Alan Robock on Nuclear Winter, Famine, and Geoengineering
Alan Robock joins us to discuss nuclear winter, famine and geoengineering.
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Examines threats that could permanently curtail humanity's potential or cause human extinction. Includes nuclear warfare, engineered pandemics, climate catastrophe, unaligned AI, and other global catastrophic risks that threaten civilization's long-term survival.
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Brian Toon on Nuclear Winter, Asteroids, Volcanoes, and the Future of Humanity
Brian Toon joins us to discuss the risk of nuclear winter.
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George Church on the Future of Computation, Synthetic Biology, and Life
Progress in synthetic biology and genetic engineering promise to bring advancements in human health sciences by curing disease, augmenting human capabilities, and even reversing aging.
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Max Tegmark on Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Elon Musk has called it a compelling guide to the challenges and choices in our quest for a great future of life on Earth and beyond, while Stephen Hawking and Ray Kurzweil have referred to it as an introduction and guide to the most important conversation of our time.
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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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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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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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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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