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Foresight Institute Radio

Foresight Institute Radio features the most cutting-edge talks and seminars from our workshops—fresh insights on advanced AI, nanotech, longevity biotech, and beyond.


See the slides and demos on YouTube, and follow @ForesightInst on X for real-time updates. For polished, in-studio interviews, check out our sister feed: The Existential Hope Podcast


Foresight Institute is an independent nonprofit devoted to steering emerging technologies toward beneficial futures.


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Technology Society & Culture Ai Science
Update frequency
every 6 days
Average duration
48 minutes
Episodes
193
Years Active
2021 - 2025
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Jennifer Garrison | Healthy Longevity for Women

Jennifer Garrison | Healthy Longevity for Women

Jennifer Garrison, PhD, is Co-Founder and Director of the Global Consortium for Reproductive Longevity and Equality (GCRLE) and an Assistant Professor at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. She…

00:09:46  |   Fri 21 Feb 2025
Existential Hope Special: Ada Palmer | On How Speculative Worlds Can Help Us Demand A Better Future

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

"We’ve saved the world so many times throughout history. Now we just have to do it again."


What if speculative fiction could do more than entertain—what if it could reshape how we think about governan…

00:59:56  |   Fri 31 Jan 2025
Abhishek Singh | Decentralizing Machine Learning

Abhishek Singh | Decentralizing Machine Learning

Abhishek Singh is a Ph.D. student at MIT Media Lab. His research interests include collective intelligence, self-organization, and decentralized machine learning. The central question guiding his res…

00:54:13  |   Fri 24 Jan 2025
Zach Weinersmith | A City on Mars

Zach Weinersmith | A City on Mars

Zach Weinersmith is the cartoonist behind the popular geek webcomic, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. He writes popular science books with his wife Kelly, including the recent Hugo award-winning A …

00:52:00  |   Fri 17 Jan 2025
Jason Crawford, Roots of Progress | Career Counselling

Jason Crawford, Roots of Progress | Career Counselling

Jason Crawford is the founder of The Roots of Progress, a nonprofit dedicated to establishing a new philosophy of progress for the 21st century. He writes and speaks about the history and philosophy …

00:48:10  |   Fri 10 Jan 2025
Allison Duettmann & Beatrice Erkers | A Vision of Existential Hope for the New Year

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

Beatrice Erkers and Allison Duettmann


What if we could reimagine the future from a place of hope instead of fear?

In this special episode of the Existential Hope Podcast, Allison Duettmann and Beatric…

01:02:29  |   Fri 27 Dec 2024
Caleb Watney, Institute for Progress | Career Counselling

Caleb Watney, Institute for Progress | Career Counselling

Caleb Watney is the co-founder and co-CEO of IFP. He manages the metascience, high-skilled immigration, and emerging technology policy teams at IFP. His research focuses on policy levers the U.S. cou…

00:50:16  |   Fri 20 Dec 2024
Zan Huang | Adapting Neurological Structures to AI

Zan Huang | Adapting Neurological Structures to AI

Zan Huang is a researcher with a passion for alternative computational models in artificial intelligence, mass social patterns, chaotic and emergent systems, and linguistics. Currently focused on sca…

00:54:49  |   Fri 06 Dec 2024
Existential Hope Podcast: Adam Marblestone | Solving Science’s Biggest Gaps

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

Adam Marblestone is the CEO of Convergent Research. He is working with a large and growing network of collaborators and advisors to develop a strategic roadmap for future FROs. Outside of CR, he serv…

00:51:24  |   Fri 29 Nov 2024
Michael Levin | Agential Interventions

Michael Levin | Agential Interventions

Michael Levin is an American developmental and synthetic biologist at Tufts University, where he is the Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor. Levin is a director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tuf…

01:00:32  |   Fri 22 Nov 2024
Sam Jardine | The Dawn of Astropolitics?

Sam Jardine | The Dawn of Astropolitics?

Samuel Jardine is a Geopolitical Risk Consultant and Historian specializing in space, polar regions, and seabed security, utilizing Applied History and OSINT. He has lectured for institutions like RU…

00:53:48  |   Fri 15 Nov 2024
Anna Chekovisch | Bitcoin as a Path to Freedom

Anna Chekovisch | Bitcoin as a Path to Freedom

Anna Chekhovich is the financial director of Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) from Russia. Targeted by Putin’s regime, the foundation has gradually lost access to financial instituti…

00:11:17  |   Fri 08 Nov 2024
Eric Drexler | Advanced Nanotechnology

Eric Drexler | Advanced Nanotechnology

Eric Drexler is a visionary scientist and engineer thought of as one of the “Founding fathers of nanotechnology”, the science of engineering on a molecular level. He is most known for being the drivi…

00:13:53  |   Fri 01 Nov 2024
Existential Hope Podcast: Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston | The Future Loves You

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

Speaker

Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston is a neuroscientist at Monash University, Australia, where he investigates methods for characterising the nature of conscious experiences. In 2019, he obtained his…

00:53:29  |   Fri 25 Oct 2024
Molly MacKinlay | New Decentralized Mechanisms for Funding Public Goods

Molly MacKinlay | New Decentralized Mechanisms for Funding Public Goods

Molly Mackinlay has extensive work experience in various roles at different companies. She is currently the Head of Engineering, Product, & Research Development at Protocol Labs, where they lead team…

00:14:19  |   Fri 18 Oct 2024
Anders Sandberg | Whole Brain Emulation Ethics

Anders Sandberg | Whole Brain Emulation Ethics

Anders Sandberg's research centres on estimating the capabilities and underlying science of future technologies, methods of reasoning about long-term futures, existential and global catastrophic risk…

00:12:07  |   Fri 11 Oct 2024
Barbara Diehl | Innovation and Funding Mechanisms at SPRIND

Barbara Diehl | Innovation and Funding Mechanisms at SPRIND

Barbara Diehl is a proven expert in entrepreneurship, innovation and education and has been facilitating partnerships with science and business at SPRIND since 2020. Prior to joining SPRIND, she had …

00:14:06  |   Fri 04 Oct 2024
Existential Hope Podcast: Eli Dourado, Abundance Institute | Accelerating Progress

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

Eli Dourado is the Chief Economist at the Abundance Institute. He is a former Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and he has studied and written about a wide rang…

00:53:37  |   Tue 24 Sep 2024
Amanda Ngo | Innovating With AI for Wellbeing

Amanda Ngo | Innovating With AI for Wellbeing

Speaker

Amanda Ngo is a 2024 Foresight Fellow. Recently, she has built Elicit.org from inception to 100k+ monthly users, leading a team of 5 engineers and designers, presented on forecasting, safe AI …

00:48:07  |   Fri 13 Sep 2024
Jeffrey Ladish | AI Threat Models, Hacking, Deception, and Manipulation

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

Jeffrey Ladish

Before starting Palisade, Jeffrey helped build out the information security program at Anthropic through his security consulting company, Gordian. Jeffrey has also helped dozens of tec…

00:10:04  |   Fri 06 Sep 2024
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