Anticipating and managing exponential impact - hosts David Wood and Calum ChaceCalum Chace is a sought-after keynote speaker and best-selling writer on... more
In David's life so far, he has read literally hundreds of books about the future. Yet none has had such... more
Our guest in this episode is Sterling Anderson, a pioneer of self-driving vehicles. With a masters degree and a PhD... more
Our guest in this episode is Parmy Olson, a columnist for Bloomberg covering technology. Parmy has previously been a reporter... more
Our guest in this episode is Andrea Miotti, the founder and executive director of ControlAI. On their website, ControlAI have... more
Our guest in this episode is David Wakeling, a partner at A&O Shearman, which became the world’s third largest law... more
Our guest in this episode is Matt Burgess. Matt is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wyoming, where he... more
Our guest in this episode is Karl Pfleger. Karl is an angel investor in rejuvenation biotech startups, and is also... more
Our guest today is Pedro Domingos, who is joining an elite group of repeat guests – he joined us before... more
Our guest in this episode is the journalist and author James Ball. James has worked for the Bureau of Investigative... more
In this episode, we have not one guest but two – Brett King and Robert Tercek, the hosts of the... more
Our guest in this episode is Jordan Sparks, the founder and executive director of Oregon Brain Preservation (OBP), which is... more
Our guest in this episode is Holly Joint, who was born and educated in the UK, but lives in Abu... more
How do we keep technology from slipping beyond our control? That’s the subtitle of the latest book by our guest... more
Our guest in this episode is Dr. Emil Kendziorra. Emil graduated summa cum laude, which means, with the highest honours,... more
This episode is a bit different from the usual, because we are interviewing Calum's boss. Calum says that mainly to... more
Those who rush to leverage AI’s power without adequate preparation face difficult blowback, scandals, and could provoke harsh regulatory measures.... more
Our guest in this episode grew up in an abandoned town in Tasmania, and is now a researcher and blogger... more
Our guest in this episode is Max More. Max is a philosopher, a futurist, and a transhumanist - a term... more
Our guest in this episode is Dr. Mark Kotter. Mark is a neurosurgeon, stem cell biologist, and founder or co-founder... more
The public discussion in a number of countries around the world expresses worries about what is called an aging society.... more
In this episode we return to the subject of whether AIs will become conscious, or, to use a word from... more
Our topic in this episode is progress with ending aging. Our guest is the person who literally wrote the book... more
As artificial intelligence models become increasingly powerful, they both raise - and might help to answer - some very important... more
Our guest in this episode is Adam Kovacevich. Adam is the Founder and CEO of the Chamber of Progress, which... more
In this episode, we are delving into the fascinating topic of mind uploading. We suspect this idea is about to... more
Our guest in this episode is Lou de K, Program Director at the Foresight Institute.David recently saw Lou give a... more
Calum and David recently attended the BGI24 event in Panama City, that is, the Beneficial General Intelligence summit and unconference.... more
In the wide and complex subject of biological aging, one particular kind of biological aging has been receiving a great... more
In this episode, we look further into the future than usual. We explore what humanity might get up to in... more
AI systems have become more powerful in the last few years, and are expected to become even more powerful in... more
In this episode, our subject is the rise of the robots – not the military kind of robots, or the... more
Our guest in this episode is Riaz Shah. Until recently, Riaz was a partner at EY, where he was for... more
In this episode, our subject is Uncontrollable: The Threat of Artificial Superintelligence and the Race to Save the World. That’s... more
Our guest in this episode is Nick Mabey, the co-founder and co-CEO of one of the world’s most influential climate... more
Our subject in this episode is the idea that the body uses electricity in more ways than are presently fully... more
We are honoured to have as our guest in this episode Professor Stuart Russell. Stuart is professor of computer science... more
Our guest in this episode is Rebecca Gorman, the co-founder and CEO of Aligned AI, a start-up in Oxford which... more
Our guest in this episode is Dhiraj Mukherjee, best known as the co-founder of Shazam. Calum and David both still... more
Our guest in this episode is James Hughes. James is a bioethicist and sociologist who serves as Associate Provost at... more
The Partnership on AI was launched back in September 2016, during an earlier flurry of interest in AI, as a... more
This is the second episode in which we discuss the upcoming Global AI Safety Summit taking place on 1st and... more
The launch of GPT-4 on the 14th of March this year was shocking as well as exciting. ChatGPT had been... more
In the future, energy will be too cheap to meter. That used to be a common vision of the future:... more
Self-driving cars has long been one of the most exciting potential outcomes of advanced artificial intelligence. Contrary to popular belief,... more
One of the short-term concerns raised by artificial intelligence is cybercrime. Cybercrime didn’t start with AI, of course, but it... more
The UK government has announced plans for a global AI Safety Summit, to be held in Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire,... more
This episode, like the previous one, consists of a number of short interviews recorded at the Longevity Summit Dublin between... more
The Longevity Summit Dublin took place from 17th to 20th August. In between presentations, Calum and David caught up with... more
The legal profession is rarely accused of being at the cutting edge of technological development. Lawyers may not still use... more
Our guest in this episode is Aidan McCullen. For ten years from 1998 to 2008, Aidan was a professional rugby... more
Our guest in this episode is Martin O'Dea. As the CEO of Longevity Events Limited, Martin is the principal organiser... more
Our topic in this episode is investing in AI, so we're delighted to have as our guest John Cassidy, a... more
Our guest in this episode is Jeremy Kahn, a senior writer at Fortune Magazine, based in the UK. He writes... more
An intriguing possibility created by the exponential growth in the power of our technology is that within the lifetimes of... more
Our guest in this episode is Shamus Rae. Shamus is the co-founder of Engine B, a startup which aims to... more
In this episode our guest is David Giron, the Director at what is arguably one of the world's most innovative... more
Alex Zhavoronkov is our first guest to make a repeat appearance, having first joined us in episode 12, last November.... more
In this episode, co-hosts Calum and David continue their reflections on what they have both learned from their interactions with... more
The 4 Cs of Superintelligence is a framework that casts fresh light on the vexing question of possible outcomes of... more
The launch of GPT-4 on 14th March has provoked concerns and searching questions, and nowhere more so than in the... more
The European Commission and Parliament were busily debating the Artificial Intelligence Act when GPT-4 launched on 14 March. As people... more
Technological changes have economic impact. It's not just that technology allows more goods and services to be produced more efficiently... more
One of the questions audiences frequently used to ask futurists was, which careers are most likely to be future-proof? However,... more
The last few episodes of our podcast have explored what GPT (generative pre-trained transformer) technology is and how it works,... more
On March 14th, OpenAI launched GPT-4 , which took the world by surprise and storm. Almost everybody, including people within... more
The race to create advanced AI is becoming a suicide race. That's part of the thinking behind the open letter... more
Despite the impressive recent progress in AI capabilities, there are reasons why AI may be incapable of possessing a full... more
Should the pace of research into advanced artificial intelligence be slowed down, or perhaps even paused completely?Your answer to that... more
2023 is still young, but there's already a change in the attitudes of many business people regarding the future. Previously,... more
In the last few weeks, the pace of change in AI has been faster than ever before. The changes aren't... more
Ben Goertzel is a cognitive scientist and artificial intelligence researcher. He is CEO and founder of SingularityNET, leader of the... more
At a time when many people find it depressingly easy to see how "bad futures" could arise, what is a... more
Our guest in this episode is Francesca Rossi. Francesca studied computer science at the University of Pisa in Italy, where... more
In this episode, Tim Clement-Jones brings us up to date on the reactions by members of the UK's House of... more
Advanced AI is currently pretty much a duopoly between the USA and China. The US is the clear leader, thanks... more
Peter James is one of the world’s most successful crime writers. His "Roy Grace" series, about a detective in Brighton,... more
Our guest in this episode is a Briton who is based in Berlin, namely Andrew Steele. Earlier in his life... more
It is nearly 40 years since our guest in this episode, pioneering transhumanist Natasha Vita-More, created the first version of... more
Our guest in this episode is the scientist and science fiction author Davin Brin, whose writings have won the Hugo,... more
OpenAI's ChatGPT and picture generating AI systems like MidJourney and Stable Diffusion have got a lot more people interested in... more
Quantum computing is a tough subject to explain and discuss. As Niels Bohr put it, “Anyone who is not shocked... more
In the summer of 1950, the physicist Enrico Fermi and some colleagues at the Los Alamos Lab in New Mexico... more
An area of technology that has long been anticipated is Extended Reality (XR), which includes Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality... more
Our guest on this episode is someone with excellent connections to the foresight departments of governments around the world. He... more
This episode features the CEO of Brainnwave, Steven Coates, who is a pioneer in the field of Decision Intelligence.Decision Intelligence... more
As AI automates larger portions of the activities of companies and organisations, there's a greater need to think carefully about... more
One area of technology that is frequently in the news these days is rejuvenation biotechnology, namely the possibility of undoing... more
A Venn diagram of people interested in how AI will shape our future, and members of the effective altruism community... more
In the 4th century BC, the Greek philosopher Plato theorised that humans do not perceive the world as it really... more
This episode discusses progress at Insilico Medicine, the AI drug development company founded by our guest, longevity pioneer Alex Zhavoronkov.1.20... more
In the summer of 1950, the physicist Enrico Fermi and some colleagues at the Los Alamos Lab in New Mexico were walking... more