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What’s it like to be an AI, with Anil Seth
Season 1 Episode 79
As artificial intelligence models become increasingly powerful, they both raise - and might help to answer - some very important questions about one …
2 years ago
Regulating Big Tech, with Adam Kovacevich
Season 1 Episode 78
Our guest in this episode is Adam Kovacevich. Adam is the Founder and CEO of the Chamber of Progress, which describes itself as a center-left tech in…
2 years, 1 month ago
The case for brain preservation, with Kenneth Hayworth
Season 1 Episode 77
In this episode, we are delving into the fascinating topic of mind uploading. We suspect this idea is about to explode into public consciousness, bec…
2 years, 1 month ago
AGI alignment: the case for hope, with Lou de K
Season 1 Episode 76
Our guest in this episode is Lou de K, Program Director at the Foresight Institute.
David recently saw Lou give a marvellous talk at the TransVision c…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Political Singularity and a Worthy Successor, with Daniel Faggella
Season 1 Episode 75
Calum and David recently attended the BGI24 event in Panama City, that is, the Beneficial General Intelligence summit and unconference. One of the sp…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Longevity Singularity, with Daniel Ives
Season 1 Episode 74
In the wide and complex subject of biological aging, one particular kind of biological aging has been receiving a great deal of attention in recent y…
2 years, 2 months ago
Where are all the Dyson spheres? with Paul Sutter
Season 1 Episode 73
In this episode, we look further into the future than usual. We explore what humanity might get up to in a thousand years or more: surrounding whole …
2 years, 2 months ago
Provably safe AGI, with Steve Omohundro
Season 1 Episode 72
AI systems have become more powerful in the last few years, and are expected to become even more powerful in the years ahead. The question naturally …
2 years, 2 months ago
Robots and the people who love them, with Eve Herold
Season 1 Episode 71
In this episode, our subject is the rise of the robots – not the military kind of robots, or the automated manufacturing kind that increasingly fill …
2 years, 3 months ago
Education and work - past, present, and future, with Riaz Shah
Season 1 Episode 70
Our guest in this episode is Riaz Shah. Until recently, Riaz was a partner at EY, where he was for 27 years, specialising in technology and innovatio…
2 years, 3 months ago