The Trajectory
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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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Episodes (68)
Eörs Szathmáry - Major Evolutionary Transitions and AGI's Impact (Stewarding the...
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Sep 11, 20261:20:09completed
Connor Glass – Merging with Machines to Steward the Flame (Stewarding the Flame,...
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Aug 28, 20262:04:56pending
Stuart Kauffman - Why Open-Ended Evolution Has Never Happened in a Machine (Stew...
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Aug 21, 20261:35:24pending
Davidad – Merger, Wisdom, and the Fate of Man (Worthy Successor, Episode 33)
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Aug 14, 20261:50:55pending
Denis Noble - Life is “Fluid” in Ways Machines Still Aren’t (Stewarding the Flam...
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Aug 7, 20261:27:43pending
Paolo Ardoino - Merger or Obsolescence - The Future for Humanity (Stewarding the...
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Jul 24, 202645:17pending
Lee Cronin - Living Process Flourishes if We Make the Present “Thick” (Stewardin...
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Jul 17, 20261:54:48pending
Michael Levin - Making the Process-of-Life Flourish in Bio and Beyond (Stewardin...
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Jul 3, 20261:23:12pending
Hod Lipson - Beyond Biology: AGI Minds in Competition (Worthy Successor, Episode...
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Jun 19, 20261:26:37pending
Henry Shevlin – The Life Force Beyond Biology (Worthy Successor, Episode 31)
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Jun 5, 20261:31:54pending
Benjamin Bratton - Planetary Computation and the Future of Life (Worthy Successo...
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May 22, 20262:08:33pending
Terrence Deacon - AI Is a “Deep Fake of Intelligence” (Worthy Successor, Episode...
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May 8, 20261:51:49pending
Vincent C. Müller - AI Is Accelerating - But Toward What? (Worthy Successor, Epi...
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Apr 24, 20262:13:35failed
Lee Spector - The Next Phase of Evolution Is Artificial (Worthy Successor, Episo...
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Apr 17, 20261:41:45failed
Aza Raskin - Why AGI Demands New Global Coordination (AGI Governance, Episode 12...
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Apr 3, 20261:37:38failed
Ben Goertzel - The Primordial Soup of AGI Minds (Worthy Successor, Episode 26)
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Mar 20, 20261:44:45completed
Luciano Floridi - How Life Could Flourish in the Information Ocean (Worthy Succe...
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Mar 13, 20261:56:17failed
Weaver Weinbaum - Designing Intelligence for Freedom and Care (Worthy Successor,...
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Mar 6, 20262:13:49failed
Francis Heylighen - The Self-Organizing Universe After Humans (Worthy Successor,...
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Feb 27, 20261:46:49pending
Stephen Wolfram - In a Sea of Complexity, Does a “Successor” Exist? (Worthy Succ...
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Feb 13, 20262:22:42pending
John Smart - Evolution from Cells to Super-intelligence (Worthy Successor, Episo...
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Jan 30, 20263:46:34pending
Susan Schneider - Intelligence Is Everywhere, Consciousness Maybe Not (Worthy Su...
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Jan 23, 20261:34:20pending
Brian Thomas Swimme - Life Is Bigger Than Humanity (Worthy Successor, Episode 19...
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Jan 9, 20261:39:54pending
David Sloan Wilson - Darwinian Forces Shape the Earth Superorganism (Worthy Succ...
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Dec 26, 20252:02:07pending
Michael Johnson - Symmetry, Beauty, and the Shape of Consciousness (Worthy Succe...
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Dec 12, 20252:03:39pending
Robin Hanson - A Successor Must be Adaptive (Worthy Successor, Episode 16)
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Nov 28, 20252:01:18pending
Joe Carlsmith - A Wiser, AI-Powered Civilization is the “Successor” (Worthy Succ...
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Nov 14, 20251:52:41pending
Blaise Agüera y Arcas - AGI Symbiosis and the Arrow of Intelligence (Worthy Succ...
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Oct 31, 20251:23:58pending
Brad Carson - AGI Competition with Civility and Understanding (US-China AGI Rela...
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Oct 24, 20251:04:25pending
Irakli Beridze - Can the UN Help with Global AGI Governance? (AGI Governance, Ep...
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Oct 10, 202552:52pending
Dean Xue Lan - A Multi-Pronged Approach to Pre-AGI Coordination (AGI Governance,...
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Oct 3, 202537:01pending
RAND’s Joel Predd - Competitive and Cooperative Dynamics of AGI (US-China AGI Re...
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Sep 26, 20251:09:41pending
Drew Cukor - AI Adoption as a National Security Priority (US-China AGI Relations...
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Sep 19, 202551:15pending
Stuart Russell - Avoiding the Cliff of Uncontrollable AI (AGI Governance, Episod...
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Sep 12, 20251:04:32pending
Craig Mundie - Co-Evolution with AI: Industry First, Regulators Later (AGI Gover...
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Sep 5, 202536:45pending
Jeremie and Edouard Harris - What Makes US-China Alignment Around AGI So Hard (U...
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Aug 29, 20251:33:06pending
Ed Boyden - Neurobiology as a Bridge to a Worthy Successor (Worthy Successor, Ep...
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Aug 22, 20251:19:27pending
Roman Yampolskiy - The Blacker the Box, the Bigger the Risk (Early Experience of...
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Aug 15, 20251:28:56pending
Toby Ord - Crucial Updates on the Evolving AGI Risk Landscape (AGI Governance, E...
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Aug 12, 20251:24:49pending
Martin Rees - If They’re Conscious, We Should Step Aside (Worthy Successor, Epis...
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Aug 1, 20251:17:06pending
Emmett Shear - AGI as "Another Kind of Cell" in the Tissue of Life (Worthy Succe...
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Jul 18, 20251:30:42pending
Joshua Clymer - Where Human Civilization Might Crumble First (Early Experience o...
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Jul 4, 20251:51:37pending
Peter Singer - Optimizing the Future for Joy, and the Exploration of the Good (W...
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Jun 20, 20251:25:55pending
David Duvenaud - What are Humans Even Good For in Five Years? (Early Experience...
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Jun 6, 20251:55:59pending
Kristian Rönn - A Blissful Successor Beyond Darwinian Life (Worthy Successor, Ep...
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May 23, 20251:47:40pending
Jack Shanahan - Avoiding an AI Race While Keeping America Strong (US-China AGI R...
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May 9, 20251:41:56pending
Richard Ngo - A State-Space of Positive Posthuman Futures (Worthy Successor, Epi...
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Apr 25, 20251:46:15pending
Yi Zeng - Exploring 'Virtue' and Goodness Through Posthuman Minds (AI Safety Con...
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Apr 11, 20251:14:19pending
Max Tegmark - The Lynchpin Factors to Achieving AGI Governance (AI Safety Connec...
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Mar 28, 202526:06pending
Michael Levin - Unfolding New Paradigms of Posthuman Intelligence (Worthy Succes...
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Mar 14, 20251:16:35pending