This website hosts transcripts of episodes of AXRP, pronounced axe-urp, short for the AI X-risk Research Podcast. On this podcast, I (Daniel Filan) have conversations with researchers about their papers. We discuss the paper and hopefully get a sense of why it’s been written and how it might reduce the risk of artificial intelligence causing an existential catastrophe: that is, permanently and drastically curtailing humanity’s future potential.

This podcast launched in December 2020. Finan Adamson edited the podcast between February 2021 and February 2022, and remains the audio consultant. Jack Garrett worked on editing between March 2022 and October 2024, and wrote the opening and closing music. As of August 2022, Amber Dawn Ace helps with transcription, and as of October 2024, editing is done by Kate Brunotts.

You can subscribe to AXRP by searching for it in your favourite podcast provider. To receive transcripts, you can subscribe to this website’s RSS feed. You can also follow AXRP on twitter at @AXRPodcast.

If you like AXRP, you might like its sister podcast, The Filan Cabinet, where I interview people about a wide range of topics I’m interested in.

You might also enjoy the game “Guess That AXRP”, which involves guessing which episode a randomly selected sentence has come from.

To leave feedback about the podcast, you can email me at feedback@axrp.net or leave an anonymous note at this link.