The Trajectory
by Daniel Faggella
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About this podcast
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.
Episodes
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- Eric Smith - AI May be a Prosthetic for the Living Process (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 9) · 1 h 49 min · Season 7 Episode 9This 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…
- N. Katherine Hayles - AI as Our Inextricable Symbionts (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 8) · 1 h 29 min · Season 7 Episode 8This 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…
- David Pearce - A Negative Utilitarian Vision for AGI (Worthy Successor, Ep. 34) · 1 h 47 min · Season 2 Episode 34This 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…
- Eörs Szathmáry - Major Evolutionary Transitions and AGI's Impact (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 7) · 1 h 20 min · Season 7 Episode 7Eörs 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…
- Connor Glass – Merging with Machines to Steward the Flame (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 6) · 2 h 4 min · Season 7 Episode 6This 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…
- Stuart Kauffman - Why Open-Ended Evolution Has Never Happened in a Machine (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 5) · 1 h 35 min · Season 7 Episode 5Stuart Kauffman has spent over 50 years asking a deceptively simple question: what actually makes something alive? His answer is that greater computational sophistication alone…
- Davidad – Merger, Wisdom, and the Fate of Man (Worthy Successor, Episode 33) · 1 h 50 min · Season 2 Episode 33Davidad (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…
- Denis Noble - Life is “Fluid” in Ways Machines Still Aren’t (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 4) · 1 h 27 min · Season 7 Episode 4Denis 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…
- Paolo Ardoino - Merger or Obsolescence - The Future for Humanity (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 3) · 45 min · Season 7 Episode 3Brain-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…
- Lee Cronin - Living Process Flourishes if We Make the Present “Thick” (Stewarding the Flame, Ep 2) · 1 h 54 min · Season 7 Episode 2This 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…
- Michael Levin - Making the Process-of-Life Flourish in Bio and Beyond (Stewarding the Flame, Ep 1) · 1 h 23 min · Season 7 Episode 1This 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…
- Hod Lipson - Beyond Biology: AGI Minds in Competition (Worthy Successor, Episode 32) · 1 h 26 min · Season 2 Episode 32This 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…
- Henry Shevlin – The Life Force Beyond Biology (Worthy Successor, Episode 31) · 1 h 31 min · Season 2 Episode 31This 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…
- Benjamin Bratton - Planetary Computation and the Future of Life (Worthy Successor, Episode 30) · 2 h 8 min · Season 2 Episode 30This 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…
- Terrence Deacon - AI Is a “Deep Fake of Intelligence” (Worthy Successor, Episode 29) · 1 h 51 min · Season 2 Episode 29This 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…
- Vincent C. Müller - AI Is Accelerating - But Toward What? (Worthy Successor, Episode 28) · 2 h 13 min · Season 2 Episode 28This 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…
- Lee Spector - The Next Phase of Evolution Is Artificial (Worthy Successor, Episode 27) · 1 h 41 min · Season 2 Episode 27This 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…
- Aza Raskin - Why AGI Demands New Global Coordination (AGI Governance, Episode 12) · 1 h 37 min · Season 3 Episode 12This 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…
- Ben Goertzel - The Primordial Soup of AGI Minds (Worthy Successor, Episode 26) · 1 h 44 min · Season 2 Episode 26This 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…
- Luciano Floridi - How Life Could Flourish in the Information Ocean (Worthy Successor, Episode 25) · 1 h 56 min · Season 2 Episode 25This 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…
