Podcast Episodes

Craig Mundie - Co-Evolution with AI: Industry First, Regulators Later (AGI Governance, Episode 8)

Season 3 Episode 8

Joining us in our eighth episode of our AGI Governance series on The Trajectory is Craig Mundie, former Chief Research and Strategy Officer at Microsoft and longtime advisor on the evolution of digit…

Published on 10 hours ago

Jeremie and Edouard Harris - What Makes US-China Alignment Around AGI So Hard (US-China AGI Relations, Episode 2)

Season 5 Episode 2

This is an interview with Jeremie and Edouard Harris, Canadian researchers with backgrounds in AI governance and national security consulting, and co-founders of Gladstone AI.

In this episode, Jeremie…

Published on 1 week ago

Ed Boyden - Neurobiology as a Bridge to a Worthy Successor (Worthy Successor, Episode 13)

Season 2 Episode 13

This new installment of the Worthy Successor series features Ed Boyden, an American neuroscientist and entrepreneur at MIT, widely known for his work on optogenetics and brain simulation - his breakt…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Roman Yampolskiy - The Blacker the Box, the Bigger the Risk (Early Experience of AGI, Episode 3)

Season 6 Episode 3

This is an interview with Roman V. Yampolskiy, a computer scientist at the University of Louisville and a leading voice in AI safety. 

Everyone has heard Roman's p(doom) arguments, that isn't the focu…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Toby Ord - Crucial Updates on the Evolving AGI Risk Landscape (AGI Governance, Episode 7)

Season 3 Episode 7

Joining us in our seventh episode of our series AGI Governance on The Trajectory is Toby Ord, Senior Researcher at Oxford University’s AI Governance Initiative and author of The Precipice: Existentia…

Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago

Martin Rees - If They’re Conscious, We Should Step Aside (Worthy Successor, Episode 12)

Season 2 Episode 12

This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with the brilliant Martin Rees - British cosmologist, astrophysicist, and 60th President of the Royal Society.

In this interview we…

Published on 1 month ago

Emmett Shear - AGI as "Another Kind of Cell" in the Tissue of Life (Worthy Successor, Episode 11)

Season 2 Episode 11

This is an interview with Emmett Shear - CEO of SoftMax, co-founder of Twitch, former interim CEO of OpenAI, and one of the few public-facing tech leaders who seems to take both AGI development and A…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Joshua Clymer - Where Human Civilization Might Crumble First (Early Experience of AGI - Episode 2)

Season 6 Episode 2

This is an interview with Joshua Clymer, AI safety researcher at Redwood Research, and former researcher at METR.

Joshua has spent years focused on institutional readiness for AGI, especially the kind…

Published on 2 months ago

Peter Singer - Optimizing the Future for Joy, and the Exploration of the Good [Worthy Successor, Episode 10]

Season 2 Episode 10

This is an interview with Peter Singer, one of the most influential moral philosophers of our time. 

Singer is best known for his groundbreaking work on animal rights, global poverty, and utilitarian …

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

David Duvenaud - What are Humans Even Good For in Five Years? [Early Experience of AGI - Episode 1]

Season 6 Episode 1

This is an interview with David Duvenaud, Assistant Professor at University of Toronto, co-author of the Gradual Disempowerment paper, and former researcher at Anthropic.

This is the first episode in …

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago