The 80,000 Hours Podcast","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":369,"description":"80,000 Hours is a nonprofit that provides research and other support to help people switch into careers that tackle the world's most pressing problems in a highly effective way. This podcast is just one of many things that we offer, the others of which you can find over at 80000hours.org. \nWe've been going since 2017, putting out regular interviews about the world's most pressing problems and how to solve them — which some people enjoy because they love to learn about important things, and others use to figure out what they want to do with their careers or with their charitable giving.\nWe've talked about a lot of things over the years — for example:\nGeoengineering for climate change\nPreventing suicide caused by access to pesticides\nNuclear arms control\nThe pros and cons of nuclear power\nThe suffering of animals in factory farming\nLead poisoning in children\nThe massive global death toll from particulate pollution\nAlternatives to long prison sentences\nSolutions to the replication crisis in social science research\nUS hegemony and foreign policy\nHow humanity could recover from apocalyptic pandemics\nPopulation ethics and moral uncertainty\nAccess to food in catastrophes\nBetter systems of voting\nAnd that's involved interviewing a wide range of different experts. We've talked to people founding nonprofits and businesses, people working in the White House, economists, lawyers and other academics doing deep research, elected politicians, activists and authors trying to stimulate action, and more.\nMore recently, in 2025 we came to think that many of the most important problems were related to guiding humanity through the transition to a world with artificial general intelligence: machines that can do everything humans can do but faster and cheaper. The reason is that we think that AI more capable than humans could lead to explosive technological change, and make the next decade perhaps the most pivotal in history. There's huge potential upside here, but there's also huge...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/VO1STE7hN95RRg9QdLo4soV2VhhbR9PF5ZZlRhDYcwE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQxNDAyLzE2ODM1/NDQ1NDAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}