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.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 193
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Jeff Sebo | Investigating Digital Minds
Jeff Sebo is an American philosopher. He is a clinical associate professor of environmental studies, director of the animal studies MA program, and affiliated professor of bioethics, medical ethics, …
Jules Hedges | Compositional Game Theory – Towards Incentives Modelling at Scale
Jules Hedges is a mathematician and computer scientist who was a pioneer of the recently developed field of applied category theory. He is a co-founder of the Institute for Categorical Cybernetics (h…
Existential Hope Podcast: David Pearce | A Future without Suffering
This month, we talk to David Pearce, a thought leader who is always pushing the boundaries of human potential. Pearce, a philosopher and bioethicist, is best known for his advocacy of transhumanism –…
Sumner Norman | Neurotech for Mental Health
Sumner Norman is a pioneering figure at the nexus of neuroscience, engineering, and impact-driven entrepreneurship. His research in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) is forging new paths in neurotechn…
Trent McConaghy | A Solarpunk Vision from AI, Web3 & BCI
Trent McConaghy is the Founder and CTO of Ocean Protocol and BigchainDB, specializing in AI and blockchain technology to democratize data and AI. His work includes advancing decentralized data soluti…
Vision Weekend France: Biotech Panel
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Panellists: Alex Fedintsev, Leon Peshkin, Yuri Deigin, and Aleksandra Singer.
Recorded at Vision Weekend France 2023.
Key Highlights
- They discussed the field's growth in public acceptance and funding o…
Vision Weekend France: Energy and Space Panel
Panellists: Andre Losekrug, Michael Gibson, Anders Sandberg, and Robin Hanson.
Recorded at Vision Weekend France 2023.
Energy Key Highlights:
- Excitement about energy advancements, specifically in the fi…
Existential Hope: Danielle Strachman | Education, Agency, and the Ability to Experiment
Danielle Strachman is a cofounder and general partner of 1517. She has worked with young entrepreneurs for about a decade. In 2010, during the founding of the Thiel Fellowship, Danielle joined to lea…
Vision Weekend France: Intelligent Cooperation Panel
Panellists: Divya Siddarth, Jonathan Prasserat-Palmbach, Lewis Hammond, Primavera De Filippi, Stuart Armstrong, and Trent Mcconaghy.
Recorded at Vision Weekend France 2023.
Key Highlights
Panellists d…
Vision Weekend France: Neuotech Panel
Panellists: Anders Sandberg, Bradley Love, Robin Hanson, Brett Kagan
Recorded at Vision Weekend France 2023.
Key Highlights
- The panel explored how brain emulation is increasingly becoming a viable poss…
Vision Weekend France: Molecular Machines Panel
Panellists: Alexis Courbet, Erik Benson, Stephane Redon, Dean Thomas. Recorded at Vision Weekend France.
Key Highlights
- The panel discusses molecular nanotechnology and the potential for compact machi…
Existential Hope Podcast: Gus Docker | Beyond Survival
Gus Docker hosts The Future of Life Institute podcast, which features conversations with prominent researchers, policy experts, philosophers, and influential thinkers of all kinds. Gus studied philos…
Dr. Scott Hubbard | Exploring Mars: Following the Water
Dr. Scott Hubbard has been a leader in space exploration for almost 50 years. His career includes a National Lab, a start-up venture, NASA, and Stanford. At NASA, Dr. Hubbard is best known as Directo…
Mark Hamalainen | A Coherent, Executable Plan to Achieve Unlimited Healthy Lifespan
Mark Hamalainen is cofounder of the Longevity Biotech Fellowship. His career has progressed from manual bench work in academia, to lab automation at Synthego, to longevity movement building - always …
Existential Hope Podcast: Jason Crawford | Progress: An Ever-Evolving Journey
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…
Casey Handmer | Why Mars is Hard
Casey Handmer is the founder of Terraform Industries, a company dedicated to gigascale atmospheric hydrocarbon synthesis. His method of creating hydrocarbons promises to be a cheaper and cleaner alte…
Matjaz Leonardis | Interpretability and Security of AI Models
Matjaž Leonardis, in collaboration with David Deutsch at the University of Oxford, is advancing the understanding of a theorem by Popper and Miller from 1983, offering new insights into Bayesian upda…
Dr. Anders Sandberg | WBE History and Overview
Dr. Anders Sandberg is a Senior Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, where he specializes in the management of low-probability, high-impact risks and future techn…
Kipply Chen | Fireside Chat on AI Alignment
Kipply Chen is part of the data team at Anthropic.
Key Highlights
- The swift pace of alignment potentially outpacing AI advancements.
- Challenges of coordinating predictive and base model alignment across…
Existential Hope Podcast: Trent McConaghy | From Starships to Tokens: Pioneering Futures
Trent McConaghy is the founder of Ocean Protocol, a decentralized platform aimed at democratizing AI data sharing while maintaining privacy. With a career starting in AI research for national defence…