Podcast Episodes

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 le…

10 months ago

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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 in…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

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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 …

11 months ago

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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 res…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

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Kristian Rönn - A Blissful Successor Beyond Darwinian Life (Worthy Successor, Episode 9)

Season 2 Episode 9

This is an interview with Kristian Rönn, author, successful startup founder, and now CEO of Lucid, and AI hardware governance startup based in SF.

Thi…

11 months, 4 weeks ago

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Jack Shanahan - Avoiding an AI Race While Keeping America Strong (US-China AGI Relations, Episode 1)

Season 5 Episode 1

This is an interview with Jack Shanahan, a three-star General and former Director of the Joint AI Center (JAIC) within the US Department of Defense. …

1 year ago

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Richard Ngo - A State-Space of Positive Posthuman Futures (Worthy Successor, Episode 8)

Season 2 Episode 8

This is an interview with Richard Ngo, AGI researcher and thinker - with extensive stints at both OpenAI and DeepMind.

This is an additional installme…

1 year ago

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Yi Zeng - Exploring 'Virtue' and Goodness Through Posthuman Minds (AI Safety Connect, Episode 2)

Season 4 Episode 2

This is an interview with Yi Zeng, Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a member of the United Nations High-Level Advisory Body on AI, and l…

1 year, 1 month ago

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Max Tegmark - The Lynchpin Factors to Achieving AGI Governance (AI Safety Connect, Episode 1)

Season 4 Episode 1

This is an interview with Max Tegmark, MIT professor, Founder of the Future of Humanity Institute, and author of Life 3.0.

This interview was recorded…

1 year, 1 month ago

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Michael Levin - Unfolding New Paradigms of Posthuman Intelligence (Worthy Successor, Episode 7)

Season 2 Episode 7

This is an interview with Dr. Michael Levin, a pioneering developmental biologist at Tufts University.

This is an additional installment of our "Worth…

1 year, 2 months ago

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