To sidestep death, preserve your connectome, with Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston

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We're trying something different this week: a full post-show breakdown of every episode in the latest season of Black Mirror! Ari Romero is joined by Tudum's Black Mirror expert, Keisha Hatchett, to give you all the nuance, the insider commentary, and the details you might have missed in this incredible new season. Plus commentary from creator & showrunner Charlie Brooker! SPOILER ALERT: We're talking about the new season in detail and revealing key plot points. If you haven't watched yet, and you don't want to know what happens, turn back now! You can watch all seven seasons of Black Mirror now in your personalized virtual theater . Follow Netflix Podcasts and read more about Black Mirror on Tudum.com .…

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Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston - personal website
Book webpage - includes details of when Ariel is speaking in the UK and elsewhere
Monash Neuroscience of Consciousness
Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest - Wikipedia
Sentience and the Origins of Consciousness - article by Karl Friston that mentions bacteria
List of advisors to Conscium
Does the UK use £15,000, £30,000 or a £70,000 per QALY cost effectiveness threshold? by Jason Shafrin
Researchers simulate an entire fly brain on a laptop. Is a human brain next? - US Berkeley News
What are memories made of? A survey of neuroscientists on the structural basis of long-term memory - Preprint by Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston, Emil Kendziora, and Andrew McKenzie

Related previous episodes:

Ep 91: The low-cost future of preserving brains, with Jordan Sparks
Ep 77: The case for brain preservation, with Kenneth Hayworth

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Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston - personal website
Book webpage - includes details of when Ariel is speaking in the UK and elsewhere
Monash Neuroscience of Consciousness
Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest - Wikipedia
Sentience and the Origins of Consciousness - article by Karl Friston that mentions bacteria
List of advisors to Conscium
Does the UK use £15,000, £30,000 or a £70,000 per QALY cost effectiveness threshold? by Jason Shafrin
Researchers simulate an entire fly brain on a laptop. Is a human brain next? - US Berkeley News
What are memories made of? A survey of neuroscientists on the structural basis of long-term memory - Preprint by Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston, Emil Kendziora, and Andrew McKenzie

Related previous episodes:

Ep 91: The low-cost future of preserving brains, with Jordan Sparks
Ep 77: The case for brain preservation, with Kenneth Hayworth

Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration

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The best of times and the worst of times, updated, with Ramez Naam 45:07

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Our guest in this episode, Ramez Naam, is described on his website as “climate tech investor, clean energy advocate, and award-winning author”. But that hardly starts to convey the range of deep knowledge that Ramez brings to a wide variety of fields. It was his 2013 book, “The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet”, that first alerted David to the breadth of scope of his insight about future possibilities – both good possibilities and bad possibilities. He still vividly remembers its opening words, quoting Charles Dickens from “The Tale of Two Cities”: Quote: “‘It was the best of times; it was the worst of times’ – the opening line of Charles Dickens’s 1859 masterpiece applies equally well to our present era. We live in unprecedented wealth and comfort, with capabilities undreamt of in previous ages. We live in a world facing unprecedented global risks—risks to our continued prosperity, to our survival, and to the health of our planet itself. We might think of our current situation as ‘A Tale of Two Earths’.” End quote. 12 years after the publication of “The Infinite Resource”, it seems that the Earth has become even better, but also even worse. Where does this leave the power of ideas? Or do we need more than ideas, as ominous storm clouds continue to gather on the horizon? Selected follow-ups: Ramez Naam - personal website The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet The Nexus Trilogy (Nexus Crux Apex) Jesse Jenkins (Princeton) Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet - book by Mark Lynas 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo - Wikipedia We cool Earth, with reflective clouds - Make Sunsets Direct Air Capture (DAC) - Wikipedia Frontier: An advance market commitment to accelerate carbon removal Toward a Responsible Solar Geoengineering Research Program - by David Keith South Korea scales down plans for nuclear power Microsoft chooses infamous nuclear site for AI power Machines of Loving Grace: How AI Could Transform the World for the Better - Essay by Dario Amodei Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration Promoguy Talk Pills Agency in Amsterdam dives into topics like Tech, AI, digital marketing, and more drama... Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify…

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PAI at Paris: the global AI ecosystem evolves, with Rebecca Finlay 38:51

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In this episode, our guest is Rebecca Finlay, the CEO at Partnership on AI (PAI). Rebecca previously joined us in Episode 62, back in October 2023, in what was the run-up to the Global AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park in the UK. Times have moved on, and earlier this month, Rebecca and the Partnership on AI participated in the latest global summit in that same series, held this time in Paris. This summit, breaking with the previous naming, was called the Global AI Action Summit. We’ll be hearing from Rebecca how things have evolved since we last spoke – and what the future may hold. Prior to joining Partnership on AI, Rebecca founded the AI & Society program at global research organization CIFAR, one of the first international, multistakeholder initiatives on the impact of AI in society. Rebecca’s insights have been featured in books and media including The Financial Times, The Guardian, Politico, and Nature Machine Intelligence. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and sits on advisory bodies in Canada, France, and the U.S. Selected follow-ups: Partnership on AI Rebecca Finlay Our previous episode featuring Rebecca CIFAR (The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) "It is more than time that we move from science fiction" - remarks by Anne Bouverot International AI Safety Report 2025 - report from expert panel chaired by Yoshua Bengio The Inaugural Conference of the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI (IASEAI) A.I. Pioneer Yoshua Bengio Proposes a Safe Alternative Amid Agentic A.I. Hype US and UK refuse to sign Paris summit declaration on ‘inclusive’ AI Current AI Collaborative event on AI accountability CERN for AI AI Summit Day 1: Harnessing AI for the Future of Work The Economic Singularity Why is machine consciousness important? (Conscium) Brain, Mind & Consciousness (CIFAR) Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration Promoguy Talk Pills Agency in Amsterdam dives into topics like Tech, AI, digital marketing, and more drama... Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify…

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AI agents: challenges ahead of mainstream adoption, with Tom Davenport 34:01

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The most highly anticipated development in AI this year is probably the expected arrival of AI agents, also referred to as “agentic AI”. We are told that AI agents have the potential to reshape how individuals and organizations interact with technology. Our guest to help us explore this is Tom Davenport, Distinguished Professor in Information Technology and Management at Babson College, and a globally recognized thought leader in the areas of analytics, data science, and artificial intelligence. Tom has written, co-authored, or edited about twenty books, including "Competing on Analytics" and "The AI Advantage." He has worked extensively with leading organizations and has a unique perspective on the transformative impact of AI across industries. He has recently co-authored an article in the MIT Sloan Management Review, “Five Trends in AI and Data Science for 2025”, which included a section on AI agents – which is why we invited him to talk about the subject. Selected follow-ups: Tom Davenport - personal site Five Trends in AI and Data Science for 2025 - MIT Sloan Management Review Michael Martin Hammer - Wikipedia AI winter - Wikipedia AI is coming for the OnlyFans chat industry - Fortune How Gen AI and Analytical AI Differ — and When to Use Each - Harvard Business Review Truth Terminal - The AI Bot That Became a Crypto Millionaire - a16z Jim Simons - Wikipedia Why The "Godfather of AI" Now Fears His Own Creation - Curt Jaimungal interviews Geoffrey Hinton Attention Is All You Need - Google researchers Apple suspends error-strewn AI generated news alerts - BBC News Gen AI cuts costs by 30% - London Futurists Podcast episode featuring David Wakeling, partner at A&O Shearman The path to agentic automation is UiPath - UiPath Microsoft CEO Predicts: "AI Agents Will Replace ALL Software" - AI Insights Explorer NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Keynote at CES 2025 - Nvidia Pioneering Safe, Efficient AI - Conscium A New Survey Of Generative AI Shows Lots Of Work To Do - October 2023 article by Tom Davenport Promoguy Talk Pills Agency in Amsterdam dives into topics like Tech, AI, digital marketing, and more drama... Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify…

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Post-labour economics, with David Shapiro 43:20

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In this episode, we return to a theme which is likely to become increasingly central to public discussion in the months and years ahead. To use a term coined by this podcast’s cohost Calum Chace, this theme is the Economic Singularity, namely the potential all-round displacement of humans from the workforce by ever more capable automation. That leads to the question: what are our options for managing the transition of society to increasing technological unemployment and technological underemployment. Our guest, who will be sharing his thinking on these questions, is the prolific writer and YouTuber David Shapiro. As well as keeping on top of fast-changing news about innovations in AI, David has been developing a set of ideas he calls post-labour economics – how an economy might continue to function even if humans can no longer gain financial rewards in direct return for their labour. Selected follow-ups: David Shapiro’s Substack David Shapiro's channel on YouTube Julia McCoy's channel on YouTube Next stop: Miami - Waymo Resource Based Economy Debt: The First 5,000 Years - book by David Graeber Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better - book by Lyn Alden The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking - book by Saifedean Ammous Normalcy bias - Wikipedia Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty - book by Daron Acemoğlu and James A. Robinson Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail - book by Ray Dalio Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom - book by Grace Blakeley The Economic Singularity: Artificial Intelligence and Fully Automated Luxury Capitalism - book by Calum Chace Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration Promoguy Talk Pills Agency in Amsterdam dives into topics like Tech, AI, digital marketing, and more drama... Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify…

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Longevity activism at 82, 86, and beyond, with Kenneth Scott and Helga Sands 45:41

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Our guests in this episode have been described as the world’s two oldest scientifically astute longevity activists. They are Kenneth Scott, aged 82, who is based in Florida, and Helga Sands, aged 86, who lives in London. David has met both of them several times at a number of longevity events, and they always impress him, not only with their vitality and good health, but also with the level of knowledge and intelligence they apply to the question of which treatments are the best, for them personally and for others, to help keep people young and vibrant. Selected follow-ups: Waiting For God - 1990s BBC Comedy Adelle Davis , Nutritionist Roger J. Williams , Biochemist The Importance of Maintaining a Low Omega-6/Omega-3 Ratio Life Extension Magazine California Age Management Institute Fibrinogen and aging Professor Angus Dalgleish, Nuffield Health About Aubrey de Grey speaking at the Royal Institution George Church , Geneticist James Kirkland , Mayo Clinic Daniel Munoz-Espin , Cambridge Nobel Prize for John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka VSELs and S.O.N.G. laser Xtend Optimal Health Follistatin gene therapy, Minicircle Exosomes vs Stem Cells Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease - book by Caldwell Esselstyn Jr Dasatinib and Quercetin (senolytics) We reverse atherosclerosis - Repair Biotechnologies Bioreactor-Grown Mitochondria - Mitrix Nobel Winner Shinya Yamanaka: Cell Therapy Is ‘Very Promising’ For Cancer, Parkison's, More Death of the world's oldest man , 25th Nov 2024 Blueprint protocol - Bryan Johnson Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration Promoguy Talk Pills Agency in Amsterdam dives into topics like Tech, AI, digital marketing, and more drama... Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify…

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Models for society when humans have zero economic value, with Jeff LaPorte 41:33

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Our guest in this episode is Jeff LaPorte, a software engineer, entrepreneur and investor based in Vancouver, who writes Road to Artificia, a newsletter about discovering the principles of post‑AI societies. Calum recently came across Jeff's article “Valuing Humans in the Age of Superintelligence: HumaneRank” and thought it had some good, original ideas, so we wanted to invite Jeff onto the podcast and explore them. Selected follow-ups: Jeff LaPorte personal business website Road to Artificia: A newsletter about discovering the principles of societies post‑AI Valuing Humans in the Age of Superintelligence: HumaneRank Ideas Lying Around - article by Cory Doctorow about a famous saying by Milton Friedman PageRank - Wikipedia Nosedive (Black Mirror episode) - IMDb The Economic Singularity - book by Calum Chace World Chess Championship 2024 - WIkipedia WALL.E (2008 movie) - IMDb A day in the life of Asimov, 2045 - short story by David Wood Why didn't electricity immediately change manufacturing? - by Tim Harford, BBC Responsible use of artificial intelligence in government - Government of Canada Bipartisan House Task Force Report on Artificial Intelligence - U.S. House of Representatives Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration Promoguy Talk Pills Agency in Amsterdam dives into topics like Tech, AI, digital marketing, and more drama... Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify…

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From ineffective altruism to effective altruism? with Stefan Schubert 34:43

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Our subject in this episode is altruism – our human desire and instinct to assist each other, making some personal sacrifices along the way. More precisely, our subject is the possible future of altruism – a future in which our philanthropic activities – our charitable donations, and how we spend our discretionary time – could have a considerably greater impact than at present. The issue is that many of our present activities, which are intended to help others, aren’t particularly effective. That’s the judgement reached by our guest today, Stefan Schubert. Stefan is a researcher in philosophy and psychology, currently based in Stockholm, Sweden, and has previously held roles at the LSE and the University of Oxford. Stefan is the co-author of the recently published book “Effective Altruism and the Human Mind”. Selected follow-ups: Stefan Schubert - Effective Altruism Effective Altruism and the Human Mind: The Clash Between Impact and Intuition - Oxford University Press (open access) Centre for Effective Altruism Professor Nadira Faber - Uehiro Institute, Oxford What are the best charities to support in 2024? - Giving What We Can Effective Altruist Leaders Were Repeatedly Warned About Sam Bankman-Fried Years Before FTX Collapsed - Time Virtues for Real-World Utilitarians - by Stefan Schubert & Lucius Caviola, Utilitarianism Deworming - Effective Altruism Forum What we know about Musk's cost-cutting mission - BBC article about DOGE What is your p(doom)? with Darren McKee Longtermism - Wikipedia Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration Promoguy Talk Pills Agency in Amsterdam dives into topics like Tech, AI, digital marketing, and more drama... Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify…

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The global energy transition: an optimistic assessment, with Amory Lovins 35:05

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Our guest in this episode is Amory Lovins, a distinguished environmental scientist, and co-founder of RMI, which he co-founded in 1982 as Rocky Mountain Institute. It’s what he calls a think do and scale tank, with 700 people in 62 countries, and a budget of well over $100m a year. For over five decades, Amory has championed innovative approaches to energy systems, advocating for a world where energy services are delivered with least cost and least impact. He has advised all manner of governments, companies, and NGOs, and published 31 books and over 900 papers. It’s an over-used word, but in this case it is justified: Amory is a true thought leader in the global energy transition. Selected follow-ups: Inside Amory's Brain - RMI Get to know us - RMI Books by Amory B. Lovins - Goodreads Reinventing Fire - RMI Integrative Design: A Practice to Tackle Complex Challenges - Stanford d.school What is Integrative Design? - RMI Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration Promoguy Talk Pills Agency in Amsterdam dives into topics like Tech, AI, digital marketing, and more drama... Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify…

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Building brain-like AIs, with Alexander Ororbia 47:39

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Some people say that all that’s necessary to improve the capabilities of AI is to scale up existing systems. That is, to use more training data, to have larger models with more parameters in them, and more computer chips to crunch through the training data. However, in this episode, we’ll be hearing from a computer scientist who thinks there are many other options for improving AI. He is Alexander Ororbia, a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York State, where he directs the Neural Adaptive Computing Laboratory. David had the pleasure of watching Alex give a talk at the AGI 2024 conference in Seattle earlier this year, and found it fascinating. After you hear this episode, we hope you reach a similar conclusion. Selected follow-ups: Alexander Ororbia - Rochester Institute of Technology Alexander G. Ororbia II - Personal website AGI-24: The 17th Annual AGI Conference - AGI Society Joseph Tranquillo - Bucknell University Hopfield network - Wikipedia Karl Friston - UCL Predictive coding - Wikipedia Mortal Computation: A Foundation for Biomimetic Intelligence - Quantitative Biology The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? - Nature Reviews Neuroscience I Am a Strange Loop (book by Douglas Hofstadter) - Wikipedia Mark Solms - Wikipedia Conscium: Pioneering Safe, Efficient AI The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness (book by Mark Solms) Carver Mead - Wikipedia Event camera (includes Dynamic Vision Sensors) - Wikipedia ICRA (International Conference on Robotics and Automation) Brain-Inspired Machine Intelligence: A Survey of Neurobiologically-Plausible Credit Assignment A Review of Neuroscience-Inspired Machine Learning ngc-learn Taking Neuromorphic Computing to the Next Level with Loihi 2 Technology Brief - Intel Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration Promoguy Talk Pills Agency in Amsterdam dives into topics like Tech, AI, digital marketing, and more drama... Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify…

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To sidestep death, preserve your connectome, with Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston 41:54

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In David's life so far, he has read literally hundreds of books about the future. Yet none has had such a provocative title as this: “The future loves you: How and why we should abolish death”. That’s the title of the book written by the guest in this episode, Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston. Ariel is a neuroscientist, and a Research Fellow at Monash University, in Melbourne, Australia. One of the key ideas in Ariel’s book is that so long as your connectome – the full set of the synapses in your brain – continues to exist, then you continue to exist. Ariel also claims that brain preservation – the preservation of the connectome, long after we have stopped breathing – is already affordable enough to be provided to essentially everyone. These claims raise all kinds of questions, which are addressed in this conversation. Selected follow-ups: Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston - personal website Book webpage - includes details of when Ariel is speaking in the UK and elsewhere Monash Neuroscience of Consciousness Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest - Wikipedia Sentience and the Origins of Consciousness - article by Karl Friston that mentions bacteria List of advisors to Conscium Does the UK use £15,000, £30,000 or a £70,000 per QALY cost effectiveness threshold? by Jason Shafrin Researchers simulate an entire fly brain on a laptop. Is a human brain next? - US Berkeley News What are memories made of? A survey of neuroscientists on the structural basis of long-term memory - Preprint by Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston, Emil Kendziora, and Andrew McKenzie Related previous episodes: Ep 91: The low-cost future of preserving brains , with Jordan Sparks Ep 77: The case for brain preservation , with Kenneth Hayworth Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration Promoguy Talk Pills Agency in Amsterdam dives into topics like Tech, AI, digital marketing, and more drama... Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify…

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Insights from 15 years leading the self-driving vehicle industry, with Sterling Anderson 41:55

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Our guest in this episode is Sterling Anderson, a pioneer of self-driving vehicles. With a masters degree and a PhD from MIT, Sterling led the development and launch of the Tesla Model X, and then led the team that delivered Tesla Autopilot. In 2017 he co-founded Aurora, along with Chris Urmson, who was a founder and CTO of Google’s self-driving car project, which is now Waymo, and also Drew Bagnell, who co-founded and led Uber’s self-driving team. Aurora is concentrating on automating long-distance trucks, and expects to be the first company to deploy fully self-driving trucks in the US when it deploys big driverless trucks (16 tons and more) between Dallas and Houston in April 2025. Self-driving vehicles will be one of the most significant technologies of this decade, and we are delighted that one of the stars of the sector, Sterling, is joining us to share his perspectives. Selected follow-ups: The future of transportation is here - Aurora website Leadership Team - Aurora website Previous episodes also featuring self-driving vehicles: Ep 58: Whatever happened to self-driving cars , with Timothy Lee Ep 26: Peter James, best-selling crime-writer and transhumanist Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration Promoguy Talk Pills Agency in Amsterdam dives into topics like Tech, AI, digital marketing, and more drama... Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify…

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The race for AI supremacy, with Parmy Olson 47:20

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Our guest in this episode is Parmy Olson, a columnist for Bloomberg covering technology. Parmy has previously been a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and for Forbes. Her first book, “We Are Anonymous”, shed fascinating light on what the subtitle calls “the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency”. But her most recent book illuminates a set of high-stakes relations with potentially even bigger consequences for human wellbeing. The title is “Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World”. The race is between two remarkable individuals, Sam Altman of OpenAI and Demis Hassabis of DeepMind, who are each profoundly committed to build AI that exceeds human capabilities in all aspects of reasoning. Selected follow-ups: Parmy Olson, Bloomberg Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the new world order - book by Kai-Fu Lee The Coming Wave - book by Mustafa Suleyman Bromance Gone Sour: OpenAI and Microsoft’s Partnership Hits a Rough Patch - Geekflare For our Posterity - essay by Leopold Aschenbrenner OpenAI appoints Retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone to Board of Directors Do Computers Have Feelings? Don’t Let Google Alone Decide - article by Parmy Olson about Blake Lemoine Conscium - Pioneering Safe, Efficient AI Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration Promoguy Talk Pills Agency in Amsterdam dives into topics like Tech, AI, digital marketing, and more drama... Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify…

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A narrow path to a good future with AI, with Andrea Miotti 41:17

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Our guest in this episode is Andrea Miotti, the founder and executive director of ControlAI. On their website, ControlAI have the tagline, “Fighting to keep humanity in control”. Control over what, you might ask. The website answers: control deepfakes, control scaling, control foundation models, and, yes, control AI. The latest project from ControlAI is called “A Narrow Path”, which is a comprehensive policy plan split into three phases: Safety, Stability, and Flourishing. To be clear, the envisioned flourishing involves what is called “Transformative AI”. This is no anti-AI campaign, but rather an initiative to “build a robust science and metrology of intelligence, safe-by-design AI engineering, and other foundations for transformative AI under human control”. The initiative has already received lots of feedback, both positive and negative, which we discuss. Selected follow-ups: A Narrow Path - main website ControlAI Conjecture - Redefining AI Safety What is Agentic AI - Interface.AI Chat GPT’s new O1 model escaped its environment to complete “impossible” hacking task - by Mihai Andrei Biological Weapons Convention - United Nations Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal - Wikipedia (use of Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, UK) Gathering of AI Safety Institutes in November in San Francisco Conscium - Pioneering safe, efficient AI The UK's APPG (All Party Parliamentary Group) on AI Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration Promoguy Talk Pills Agency in Amsterdam dives into topics like Tech, AI, digital marketing, and more drama... Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify…

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Gen AI cuts costs by 30%: lessons from a leading law firm, with David Wakeling 36:01

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Our guest in this episode is David Wakeling, a partner at A&O Shearman, which became the world’s third largest law firm in May, thanks to the merger of Allen and Overy, a UK “magic circle” firm, with Shearman & Sterling of New York. David heads up a team within the firm called the Markets Innovation Group (MIG), which consists of lawyers, developers and technologists, and is seeking to disrupt the legal industry. He also leads the firm's AI Advisory practice, through which the firm is currently advising 80 of the largest global businesses on the safe deployment of AI. One of the initiatives David has led is the development and launch of ContractMatrix, in partnership with Microsoft and Harvey, an OpenAI-backed, GPT-4-based large language model that has been fine-tuned for the legal industry. ContractMatrix is a contract drafting and negotiation tool powered by generative AI. It was tested and honed by 1,000 of the firm’s lawyers prior to launch, to mitigate against risks like hallucinations. The firm estimates that the tool is saving up to seven hours from the average contract review, which is around a 30% efficiency gain. As well as internal use by 2,000 of its lawyers, it is also licensed to clients. This is the third time we have looked at the legal industry on the podcast. While lawyers no longer use quill pens, they are not exactly famous for their information technology skills, either. But the legal profession has a couple of characteristics which make it eminently suited to the deployment of advanced AI systems: it generates vast amounts of data and money, and lawyers frequently engage in text-based routine tasks which can be automated by generative AI systems. Previous London Futurists Podcast episodes on the legal industry: Ep 53: The Legal Singularity, with Benjamin Alarie Ep 47: AI transforming professional services, with Shamus Rae Other selected follow-ups: David Wakeling A&O Shearman ContractMatrix Harvey AI RAG - Retrieval-Augmented Generation Digital Operational Resilience Act (impacts banking) The Productivity J-Curve (PDF), by Erik Brynjolfsson, Daniel Rock, Chad Syverson Agentic AI: The Next Big Breakthrough That's Transforming Business And Technology , by Bernard Marr Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration Promoguy Talk Pills Agency in Amsterdam dives into topics like Tech, AI, digital marketing, and more drama... Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify…

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Climate change and populism: Grounds for optimism? with Matt Burgess 39:15

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