Are Brainchips and Biohacking the Next Era of Human Evolution? Ft. Zoltan Istvan w/Anita Nowak - Purposeful Empathy

Episode #3 of Empathy in the Age of AI, a special 20-part series: https://tinyurl.com/exyw2nua AI is impacting every part of our lives—and we need to start paying more attention.Listen to this eye-opening conversation with Zoltan Istvan, a leading transhumanist who believes science and artificial intelligence will soon defeat biological death and radically transform human civilization.We discuss:Why humans could live for thousands of yearsHow AI could will become conscious and more intelligent than humansWhy capitalism may collapseHow AI brain implants would lead to greater empathy If you care about what it means to be human, you don’t want to miss this conversation.00:00 Preview00:33 Episode Introduction 02:36 About Zoltan Istvan05:39 Zoltan’s backstory08:29 What is transhumanism?12:16 How a near-death experience turned Zoltan into a transhumanist15:11 Zoltan Istvan's transhumanist political campaign21:35 Top 10 critiques of transhumanism28:42 Why Universal Basic Income (UBI) will become a reality31:35 Why merging with AI is better than being replaced by it35:04 Machine-Human relationships and AI consciousness37:40 Zoltan’s book, The Transhumanist Wager40:28 Will technology make us more or less empathic?48:08 Zoltan Istvan’s Purposeful Empathy storyCONNECT WITH ZOLTAN✩ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoltan-istvan-78aa2964/✩ Website http://www.zoltanistvan.comCONNECT WITH ANITA✩ Email [email protected] ✩ Website https://www.anitanowak.com✩ Buy a copy of Purposeful Empathy http://tiny.cc/PurposefulEmpathyCA✩ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitanowak/✩ Instagram https://tinyurl.com/anitanowakinstagram✩ Podcast Audio https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyPodcast✩ Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/anitanowak.bsky.socialSHOW NOTES✩ Zoltan’s TED talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtPy9evJwik✩ The Transhumanist Wager https://www.amazon.com/Transhumanist-Wager-Zoltan-Istvan/dp/0988616114?asin=0988616114&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1Video edited by Jad Misri, Green Horizon Studio