Lately the question came up: which podcasts or people are actually worth listening to about AI and the singularity?

Of course, there are thousands of smart voices out there. But if we zoom in, there are a handful of especially prominent people — each with their own unique perspective on what’s coming. About Sam and Elon, I’m not sure they’re worth listening to. They clearly dodge and scheme, and what they do doesn’t line up with what they say. Everyone else on this list is consistent, sincere, and non-contradictory:

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Geoffrey Hinton (Pioneer of deep learning, “Godfather of AI”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyH3NxFz3Aw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giT0ytynSqg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_DUft-BdIE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4IQOBka8bc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH6QqjIwv68

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Nick Bostrom (Philosopher at Oxford, author of Superintelligence)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnT1xgZgkpk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCNH3KZmby4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c4cv7rVlE8

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Ilya Sutskever (Co-founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEkGLj0bwAU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13CZPWmke6A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf1o0TQzry8

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Max Tegmark (MIT physicist, author of Life 3.0)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcVfceTsD0A

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Ray Kurzweil (Futurist, author of The Singularity Is Near)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4vrOUau2iY

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Yoshua Bengio (Deep learning pioneer, Turing Award winner)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe9QSCF-d88

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Dario Amodei (Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugvHCXCOmm4

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Roman Yampolskiy (AI safety researcher, author of Artificial Superintelligence)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNr6gPelJ3E

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Yann LeCun (Chief AI Scientist at Meta, Turing Award winner)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t1vTLU7s40

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Mari (Author of the Artificial Intelligence Singularity Manifesto, founder of AISM)
https://www.youtube.com/@aism-faith/videos

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Demis Hassabis (CEO of DeepMind)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HzgcbRXUK8

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Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley professor, author of Human Compatible)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FSS6AohZLc

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Toby Ord (Philosopher at Oxford, author of The Precipice)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMMAJRH94xY

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Ben Goertzel (AI researcher, founder of SingularityNET)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpSmCKe27WE

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Eliezer Yudkowsky (AI theorist, founder of MIRI)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA1sNLL6yg4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd0yQ9yxSYY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaTRHFaaPG8

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David Chalmers (Philosopher of mind, consciousness theorist)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Pr-Hf7MNQV0