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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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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
5 mo on HNWhy Not Just: Think of AGI Like a Corporation?
Robert Miles AI Safety
5 HN recommender · 2020–2023
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 HN35C3 - The Ghost in the Machine
media.ccc.de
3 HN recommender · 2020–2023
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 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 HNAvoiding Negative Side Effects: Concrete Problems in AI Safety part 1
Robert Miles AI Safety
2 HN recommender · 2018–2023
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 HNAI Ethics, Impossibility Theorems and Tradeoffs - Chris Stucchio | Crunch 2018
CraftHub Events
2 HN recommender · 2019–2021
2 mo on HNDaniel Schmachtenberger on The Portal (with host Eric Weinstein), Ep. #027 - On Avoiding Apocalypses
Eric Weinstein
2 HN recommender · 2020–2020
1 mo on HNA CGI 3D Short Film: "Dead Hand: FortressFortress/Крепость" - by Dima Fedotov | TheCGBros
TheCGBros
1 HN recommend · 2020–2023
1 mo on HNThe Artificial Intelligence That Deleted A Century
Tom Scott
1 HN recommend · 2021–2025
1 mo on HNMarcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #75
Lex Fridman
1 HN recommend · 2020–2025
1 mo on HNThe Last Human – A Glimpse Into The Far Future
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HNMulti-Agent Hide and Seek
OpenAI
1 HN recommend · 2019–2024
1 mo on HNWe Were Right! Real Inner Misalignment
Robert Miles AI Safety
1 HN recommend · 2023–2023
0 mo on HNHorror Short Film “Slaughterbots” | ALTER
ALTER
0 HN recommender · 2020–2026
0 mo on HNAI Succession
Rich Sutton
0 HN recommender · 2023–2025