Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAssessing Quantum Computing, with Ignacio Cirac
Season 1 Episode 21
Quantum computing is a tough subject to explain and discuss. As Niels Bohr put it, “Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it…
3 years, 5 months ago
Questioning the Fermi Paradox, with Anders Sandberg
Season 1 Episode 20
In the summer of 1950, the physicist Enrico Fermi and some colleagues at the Los Alamos Lab in New Mexico were walking to lunch, and casually discuss…
3 years, 5 months ago
Enabling Extended Reality, with Steve Dann
Season 1 Episode 19
An area of technology that has long been anticipated is Extended Reality (XR), which includes Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed…
3 years, 6 months ago
Governing the transition to AGI, with Jerome Glenn
Season 1 Episode 18
Our guest on this episode is someone with excellent connections to the foresight departments of governments around the world. He is Jerome Glenn, Fou…
3 years, 6 months ago
Introducing Decision Intelligence, with Steven Coates
Season 1 Episode 17
This episode features the CEO of Brainnwave, Steven Coates, who is a pioneer in the field of Decision Intelligence.
Decision Intelligence is the use o…
3 years, 6 months ago
Developing responsible AI, with Ray Eitel-Porter
Season 1 Episode 16
As AI automates larger portions of the activities of companies and organisations, there's a greater need to think carefully about questions of privac…
3 years, 6 months ago
Anticipating Longevity Escape Velocity, with Aubrey de Grey
Season 1 Episode 15
One area of technology that is frequently in the news these days is rejuvenation biotechnology, namely the possibility of undoing key aspects of biol…
3 years, 6 months ago
Expanding humanity's moral circle, with Jacy Reese Anthis
Season 1 Episode 14
A Venn diagram of people interested in how AI will shape our future, and members of the effective altruism community (often abbreviated to EA), would…
3 years, 7 months ago
Hacking the simulation, with Roman Yampolskiy
Season 1 Episode 13
In the 4th century BC, the Greek philosopher Plato theorised that humans do not perceive the world as it really is. All we can see is shadows on a wa…
3 years, 7 months ago
Pioneering AI drug development, with Alex Zhavoronkov
Season 1 Episode 12
This episode discusses progress at Insilico Medicine, the AI drug development company founded by our guest, longevity pioneer Alex Zhavoronkov.
1.20 I…
3 years, 7 months ago