Daniela and Dario Amodei on Anthropic
Daniela and Dario Amodei join us to discuss Anthropic: a new AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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Anthony Aguirre and Anna Yelizarova on FLI's Worldbuilding Contest
Anthony Aguirre and Anna Yelizarova join us to discuss FLI's new Worldbuilding Contest.
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David Chalmers on Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
David Chalmers, Professor of Philosophy and Neural Science at NYU, joins us to discuss his newest book Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy.
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Rohin Shah on the State of AGI Safety Research in 2021
Rohin Shah, Research Scientist on DeepMind's technical AGI safety team, joins us to discuss: AI value alignment; how an AI Researcher might decide whether to work on AI Safety; and why we don't know that AI systems won't lead to existential risk.
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Susan Solomon and Stephen Andersen on Saving the Ozone Layer
Susan Solomon, internationally recognized atmospheric chemist, and Stephen Andersen, leader of the Montreal Protocol, join us to tell the story of the ozone hole and their roles in helping to bring us back from the brink of disaster.
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James Manyika on Global Economic and Technological Trends
James Manyika, Chairman and Director of the McKinsey Global Institute, joins us to discuss the rapidly evolving landscape of the modern global economy and the role of technology in it.
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Michael Klare on the Pentagon's view of Climate Change and the Risks of State Collapse
Michael Klare, Five College Professor of Peace & World Security Studies, joins us to discuss the Pentagon's view of climate change, why it's distinctive, and how this all ultimately relates to the risks of great powers conflict and state collapse.
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Avi Loeb on UFOs and if they're Alien in Origin
Avi Loeb, Professor of Science at Harvard University, joins us to discuss unidentified aerial phenomena and a recent US Government report assessing their existence and threat.
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Avi Loeb on 'Oumuamua, Aliens, Space Archeology, Great Filters, and Superstructures
Avi Loeb, Professor of Science at Harvard University, joins us to discuss a recent interstellar visitor, if we've already encountered alien technology, and whether we're ultimately alone in the cosmos.
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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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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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