Foresight Institute Radio

Is Robin Hanson feeling hopeful about the future? What future does he want to see? How big can the future be? In this episode of the Existential Hope podcast, we ask Robin Hanson about his reflection…

Should cryonics be our plan A for life extension?  If so, how do you sign up to cryonics? In this episode of the podcast Emil Kendziorra and Max More answers all the most common (and uncommon) questi…

Why is cryptography so important today? And why are so many missing out on its importance? This episode feature Balaji Srinivasan.

Balaji Srinivasan is an angel investor and entrepreneur. Formerly th…

Are we alone in the universe? What could a future for humans in space look like? And what would Creon's advise to Elon Musk be if he wants to make a self-sufficient mass colony there?  
Creon Levit is…

What happened to the idea of progress? How do we regain our sense of agency? And how do we move forward, in the 21st century and beyond?

Jason Crawford
I am the founder of The Roots of Progress, a nonp…

What could the world be if we managed to get aligned AI? And are we able to make such a future happen?

This episode of the Existential Hope podcast features Richard Mallah, Director of AI Projects at …

How private is too private when we're talking about #privacy? Is it moral for our private identities to exist in a grey area system? What does a future with machine privacy like #ZeroKnowledgeProofs …

Tom Kalil is Chief Innovation Officer at Schmidt Futures. In this role, Tom leads initiatives to harness technology for societal challenges, improve science policy, and identify and pursue 21st-centu…

"What does the history of #cryptography look like? What's the connection between #Bitcoin and #privacy coin #Zcash?

In this episode of Shielded Transactions, we talk to privacy coin advocate, #Zcash f…

What could our future be like if we could significantly slow down aging?

Morgan Levine is a ladder-rank Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology at the Yale School of Medicine and a member o…

Gaming the Future: Technologies for Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation

Stuart Armstrong is the co-founder of Aligned AI, a deeptech company for solving artificial intelligence alignment and ensuring hu…

Gaming the Future: Technologies for Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation

Trent McConaghy: I’m working on Ocean Protocol. Ocean is a public utility network to safely & securely share AI data while preserv…

A Special Podcast Series on Zero-knowledge-enabled Cooperation, sponsored by Zcash-Foundation

This is a three part privacy podcast series, #ShieldedTransactions, that examines the increasing surveilla…

Gaming the Future: Technologies for Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation

Gernot Heiser Primary occupation is leading research in and evangelizing for the Trustworthy Systems (TS) Group, aiming at making …

Gaming the Future: Technologies for Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation

David Brin is best-known for shining light on technology, society, and countless challenges confronting our rambunctious civilizat…

Gaming the Future: Technologies for Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation

Opportunities for bright futures enabled by bio, nano, and computing technologies are now within our reach. Their proliferation al…

Have you ever played Civilization?  

Glen Weyl is is co-creator of quadratic voting, a collective decision-making procedure designed to allow fine-grained expression of how strongly voters feel about …

Have you ever played Civilization? 

In the game, you’re discovering technologies that unlock new levels, one capability at a time. But not all innovations are equal. Better technologies of cooperatio…

Chiara Marletto is a physicist at Oxford University, and the author of the book “The Science of Can and Can’t”, where she writes about the concept of counterfactuals and constructor theory.

This is a …

Juan Benet, Crypto Tools for Pareto(r)opia | Gaming the Future Book Club Chapter 3 (Pt. 3/3)

Juan Benet is the inventor of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a new protocol to make the web faster,…