Foresight Institute Radio

“There is no physical law that can limit our life like longevity. And this is what motivates us to reach radical life extension.”

Dr. Emil Kendziorra is a founder and CEO at Tomorrow Biostasis GmbH ba…

“It looks like we could have an enormously bright future ahead of us, so we really need to worry about not going extinct now.”

Anders is a research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute, where he…

This episode is a Q&A on longevity investing with Sergey Young from Longevity Vision Fund and Neil Littman from Bioverge.

Sergey Young is a longevity investor and visionary with a mission to extend th…

What possibilities can there be for advanced civilizations within the realm of physics? What is the black hole solution? And what do astronomers spend a lot of time worrying about? 

In this Holiday Sp…

“In the mid 90s, we had a vision of smart contracting well before the invention of blockchain.”

Mark S. Miller is a pioneer of Agoric (market-based secure distributed) computing and smart contracts, a…

“It’s not just about slowing aging down or stopping it, it’s about bringing yourself back to a younger biological age, which is effectively age reversal.”

Daniel Ives, founder of Shift Bioscience, int…

Our civilization is made up of countless individuals and pieces of material technology, which come together to form institutions and interdependent systems of logistics, development and production. T…

“We want to create a system where incentives for prediction are transparent and clear to make good predictions. Furthermore, we want these predictions to be integrated into a consensus that we could …

“The mission of our lab is to make a new life form. We want to digitize chemistry, we want to build chemical computers.”

Lee Cronin,  a professor at the University of Glasgow, was born in the UK and w…

“Why is property law so different from contract law? Normally, when two parties buy or sell something, it doesn't have a huge negative effect on everyone else.“

Kate Sills is a software engineer with …

“I look at these assistants that we have today which are very primitive like Siri, Alexa and Google. But it's really interesting, because they represent a phase change in operating systems.”

Peter Nor…

"Can we make journalism that is safe to write and safe to read? Can we have publishing that is along the lines of the original visions of the internet?"

How can we improve the reliability and privacy …

“The goal is to work on coordinated research programs that are a little bit too research for startups and too engineering coordination heavy for academia.”

Adam Marblestone is a Schmidt Futures Innova…

“There's heaps of futures open to humanity. Some of these futures would be constrained to earth, some might involve other planets, star systems or galaxies.”

Toby Ord is a Senior Research Fellow in Ph…

Mark S. Miller discusses civilization as relevant superintelligence, the importance and neglectedness of cybersecurity, and decentralized approaches to AI safety.  

Even if we don't know yet how to al…

“The reality is some people would like to be uploaded and live in cyberspace.”

Meatspace and cyberspace often conflict. But how can we make the best out of both of them?

This episode features Christine…

What are AI DAO’s? Why are they interesting? How can brain computer interfaces help humans? And what challenges will we face when we move into space? 

All of these questions and more are being answere…

Why does signing up to cryonics today make sense? What are people not getting about longevity? And how can the crypto community and the longevity community work together? 

All of these questions and m…

“If we get to a post-scarcity society, with much greater levels of well being and really long lives, settling space, etc., that means we have a lot to look forward to when it comes to the future!”

And…

“We use this sort of de novo protein design, to design brand new proteins that block viruses such as the Coronavirus from entering cells.”

David Baker is the director of the Institute for Protein Desi…