Darren McKee on Uncontrollable Superintelligence
Darren McKee joins the podcast to discuss how AI might be difficult to control, which goals and traits AI systems will develop, and whether there's a unified solution to AI alignment.
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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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Mark Brakel on the UK AI Summit and the Future of AI Policy
Mark Brakel (Director of Policy at the Future of Life Institute) joins the podcast to discuss the AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park, objections to AI policy, AI regulation in the EU and US, global institutions for safe AI, and autonomy in weapon systems.
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Dan Hendrycks on Catastrophic AI Risks
Dan Hendrycks joins the podcast again to discuss X.ai, how AI risk thinking has evolved, malicious use of AI, AI race dynamics between companies and between militaries, making AI organizations safer, and how representation engineering could help us understand AI traits like deception.
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Samuel Hammond on AGI and Institutional Disruption
Samuel Hammond joins the podcast to discuss how AGI will transform economies, governments, institutions, and other power structures.
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Imagine A World: What if AI advisors helped us make better decisions?
Listen to Episode Here Show Notes Are we doomed to a future of loneliness and unfulfilling online interactions? What if
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Imagine A World: What if narrow AI fractured our shared reality?
Listen to Episode Here Show Notes Let’s imagine a future where AGI is developed but kept at a distance
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Steve Omohundro on Provably Safe AGI
Steve Omohundro joins the podcast to discuss Provably Safe Systems, a paper he co-authored with FLI President Max Tegmark.
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Imagine A World: What if AI enabled us to communicate with animals?
Listen to Episode Here Show Notes What if AI allowed us to communicate with animals? Could interspecies communication lead to
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Imagine A World: What if some people could live forever?
Listen to Episode Here Show Notes If you could extend your life, would you? How might life extension technologies create
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Johannes Ackva on Managing Climate Change
Johannes Ackva joins the podcast to discuss the main drivers of climate change and our best technological and governmental options for managing it.
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Imagine A World: What if we had digital nations untethered to geography?
Listen to Episode Here Show Notes How do low income countries affected by climate change imagine their futures? How do
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Imagine A World: What if global challenges led to more centralization?
Listen to Episode Here Show Notes What if we had one advanced AI system for the entire world? Would this
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