What should be the trajectory of intelligence beyond humanity?The Trajectory pull covers realpolitik on artificial general intelligence and the posthuman transition - by asking tech, policy, and AI research leaders the hard questions about what's after man, and how we should define and create a worthy successor (danfaggella.com/worthy). Hosted by Daniel Faggella.
Latest episodes
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1 h 49
Eric Smith - AI May be a Prosthetic for the Living Process (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 9)
This installment of the Stewarding the Flame series is an interview with Eric Smith, Specially Appointed Professor at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI), Institute of Science…
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1 h 29
N. Katherine Hayles - AI as Our Inextricable Symbionts (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 8)
This installment of the Stewarding the Flame series is an interview with N. Katherine Hayles, Distinguished Research Professor of English at UCLA and James B. Duke Distinguished Pr…
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1 h 47
David Pearce - A Negative Utilitarian Vision for AGI (Worthy Successor, Ep. 34)
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with David Pearce, the philosopher who wrote The Hedonistic Imperative in 1995 and co-founded the World Transhum…
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1 h 20
Eörs Szathmáry - Major Evolutionary Transitions and AGI's Impact (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 7)
Eörs Szathmáry co-developed, with the late John Maynard Smith, the theory of major transitions in evolution - the framework for understanding how life has repeatedly reorganized it…
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2 h 04
Connor Glass – Merging with Machines to Steward the Flame (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 6)
This installment of the Stewarding the Flame series is an interview with Connor Glass, founder and CEO of Phantom Neuro, a company building implantable technology that interfaces w…
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1 h 35
Stuart Kauffman - Why Open-Ended Evolution Has Never Happened in a Machine (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 5)
Stuart Kauffman has spent over 50 years asking a deceptively simple question: what actually makes something alive? His answer is that greater computational sophistication alone doe…
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1 h 50
Davidad – Merger, Wisdom, and the Fate of Man (Worthy Successor, Episode 33)
Davidad (David Dalrymple) recently stepped down as a Programme Director at the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), where he led work on mathematically verifiable, "…
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1 h 27
Denis Noble - Life is “Fluid” in Ways Machines Still Aren’t (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 4)
Denis Noble argues that water isn't just biology's medium - it may be the very reason life is possible at all.In this installment of the Stewarding the Flame series, the Oxford phy…
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45 min
Paolo Ardoino - Merger or Obsolescence - The Future for Humanity (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 3)
Brain-computer interfaces are often discussed as futuristic gadgets. Paolo Ardoino argues they're something far more important: humanity's best chance of keeping pace with increasi…
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1 h 54
Lee Cronin - Living Process Flourishes if We Make the Present “Thick” (Stewarding the Flame, Ep 2)
This installment of the Stewarding the Flame series is an interview with Lee Cronin, Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, founder and CEO of Chemify, and one…
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1 h 23
Michael Levin - Making the Process-of-Life Flourish in Bio and Beyond (Stewarding the Flame, Ep 1)
This installment of the Stewarding the Flame series is an interview with Michael Levin, Distinguished Professor of Biology at Tufts University, Director of the Allen Discovery Cent…
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1 h 26
Hod Lipson - Beyond Biology: AGI Minds in Competition (Worthy Successor, Episode 32)
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Hod Lipson, Professor of Engineering at Columbia University and one of the world's leading researchers in r…
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1 h 31
Henry Shevlin – The Life Force Beyond Biology (Worthy Successor, Episode 31)
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Henry Shevlin, philosopher of cognitive science and AI ethicist at the University of Cambridge.In this conv…
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2 h 08
Benjamin Bratton - Planetary Computation and the Future of Life (Worthy Successor, Episode 30)
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Benjamin Bratton, Professor of Philosophy of Technology at UC San Diego and Director of Antikythera.In this…
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1 h 51
Terrence Deacon - AI Is a “Deep Fake of Intelligence” (Worthy Successor, Episode 29)
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Terrence Deacon, an emeritus professor of cognitive science and anthropology from UC Berkeley.In this conve…
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2 h 13
Vincent C. Müller - AI Is Accelerating - But Toward What? (Worthy Successor, Episode 28)
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Vincent C. Müller, Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Ethics of AI at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg…
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1 h 41
Lee Spector - The Next Phase of Evolution Is Artificial (Worthy Successor, Episode 27)
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Lee Spector, a professor at Amherst College and a researcher in evolutionary computation, whose work applie…
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1 h 37
Aza Raskin - Why AGI Demands New Global Coordination (AGI Governance, Episode 12)
This is an interview with Aza Raskin, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology and co-founder of the Earth Species Project. His work has focused on the societal impacts of te…
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1 h 44
Ben Goertzel - The Primordial Soup of AGI Minds (Worthy Successor, Episode 26)
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Ben Goertzel, founder of SingularityNET and one of the earliest and most persistent thinkers in artificial…
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1 h 56
Luciano Floridi - How Life Could Flourish in the Information Ocean (Worthy Successor, Episode 25)
This installment of the Worthy Successor series features Luciano Floridi, John K. Castle Professor of Cognitive Science at Yale University and Director of the Digital Ethics Center…