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Future of Life Institute Podcast

The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is a nonprofit working to reduce global catastrophic and existential risk from powerful technologies. In particular, FLI focuses on risks from artificial intelligenc... Read more

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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence with Max Tegmark

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence with Max Tegmark

Elon Musk has called it a compelling guide to the challenges and choices in our quest for a great future of life on Eart... Read more

29 Aug 2017

34mins

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FLI Podcast: On the Future of Computation, Synthetic Biology, and Life with George Church

FLI Podcast: On the Future of Computation, Synthetic Biology, and Life with George Church

Progress in synthetic biology and genetic engineering promise to bring advancements in human health sciences by curing d... Read more

15 May 2020

1hr 13mins

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AIAP: Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control with Stuart Russell

AIAP: Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control with Stuart Russell

Stuart Russell is one of AI's true pioneers and has been at the forefront of the field for decades. His expertise and fo... Read more

8 Oct 2019

1hr 8mins

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FLI Podcast: Existential Hope in 2020 and Beyond with the FLI Team

FLI Podcast: Existential Hope in 2020 and Beyond with the FLI Team

As 2019 is coming to an end and the opportunities of 2020 begin to emerge, it's a great time to reflect on the past year... Read more

28 Dec 2019

1hr 39mins

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AIAP: Inverse Reinforcement Learning and Inferring Human Preferences with Dylan Hadfield-Menell

AIAP: Inverse Reinforcement Learning and Inferring Human Preferences with Dylan Hadfield-Menell

Inverse Reinforcement Learning and Inferring Human Preferences is the first podcast in the new AI Alignment series, host... Read more

25 Apr 2018

1hr 25mins

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FLI Podcast: Beyond the Arms Race Narrative: AI and China with Helen Toner and Elsa Kania

FLI Podcast: Beyond the Arms Race Narrative: AI and China with Helen Toner and Elsa Kania

Discussions of Chinese artificial intelligence often center around the trope of a U.S.-China arms race. On this month’s ... Read more

30 Aug 2019

49mins

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AIAP: China's AI Superpower Dream with Jeffrey Ding

AIAP: China's AI Superpower Dream with Jeffrey Ding

"In July 2017, The State Council of China released the New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan. This pol... Read more

16 Aug 2019

1hr 12mins

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AIAP: On Consciousness, Qualia, and Meaning with Mike Johnson and Andrés Gómez Emilsson

AIAP: On Consciousness, Qualia, and Meaning with Mike Johnson and Andrés Gómez Emilsson

Consciousness is a concept which is at the forefront of much scientific and philosophical thinking. At the same time, th... Read more

23 May 2019

1hr 26mins

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Existential Hope in 2019 and Beyond

Existential Hope in 2019 and Beyond

Humanity is at a turning point. For the first time in history, we have the technology to completely obliterate ourselves... Read more

21 Dec 2018

2hr 6mins

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AI Breakthroughs With Ian Goodfellow And Richard Mallah

AI Breakthroughs With Ian Goodfellow And Richard Mallah

2016 saw some significant AI developments. To talk about the AI progress of the last year, we turned to Richard Mallah a... Read more

31 Jan 2017

54mins

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FLI Podcast: On Superforecasting with Robert de Neufville

FLI Podcast: On Superforecasting with Robert de Neufville

Essential to our assessment of risk and ability to plan for the future is our understanding of the probability of certai... Read more

30 Apr 2020

1hr 20mins

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AIAP: On DeepMind, AI Safety, and Recursive Reward Modeling with Jan Leike

AIAP: On DeepMind, AI Safety, and Recursive Reward Modeling with Jan Leike

Jan Leike is a senior research scientist who leads the agent alignment team at DeepMind. His is one of three teams withi... Read more

16 Dec 2019

58mins

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Six Experts Explain the Killer Robots Debate

Six Experts Explain the Killer Robots Debate

Why are so many AI researchers so worried about lethal autonomous weapons? What makes autonomous weapons so much worse t... Read more

31 Jul 2018

2hr

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AIAP: Human Cognition and the Nature of Intelligence with Joshua Greene

AIAP: Human Cognition and the Nature of Intelligence with Joshua Greene

See the full article here: https://futureoflife.org/2019/02/21/human-cognition-and-the-nature-of-intelligence-with-joshu... Read more

21 Feb 2019

37mins

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FLI Podcast: The Psychology of Existential Risk and Effective Altruism with Stefan Schubert

FLI Podcast: The Psychology of Existential Risk and Effective Altruism with Stefan Schubert

We could all be more altruistic and effective in our service of others, but what exactly is it that's stopping us? What ... Read more

2 Dec 2019

58mins

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The Metaethics of Joy, Suffering, and Artificial Intelligence with Brian Tomasik and David Pearce

The Metaethics of Joy, Suffering, and Artificial Intelligence with Brian Tomasik and David Pearce

What role does metaethics play in AI alignment and safety? How might paths to AI alignment change given different metaet... Read more

16 Aug 2018

1hr 45mins

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FLI Podcast: The Climate Crisis as an Existential Threat with Simon Beard and Haydn Belfield

FLI Podcast: The Climate Crisis as an Existential Threat with Simon Beard and Haydn Belfield

Does the climate crisis pose an existential threat? And is that even the best way to formulate the question, or should w... Read more

1 Aug 2019

1hr 9mins

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AIAP: Machine Ethics and AI Governance with Wendell Wallach

AIAP: Machine Ethics and AI Governance with Wendell Wallach

Wendell Wallach has been at the forefront of contemporary emerging technology issues for decades now. As an interdiscipl... Read more

15 Nov 2019

1hr 12mins

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AIAP: On Becoming a Moral Realist with Peter Singer

AIAP: On Becoming a Moral Realist with Peter Singer

Are there such things as moral facts? If so, how might we be able to access them? Peter Singer started his career as a p... Read more

18 Oct 2018

51mins

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Not Cool Ep 21: Libby Jewett on ocean acidification

Not Cool Ep 21: Libby Jewett on ocean acidification

The increase of CO2 in the atmosphere is doing more than just warming the planet and threatening the lives of many terre... Read more

7 Nov 2019

39mins

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