″(Big reveal) Introducing myself as a new host of the 80,000 Hours Podcast!” by Zershaaneh Qureshi

Hi everyone! Over the last six months or so, those of you who listen to the 80,000 Hours Podcast might occasionally have heard an unfamiliar voice asking questions to our guests. The person behind that unfamiliar voice is me, Zershaaneh! I'm not saying I'm also Banksy, but I'm not not saying that. There are parallels. As a new host of the show, I’m eager to get thoughts about guests to interview, new formats to experiment with, and ways to improve. Feel free to message me on this forum! (But please be nice.) I’ve only done a couple of episodes so far, but there's plenty more to come. A bit about me: I studied Maths and Philosophy at the University of Oxford. I then spent a busy three years working in the global water industry, doing a mixture of consulting, research, and events stuff. I was mostly focused on the surprisingly dramatic world of desalination, and I learned a lot about brine. I transitioned into working on AI risks in late 2023, initially spending a year researching timelines to transformative AI (publishing stuff like this), and then joining 80,000 Hours as a researcher and writer. If you’re subscribed to the 80k newsletter [...] --- First published: June 8th, 2026 Source: --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO . --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts , or another podcast app.