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Post-labour economics and the future of capitalism, with Ted Shelton
Season 1 Episode 129
This episode continues our investigation into the potential wide-ranging implications of advanced AI for economics.
Traditionally, value is said to be…
2 hours ago
Windfall Trust and the Economic Singularity, with Adrian Brown
Season 1 Episode 128
What happens if AI delivers major advances in capability and productivity, but also creates significant disruption to jobs, incomes, and public finan…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Anticipating 2026
Season 1 Episode 127
When we started this Podcast back in August 2022, we, Calum and David, announced the theme to be “Anticipating and managing exponential impact”. We t…
4 months ago
The puzzle pieces that can defuse the US-China AI race dynamic, with Kayla Blomquist
Season 1 Episode 126
Almost every serious discussion about options to constrain the development of advanced AI results in someone raising the question: “But what about Ch…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Jensen Huang and the zero billion dollar market, with Stephen Witt
Season 1 Episode 125
Our guest in this episode is Stephen Witt, an American journalist and author who writes about the people driving the technological revolutions. He is…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
What's your p(Pause)? with Holly Elmore
Season 1 Episode 124
Our guest in this episode is Holly Elmore, who is the Founder and Executive Director of PauseAI US. The website pauseai-us.org starts with this headl…
5 months ago
Real-life superheroes and troubled institutions, with Tom Ough
Season 1 Episode 123
Popular movies sometimes feature leagues of superheroes who are ready to defend the Earth against catastrophe. In this episode, we’re going to be dis…
6 months, 1 week ago
Safe superintelligence via a community of AIs and humans, with Craig Kaplan
Season 1 Episode 122
Craig Kaplan has been thinking about superintelligence longer than most. He bought the URL superintelligence.com back in 2006, and many years before …
6 months, 4 weeks ago
How progress ends: the fate of nations, with Carl Benedikt Frey
Season 1 Episode 121
Many people expect improvements in technology over the next few years, but fewer people are optimistic about improvements in the economy. Especially …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Tsetlin Machines, Literal Labs, and the future of AI, with Noel Hurley
Season 1 Episode 120
Our guest in this episode is Noel Hurley. Noel is a highly experienced technology strategist with a long career at the cutting edge of computing. He …
8 months ago