Lucas Perry: Welcome to the Future of Life Institute Podcast. Contributions like yours make these conversations possible.Īll of our podcasts are also now on Spotify and iHeartRadio! Or find us on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. If you found this conversation to be meaningful or valuable consider supporting it directly by donating at /donate. This podcast is possible because of the support of listeners like you. Technological risks of the 21st centuryģ:14 Grounding morality and the need for a science of consciousnessġ1:45 The effective altruism community and it's main cause areasġ4:44 Animal suffering and factory farmingġ7:38 Existential risk and the ethics of the long-term futureĢ3:07 Nuclear war as a neglected global riskĢ4:45 On the risks of near-term AI and of artificial general intelligence and superintelligenceĢ8:37 On creating new stories for the challenges of the 21st centuryģ2:33 The risks of big data and AI enabled human hacking and monitoringĤ7:40 What does it mean to be human and what should we want to want?ĥ2:29 On positive global visions for the futureĠ1:00:20 Outro and supporting the Future of Life Institute Podcast.How emerging science, technology, and global paradigms challenge the foundations of many of our stories.The function of myths and stories in human society.

Effective altruism and its cause areas of global health/poverty, animal suffering, and existential risk.

How they ground and think about morality.

Max and Yuval's views and intuitions about consciousness.

We hope that you'll join the Future of Life Institute Podcast for our final conversation of 2019, as we look toward the future and the possibilities it holds for all of us. Max and Yuval bring their own macroscopic perspectives to this discussion of both cosmological and human history, exploring questions of consciousness, ethics, effective altruism, artificial intelligence, human extinction, emerging technologies and the role of myths and stories in fostering societal collaboration and meaning. This conversation represents a rare opportunity for two intellectual leaders to apply their combined expertise - in physics, artificial intelligence, history, philosophy and anthropology - to some of the most profound issues of our time. Both are avant-garde thinkers at the forefront of 21st century discourse around science, technology, society and humanity’s future. Neither Yuval Noah Harari nor Max Tegmark need much in the way of introduction.

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