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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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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Philip Reiner on Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications
Philip Reiner joins us to talk about nuclear, command, control and communications systems.
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David Pearce and Andrés Gómez Emilsson on Identity and the AI Revolution
In the 1984 book Reasons and Persons, philosopher Derek Parfit asks the reader to consider the following scenario: You step into a teleportation machine that scans your complete atomic structure, annihilates you, and then relays that atomic information to Mars at the speed of light.
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Anthony Aguirre on Identity, Information & the Nature of Reality
Our perceptions of reality are based on the physics of interactions ranging from millimeters to miles in scale.
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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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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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Future of Life Institute's $25M Grants Program for Existential Risk Reduction
Listen to Episode Here Show Notes Future of Life Institute President Max Tegmark and our grants team, Andrea Berman and
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