ForeCast

December 2025 • Link to project →

As part of my work at Forethought, I run a podcast called ForeCast (it’s a pun).

It’s conversations with Forethought people on new research, interviews with outside experts, and article narrations. Increasingly there will be video episodes.

Here are all the interview episodes (at the time of writing, early December 2025) —

• Checks, Balances, and Power Concentration (with Rose Hadshar and Nora Ammann)
• Consciousness and Competition (with Joe Carlsmith)
• Politics and Power Post-Automation (with David Duvenaud)
• Is Gradual Disempowerment Inevitable? (with Raymond Douglas)
• Should AI Agents Obey Human Laws? (with Cullen O’Keefe)
• How Can We Prevent AI-Enabled Coups? (with Tom Davidson)
• Should We Aim for Flourishing Over Mere Survival? (with Will MacAskill)
• AI Rights for Human Safety (with Peter Salib and Simon Goldstein)
• Inference Scaling, AI Agents, and Moratoria (with Toby Ord)
• AI Tools for Existential Security (with Lizka Vaintrob)
• Will AI R&D Automation Cause a Software Intelligence Explosion? (with Tom Davidson)
• Preparing for the Intelligence Explosion (with Will MacAskill)
• Intelsat as a Model for International AGI Governance (with Rose Hadshar)
• What is ForeCast?