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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Discusses technological progress broadly and its implications for humanity's trajectory. Covers synthetic biology, space exploration, computation, emerging technologies, forecasting, and how science and innovation shape possible 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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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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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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Barker - Hedonic Recalibration (Mix)
Listen to Episode Here Show Notes This is a mix by Barker, Berlin-based music producer, that was featured on our
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Steven Pinker and Stuart Russell on the Foundations, Benefits, and Possible Existential Threat of AI
Over the past several centuries, the human condition has been profoundly changed by the agricultural and industrial revolutions.
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FLI Podcast: On the Future of Computation, Synthetic Biology, and Life with George Church
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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FLI Podcast: On Superforecasting with Robert de Neufville
Listen to Episode Here Show Notes Essential to our assessment of risk and ability to plan for the future is
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