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 the past year of the show. Links to learn more, video, and full transcript: https://80k.info/best25 It's been another year of living through history, whether we asked for it or not. Luisa and Rob will be back in 2026 to help you make sense of whatever comes next — as Earth continues its indifferent journey through the cosmos, now accompanied by AI systems that can summarise our meetings and generate adequate birthday messages for colleagues we barely know.