Frances Lorenz

The World Can Be Better

Society EN ↓ 4 episodes

The World Can Be Better is a podcast about how different people are trying to improve the world, whether through technology, global health, poverty reduction, philanthropy, improving the lives of farmed animals, addressing gender-based violence, and beyond. Each episode is a relaxed conversation with someone doing ambitious, thoughtful work. The show is designed to be accessible, framed as a broad intro to a real-world problem and approaches to solving it, with minimal jargon. Episodes are about 45-minutes to an hour.

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Frances Lorenz

Episodes

How do you open a health centre for $4000? — with Nick Laing 16.06.2026 1:25:20

We’re on Spotify , Apple Podcasts , YouTube , and more, just search! In this episode, we interview Nick Laing. Nick is the co-founder and CEO of OneDay Health , a charity that starts up self-sustaining health centres in northern Uganda. You might also know him from the Effective Altruism Forum , where he’s written some great posts on a ton of topics — including water chlorination’s surprising impa...

Will there be an intelligence explosion? — Fin Moorhouse 05.06.2026 1:36:02

In this episode, me (Toby) and Frances speak to researcher, Fin Moorhouse. Fin is a Research Fellow at Forethought , an organisation that researches how we might thrive under extremely fast AI progress. As part of his work, he also hosts the Forethought podcast ForeCast , where you can hear more about the ideas we’ll discuss today. Previously, he co-hosted the Hear This Idea podcast, worked at Lon...

Is AI drinking your water? – with Andy Masley 30.04.2026 1:24:53

In this episode, I talk to Andy Masley, writer of The Weird Turn Pro on Substack. Andy has become known online as the "AI water guy" for his pushback on the popular narrative that AI is draining our water. He recently found a major mistake in the bestselling book Empire of AI, where a claim that a Chilean data center used a thousand times as much water as the surrounding community turned...

Should you be worried about AI? — Steven Adler 21.08.2025 49:37

In this first episode, I make an AI expert (Steven Adler) explain to me why some people are so worried about artificial intelligence and what we can do about it. Steven Adler is a former safety researcher at OpenAI, the frontier lab behind ChatGPT. Steven worked there for four years on safety and policy, including leading the Dangerous Capability Evaluations team. He now writes for his Substack, C...