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The Trajectory

Daniel Faggella

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.

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72 episodes

  1. Jack Szostak - Life's Next Transition May Not Be Biological (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 10) 1:11:14
  2. Eric Smith - AI May be a Prosthetic for the Living Process (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 9) 1:49:44
  3. N. Katherine Hayles - AI as Our Inextricable Symbionts (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 8) 1:29:49
  4. David Pearce - A Negative Utilitarian Vision for AGI (Worthy Successor, Ep. 34) 1:47:11
  5. Eörs Szathmáry - Major Evolutionary Transitions and AGI's Impact (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 7) 1:20:09
  6. Connor Glass – Merging with Machines to Steward the Flame (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 6) 2:04:56
  7. Stuart Kauffman - Why Open-Ended Evolution Has Never Happened in a Machine (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 5) 1:35:24
  8. Davidad – Merger, Wisdom, and the Fate of Man (Worthy Successor, Episode 33) 1:50:55
  9. Denis Noble - Life is “Fluid” in Ways Machines Still Aren’t (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 4) 1:27:43
  10. Paolo Ardoino - Merger or Obsolescence - The Future for Humanity (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 3) 45:17
  11. Lee Cronin - Living Process Flourishes if We Make the Present “Thick” (Stewarding the Flame, Ep 2) 1:54:48
  12. Michael Levin - Making the Process-of-Life Flourish in Bio and Beyond (Stewarding the Flame, Ep 1) 1:23:12
  13. Hod Lipson - Beyond Biology: AGI Minds in Competition (Worthy Successor, Episode 32) 1:26:37
  14. Henry Shevlin – The Life Force Beyond Biology (Worthy Successor, Episode 31) 1:31:54
  15. Benjamin Bratton - Planetary Computation and the Future of Life (Worthy Successor, Episode 30) 2:08:33
  16. Terrence Deacon - AI Is a “Deep Fake of Intelligence” (Worthy Successor, Episode 29) 1:51:49
  17. Vincent C. Müller - AI Is Accelerating - But Toward What? (Worthy Successor, Episode 28) 2:13:35
  18. Lee Spector - The Next Phase of Evolution Is Artificial (Worthy Successor, Episode 27) 1:41:45
  19. Aza Raskin - Why AGI Demands New Global Coordination (AGI Governance, Episode 12) 1:37:38
  20. Ben Goertzel - The Primordial Soup of AGI Minds (Worthy Successor, Episode 26) 1:44:45
  21. Luciano Floridi - How Life Could Flourish in the Information Ocean (Worthy Successor, Episode 25) 1:56:17
  22. Weaver Weinbaum - Designing Intelligence for Freedom and Care (Worthy Successor, Episode 24) 2:13:49
  23. Francis Heylighen - The Self-Organizing Universe After Humans (Worthy Successor, Episode 23) 1:46:49
  24. Stephen Wolfram - In a Sea of Complexity, Does a “Successor” Exist? (Worthy Successor, Episode 22) 2:22:42
  25. John Smart - Evolution from Cells to Super-intelligence (Worthy Successor, Episode 21) 3:46:34
  26. Susan Schneider - Intelligence Is Everywhere, Consciousness Maybe Not (Worthy Successor, Episode 20) 1:34:20
  27. Brian Thomas Swimme - Life Is Bigger Than Humanity (Worthy Successor, Episode 19) 1:39:54
  28. David Sloan Wilson - Darwinian Forces Shape the Earth Superorganism (Worthy Successor, Episode 18) 2:02:07
  29. Michael Johnson - Symmetry, Beauty, and the Shape of Consciousness (Worthy Successor, Episode 17) 2:03:39
  30. Robin Hanson - A Successor Must be Adaptive (Worthy Successor, Episode 16) 2:01:18
  31. Joe Carlsmith - A Wiser, AI-Powered Civilization is the “Successor” (Worthy Successor, Episode 15) 1:52:41
  32. Blaise Agüera y Arcas - AGI Symbiosis and the Arrow of Intelligence (Worthy Successor, Episode 14) 1:23:58
  33. Brad Carson - AGI Competition with Civility and Understanding (US-China AGI Relations, Episode 5) 1:04:25
  34. Irakli Beridze - Can the UN Help with Global AGI Governance? (AGI Governance, Episode 11) 52:52
  35. Dean Xue Lan - A Multi-Pronged Approach to Pre-AGI Coordination (AGI Governance, Episode 10) 37:01
  36. RAND’s Joel Predd - Competitive and Cooperative Dynamics of AGI (US-China AGI Relations, Episode 4) 1:09:41
  37. Drew Cukor - AI Adoption as a National Security Priority (US-China AGI Relations, Episode 3) 51:15
  38. Stuart Russell - Avoiding the Cliff of Uncontrollable AI (AGI Governance, Episode 9) 1:04:32
  39. Craig Mundie - Co-Evolution with AI: Industry First, Regulators Later (AGI Governance, Episode 8) 36:45
  40. Jeremie and Edouard Harris - What Makes US-China Alignment Around AGI So Hard (US-China AGI Relations, Episode 2) 1:33:06
  41. Ed Boyden - Neurobiology as a Bridge to a Worthy Successor (Worthy Successor, Episode 13) 1:19:27
  42. Roman Yampolskiy - The Blacker the Box, the Bigger the Risk (Early Experience of AGI, Episode 3) 1:28:56
  43. Toby Ord - Crucial Updates on the Evolving AGI Risk Landscape (AGI Governance, Episode 7) 1:24:49
  44. Martin Rees - If They’re Conscious, We Should Step Aside (Worthy Successor, Episode 12) 1:17:06
  45. Emmett Shear - AGI as "Another Kind of Cell" in the Tissue of Life (Worthy Successor, Episode 11) 1:30:42
  46. Joshua Clymer - Where Human Civilization Might Crumble First (Early Experience of AGI - Episode 2) 1:51:37
  47. Peter Singer - Optimizing the Future for Joy, and the Exploration of the Good (Worthy Successor, Episode 10) 1:25:55
  48. David Duvenaud - What are Humans Even Good For in Five Years? (Early Experience of AGI - Episode 1) 1:55:59
  49. Kristian Rönn - A Blissful Successor Beyond Darwinian Life (Worthy Successor, Episode 9) 1:47:40
  50. Jack Shanahan - Avoiding an AI Race While Keeping America Strong (US-China AGI Relations, Episode 1) 1:41:56