Singularity.FM
Singularity.FM was the first singularity podcast in the world. It is the place where we interview the future and technology meets ethics: an open conversation about the impact of exponential tech, accelerating change, and the choices we make. It helps us identify the full spectrum of unprecedented dangers and opportunities and give birth to our own ideas about the best way to create a better future, a better you.
Singularity.FM is a series of interviews with the best scientists, writers, entrepreneurs, filmmakers, philosophers, and artists. We discuss the technological singularity, transhumanism, artificial intelligence, life extension, genetics, robotics, nanotech, synthetic biology, cryptocurrencies, and ethics: because technology is not enough!
Past guests of this singularity podcast include people such as Ray Kurzweil, Peter Diamandis, Noam Chomsky, Natasha Vita-More, Stuart Hameroff, Marvin Minsky, Aubrey de Grey, Max More, Michio Kaku, Vernor Vinge, Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross, and many, many others.
- Update frequency
- every 15 days
- Average duration
- 66 minutes
- Episodes
- 321
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
Former IBM Watson Team Leader David Ferrucci on AI and Elemental Cognition
Dr. David Ferrucci is one of the few people who have created a benchmark in the history of AI because when IBM Watson won Jeopardy we reached a milestone many thought impossible. I was very privilege…
01:27:43 |
Sun 15 Dec 2019
Katy Cook on the Psychology of Silicon Valley
Katy Cook‘s recent book the Psychology of Silicon Valley: Ethical Threats and Emotional Unintelligence in the Tech Industry is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the conflicting motiv…
01:45:02 |
Sun 08 Dec 2019
Cathy O’Neil on Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Threatens Democracy
Cathy O’Neil is a math Ph. D. from Harvard and a data-scientist who hopes to someday have a better answer to the question, “what can a non-academic mathematician do that makes the world a better plac…
01:40:12 |
Wed 25 Sep 2019
Technology is a Magnifying Mirror, Not a Crystal Ball
“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the smartest species of them all?” “You, oh Homo Sapiens, are smart, it is true. But AI will be smarter even than you.” *** The most popular myth about technology i…
00:08:46 |
Thu 19 Sep 2019
Gary Marcus on Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
It’s been 7 years since my first interview with Gary Marcus and I felt it’s time to catch up. Gary is the youngest Professor Emeritus at NYU and I wanted to get his contrarian views on the major thin…
01:28:38 |
Mon 09 Sep 2019
Prof. Steve Fuller on Transhumanism: Ask yourself what is human?
Prof. Steve Fuller is the author of 25 books including a trilogy relating to the idea of a ‘post-’ or ‘trans-‘ human future, and most recently, Nietzschean Meditations: Untimely Thoughts at the Dawn …
02:23:04 |
Sun 25 Aug 2019
Cory Doctorow on Walkaway: This will all be so great if we don’t screw it up
Cory Doctorow is probably my all time most favorite science fiction writer. The reason for that is simple – Doctorow is not only a great story-teller but also an activist. To paraphrase Karl Marx, wr…
01:32:58 |
Fri 16 Aug 2019
Ex-Google Design Ethicist Tristan Harris on Technology and Human Downgrading
Tristan Harris is one of my heroes. And I don’t know about you but I am much more demanding and harder on my heroes. I just expect them to hold themselves to a higher standard, to know more, to do mo…
01:10:02 |
Sun 16 Jun 2019
Andreas Antonopoulos: Just because you don’t need bitcoin, doesn’t mean it’s not needed.
I first met Andreas Antonopoulos at the 2014 Bitcoin Expo conference in Toronto, Canada. At that time Andreas was already established as the most publicly recognized expert in the field of crypto-cur…
01:00:12 |
Wed 17 Apr 2019
Sir Martin Rees on the Future: Prospects for Humanity
Today my guest is a world-renowned cosmologist and Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees. Martin has written 11 books and more than 500 scientific papers on topics ranging from the Big Bang and cosmology …
01:34:57 |
Tue 12 Mar 2019
Media Theorist Douglas Rushkoff on Team Human
Douglas Rushkoff has been named one of the world’s ten most influential intellectuals by MIT. He is an award-winning author, broadcaster, media theorist, and documentarian who studies human autonomy …
01:20:35 |
Wed 27 Feb 2019
Dr. Joseph Mercola on Health and Longevity: Take Health into Your Own Hands
With 15 million unique visitors per month, Dr. Joseph Mercola is the founder of the largest health and wellness website on the internet. His life’s mission is to cure rather than treat disease and Dr…
01:38:06 |
Thu 22 Nov 2018
Joscha Bach: We need to understand the nature of AI to understand who we are
Joscha Bach is one of those rare people whose primary motivation is unbound curiosity and inspiration. He clearly loves what he does and you can’t help but notice his radiating passion and youthful e…
02:09:21 |
Wed 14 Nov 2018
Dr. Michael Greger on How Not to Age
There are two people who caused me to become vegan and switch to a whole-plant-based diet. The first is Prof. Peter Singer who put the idea in my head many years ago when I started studying ethics. T…
00:33:39 |
Sat 29 Sep 2018
Stuart Russell on Artificial Intelligence: What if we succeed?
Stuart Russell is a professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley as well as co-author of the most popular textbook in the field – Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. Given that it has been tr…
01:32:43 |
Thu 13 Sep 2018
Roman Yampolskiy on Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security
There are those of us who philosophize and debate the finer points surrounding the dangers of artificial intelligence. And then there are those who dare go in the trenches and get their hands dirty b…
01:18:05 |
Fri 31 Aug 2018
“Oracle of Silicon Valley” Tim O’Reilly on WTF: Do Work That Matters
Inc Magazine called Tim O’Reilly the “Oracle of Silicon Valley.” Wired called him “The Trend Spotter.” Others have noted that “the Internet was built on O’Reilly books.” All in all, Tim O’Reilly is a…
01:28:24 |
Mon 16 Jul 2018
Physicist Max Tegmark on Life 3.0: What We Do Makes a Difference
Some people say that renowned MIT physicist Max Tegmark is totally bonkers and refer to him as “Mad Max”. But, to quote Lewis Carroll from Alice in Wonderland, “All the best people are.” Furthermore,…
01:33:45 |
Fri 15 Jun 2018
Transhumanist Manifesto Inspires WIRED Article on Transhumanism
A couple of weeks ago Joi Ito – head of the MIT Media Lab and contributor to WIRED Magazine, interviewed me about my Transhumanist Manifesto and related topics such as life-extension, immortality, cr…
00:56:02 |
Fri 08 Jun 2018
Philosopher Peter Singer on AI, Transhumanism and Ethics
Peter Singer is arguably the most influential living philosopher of our day. His book on Animal Liberation basically started the animal rights movement and his textbook on Practical Ethics is the sta…
01:04:12 |
Fri 01 Jun 2018
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