Jaan Tallinn on Avoiding Civilizational Pitfalls and Surviving the 21st Century
Listen to Episode Here Show Notes Jaan Tallinn, investor, programmer, and co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, joins us
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Joscha Bach and Anthony Aguirre on Digital Physics and Moving Towards Beneficial Futures
Joscha Bach, Cognitive Scientist and AI researcher, as well as Anthony Aguirre, UCSC Professor of Physics, join us to explore the world through the lens of computation and the difficulties we face on the way to beneficial futures.
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Roman Yampolskiy on the Uncontrollability, Incomprehensibility, and Unexplainability of AI
Listen to Episode Here Show Notes Roman Yampolskiy, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Louisville, joins us to
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Stuart Russell and Zachary Kallenborn on Drone Swarms and the Riskiest Aspects of Autonomous Weapons
Listen to Episode Here Show Notes Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley, and Zachary Kallenborn, WMD and
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John Prendergast on Non-dual Awareness and Wisdom for the 21st Century
Listen to Episode Here Show Notes John Prendergast, former adjunct professor of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies,
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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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