Your AI crash course starts here: Our best episodes to get up to speed on transformative AI

The 80,000 Hours team announces a feed of its ten best episodes on AI, AGI, superintelligence and recursive self-improvement, with an optional weekly email series. The description lists topics such as compressing a century of progress into a decade and why training may encourage models to lie.

Why it matters

The same thing, for different readers.

What it means for you

A new feed collects ten earlier podcast episodes that introduce the main questions about advanced AI.

The record

Questions
How fast is AI advancing, and where is it heading? · What happens when AI helps build more capable AI?
People
The 80,000 Hours team (Wrote it)
Also covered by
80,000 Hours (YouTube)
What we read
We have read only the description the publisher gives. No quotations until someone reads the source itself.
Found by
The Radar, run of November 6, 2026, via pod-80-000-hours-podcast (tier 1: the source’s own channel or an official record)
Cite this
80,000 Hours, “Your AI crash course starts here: Our best episodes to get up to speed on transformative AI”, November 6, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/80000-hours-2026-11-06-ai-crash-course-feed
Our notesLight lane: from the triage excerpt only. A 2-minute trailer announcing a feed; the linked transcript was not fetched.