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Best AI safety, AGI & impact videos, as recommended on Hacker News

55 videos about ai safety, agi & impact that Hacker News commenters keep recommending, mentioned between 2013 and 2026. Mostly explainer, talk, interview. Channels that come up most: Robert Miles AI Safety , Lex Fridman, TED, Computerphile. Sorted by how consistently HN recommended them over the years.

The most recommended is What Happened to Horses Is Happening to Us: HN has recommended it for a decade as the standard explainer on automation and unemployment, though skeptics later cite it as an example of overconfident predictions.

• explainerWhat Happened to Horses Is Happening to UsCGP Grey · 11 HN recommenders · 2014–2026
• explainerWhy Would AI Want to do Bad Things? Instrumental ConvergenceRobert Miles AI Safety · 6 HN recommenders · 2019–2023
• talkVeritasium: What Everyone Gets Wrong About AI and Learning – Derek Muller ExplainsPerimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics · 6 HN recommenders · 2025–2026
• explainerIntelligence and Stupidity: The Orthogonality ThesisRobert Miles AI Safety · 6 HN recommenders · 2022–2026
• talkWe're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads | Zeynep TufekciTED · 6 HN recommenders · 2017–2026
• talkIntro to AI Safety, RemasteredRobert Miles AI Safety · 6 HN recommenders · 2022–2023
• lectureSparks of AGI: early experiments with GPT-4Sebastien Bubeck · 7 HN recommenders · 2023–2026
• explainerWhy Not Just: Think of AGI Like a Corporation?Robert Miles AI Safety · 5 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
• talkThe A.I. Dilemma - March 9, 2023Center for Humane Technology · 11 HN recommenders · 2023–2024
• otherSlaughterbotsStop Autonomous Weapons · 4 HN recommenders · 2018–2026
• talk34C3 - Dude, you broke the Future!media.ccc.de · 4 HN recommenders · 2018–2024
• explainerIs AI Safety a Pascal's Mugging?Robert Miles AI Safety · 3 HN recommenders · 2019–2026
• otherSci-Fi Short Film “Slaughterbots” | DUSTDUST · 5 HN recommenders · 2021–2026
• explainerTraining AI Without Writing A Reward Function, with Reward ModellingRobert Miles AI Safety · 3 HN recommenders · 2019–2023
• lectureWill AI outsmart human intelligence? - with 'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey HintonThe Royal Institution · 3 HN recommenders · 2025–2025
• podcastAndrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #333Lex Fridman · 3 HN recommenders · 2022–2025
• talk35C3 - The Ghost in the Machinemedia.ccc.de · 3 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
• commentaryGPT-4chan: This is the worst AI everYannic Kilcher · 3 HN recommenders · 2022–2026
• talkDaniel Suarez: The kill decision shouldn't belong to a robotTED · 3 HN recommenders · 2013–2025
• interviewJim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #162Lex Fridman · 3 HN recommenders · 2021–2023
• interviewJohn Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets | Lex Fridman Podcast #309Lex Fridman · 3 HN recommenders · 2022–2024
• commentaryI tried using AI. It scared me.Tom Scott · 4 HN recommenders · 2023–2025
• explainerDeadly Truth of General AI? - ComputerphileComputerphile · 3 HN recommenders · 2016–2024
• other“I’m Not a Robot” (2025 Academy Award Winner) | The New Yorker Screening RoomThe New Yorker · 2 HN recommenders · 2025–2026
• explainerAvoiding Negative Side Effects: Concrete Problems in AI Safety part 1Robert Miles AI Safety · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
• talkMunk Debate on Artificial Intelligence | Bengio & Tegmark vs. Mitchell & LeCunPolicy-Relevant Science & Technology · 2 HN recommenders · 2023–2023
• talkAndrew Ng: Artificial Intelligence is the New ElectricityStanford Graduate School of Business · 2 HN recommenders · 2017–2019
• explainerAI "Stop Button" Problem - ComputerphileComputerphile · 2 HN recommenders · 2017–2026
• explainerWhy Asimov's Laws of Robotics Don't Work - ComputerphileComputerphile · 2 HN recommenders · 2015–2023
• explainer10 Reasons to Ignore AI SafetyRobert Miles AI Safety · 2 HN recommenders · 2022–2024
• otherSlaughterbotsFuture of Life Institute · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2025
• other🏆Award Winning🏆 CGI 3D Animated Short Film: "LAST DAY OF WAR" by Dima Fedotov | TheCGBrosTheCGBros · 1 HN recommender · 2018–2023
• interviewGeoffrey Hinton in conversation with Fei-Fei Li — Responsible AI developmentArts & Science - University of Toronto · 2 HN recommenders · 2024–2024
• talkAI Ethics, Impossibility Theorems and Tradeoffs - Chris Stucchio | Crunch 2018CraftHub Events · 2 HN recommenders · 2019–2021
• podcastDaniel Schmachtenberger on The Portal (with host Eric Weinstein), Ep. #027 - On Avoiding ApocalypsesEric Weinstein · 2 HN recommenders · 2020–2020
• talkHow AI Could Save (Not Destroy) Education | Sal Khan | TEDTED · 2 HN recommenders · 2023–2026
• interviewOpenAI's GPT-4 Discussion with Red Teamer Nathan Labenz and Erik TorenbergCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything" · 3 HN recommenders · 2023–2023
• interviewFull interview: "Godfather of artificial intelligence" talks impact and potential of AICBS Mornings · 3 HN recommenders · 2023–2023
• interviewChatGPT with Rob Miles - ComputerphileComputerphile · 4 HN recommenders · 2023–2023
• commentaryAI does not exist but it will ruin everything anywayAngela Collier · 1 HN recommender · 2023–2026
• podcastMax Tegmark: The Case for Halting AI Development | Lex Fridman Podcast #371Lex Fridman · 2 HN recommenders · 2023–2023
• otherA CGI 3D Short Film: "Dead Hand: FortressFortress/Крепость" - by Dima Fedotov | TheCGBrosTheCGBros · 1 HN recommender · 2020–2023
• podcastJoe Rogan Experience #1169 - Elon MuskPowerfulJRE · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2022
• explainerThe Artificial Intelligence That Deleted A CenturyTom Scott · 1 HN recommender · 2021–2025
• podcastYann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #416Lex Fridman · 1 HN recommender · 2024–2024
• talkCan we build AI without losing control over it? | Sam HarrisTED · 1 HN recommender · 2017–2023
• podcastEliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilization | Lex Fridman Podcast #368Lex Fridman · 1 HN recommender · 2023–2024
• interviewMarcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #75Lex Fridman · 1 HN recommender · 2020–2025
• interviewHow We Prevent the AI’s from Killing us with Paul ChristianoBankless · 1 HN recommender · 2023–2023
• explainerThe Last Human – A Glimpse Into The Far FutureKurzgesagt – In a Nutshell · 1 HN recommender · 2022–2023
• otherMICRO DRONES KILLER ARMS ROBOTS - AUTONOMOUS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - WARNING !!CS Consulting · 1 HN recommender · 2018–2025
• talkIntelligence is not Enough | Bryan Cantrill | Monktoberfest 2023RedMonk Tech Events · 1 HN recommender · 2023–2025
• demoMulti-Agent Hide and SeekOpenAI · 1 HN recommender · 2019–2024
• talkHuman AI is Decades Away, But We Need to Start the Debate Now | Demis Hassabis | Google ZeitgeistGoogle Zeitgeist · 1 HN recommender · 2015–2016
• explainerWe Were Right! Real Inner MisalignmentRobert Miles AI Safety · 1 HN recommender · 2023–2023