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The Quantum Feedback Loop
by James Myers
What kind of future is taking shape with current developments in science and technology? The Quantum Record publisher and host of the Plato's Pod podcast, James Myers, speaks with scientists, technologists, philosophers, and others about the latest discoveries and thinking at the frontiers of knowledge. In an increasingly complex and interconnected world, The Quantum Feedback Loop podcast aims to open the wonders of the sciences and their first principles to the widest possible audience,
Episodes
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Dr. Joanna Santos on LLMs and Software Vulnerabilities
In this episode of The Quantum Feedback Loop podcast, we discuss software security issues and testing with Dr. Joanna Santos, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Joanna's research focuses on understanding vulnerabilities in software systems and...
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Dr. Catherine Knibbs on the Causes and Effects of Cybertrauma
In this episode of The Quantum Feedback Loop Podcast, we speak with Dr. Catherine Knibbs, a cyberpsychologist, researcher, author, and online harms consultant specializing in children's experiences with technology. Catherine's interdisciplinary work brings together child development, trauma,...
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How the Asteroid Institute Defends Earth from Asteroids
In this episode of The Quantum Feedback Loop Podcast, we speak with Alec Koumjian and Joachim Moeyens, researchers from the B612 Foundation's Asteroid Institute, about the vital mission to protect Earth from potentially devastating asteroid strikes. Alec shares, among many topics, the Institute's...
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Is Quantum Information the Fundamental Basis of Reality?
In this episode of The Quantum Feedback Loop Podcast, we speak with Dr. Florian Neukart about the Quantum Memory Matrix theory, quantum information, and one of the deepest questions in science and philosophy: could information be more fundamental than matter? The Quantum Memory Matrix theory...
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Louis Rosenberg on our Future with Virtual Reality's Risks and Benefits
The Quantum Feedback Loop was pleased to welcome back Dr. Louis Rosenberg, an engineer, researcher, inventor, and entrepreneur who was a pioneer in virtual reality technology in the early 1990s. Louis speaks about his new book, Our Next Reality, in which he and co-author Alvin Graylin present the...
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Lindsay House: Leading 20,000 Citizen Scientists to Uncover Dark Energy’s Secrets
Astronomer Lindsay House returned to the podcast to update us on her citizen science project called Dark Energy Explorers. Around the globe, 20,000 explorers are using data from the world’s third largest telescope to observe patterns in the movement of galaxies from between 9-11 billion years…
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The Fascinating World of Mathematics at the Fields Institute, with Dr. Deirdre Haskell
We speak with Dr. Deirdre Haskell, Director of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences at the University of Toronto, about how mathematics applies to so many aspects of our daily lives and is at the forefront of the latest developments in science and technology. The Fields...
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Keeping Humans in the Technological Loop: a Disscussion with Saima Fancy
Saima Fancy, a privacy specialist, returns to the show for a discussion on the emerging concept and benefits of designing technological processes that keep the “Human in the Loop.” Now, when the complexities of algorithms are multiplying with every new feature and every new interface, it’s…
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Election Monitoring in the Technological Era, with Dr. Ian Batista
2024 was a record-setting year for elections, with nearly half the world’s voters eligible to cast ballots in over 60 nations and the European Union. In some cases, social media and other technological tools have been used to enable bad actors, misinformation, and other challenges to the fairness...
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Dr. Adio Dinika on The Human Data Workers Who Make AI Possible
Adio Dinika is a political scientist and researcher for DAIR, the Distributed AI Research Institute that was founded in 2021 by Timnit Gebru after her termination as technical co-lead of the company’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team. Adio takes us behind the scene to give us a sense of the...
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Dr. Federico Carollo on the Intriguing Present and Future Potential of Time Crystals
Dr. Federico Carollo is a researcher at the University of Tübingen who is exploring a new, dynamic phase of matter called time crystals. First theorized by Nobel Prize laureate Frank Wilczek a dozen years ago, time crystals are quickly becoming practical reality. Federico explains how they…
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Twesh Upadhyaya on the Frontiers of Quantum Thermodynamics
Twesh Upadhyaha takes us on a tour of the science of thermodynamics as it has developed over two centuries, exploring the latest discoveries in the changes of energy and its various forms of heat and work at the smallest quantum level of atoms and molecules. Twesh is a PhD candidate at the...
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Schweickart Prize Winner Joe DeMartini on Hunting for Asteroids in the Sun’s Shadow to Defend Earth
Joe DeMartini is the first recipient of the Schweickart Prize, awarded by the B612 Foundation for his innovative proposal to detect and track asteroids during twilight hours. Joe’s proposal could significantly enhance planetary defence by locating asteroids in the large section of the sky that’s...
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Arushi Nath: A Young Citizen Scientist Speaks About Asteroids and Defending Earth
Arushi Nath is a high school student who developed a passion for asteroid research when she attended the biennial Planetary Defense Conference in 2021. Since then, Arushi has been applying her coding skills in hunting for asteroids and contributing many new findings to the objects that…
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Dr. Arik Kershenbaum on Why Animals Talk and What They’re Saying: A Zoological Perspective
Why do animals communicate, and why and how did their many different methods of communication evolve? It's fascinating to learn from Dr. Arik Kershenbaum about such a crucial part of everyday living in the animal kingdom that we humans tend to overlook in our daily lives. A zoologist at the...
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Jessica West on Space Governance: The Challenges and Potential for Humanity Beyond Earth
We sat down with Jessica West, who is a senior researcher in space governance with a depth of experience in a rapidly evolving and crucially important field, to talk about the challenges and opportunities for humanity beyond earth. With competing military and commercial activity in space, and…
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Louis Rosenberg on Collective Superintelligence and the Virtual Future
With his decades-long experience in virtual reality technologies, Louis Rosenberg talks about a new technological paradigm designed to facilitate a collective human superintelligence. Called Swarm AI, it's modelled after natural swarm intelligence among fish, bees, and other species, and aims to...
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Saima Fancy: Why Privacy Matters on the Road to Artificial General Intelligence
Saima Fancy is a Privacy Specialist whose two decades of experience have spanned the explosion of AI and a series of privacy breaches of global consequence. With the profit-driven development of artificial general intelligence now underway, and large language models like GPT-4 in the forefront…
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Dr. Marcelo Gleiser and a New Perspective on Our Cosmic Relationship
Professor of Physics and Astronomy Dr. Marcelo Gleiser shares a remarkably philosophical perspective on humanity’s relationship with the cosmos as we discuss his latest book, The Dawn of a Mindful Universe. Incorporating centuries of accumulated scientific knowledge, Marcelo’s book highlights the...
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Dr. John Mighton: Unlocking Mathematical Potential in a Technological World
Mathematician and acclaimed playwright Dr. John Mighton discusses the JUMP Math charity that has, for over two decades since he founded it, provided learning resources in mathematics used each year by hundreds of thousands of students and teachers. Math is an essential skill in a technological...
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Alec Koumjian and the Asteroid Institute's mission to defend Earth
Alec Koumjian, Head of Software Engineering for the Asteroid Institute, talks about the pioneering efforts underway to defend Earth from asteroids and other space objects. The Institute’s innovative use of multiple data sources and software to predict and analyze trajectories includes inputs from...
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Dr. Burcin Ikiz on brain health and the effects of climate change
The Quantum Feedback Loop welcomes neuroscientist Dr. Burcin Ikiz, who describes her new initiative, EcoNeuro, to study the effects of climate change on the brain in different areas and environmental conditions around the globe. Burcin is a pioneer in investigating the effects on brain health…
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What Would Socrates Say About ChatGPT?
In a joint production with the Plato’s Pod podcast, we explore the relevance of ancient philosophy to modern technology with the question, “What Would Socrates Say About ChatGPT?” We take Socrates to the offices of OpenAI to meet the company’s CEO, Sam Altman, and imagine the questions that...
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Elisa Torres Durney's Girls in Quantum Prepares Youth for Tomorrow's Technology
Elisa Torres Durney is a high school student in Chile whose organization Girls in Quantum has attracted young participants around the planet. Hear how Elisa and her group are educating youth on quantum computing and quantum mechanics, and connecting with scientists in the field. Their ambitious...
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Lindsay House and Looking Back Over 9 Billion Years for Dark Energy
Lindsay House is a PhD candidate and astronomer whose citizen science project uses light that took 9-11 billion years to reach Earth to search for signs of dark energy. Lindsay explains what we know so far about this force, which can't be directly observed but appears to be responsible for the...
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Dr. Aaron Meisner and the search for brown dwarfs in our solar system
NOIRLab astronomer Dr. Aaron Meisner discusses a new citizen science project, "Backyard Worlds: Cool Neighbors," searching for brown dwarfs in our solar system. As volunteers hunt for signs of elusive brown dwarfs in data from NASA's NEOWISE space telescope, what more will we learn about these...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
What kind of future is taking shape with current developments in science and technology? The Quantum Record publisher and host of the Plato's Pod podcast, James Myers, speaks with scientists, technologists, philosophers, and others about the latest discoveries and thinking at the frontiers of knowledge. In an increasingly complex and interconnected world, The Quantum Feedback Loop podcast aims to open the wonders of the sciences and their first principles to the widest possible audience,
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