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
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 193
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Kristian Rönn | The Darwinian Trap That Explains Our World
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Kristian Rönn is the CEO and co-founder of Normative. He has a background in mathematics, philosophy, computer science and artificial intelligence. Before he started Normative he worked at the…
Divya Siddarth | Collective Intelligence for Collective Progress
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Divya is the co-founder of the Collective Intelligence Project, which advances collective intelligence capabilities for the democratic and effective governance of transformative technologies.…
Siméon Campos | Governing AI for Good
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Siméon Campos is president and founder of SaferAI, an organization working on developing the infrastructure for general-purpose AI auditing and risk management. He worked on large language mod…
Dean Woodley Ball | Humanity’s Next Leap: Thoughts on the Frontiers of Neural Technology
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Dean Woodley Ball is a Research Fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center and author of the Substack Hyperdimensional. His work focuses on artificial intelligence, emerging technolo…
Dana Watt | A Neuroscientist's Guide to Starting a Company
Dr. Watt is an investment associate at Ascension Ventures, an investment firm specializing in healthcare technology. She previously co-founded and served as CSO of Pro-Arc Diagnostics, a personalized…
Existential Hope Podcast: James Pethokoukis | Conservatism Meets Futurism
James Pethokoukis is a senior fellow and the DeWitt Wallace Chair at the American Enterprise Institute, where he analyzes US economic policy, writes and edits the AEIdeas blog, and hosts AEI’s Politi…
Existential Hope: The Flourishing Foundation at the Transformative AI Hackathon
The Flourishing Foundation
In February 2024, we partnered with the Future of Life Institute on a hackathon to design institutions that can guide and govern the development of AI. The winner of the hac…
Existential Hope Podcast: Roman Yampolskiy | The Case for Narrow AI
Dr Roman Yampolskiy holds a PhD degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo. There he was a recipient of a four year National Science Foundation IGERT …
Existential Hope Worldbuilding: 1st place | Cities of Orare
This episode features an interview with the 1st place winners of our 2045 Worldbuilding challenge!
Why Worldbuilding?
We consider worldbuilding an essential tool for creating inspiring visions of the …
Christian Schroeder de Witt | Secret Collusion Among Generative AI Agents: Toward Multi-Agent Security
Existential Hope Worldbuilding: 2nd Place | Rising Choir
This episode features an interview with the 2nd place winners of our 2045 Worldbuilding challenge!
Why Worldbuilding?
We consider worldbuilding an essential tool for creating inspiring visions of the …
Evelyn Yehudit Bischof | Healthy Longevity Medicine in the Clinical Practice
Evelyne Yehudit Bischof, MD, MPH, FEFIM, FMH is Associate Professor at the Shanghai University of Medicine & Health Sciences, Chief Associate Physician of Internal Medicine and Oncology at the Univer…
Existential Hope Worldbuilding: 3rd Place | FloraTech
This episode features an interview with the 3rd place winners of our 2045 Worldbuilding challenge!
Why Worldbuilding?
We consider worldbuilding an essential tool for creating inspiring visions of the …
Existential Hope Podcast: Stuart Buck | What is Good and Bad Science
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Stuart Buck is the Executive Director of the Good Science Project, and a Senior Advisor at the Social Science Research Council. Formerly, he was the Vice President of Research at Arnold Ventur…
Tom Burns, Cornell University | At the Interface of AI Safety and Neuroscience
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Tom Burns graduated with First Class Honours in his Bachelor of Science from Monash University in 2013, exploring the mathematical features of human perception of non-linguistic sounds. Shifti…
Jason Crawford, Roots of Progress | Sustainable Technological Futures | Xhope Worldbuilding Course
Jason Crawford is the founder of The Roots of Progress, where he writes and speaks about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress. Previously, he spent 18 years as a software engineer…
Robert Lempert, RAND | On the How & Why of Worldbuilding | Xhope Worldbuilding Course
Robert Lempert (Ph.D., Applied Physics, Harvard University) is a senior physical scientist at RAND. He is the director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future …
Anthony Aguirre, FLI | Why Worldbuilding? | Xhope Worldbuilding Course
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Anthony is the Executive Director & Secretary of the Board at the Future of Life Institute, and the Faggin Presidential Professor for the Physics of Information at UC Santa Cruz. He has done r…
Existential Hope Podcast: Hannu Rajaniemi | On Being a Sci-Fi Author and Biotech Entrepreneur
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Hannu Rajaniemi is a Finnish American author of science fiction and fantasy, who writes in both English and Finnish. He lives in Oakland, California, and was a founding director of a commercia…
Allison Duettmann | On Existential Hope & Existential Risk | Xhope Worldbuilding Course
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Allison Duettmann is the president and CEO of Foresight Institute. She founded Existentialhope.com, co-edited Superintelligence: Coordination & Strategy, co-authored Gaming the Future, and co-…