The Trajectory
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
12 episodes
Joscha Bach - Building an AGI to Play the Longest Games [Worthy Successor, Episode 6]
This is an interview with Joscha Bach, cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and AI Strategist at Liquid AI.This is the sixth and final installment of our "Worthy Successor" series - where we explore the kinds of posthuman intelligences t...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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2:01:04
Jeff Hawkins - Building a Knowledge-Preserving AGI to Live Beyond Us (Worthy Successor, Episode 5)
This is an interview with Jeff Hawkins, Founder of Numenta and author of “A Thousand Brains."This is the fifth installment of our "Worthy Successor" series - where we explore the kinds of posthuman intelligences that deserve to steer th...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:14:18
Scott Aaronson - AGI That Evolves Our Values Without Replacing Them (Worthy Successor, Episode 4)
This is an interview with Scott Aaronson, theoretical computer scientist and Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin.This is the fourth episode in the "Worthy Successor" series - where we e...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:17:47
Anders Sandberg - Blooming the Space of Intelligence and Value (Worthy Successor Series, Episode 3)
This week, Anders Sandberg, Computational Neuroscience PhD, Researcher at the Mimir Center for Long-Term Futures Research.---This is the second installment of The Worthy Successor series - where we unpack the preferable and non-p...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:29:32
Richard Sutton - Humanity Never Had Control in the First Place (Worthy Successor Series, Episode 2)
This week Dr. Richard Sutton. Known for his breakthroughs in reinforcement learning, Richard serves as a Professor at The University of Alberta and Research Scientist at Keen Technologies (an artificial general intelligence lab he started with ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:19:22
Nick Bostrom - AGI That Saves Room for Us (Worthy Successor Series, Episode 1)
This is an interview with Nick Bostrom, the Founding Director of Future of Humanity Institute Oxford.This is the first installment of The Worthy Successor series - where we unpack the preferable and non-preferable futur...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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38:14
Dan Hendrycks - Avoiding an AGI Arms Race (AGI Destinations Series, Episode 5)
This is an interview with Dan Hendrycks, Executive Director and Co-Founder of The Center for AI Safety (safe.ai).This is the fifth and final installment of our 5-part series about "AGI Destinations" - where we unpack the preferable and ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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54:15
Dileep George - Keep Strong AI as a Tool, Not a Successor (AGI Destinations Series, Episode 4)
This is an interview with Dileep George, AI Researcher at Google DeepMind, previously CTO and Co-founder of Vicarious AI.This is the fourth episode in a 5-part series about "AGI Destinations" - where we unpack the preferable and non-pre...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:11:54
Ben Goertzel - Regulating AGI May Do More Harm Than Good (AGI Destinations Series, Episode 3)
This is an interview with Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET, and AGI researcher for many decades. This is the third episode in a 5-part series about "AGI Destinations" - where we unpack the preferable and non-preferable futures humani...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:05:55
Jaan Tallinn - The Case for a Pause Before We Birth AGI (AGI Destinations Series, Episode 2)
This is an interview with Jaan Tallinn, billionaire tech mogul (Kazaa, Skype), brilliant thinker, and long-time funder for AI safety causes.This is the second episode in a 5-part series about "AGI Destinations" - where we unpack the pre...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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20:54
Yoshua Bengio - Why We Shouldn't Blast Off to AGI Just Yet (AGI Destinations Series, Episode 1)
This is an interview with Dr. Yoshua Bengio, Turing Award Winner and Scientific Director of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms. This is the first episode in a 5-part series about "AGI Destinations" - where we unpack the pref...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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1:03:15
Welcome to The Trajectory - Realpolitik on AGI and the Posthuman Future
There three main questions we'll be covering on the Trajectory: 1. Who are the power players in AGI and what are their incentives? 2. What kind of posthuman future are we moving towards, or should we be moving towards?...
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