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EPISODE · Mar 11, 2026 · 21 MIN

The Next Leap for Intelligence

from Where the Internet Lives · host Google

In our season finale, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Google’s founder of the Paradigms of Intelligence (Pi) team, offers a provocative take on what intelligence actually is, and what it could become. He predicts our collective intelligence will overcome disruptions and lead us to greater freedoms and possibilities, and a greater quality of life. And that ever-expanding, ever-wiser intelligence carries remarkable potential to help us solve some of our biggest challenges, including the climate crisis and elimination of disease.  In this episode, Blaise also digs into his ambitious work with Project Suncatcher, a bold research moonshot exploring how we can someday tap abundant space-based solar energy to fuel the next generation of AI.

In our season finale, Google's Blaise Agüera y Arcas describes a future driven by ever-evolving intelligence, and digs into the logistics of launching data centers into outer space.

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