Prosthetic Gods
autor: James Hughes and Nir Eisikovits
Nejnovější epizoda
Retired Predator Pilot Reflects on Autonomous Weapons
Retired Predator Pilot Reflects on Autonomous Weapons
O tomto podcastu
Welcome to “Prosthetic Gods,” the podcast where bioethicist James Hughes and philosopher Nir Eisikovits engage in spirited debates on the ethics and politics of emerging technologies. Hughes, a pro-technology transhumanist, and Eisikovits, with his Luddite stance, explore topics from brain-computer interfaces to artificial intelligence. Tune in and explore the promise and perils of technological advancements with us!
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- Retired Predator Pilot Reflects on Autonomous Weapons · 1 h 4 min · Epizoda 54Episode 52 - Retired Predator Pilot Reflects on Autonomous Weapons Our guest this week has done something few philosophers of war can claim: he has flown the aircraft he writes…
- Uploading Yourself to the Cloud · 54 min · Epizoda 53Episode 51 - Uploading Yourself to the Cloud This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J discuss the transhumanist concept of brain uploading, exploring everything from cutting-edge…
- Animal Testing · 55 min · Epizoda 52Episode 50 - Animal Testing This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J. dissect the rapid dismantling of the animal-testing paradigm. We explore the legal and political shifts…
- War at Machine-Speed · 52 min · Epizoda 51Episode 49 - Targeting at Machine Speed This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J speak with Major Michael Brodka, a U.S. Army military intelligence officer and author of the July…
- Black Mirror · 53 min · Epizoda 50Episode 48 - Black Mirror Nir and J discuss the show Black Mirror, the now archetypal tech dystopian cultural phenomenon. In almost every episode, technology is the villain. What…
- Are Chatbots Conscious? A Conversation with Henry Shevlin · 1 h 1 min · Epizoda 49Episode 47 - Are Chatbots Conscious? A Conversation with Henry Shevlin Henry Shevlin, DeepMind's first in-house philosopher and associate director of Cambridge's Leverhulme…
- Killer Robots · 1 h 2 min · Epizoda 48Episode 46 - Killer Robots This week Nir and J discuss the evolving ethical, political, and strategic landscape of autonomous weapons systems, contrasting historical methods of…
- Right to Try · 1 h 1 min · Epizoda 47Episode 45 - Right to Try This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J discuss patient autonomy and the "right to try". The debate surrounding medical autonomy is intensifying as…
- Magnificent Humanity: A Conversation with Father Michael Baggot · 1 h 8 min · Epizoda 46Episode 44 - Magnificent Humanity This week, J and Nir talk to Father Michael Baggot about Pope Leo XIV’s recent encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, which outlines Catholic…
- Brain-Computer Interfaces · 1 h 11 min · Epizoda 45Episode 43 - Brain-Computer Interfaces This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J discuss the ethics of brain-computer interfaces. What role do they play in the futurist…
- Live from Cambridge: Existential Risk · 1 h 13 min · Epizoda 44Live from Cambridge: Existential Risk In this special live episode, recorded before an audience at Long Now Boston, Nir and J dig into existential risk. J takes seriously the…
- Who Really Needs Ozempic Anyway? · 59 min · Epizoda 43Episode 42 - Who Really Needs Ozempic Anyway? This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J discuss the tradeoffs of GLP1 drugs. Their use has reversed the obesity epidemic and has…
- Disgust · 52 min · Epizoda 42Episode 41 - Disgust This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J discuss the role of disgust in morality. Neuroscience suggests that feelings of disgust underlie many moral…
- Nicholas Christakis - Technology and Contagion · 57 min · Epizoda 41Episode 40 - Nicholas Christakis - Technology and Contagion Dr. Nicholas Christakis is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University and the Director of…
- Live from Portsmouth: Artificial Intelligence and Human Values · 2 h 13 min · Epizoda 40Live from Portsmouth: Artificial Intelligence and Human Values In this special live episode of Prosthetic Gods, we bring you a night of big ideas recorded on April 2nd at the…
- Sven Nyholm on Ethics of AI · 1 h 9 min · Epizoda 39Episode 39 - Sven Nyholm on the Ethics of AI This week on Prosthetic Gods we are talking to Sven Nyholm about his new book The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. If our thinking…
- Humanoid Robots · 1 h 2 min · Epizoda 38Episode 38 - Humanoid Robots This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J talk about the distinctive ethical issues raised by the humanoid robots coming to homes and workplaces. Their…
- Anthropic's Conflict with the Pentagon: A Conversation with Alan Rozenshtein · 51 min · Epizoda 37Episode 37 - Anthropic's Conflict with the Pentagon: A Conversation with Alan Rozenshtein This week on Prosthetic Gods, J and Nir are talking to Alan Rozenshtein, professor of…
- Buddhism and the Self · 55 min · Epizoda 36Episode 36 - Buddhism and the Self This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir is interrogating an essay by J. on Buddhism, enhancement, and the self. They discuss the appeal of Buddhism…
- Pluribus · 1 h 5 min · Epizoda 35Episode 35 - Pluribus This week on Prosthetic Gods, Nir and J are discussing the hit Apple TV show Pluribus. Created by Vince Gilligan, the show runner of Breaking Bad, the show…
