Sam appreciates effective altruism and has no problem releasing full audio for episodes about gun violence, so I bet he'd have no problem releasing the full Eliezer Yudkowsky audio if someone (e.g. Rob Bensinger) prodded him. To do my part, I just sent a request via Sam's contact form.
Yes, Sam might be receptive to that. Alternatively, instead of asking to release it for free, one of the funders in AI safety could offer to pay Sam a recurring fee to make this video publicly available.
I listened to this full interview in 2018, and it made me take AI risk way more seriously. I now plan to devote my career to this problem, so people often ask me what the concern with AI is all about. I really really really want to share this podcast with them, but these days less than half of the audio is available for free (the full interview requires a subscription of at least $8.33 per month). So the best I can do is offer them this transcript, which I find much less engaging than the audio. Sam appreciates effective altruism and has no problem releasing full audio for episodes about gun violence, so I bet he'd have no problem releasing the full Eliezer Yudkowsky audio if someone (e.g. Rob Bensinger) prodded him. To do my part, I just sent a request via Sam's contact form.
Side note: if Eliezer did some new interviews on relevant podcasts, he might persuade a lot more people to take alignment seriously. And there would be a more up-to-date interview (citing more attention-grabbing evidence for the possibility of advanced AI, e.g. DALL·E 2) for me to share with my vaguely-interested-but-mostly-unconcerned friends.