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What Happens After Superintelligence? (with Anders Sandberg)
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Anders Sandberg joins me to discuss superintelligence and its profound implications for human psychology, markets, and governance. We talk about physical bottlenecks, tensions between the technospher…
Published on 3 months ago
Why the AI Race Ends in Disaster (with Daniel Kokotajlo)
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On this episode, Daniel Kokotajlo joins me to discuss why artificial intelligence may surpass the transformative power of the Industrial Revolution, and just how much AI could accelerate AI research.…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Preparing for an AI Economy (with Daniel Susskind)
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On this episode, Daniel Susskind joins me to discuss disagreements between AI researchers and economists, how we can best measure AI’s economic impact, how human values can influence economic outcome…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Will AI Companies Respect Creators' Rights? (with Ed Newton-Rex)
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Ed Newton-Rex joins me to discuss the issue of AI models trained on copyrighted data, and how we might develop fairer approaches that respect human creators. We talk about AI-generated music, Ed’s de…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
AI Timelines and Human Psychology (with Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse)
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On this episode, Sarah Hastings-Woodhouse joins me to discuss what benchmarks actually measure, AI’s development trajectory in comparison to other technologies, tasks that AI systems can and cannot h…
Published on 4 months ago
Could Powerful AI Break Our Fragile World? (with Michael Nielsen)
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On this episode, Michael Nielsen joins me to discuss how humanity's growing understanding of nature poses dual-use challenges, whether existing institutions and governance frameworks can adapt to han…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
Facing Superintelligence (with Ben Goertzel)
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On this episode, Ben Goertzel joins me to discuss what distinguishes the current AI boom from previous ones, important but overlooked AI research, simplicity versus complexity in the first AGI, the f…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Will Future AIs Be Conscious? (with Jeff Sebo)
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On this episode, Jeff Sebo joins me to discuss artificial consciousness, substrate-independence, possible tensions between AI risk and AI consciousness, the relationship between consciousness and cog…
Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago
Understanding AI Agents: Time Horizons, Sycophancy, and Future Risks (with Zvi Mowshowitz)
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On this episode, Zvi Mowshowitz joins me to discuss sycophantic AIs, bottlenecks limiting autonomous AI agents, and the true utility of benchmarks in measuring progress. We then turn to time horizons…
Published on 5 months ago
Inside China's AI Strategy: Innovation, Diffusion, and US Relations (with Jeffrey Ding)
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On this episode, Jeffrey Ding joins me to discuss diffusion of AI versus AI innovation, how US-China dynamics shape AI’s global trajectory, and whether there is an AI arms race between the two powers…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago