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London Futurists — 129 episodes

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Post-labour economics and the future of capitalism, with Ted Shelton

2

Windfall Trust and the Economic Singularity, with Adrian Brown

3

Anticipating 2026

4

The puzzle pieces that can defuse the US-China AI race dynamic, with Kayla Blomquist

5

Jensen Huang and the zero billion dollar market, with Stephen Witt

6

What's your p(Pause)? with Holly Elmore

7

Real-life superheroes and troubled institutions, with Tom Ough

8

Safe superintelligence via a community of AIs and humans, with Craig Kaplan

9

How progress ends: the fate of nations, with Carl Benedikt Frey

10

Tsetlin Machines, Literal Labs, and the future of AI, with Noel Hurley

11

Intellectual dark matter? A reputation trap? The case of cold fusion, with Jonah Messinger

12

AI agents, AI safety, and AI boycotts, with Peter Scott

13

The remarkable potential of hydrogen cars, with Hugo Spowers

14

AI and the end of conflict, with Simon Horton

15

The AI disconnect: understanding vs motivation, with Nate Soares

16

Anticipating an Einstein moment in the understanding of consciousness, with Henry Shevlin

17

The case for a conditional AI safety treaty, with Otto Barten

18

Humanity's final four years? with James Norris

19

Human extinction: thinking the unthinkable, with Sean ÓhÉigeartaigh

20

The best of times and the worst of times, updated, with Ramez Naam

21

PAI at Paris: the global AI ecosystem evolves, with Rebecca Finlay

22

AI agents: challenges ahead of mainstream adoption, with Tom Davenport

23

Post-labour economics, with David Shapiro

24

Longevity activism at 82, 86, and beyond, with Kenneth Scott and Helga Sands

25

Models for society when humans have zero economic value, with Jeff LaPorte

26

From ineffective altruism to effective altruism? with Stefan Schubert

27

The global energy transition: an optimistic assessment, with Amory Lovins

28

Building brain-like AIs, with Alexander Ororbia

29

To sidestep death, preserve your connectome, with Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston

30

Insights from 15 years leading the self-driving vehicle industry, with Sterling Anderson

31

The race for AI supremacy, with Parmy Olson

32

A narrow path to a good future with AI, with Andrea Miotti

33

Gen AI cuts costs by 30%: lessons from a leading law firm, with David Wakeling

34

Climate change and populism: Grounds for optimism? with Matt Burgess

35

Rejuvenation biotech - progress and potential, with Karl Pfleger

36

ChatGPT runs for president, with Pedro Domingos

37

The rise of digital pandemics, with James Ball

38

Thinking more athletically about the future, with Brett King and Rob Tercek

39

The low-cost future of preserving brains, with Jordan Sparks

40

Surveillance and diversity: surprising insights from the Gulf, with Holly Joint

41

The double-edged sword of technology, with Wendell Wallach

42

Stop cryocrastinating! with Emil Kendziorra

43

Introducing Conscium, with Daniel Hulme and Ted Lappas

44

Taming the Machine, with Nell Watson

45

AI Impacts Survey - The key implications, with Katja Grace

46

Cryonics, cryocrastination, and the future: changing minds, with Max More

47

Stem cells, lab-grown meat, and potential new medical treatments, with Mark Kotter

48

The economic case for a second longevity revolution, with Andrew Scott

49

Can AI be conscious? with Nicholas Humphrey

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Progress with ending aging, with Aubrey de Grey

51

What’s it like to be an AI, with Anil Seth

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Regulating Big Tech, with Adam Kovacevich

53

The case for brain preservation, with Kenneth Hayworth

54

AGI alignment: the case for hope, with Lou de K

55

The Political Singularity and a Worthy Successor, with Daniel Faggella

56

The Longevity Singularity, with Daniel Ives

57

Where are all the Dyson spheres? with Paul Sutter

58

Provably safe AGI, with Steve Omohundro

59

Robots and the people who love them, with Eve Herold

60

Education and work - past, present, and future, with Riaz Shah

61

What is your p(doom)? with Darren McKee

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Climate Change: There’s good news and bad news, with Nick Mabey

63

Meet the electrome! with Sally Adee

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Don't try to make AI safe; instead, make safe AI, with Stuart Russell

65

Aligning AI, before it's too late, with Rebecca Gorman

66

Shazam! with Dhiraj Mukherjee

67

The Politics of Transhumanism, with James Hughes

68

How to make AI safe, according to the tech giants, with Rebecca Finlay, CEO of PAI

69

The shocking problem of superintelligence, with Connor Leahy

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Preparing for Bletchley Park: behind the scenes, with Ollie Buckley

71

The future of space-based solar power, with John Bucknell

72

Whatever happened to self-driving cars, with Timothy Lee

73

Generative AI, cybercrime, and scamability, with Stacey Edmonds

74

The Economic Singularity, Bletchley Park, and the Future of AI

75

Longevity Summit Dublin: four new mini-interviews

76

A triple debrief from the Longevity Summit Dublin

77

The Legal Singularity, with Benjamin Alarie

78

Innovation as a mindset, with Aidan McCullen

79

What's new in longevity, with Martin O'Dea

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Investing in AI, with John Cassidy

81

Transformational transformers, with Jeremy Kahn

82

The Death of Death, with José Cordeiro

83

AI transforming professional services, with Shamus Rae

84

Innovating in education: the Codam experience, with David Giron

85

Generative AI drug discovery breakthrough, with Alex Zhavoronkov

86

Catastrophe and consent

87

The 4 Cs of Superintelligence

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GPT-4 transforming education, with Donald Clark

89

GPT-4 and the EU’s AI Act, with John Higgins

90

Longevity, the 56 trillion dollar opportunity, with Andrew Scott

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The key workforce skills for 2026, with Mike Howells

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How to use GPT-4 yourself, with Ted Lappas

93

GPT: To ban or not to ban, that is the question

94

The AI suicide race, with Jaan Tallinn

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A defence of human uniqueness against AI encroachment, with Kenn Cukier

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Against pausing AI research, with Pedro Domingos

97

Facing our Futures, with Nikolas Badminton

98

GPT-4 and the Two Singularities

99

Creating Benevolent Decentralized AGI, with Ben Goertzel

100

What the good future could look like, with Gerd Leonhard

101

ChatGPT raises old and new concerns about AI, with Francesca Rossi

102

ChatGPT has woken up the House of Commons, with Tim Clement-Jones

103

Assessing the AI duopoly, with Jeff Ding

104

Peter James, best-selling crime-writer and transhumanist

105

Curing aging: $100B? with Andrew Steele

106

Overcoming limitations, with Natasha Vita-More

107

Presenting gedanken experiments, with David Brin

108

Inventing the future of computing, with Alessandro Curioni

109

Assessing Quantum Computing, with Ignacio Cirac

110

Questioning the Fermi Paradox, with Anders Sandberg

111

Enabling Extended Reality, with Steve Dann

112

Governing the transition to AGI, with Jerome Glenn

113

Introducing Decision Intelligence, with Steven Coates

114

Developing responsible AI, with Ray Eitel-Porter

115

Anticipating Longevity Escape Velocity, with Aubrey de Grey

116

Expanding humanity's moral circle, with Jacy Reese Anthis

117

Hacking the simulation, with Roman Yampolskiy

118

Pioneering AI drug development, with Alex Zhavoronkov

119

The Singularity Principles

120

Collapsing AGI timelines, with Ross Nordby

121

The terabrain is near, with Simon Thorpe

122

AI for organisations, with Daniel Hulme

123

A tale of two cities: Riyadh and Dublin

124

Stability and combinations, with Aleksa Gordić

125

AI Transformers in context, with Aleksa Gordić

126

AI overview: 3. Recent developments

127

AI overview: 2. The Big Bang and the years that followed

128

AI overview: 1. From the Greeks to the Big Bang

129

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