Thanks for this! 

We're less focused on uni-students right now, just because there's a longer lead time from them hearing the content and being able to work on the areas we're highlighting. Having said that, there are obviously also significant advantages of targetting the group - they're particularly flexible in what they work on, and are often keen to learn about different world views. 

We do actually do some putting shorts on instagram! We haven't engaged as much with Tiktok yet, in large part because our team isn't that familiar with the platform. We're interested in experimenting with it in future though! 

Thanks for letting me know your experience with the podcast. I'm sorry you're finding it less valuable right now. To be clear, things like the Ajeya and Hugh White episodes are centrally the kinds of episodes we'll still be putting out a lot of (in fact, we've recorded another episode with Ajeya which we're currently getting towards releasing). We'll likely still do occasional episodes like the Levy and Glennerster ones, but fewer. 

I agree that AI risk is an incredibly large, complex area and that it's going to take a lot more work for us to build out a full understanding of it! 

Thanks for letting us know about your experience with it! 

Yes, length is one of the things we're interested in experimenting with. We've also started putting a bit more work into producing written 'interview in a nutshell' sections on the transcripts, so that people can get the key insights swiftly (or use it to decide whether to listen to the full episode).

Are there particular formats you have in mind? 

If you haven't come across it yet, you might be interested in the work 80k's video team does.

Thanks for all the suggestions!

Thanks for the nudge. I agree it seems crucial to try to find things that are actually different to cover - both for the sake of being interesting and more importantly to actually have an impact. I'd love to hear any particular suggestions you have about things that seem underexplored and important to you! 

With respect to numbers of episodes: 
- We're considering potential new hosts publishing on new feeds. They might try a different format, or they might try the same format but a different target audience 
- Over the last ~year, most of our growth has been on youtube, rather than audio feeds. As far as we can tell, on youtube it's very uncommon to find new episodes directly via a subscription, and relatedly there seems to much less of an effect of reduction in engagement if you have episodes more than once per week. 

This is all pretty tentative. For example, we might find that the audiences we can reach on youtube turn out to be much worse than via other means. That might push us towards trying to increase the quality rather than quantity of episodes. But it would also help enable us to improve quality if we had more capacity - Rob has historically felt the need to rush to get episodes out, and could usefully spend decidedly more time researching / editing episodes.

Useful to know, thanks

Thanks for the feedback!

Thanks for letting us know! That's useful data.