Delves into moral frameworks, consciousness, identity, metaethics, and philosophical questions relevant to humanity's future. Explores how we should navigate complex ethical dilemmas posed by new technologies and existential challenges.
William MacAskill discusses his Better Futures essay series, arguing that improving the future's quality deserves equal priority to preventing catastrophe. The conversation explores moral error risks, AI character design, space governance, and ethical reasoning for AI systems.
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Jeff Sebo discusses the possibility of artificial consciousness, the challenges of measuring it, and the ethical implications for AI rights and risk, exploring both intuitive and intellectual perspectives on these issues.
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On this episode, physicist and hedge fund manager Samir Varma joins me to discuss whether AIs could have free will (and what that means), the emerging field of AI psychology, and which concepts they might rely on.
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Christian Nunes joins the podcast to discuss deepfakes, how they impact women in particular, how we can protect ordinary victims of deepfakes, and the current landscape of deepfake legislation.
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Sneha Revanur joins the podcast to discuss the social effects of AI, the illusory divide between AI ethics and AI safety, the importance of humans in the loop, the different effects of AI on younger and older people, and the importance of AIs identifying as AIs.
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Maryanna Saenko joins the podcast to discuss how venture capital works, how to fund innovation, and what the fields of investing and philanthropy could learn from each other.
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Liv Boeree joins the podcast to discuss Moloch, beauty filters, game theory, institutional change, and artificial intelligence.
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Tobias Baumann joins the podcast to discuss suffering risks, artificial sentience, and the problem of knowing which actions reduce suffering in the long-term future.
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Neel Nanda joins the podcast for a lightning round on mathematics, technological progress, aging, living up to our values, and generative AI.
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Connor Leahy from Conjecture joins the podcast for a lightning round on a variety of topics ranging from aliens to education.
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Anders Sandberg joins the podcast to discuss various philosophical questions about the value of the future.
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