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AI safety, AGI & impact Videos Recommended on Hacker News (77)
AI safety, AGI & impact is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 77 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2012 and 2026 — 174 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
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11 mo on HNWhat Happened to Horses Is Happening to Us
CGP Grey
11 HN recommender · 2014–2026
6 mo on HNWhy Would AI Want to do Bad Things? Instrumental Convergence
Robert Miles AI Safety
6 HN recommender · 2019–2023
6 mo on HNVeritasium: What Everyone Gets Wrong About AI and Learning – Derek Muller Explains
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
6 HN recommender · 2025–2026
6 mo on HNIntelligence and Stupidity: The Orthogonality Thesis
Robert Miles AI Safety
6 HN recommender · 2022–2026
6 mo on HNWe're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads | Zeynep Tufekci
TED
6 HN recommender · 2017–2026
5 mo on HNIntro to AI Safety, Remastered
Robert Miles AI Safety
6 HN recommender · 2022–2023
4 mo on HNSparks of AGI: early experiments with GPT-4
Sebastien Bubeck
7 HN recommender · 2023–2026
5 mo on HNWhy Not Just: Think of AGI Like a Corporation?
Robert Miles AI Safety
5 HN recommender · 2020–2023
4 mo on HNThe A.I. Dilemma - March 9, 2023
Center for Humane Technology
11 HN recommender · 2023–2024
4 mo on HNSlaughterbots
Stop Autonomous Weapons
4 HN recommender · 2018–2026
4 mo on HN34C3 - Dude, you broke the Future!
media.ccc.de
4 HN recommender · 2018–2024
4 mo on HNIs AI Safety a Pascal's Mugging?
Robert Miles AI Safety
3 HN recommender · 2019–2026
4 mo on HNSci-Fi Short Film “Slaughterbots” | DUST
DUST
5 HN recommender · 2021–2026
3 mo on HNTraining AI Without Writing A Reward Function, with Reward Modelling
Robert Miles AI Safety
3 HN recommender · 2019–2023
3 mo on HNWill AI outsmart human intelligence? - with 'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton
The Royal Institution
3 HN recommender · 2025–2025
3 mo on HNAndrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #333
Lex Fridman
3 HN recommender · 2022–2025
3 mo on HN35C3 - The Ghost in the Machine
media.ccc.de
3 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HNGPT-4chan: This is the worst AI ever
Yannic Kilcher
3 HN recommender · 2022–2026
3 mo on HNLina Khan – FTC Chair on Amazon Antitrust Lawsuit & AI Oversight | The Daily Show
The Daily Show
4 HN recommender · 2024–2024
3 mo on HNDaniel Suarez: The kill decision shouldn't belong to a robot
TED
3 HN recommender · 2013–2025
3 mo on HNJim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #162
Lex Fridman
3 HN recommender · 2021–2023
3 mo on HNJohn Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets | Lex Fridman Podcast #309
Lex Fridman
3 HN recommender · 2022–2024
3 mo on HNI tried using AI. It scared me.
Tom Scott
4 HN recommender · 2023–2025
3 mo on HNDeadly Truth of General AI? - Computerphile
Computerphile
3 HN recommender · 2016–2024
2 mo on HN“I’m Not a Robot” (2025 Academy Award Winner) | The New Yorker Screening Room
The New Yorker
2 HN recommender · 2025–2026
2 mo on HNGoogle Engineer on His Sentient AI Claim
Bloomberg Tech
3 HN recommender · 2022–2026
2 mo on HNAvoiding Negative Side Effects: Concrete Problems in AI Safety part 1
Robert Miles AI Safety
2 HN recommender · 2018–2023
2 mo on HNWe Are The Art | Brandon Sanderson’s Keynote Speech
Brandon Sanderson
3 HN recommender · 2026–2026
2 mo on HNMunk Debate on Artificial Intelligence | Bengio & Tegmark vs. Mitchell & LeCun
Policy-Relevant Science & Technology
2 HN recommender · 2023–2023
2 mo on HNAndrew Ng: Artificial Intelligence is the New Electricity
Stanford Graduate School of Business
2 HN recommender · 2017–2019
2 mo on HNAI "Stop Button" Problem - Computerphile
Computerphile
2 HN recommender · 2017–2026
2 mo on HNWhy Asimov's Laws of Robotics Don't Work - Computerphile
Computerphile
2 HN recommender · 2015–2023
2 mo on HN10 Reasons to Ignore AI Safety
Robert Miles AI Safety
2 HN recommender · 2022–2024
2 mo on HNSlaughterbots
Future of Life Institute
2 HN recommender · 2018–2025
2 mo on HN🏆Award Winning🏆 CGI 3D Animated Short Film: "LAST DAY OF WAR" by Dima Fedotov | TheCGBros
TheCGBros
1 HN recommend · 2018–2023
2 mo on HNGeoffrey Hinton in conversation with Fei-Fei Li — Responsible AI development
Arts & Science - University of Toronto
2 HN recommender · 2024–2024