Podcast Episodes

John Smart - Evolution from Cells to Super-intelligence (Worthy Successor, Episode 21)

Season 2 Episode 21

This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with John Smart, Director of the EvoDevo Institute and a longtime futures theoris…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

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Susan Schneider - Intelligence Is Everywhere, Consciousness Maybe Not (Worthy Successor, Episode 20)

Season 2 Episode 20

This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is a conversation with Dr. Susan Schneider, a philosopher of mind and consciousness researcher wh…

3 months, 4 weeks ago

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Brian Thomas Swimme - Life Is Bigger Than Humanity (Worthy Successor, Episode 19)

Season 2 Episode 19

This installment of the Worthy Successor series is a conversation with Brian Thomas Swimme, a cosmologist and philosopher of science, and a professor…

4 months, 1 week ago

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David Sloan Wilson - Darwinian Forces Shape the Earth Superorganism (Worthy Successor, Episode 18)

Season 2 Episode 18

This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with David Sloan Wilson, an American evolutionary biologist, Distinguished Profes…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

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Michael Johnson - Symmetry, Beauty, and the Shape of Consciousness (Worthy Successor, Episode 17)

Season 2 Episode 17

This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Michael Johnson, a philosopher and neuroscientist who describes himself as w…

5 months, 1 week ago

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Robin Hanson - A Successor Must be Adaptive (Worthy Successor, Episode 16)

Season 2 Episode 16

This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Robin Hanson - Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University, …

5 months, 3 weeks ago

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Joe Carlsmith - A Wiser, AI-Powered Civilization is the “Successor” (Worthy Successor, Episode 15)

Season 2 Episode 15

This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Joe Carlsmith, a senior advisor at Open Philanthropy, whose work spans AI al…

6 months, 1 week ago

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Blaise Agüera y Arcas - AGI Symbiosis and the Arrow of Intelligence (Worthy Successor, Episode 14)

Season 2 Episode 14

This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Vice President and Fellow at Google, and CTO of Techn…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

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Brad Carson - AGI Competition with Civility and Understanding (US-China AGI Relations, Episode 5)

Season 5 Episode 5

This is an interview with Brad Carson, who served as a U.S. Congressman and as Under Secretary of the Army. Later, he served as the Acting Under Secr…

6 months, 4 weeks ago

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Irakli Beridze - Can the UN Help with Global AGI Governance? (AGI Governance, Episode 11)

Season 3 Episode 11

Joining us in our eleventh episode of our series AGI Governance on The Trajectory is Irakli Beridze, Director of the UNICRI Centre for Artificial Int…

7 months, 1 week ago

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