{"podcast":{"title":"Future of Life Institute Podcast","slug":"future-of-life-institute-podcast-1112471","podcast_index_feed_id":1112471,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/future-of-life-institute-podcast-4e4d1fa5-a878-4cb2-91be-91c3ce266dfd","website_url":"http://podcast.futureoflife.org","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/J_n37RCZqjxGWjRTeSwa1kYSzes1V2OR3ShI3uGkwh8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81MmU5/MDZjZGQ5OTI0MDc5/YTk2ZTAxYTgwYTNk/M2VlOC5qcGc.jpg","author":"Future of Life Institute","episode_count":271,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-01T06:20:26.948551+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-of-life-institute-podcast-1112471"},"episode":{"title":"Can Defense in Depth Work for AI? (with Adam Gleave)","slug":"can-defense-in-depth-work-for-ai-with-adam-gleave","published_at":"2025-10-03T12:23:56+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-of-life-institute-podcast-1112471/can-defense-in-depth-work-for-ai-with-adam-gleave","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-of-life-institute-podcast-1112471","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/9ada1ade","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/9ada1ade/0ed94484.mp3","summary":"Adam Gleave is co-founder and CEO of FAR.AI. In this cross-post from The Cognitive Revolution Podcast, he joins to discuss post-AGI scenarios and AI safety challenges. The conversation explores his three-tier framework for AI capabilities, gradual disempowerment concerns, defense-in-depth security, and research on training less deceptive models. Topics include timelines, interpretability limitations, scalable oversight techniques, and FAR.AI’s vertically integrated approach spanning technical research, policy advocacy, and field-building. LINKS: Adam Gleave - https://www.gleave.me FAR.AI - https://www.far.ai The Cognitive Revolution Podcast - https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai PRODUCED BY: https://aipodcast.ing CHAPTERS: (00:00) A Positive Post-AGI Vision (10:07) Surviving Gradual Disempowerment (16:34) Defining Powerful AIs (27:02) Solving Continual Learning (35:49) The Just-in-Time Safety Problem (42:14) Can Defense-in-Depth Work? (49:18) Fixing Alignment Problems (58:03) Safer Training Formulas (01:02:24) The Role of Interpretability (01:09:25) FAR.AI's Vertically Integrated Approach (01:14:14) Hiring at FAR.AI (01:16:02) The Future of Governance SOCIAL LINKS: Website: https://podcast.futureoflife.org Twitter (FLI): https://x.com/FLI_org Twitter (Gus): https://x.com/gusdocker LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/future-of-life-institute/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-rCCy3FQ-GItDimSR9lhzw/ Apple: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1170991978 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2Op1WO3gwVwCrYHg4eoGyP","meta_description":"Adam Gleave is co-founder and CEO of FAR.AI. In this cross-post from The Cognitive Revolution Podcast, he joins to discuss post-AGI scenarios and AI safet…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4715,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/future-of-life-institute-podcast-1112471/episodes/can-defense-in-depth-work-for-ai-with-adam-gleave/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-of-life-institute-podcast-1112471/can-defense-in-depth-work-for-ai-with-adam-gleave.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}