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Viren Jain | Connectomics and AI @ Vision Weekend USA 2025

Steve Jurvetson | Investing in AI Moonshots @ Vision Weekend USA 2025

Sonia Arrison | Lobbying for Longevity Progress @ Vision Weekend USA 2025

Richard Ngo | Identity & Meaning in SciFi Futures @ Vision Weekend USA 2025

Joshua Elliott | The Hail Mary Phase of Climate Change @ Vision Weekend USA 2025

John Hallman & Rico Meinl | Accelerating Life Sciences @ Vision Weekend USA 2025

Jesse Posner | Fiduciary AI: The New Architecture of Freedom @ Vision Weekend USA 2025

Haleh Fotowat | Harnessing Biological Intelligence for Building Living Machines with Nervous Systems

Eli Dourado | Thoughts on Philanthrocapitalism @ Vision Weekend USA 2025

Ed Boyden | Technological Path to Whole Brain Simulation @ Vision Weekend USA 2025

David Eagleman | How Might AI Build us Into Better Humans @ Vision Weekend USA 2025

Corey Hudson | Catalyzing Generative Protein @ Vision Weekend USA 2025

Ariel Ekblaw | Self-Assembling Space Structures @ Vision Weekend USA 2025

Ant Rowstron and Ilan Gur Fireside Chat @ Vision Weekend USA 2025

Andrew Payne | PRISM Optical Connectomics @ Vision Weekend USA 2025

Anders Sandberg | AI & Leviathan @ Vision Weekend USA 2025

Anastasia Gamick | FROs for Fundamental Capabilities @ Vision Weekend USA 2025

Eliezer Yudkowsky vs Mark Miller | ASI Risks: Similar premises, opposite conclusions

Nobel Laureate David Baker on Using AI for Science to Solve Humanity's Biggest Problems [TEASER]

Welcome to Foresight Institute Radio

Jonathan Anomaly | Embryo selection for health, longevity and intelligence

Mary Lou Jepsen | The handheld hospital

Jean Hebert | ARPA-H: Accelerate better health outcomes for everyone

Irina Rish | AI & Scale

What history can teach us about doing better science – Eric Gilliam

Existential Hope Podcast: Glen Weyl | Can we use AI to build a fairer society?

Existential Hope Podcast: Ada Palmer | The storytelling tools you need for worldbuilding

Existential Hope Podcast: Anthony Aguirre | Will AI replace us or help us thrive?

Existential Hope Podcast: Helen Toner | Who gets to decide AI’s future?

Existential Hope Podcast: Aaron Stupple | Raising kids for an unknown future

Existential Hope Podcast: Hannah Ritchie | Climate Tech & How AI Can Help Solve Big Problems

Existential Hope podcast | Worldbuilding for a Hopeful AI Future

Zac Hatfield-Dodds | Anthropic’s Responsible Scaling Policy

Existential Hope podcast: Clay Routledge | Why Meaning and Agency Matter More Than Ever

Cate Hall | What Philanthropy Can Do That Others Can’t

Sam Rodriques | AI for Scientific Progress

Tom Kalil | Renaissance Philanthropy: Agenda Setting is Underrated

Existential Hope Podcast: Steven Pinker On Why the Future Looks Better Than You Think

Jennifer Garrison | Healthy Longevity for Women

Existential Hope Special: Ada Palmer | On How Speculative Worlds Can Help Us Demand A Better Future

Abhishek Singh | Decentralizing Machine Learning

Zach Weinersmith | A City on Mars

Jason Crawford, Roots of Progress | Career Counselling

Allison Duettmann & Beatrice Erkers | A Vision of Existential Hope for the New Year

Caleb Watney, Institute for Progress | Career Counselling

Zan Huang | Adapting Neurological Structures to AI

Existential Hope Podcast: Adam Marblestone | Solving Science’s Biggest Gaps

Michael Levin | Agential Interventions

Sam Jardine | The Dawn of Astropolitics?

Anna Chekovisch | Bitcoin as a Path to Freedom

Eric Drexler | Advanced Nanotechnology

Existential Hope Podcast: Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston | The Future Loves You

Molly MacKinlay | New Decentralized Mechanisms for Funding Public Goods

Anders Sandberg | Whole Brain Emulation Ethics

Barbara Diehl | Innovation and Funding Mechanisms at SPRIND

Existential Hope Podcast: Eli Dourado, Abundance Institute | Accelerating Progress

Amanda Ngo | Innovating With AI for Wellbeing

Jeffrey Ladish | AI Threat Models, Hacking, Deception, and Manipulation

Kristian Rönn | The Darwinian Trap That Explains Our World

Divya Siddarth | Collective Intelligence for Collective Progress

Siméon Campos | Governing AI for Good

Dean Woodley Ball | Humanity’s Next Leap: Thoughts on the Frontiers of Neural Technology

Dana Watt | A Neuroscientist's Guide to Starting a Company

Existential Hope Podcast: James Pethokoukis | Conservatism Meets Futurism

Existential Hope: The Flourishing Foundation at the Transformative AI Hackathon

Existential Hope Podcast: Roman Yampolskiy | The Case for Narrow AI

Existential Hope Worldbuilding: 1st place | Cities of Orare

Christian Schroeder de Witt | Secret Collusion Among Generative AI Agents: Toward Multi-Agent Security

Existential Hope Worldbuilding: 2nd Place | Rising Choir

Evelyn Yehudit Bischof | Healthy Longevity Medicine in the Clinical Practice

Existential Hope Worldbuilding: 3rd Place | FloraTech

Existential Hope Podcast: Stuart Buck | What is Good and Bad Science

Tom Burns, Cornell University | At the Interface of AI Safety and Neuroscience

Jason Crawford, Roots of Progress | Sustainable Technological Futures | Xhope Worldbuilding Course

Robert Lempert, RAND | On the How & Why of Worldbuilding | Xhope Worldbuilding Course

Anthony Aguirre, FLI | Why Worldbuilding? | Xhope Worldbuilding Course

Existential Hope Podcast: Hannu Rajaniemi | On Being a Sci-Fi Author and Biotech Entrepreneur

Allison Duettmann | On Existential Hope & Existential Risk | Xhope Worldbuilding Course

Jeff Sebo | Investigating Digital Minds

Jules Hedges | Compositional Game Theory – Towards Incentives Modelling at Scale

Existential Hope Podcast: David Pearce | A Future without Suffering

Sumner Norman | Neurotech for Mental Health

Trent McConaghy | A Solarpunk Vision from AI, Web3 & BCI

Vision Weekend France: Biotech Panel

Vision Weekend France: Energy and Space Panel

Existential Hope: Danielle Strachman | Education, Agency, and the Ability to Experiment

Vision Weekend France: Intelligent Cooperation Panel

Vision Weekend France: Neuotech Panel

Vision Weekend France: Molecular Machines Panel

Existential Hope Podcast: Gus Docker | Beyond Survival

Dr. Scott Hubbard | Exploring Mars: Following the Water

Mark Hamalainen | A Coherent, Executable Plan to Achieve Unlimited Healthy Lifespan

Existential Hope Podcast: Jason Crawford | Progress: An Ever-Evolving Journey

Casey Handmer | Why Mars is Hard

Matjaz Leonardis | Interpretability and Security of AI Models

Dr. Anders Sandberg | WBE History and Overview

Kipply Chen | Fireside Chat on AI Alignment

Existential Hope Podcast: Trent McConaghy | From Starships to Tokens: Pioneering Futures

David Dalrymple | Rethinking Uploading Given 10-Year AI Timelines

Existential Hope Special: Six Hopeful Visions of the Future

Jan Leike | Superintelligent Alignment

Existential Hope Podcast: Emilia Javorsky | The Future of AI, Bioengineering, and Human Empathy

Mark Miller | Paperclips and Pyramids: Misdiagnosing AI Risks

Dr. Thomas Macrina | AI for Whole Brain Circuit Mapping

Robert Zubrin | The Mars Society

Existential Hope Podcast: Joe Carlsmith | Infite Ethics and the Sublime Utopia

Sumner Norman | What To Expect From The Next Generation Of Brain-Computer Interfaces

Stuart Russel | Human Compatible AI

Nathan Johnson, Space Court Foundation | Space Court Foundation’s Research Into Foundations and Evolution of Space Law

Steven Byrnes, Astera Institute | Challenges for Safe and Beneficial Brain Like AGI

Existential Hope Podcast: Liv Boeree | Game Theory, Moloch & Our Hopeful Future

Sonia Arrison, Longevity Mentorship | Career Counselling

Lewis Hammond, Cooperative AI | Introduction to Cooperative AI

Existential Hope Podcast: Daron Acemoglu | New Paths For Human-Technology Synergy

Joseph Mascaro | The Evolution of Space Technology: From Spin-offs to Exaptation

Divya Siddarth | Collective Intelligence for Collective Progress

Chris Eliasmith, University of Waterloo | How to Build a Brain

Sara Walker | Unraveling Life's Beginnings with the Cosmic Perspective

Reason, Fight Aging | Towards Biotechnology to Finally Defeat Cholesterol

Existential Hope Podcast: Kevin Kelly | Pioneering Visions of a High-Tech Future

Career Advice from Jaan Tallinn | Future of Life Institute, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

Zaki Manian, Iqlusion | Shielded Transaction Special

Natalie Dullerud | CaPC – Confidential and Private Collaborative Learning

Existential Hope Podcast: David Deutsch | On Beauty, Knowledge, and Progress

Avichal Garg, Electric Capital | What does the future hold for shielded transactions?

V. Gladyshev, M. Moqri, V.Sebastiano | Quantifying Aging

Neurotech Special: Whole Brain Emulation and Artificial General Intelligence

Existential Hope Podcast: Anders Sandberg | Grand Futures & The Post-Human Coral Reef

Marta Belcher, Filecoin Foundation | Privacy & Law in the Age of AI | Shielded Transaction Special

Bryan Johnson | Blueprint Rejuvenation Athlete

Robin Hanson, George Mason University | Deflecting The Sacred

Existential Hope Podcast: Lee Cronin | Catalyzing Progress through Chemistry

Allison Duettmann, Foresight Institute | The Long term Potential of Cryptocommerce

Mark S. Miller, Agoric | Computational Markets & Agoric Systems

Juan Benet, Filecoin | Crypto Tools for Paretotopia

Existential Hope Podcast: David Leigh | Exploring the possibilities of nanotechnology

Existential Hope Podcast: Adam Brown | A Theoretical Physicist's Take on the Future

Career Advice from Sonia Arrison, 100+ Capital

Existential Hope Podcast: Robin Hanson | On Futurism and his Best Career Advice

Emil Kendziorra, Max More | How do you sign up to cryonics?

Balaji Srinivasan | The Pseudonymous Economy & Transhumanism

Existential Hope Podcast: Creon Levit | On the future of space

Jason Crawford, Roots of Progress | Why We Need A New Philosophy of Progress

Existential Hope Podcast: Richard Mallah, FLI | How Aligned AI Could Help Us Create A Flourishing Future

Shielded Transactions | Who Should Control Your Privacy? (with Whyrusleeping)

Tom Kalil | Career Counseling with Chief Innovation Officer at Schmidt Futures

Shielded Transactions | Bitcoin's Privacy Problem (with Zooko Wilcox)

Existential Hope Podcast: Morgan Levine | On Aging and the Future

Stuart Armstrong & Robin Hanson: Iterate The Game | Gaming the Future Chapter 10

Trent McConaghy & Steve Omohundro: Welcome New Players | Gaming the Future Book Club Chapter 9

Shielded Transactions: Andrew Miller, IUIC, ZCash Foundation, IC3 | Shielded Transactions Special

Gernot Heiser: Defend Against Cyber Threats | Gaming the Future Chapter 8

David Brin: Defend Against Physical Threats - Multipolar Active Shields | Gaming the Future Chapter 7

Allison Duettmann and Mark Miller: Genetic Takeover - Cryptocommerce | Gaming the Future Ch. 6

Glen Weyl, Kate Sills, Paul Gebheim | Gaming the Future Chapter 5: IMPROVE COOPERATION | Info, Money, New Rights to Do Things

David Friedman | Gaming the Future, Chapter 4: SKIM THE MANUAL | Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation.

Existential Hope Podcast: Chiara Marletto | The Science of Can and Can’t and The Possibilities of Physics

Juan Benet, Crypto Tools for Pareto(r)opia | Gaming the Future Book Club

M. Miller, C. Peterson, A, Duettman: What's at Stake in the Game? | Gaming the Future Book Club

Chris Own | Whole-Brain Circuit Maps

Karl Pfleger | Longevity Investing

Christian Angermayer | Longevity Investing

Emil Kendziorra, Dina Radenkovic, Stephen Malina, JJ Ben-Joseph, Amit Deshwar | Biotech Opportunities

Mark Miller, Peter Norvig, Joscha Bach, Rosie Campbell, Brewster Kahle | Computing & AI

Adam Brown, Robin Hanson, Chris Kemp, Gaia Dempsey, Christine Peterson | The Far Future & Space

Zaki Manian, Kate Sills, Jazear Brooks, Christine Webber, Josh Tan | Cryptocommerce & Web 3

Existential Hope Podcast: Worldbuilding | Anthony Aguirre & Anna Yelizarova from Future of Life Institute

Tom Kalil, Adam Marblestone, Ben Reinhardt | Nanotech Tools

Primavera de Filippi, Silke Elrifai | Cryptocommerce & Web 3

Allison Duettmann, Aaron King, Evan Miyazono | DAOs & Tech trees to Fund Nano, Bio, Neurotech

The Computing & AI Tech Tree | Ben Garfinkel, Jan Goetz, Tom Van Cutsem, Matjaz Leonardis

Decentralized Science: (De)Science | Philipp Koellinger, Vincent Weisser, Niklas Rindtorff

The Longevity & Rejuvenation Tree | Karl Pfleger, Greg Fahy, Martin Borch Jensen, Laurence Ion, Jose Luis Ricon

Existential Hope Podcast: Christine Peterson | On a Positive Turning Point for Human Longevity

Improving Science: (De)Science | Alexey Guzey, Evan Miyazono, William Zeng, Aaron King, Lawrence Wu, Allison Duettmann

Samo Burja, Anders Sandberg, Stuart Armstrong | Space, Neurotech & The Far History & Future

David Manheim | Eucatastrophes & Dynamic Stability; Exploring Tensions between Risk & Opportunities

Reason | Q&A on How to Fight Aging

Emil Kendziorra & Aschwin De Wolf | Biostasis & Cryonics Q&A

Anders Sandberg | Game Theory with Aliens on the Largest Scales

Sergey Young, Neil Littman | Longevity Investing Q&A

Adam Brown | Cosmology, Inflation and Black Holes

Mark Miller & Dean Tribble | The Agoric Approach to Computing

Daniel Ives | Cellular Rejuvenation to Stop Aging

Samo Burja | Civilization: Institutions, Knowledge and the Future

Robin Hanson | Anthony Aguirre | Paul Gebheim | Thomas Pfeiffer | Martin Koeppelmann | Chris Hibbert | Prediction Markets

Lee Cronin | The First Programmable Turing Complete Chemical Computer

Kate Sills | NFTs and Engineering Property Rights

Peter Norvig | A Modern Approach to AI

Brewster Kahle | Locking the Web Open

Adam Marblestone & Ben Reinhardt | FRO & PARPA: Innovating in Scientific Innovation

Toby Ord | Existential Risk and Existential Hope

Mark S. Miller | Civilization as relevant superintelligence

Christine Peterson | Meatspace & Cyberspace: How Can We Get the Best of Both

Trent McConaghy, Peter Schlecht, Jessy Kate Schingler | AI DAO's, Brain Computer Interfaces, & Lunar Governance

Emil Kendziorra, Tyler Golato, Paul Kolhaas, Ole Mensching | Longevity + Cryonics + Crypto

Anders Sandberg | Post-Scarcity Civilizations & Cognitive Enhancement

David Baker | De Novo Protein Design

Alex Zhavoronkov | Longevity as a Service

Nir Barzilai | Targeting Aging with Metformin

Morgan Levine & Jamie Justice | On Biomarker Standardization

Daniel Ellsberg | Nuclear Risks: Doomsday (Still) Hiding in Plain Sight

Chiara Marletto| On Quantum Computing and the Science of Can and Can’t

Robin Hanson | The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives and Social Agendas

Tyler Cowen | Civilization as Crusonia Plant, Stubborn Attachments and Future Discounting

Tom Chi | Understanding Investment and Fundraising

Audrey Tang | Digital Tools for Openness in Asia and Beyond

Scott Aaronson | Quantum Computing: History, Near-term Applications, Future Possibilities

Aubrey de Grey | Reaching Escape Velocity in Longevity for Most People Alive Today

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Balaji Srinivasan | The Network State: Bootstrapping Cloud Cities