All Episodes

Terrence Deacon - AI Is a “Deep Fake of Intelligence” (Worthy Successor, Episode 29)

Vincent C. Müller - AI Is Accelerating - But Toward What? (Worthy Successor, Episode 28)

Lee Spector - The Next Phase of Evolution Is Artificial (Worthy Successor, Episode 27)

Aza Raskin - Why AGI Demands New Global Coordination (AGI Governance, Episode 12)

Ben Goertzel - The Primordial Soup of AGI Minds (Worthy Successor, Episode 26)

Luciano Floridi - How Life Could Flourish in the Information Ocean (Worthy Successor, Episode 25)

Weaver Weinbaum - Designing Intelligence for Freedom and Care (Worthy Successor, Episode 24)

Francis Heylighen - The Self-Organizing Universe After Humans (Worthy Successor, Episode 23)

Stephen Wolfram - In a Sea of Complexity, Does a “Successor” Exist? (Worthy Successor, Episode 22)

John Smart - Evolution from Cells to Super-intelligence (Worthy Successor, Episode 21)

Susan Schneider - Intelligence Is Everywhere, Consciousness Maybe Not (Worthy Successor, Episode 20)

Brian Thomas Swimme - Life Is Bigger Than Humanity (Worthy Successor, Episode 19)

David Sloan Wilson - Darwinian Forces Shape the Earth Superorganism (Worthy Successor, Episode 18)

Michael Johnson - Symmetry, Beauty, and the Shape of Consciousness (Worthy Successor, Episode 17)

Robin Hanson - A Successor Must be Adaptive (Worthy Successor, Episode 16)

Joe Carlsmith - A Wiser, AI-Powered Civilization is the “Successor” (Worthy Successor, Episode 15)

Blaise Agüera y Arcas - AGI Symbiosis and the Arrow of Intelligence (Worthy Successor, Episode 14)

Brad Carson - AGI Competition with Civility and Understanding (US-China AGI Relations, Episode 5)

Irakli Beridze - Can the UN Help with Global AGI Governance? (AGI Governance, Episode 11)

Dean Xue Lan - A Multi-Pronged Approach to Pre-AGI Coordination (AGI Governance, Episode 10)

RAND’s Joel Predd - Competitive and Cooperative Dynamics of AGI (US-China AGI Relations, Episode 4)

Drew Cukor - AI Adoption as a National Security Priority (US-China AGI Relations, Episode 3)

Stuart Russell - Avoiding the Cliff of Uncontrollable AI (AGI Governance, Episode 9)

Craig Mundie - Co-Evolution with AI: Industry First, Regulators Later (AGI Governance, Episode 8)

Jeremie and Edouard Harris - What Makes US-China Alignment Around AGI So Hard (US-China AGI Relations, Episode 2)

Ed Boyden - Neurobiology as a Bridge to a Worthy Successor (Worthy Successor, Episode 13)

Roman Yampolskiy - The Blacker the Box, the Bigger the Risk (Early Experience of AGI, Episode 3)

Toby Ord - Crucial Updates on the Evolving AGI Risk Landscape (AGI Governance, Episode 7)

Martin Rees - If They’re Conscious, We Should Step Aside (Worthy Successor, Episode 12)

Emmett Shear - AGI as "Another Kind of Cell" in the Tissue of Life (Worthy Successor, Episode 11)

Joshua Clymer - Where Human Civilization Might Crumble First (Early Experience of AGI - Episode 2)

Peter Singer - Optimizing the Future for Joy, and the Exploration of the Good (Worthy Successor, Episode 10)

David Duvenaud - What are Humans Even Good For in Five Years? (Early Experience of AGI - Episode 1)

Kristian Rönn - A Blissful Successor Beyond Darwinian Life (Worthy Successor, Episode 9)

Jack Shanahan - Avoiding an AI Race While Keeping America Strong (US-China AGI Relations, Episode 1)

Richard Ngo - A State-Space of Positive Posthuman Futures (Worthy Successor, Episode 8)

Yi Zeng - Exploring 'Virtue' and Goodness Through Posthuman Minds (AI Safety Connect, Episode 2)

Max Tegmark - The Lynchpin Factors to Achieving AGI Governance (AI Safety Connect, Episode 1)

Michael Levin - Unfolding New Paradigms of Posthuman Intelligence (Worthy Successor, Episode 7)

Eliezer Yudkowsky - Human Augmentation as a Safer AGI Pathway (AGI Governance, Episode 6)

Connor Leahy - Slamming the Brakes on the AGI Arms Race (AGI Governance, Episode 5)

Andrea Miotti - A Human-First AI Future (AGI Governance, Episode 4)

Stephen Ibaraki - The Beginning of AGI Global Coordination (AGI Governance, Episode 3)

Mike Brown - AI Cooperation and Competition Between the US and China (AGI Governance, Episode 2)

Sébastien Krier - Keeping a Pulse on AGI's Takeoff (AGI Governance, Episode 1)

Joscha Bach - Building an AGI to Play the Longest Games (Worthy Successor, Episode 6)

Jeff Hawkins - Building a Knowledge-Preserving AGI to Live Beyond Us (Worthy Successor, Episode 5)

Scott Aaronson - AGI That Evolves Our Values Without Replacing Them (Worthy Successor, Episode 4)

Anders Sandberg - Blooming the Space of Intelligence and Value (Worthy Successor Series, Episode 3)

Richard Sutton - Humanity Never Had Control in the First Place (Worthy Successor Series, Episode 2)

Nick Bostrom - AGI That Saves Room for Us (Worthy Successor Series, Episode 1)

Dan Hendrycks - Avoiding an AGI Arms Race (AGI Destinations Series, Episode 5)

Dileep George - Keep Strong AI as a Tool, Not a Successor (AGI Destinations Series, Episode 4)

Ben Goertzel - Regulating AGI May Do More Harm Than Good (AGI Destinations Series, Episode 3)

Jaan Tallinn - The Case for a Pause Before We Birth AGI (AGI Destinations Series, Episode 2)

Yoshua Bengio - Why We Shouldn't Blast Off to AGI Just Yet (AGI Destinations Series, Episode 1)

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