2025 Highlight-o-thon: Oops! All Bests

80,000 Hours Podcast · Dec 29, 2025 · 1h 40m · transcript

It’s that magical time of year once again — highlightapalooza! Stick around for one top bit from each episode we recorded this year, including:

Kyle Fish explaining how Anthropic’s AI Claude descends into spiritual woo when left to talk to itself

Ian Dunt on why the unelected House of Lords is by far the best part of the British government

Sam Bowman’s strategy to get NIMBYs to love it when things get built next to their houses

Buck Shlegeris on how to get an AI model that wants to seize control to accidentally help you foil its plans

…as well as 18 other top observations and arguments from…