Our guest in this episode is Amory Lovins, a distinguished environmental scientist, and co-founder of RMI, which he co-founded in... more

Some people say that all that’s necessary to improve the capabilities of AI is to scale up existing systems. That... 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