{"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":"Why the AI Race Undermines Safety (with Steven Adler)","slug":"why-the-ai-race-undermines-safety-with-steven-adler","published_at":"2025-12-12T12:33:47+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-of-life-institute-podcast-1112471/why-the-ai-race-undermines-safety-with-steven-adler","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-of-life-institute-podcast-1112471","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/43cb0f10","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/43cb0f10/798380a6.mp3","summary":"Stephen Adler is a former safety researcher at OpenAI. He joins the podcast to discuss how to govern increasingly capable AI systems. The conversation covers competitive races between AI companies, limits of current testing and alignment, mental health harms from chatbots, economic shifts from AI labor, and what international rules and audits might be needed before training superintelligent models. LINKS: Steven Adler's Substack: https://stevenadler.substack.com CHAPTERS: (00:00) Episode Preview (01:00) Race Dynamics And Safety (18:03) Chatbots And Mental Health (30:42) Models Outsmart Safety Tests (41:01) AI Swarms And Work (54:21) Human Bottlenecks And Oversight (01:06:23) Animals And Superintelligence (01:19:24) Safety Capabilities And Governance PRODUCED BY: https://aipodcast.ing 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":"Stephen Adler is a former safety researcher at OpenAI. He joins the podcast to discuss how to govern increasingly capable AI systems. The conversation cov…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5325,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/future-of-life-institute-podcast-1112471/episodes/why-the-ai-race-undermines-safety-with-steven-adler/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/why-the-ai-race-undermines-safety-with-steven-adler.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}