Beatrice Fihn on the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
Listen to Episode Here Show Notes Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and
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Max Tegmark and the FLI Team on 2020 and Existential Risk Reduction in the New Year
Listen to Episode Here Show Notes Max Tegmark and members of the FLI core team come together to discuss favorite
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Future of Life Award 2020: Saving 200,000,000 Lives by Eradicating Smallpox
Listen to Episode Here Show Notes The recipients of the 2020 Future of Life Award, William Foege, Michael Burkinsky, and
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Sean Carroll on Consciousness, Physicalism, and the History of Intellectual Progress
Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist at Caltech, joins us on this episode of the FLI Podcast to comb through the history of human thought, the strengths and weaknesses of various intellectual movements, and how we are to situate ourselves in the 21st century given progress thus far.
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Mohamed Abdalla on Big Tech, Ethics-washing, and the Threat on Academic Integrity
Listen to Episode Here Show Notes Mohamed Abdalla, PhD student at the University of Toronto, joins us to discuss how
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Maria Arpa on the Power of Nonviolent Communication
Listen to Episode Here Show Notes Maria Arpa, Executive Director of the Center for Nonviolent Communication, joins the FLI Podcast
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Stephen Batchelor on Awakening, Embracing Existential Risk, and Secular Buddhism
Stephen Batchelor, a Secular Buddhist teacher and former monk, joins the FLI Podcast to discuss the project of awakening, the facets of human nature which contribute to extinction risk, and how we might better embrace existential threats.
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Kelly Wanser on Climate Change as a Possible Existential Threat
Kelly Wanser from SilverLining joins us to discuss techniques for climate intervention to mitigate the impacts of human induced climate change.
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Andrew Critch on AI Research Considerations for Human Existential Safety
Listen to Episode Here Show Notes In this episode of the AI Alignment Podcast, Andrew Critch joins us to discuss
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Iason Gabriel on Foundational Philosophical Questions in AI Alignment
In the contemporary practice of many scientific disciplines, questions of values, norms, and political thought rarely explicitly enter the picture.
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Peter Railton on Moral Learning and Metaethics in AI Systems
From a young age, humans are capable of developing moral competency and autonomy through experience.
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Evan Hubinger on Inner Alignment, Outer Alignment, and Proposals for Building Safe Advanced AI
It's well-established in the AI alignment literature what happens when an AI system learns or is given an objective that doesn't fully capture what we want.
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