The World Can Be Better

Frances Lorenz

The World Can Be Better is a podcast about how different people are trying to improve the world, whether through technology, global health, poverty reduction, philanthropy, improving the lives of farmed animals, addressing gender-based violence, and beyond. Each episode is a relaxed conversation with someone doing ambitious, thoughtful work. The show is designed to be accessible, framed as a broad intro to a real-world problem and approaches to solving it, with minimal jargon. Episodes are about 45-minutes to an hour.

Episodes

  1. 08/21/2025

    Should you be worried about AI? — Steven Adler

    In this first episode, I make an AI expert (Steven Adler) explain to me why some people are so worried about artificial intelligence and what we can do about it. Steven Adler is a former safety researcher at OpenAI, the frontier lab behind ChatGPT. Steven worked there for four years on safety and policy, including leading the Dangerous Capability Evaluations team. He now writes for his Substack, Clear‑Eyed AI, about the development of very capable systems and how to make AI go better. In this episode, Steven walks through the risks surrounding advanced artificial intelligence: (1) concerning behaviours we already see in current models; (2) plausible future risks; and (3) concrete ways people, technical or not, can work on the problem. I really enjoyed this conversation and I’m excited for everyone to listen!

    50 min
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The World Can Be Better is a podcast about how different people are trying to improve the world, whether through technology, global health, poverty reduction, philanthropy, improving the lives of farmed animals, addressing gender-based violence, and beyond. Each episode is a relaxed conversation with someone doing ambitious, thoughtful work. The show is designed to be accessible, framed as a broad intro to a real-world problem and approaches to solving it, with minimal jargon. Episodes are about 45-minutes to an hour.

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  • Creator
    Frances Lorenz
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    1
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Frances Lorenz
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