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The AI Safety Map
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Question-led pathways with a tightly curated shortlist from across podcasts, documents, and talks.
Civilisational risk and strategy
AXRP
15 Feb 2026
Guive Assadi on AI Property Rights
This conversation examines governance through Guive Assadi on AI Property Rights, surfacing the assumptions, failure paths, and strategic choices that matter most for real-world deployment.
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Med 0 · avg -1 · 136 segs
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AXRP
28 Jun 2025
Peter Salib on AI Rights for Human Safety
This conversation examines governance through Peter Salib on AI Rights for Human Safety, surfacing the assumptions, failure paths, and strategic choices that matter most for real-world deployment.
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Med 0 · avg -3 · 196 segs
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Future of Life Institute Podcast
17 Jul 2025
How AI Could Help Overthrow Governments (with Tom Davidson)
This conversation examines core safety through How AI Could Help Overthrow Governments (with Tom Davidson), surfacing the assumptions, failure paths, and strategic choices that matter most for real-world deployment.
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Med 0 · avg -4 · 113 segs
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Future of Life Institute Podcast
6 Apr 2023
Lennart Heim on Compute Governance
This conversation examines governance through Lennart Heim on Compute Governance, surfacing the assumptions, failure paths, and strategic choices that matter most for real-world deployment.
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Med 0 · avg -4 · 55 segs
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Lex Fridman Podcast
3 Feb 2025
DeepSeek, OpenAI, xAI, and AI Megaclusters (Lex Fridman)
Technical-strategy discussion on compute concentration, Chinese and US frontier labs, and scaling economics.
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Lex Fridman Podcast
23 Mar 2026
Jensen Huang on NVIDIA, Compute Power, and the AI Revolution (Lex Fridman)
NVIDIA leadership perspective on compute concentration, capability acceleration, and infrastructure bottlenecks.
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Med 0 · avg 1 · 124 segs
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Lex Fridman Podcast
5 Jun 2025
Sundar Pichai on Google, AI Governance, and Product Scale (Lex Fridman)
Google and Alphabet leadership interview touching model deployment, safety posture, and institutional responsibility at global scale.
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Governance, institutions, and power
80,000 Hours Podcast
22 Jun 2023
Lennart Heim on the compute governance era and what has to come after
This conversation examines governance through Lennart Heim on the compute governance era and what has to come after, surfacing the assumptions, failure paths, and strategic choices that matter most for real-world deployment.
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80,000 Hours Podcast
10 Jul 2023
Markus Anderljung on how to regulate cutting-edge AI models
This conversation examines governance through Markus Anderljung on how to regulate cutting-edge AI models, surfacing the assumptions, failure paths, and strategic choices that matter most for real-world deployment.
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AXRP
27 Nov 2023
AI Governance with Elizabeth Seger
This conversation examines governance through AI Governance with Elizabeth Seger, surfacing the assumptions, failure paths, and strategic choices that matter most for real-world deployment.
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TED Talks
Date pending
Carole Cadwalladr — Facebook's role in Brexit — and the threat to democracy
Cadwalladr argues that opaque targeting systems can distort electoral processes while evading public scrutiny and regulatory accountability. She frames platform ad infrastructure as a constitutional issue, not just a media issue.
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Mixed
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TED Talks
Date pending
Zeynep Tufekci — We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads
Tufekci explains how recommendation and targeting systems optimized for advertising can become de facto civic infrastructure without democratic mandate or accountability.
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Mixed
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