AI & The Future of Humanity: Artificial Intelligence, Technology, VR, Algorithm, Automation, ChatBPT, Robotics, Augmented Reality, Big Data, IoT, Social Media, CGI, Generative-AI, Innovation, Nanotechnology, Science, Quantum Computing: The Creative Process Interviews
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What are the dangers, risks, and opportunities of AI? What role can we play in designing the future we want to live in? With the rise of automation, what is the future of work? We talk to experts about the roles government, organizations, and individuals can play to make sure powerful technologies truly make the world a better place–for everyone.
Conversations with futurists, philosophers, AI experts, scientists, humanists, activists, technologists, policymakers, engineers, science fiction authors, lawyers, designers, artists, among others.
The interviews are hosted by founder and creative educator Mia Funk with the participation of students, universities, and collaborators from around the world.
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Why Do We Listen to the Talkers More Than the Builders Saving the Planet? - TOM CHI - Highlights
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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Climate Capital with TOM CHI - Google X Co-founder, Founding Partner At One Ventures
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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AI, Escaping the Screen & Listening to the Living World: DAVID HASKELL on the Songs of Nature - Highlights
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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Game Over: Metrics, Big Data & Why We Need to Stop Keeping Score w/ C. THI NGUYEN - Highlights
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game with C. THI NGUYEN
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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Beyond the Plagiarism Machine: Reclaiming Imagination from AI Slurry w/ AL KENNEDY
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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SIRI HUSTVEDT on Love, Grief, AI, Creativity & the Future of Humanity
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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ART CURE: How the Arts Can Transform Our Health with DAISY FANCOURT
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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AI, Muse Cells & The Future of Health: Why Stars like Chris Hemsworth & Tony Robbins Turn to Regenerative Medicine
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Speaking Out of Place - DAVID PALUMBO-LIU on Reclaiming Our Political Voices - Highlights
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Dec 27, 2025 |
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Reclaiming the American Dream with DAVID PALUMBO-LIU – Stanford Professor, Author & Host, Speaking Out of Place
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Dec 27, 2025 |
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The AI Wager: Betting on Technology’s Future w/ Philosopher & Author SVEN NYHOLM - Highlights
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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The Ethics of AI w/ SVEN NYHOLM, Author & Lead Researcher, Munich Centre for Machine Learning
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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HOWARD GORDON & DANIEL PEARLE on THE BEAST IN ME, AI & The Future of Storytelling
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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In the Presence of the DALAI LAMA - Doc. Director of WISDOM OF HAPPINESS - Highlights
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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WISDOM OF HAPPINESS - Heart-to-Heart w/ DALAI LAMA - Conversation w/ Director Barbara Miller
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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AI & The Future of Life with RISTO UUK, Head of EU Policy & Research, FUTURE OF LIFE INSTITUTE
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave with Poet MAYA SALAMEH
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Art is a Fundamental Element of Life - Gallerist HANNAH BARRY on a Life in Art
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Empire of AI: Dreams & Nightmares in Sam Altman's Open AI with KAREN HAO
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Healing, Connection & Creativity in the Age of AI - ETGAR KERET on Why We Need Stories in Times of Crisis - Highlights
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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AI & Finding Humanity Through Storytelling with Author & Filmmaker ETGAR KERET
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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What's Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis with MALCOLM HARRIS
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ & the Capitalism of the Far Right with QUINN SLOBODIAN
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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AI, UFOs, Perception & Reality with Artist, Geographer, Author TREVOR PAGLEN - Highlights
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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How AI is Shaping Perception, How Deception is Sculpting Our Reality with Artist TREVOR PAGLEN
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Aug 02, 2025 |
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Abolish Silicon Valley—How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Life As No One Knows It - Exploring AIR Aspen with NICOLA LEES - Highlights
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Writing, AI & The Future of Humanity w/ VIET THANH NGUYEN
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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The First Artist-Led Global Summit & The Future of Museums - NICOLA LEES, Director, Aspen Art Museum
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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‘Genius’ Entrepreneurs, Technofacists & Phobic Misogynists with BECCA LEWIS
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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AI, Universities & Student Surveillance in the Digital Age - LINDSAY WEINBERG & ROBERT OVETZ
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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THE DREAM HOTEL with LAILA LALAMI
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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Examining Monuments, Memory & The History of White Supremacy IRVIN WEATHERSBY JR. - Highlights
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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From Spy Thrillers to Police Dramas w/ Writer, Creator, Showrunner ALEXI HAWLEY
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May 28, 2025 |
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JARON LANIER on Tech, Music, Creativity & Who Owns the Future - Highlights
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Apr 05, 2025 |
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AI, Virtual Reality & Dawn of the New Everything w/ JARON LANIER, VR Pioneer, Musician, Author
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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How Can AI-moderated Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy? JAMES FISHKIN - Highlights
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Mar 29, 2025 |
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How Can AI be Part of Bringing Deliberative Democracy to the Masses? w/ JAMES S. FISHKIN
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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The Imagination Emporium with Fmr. VP of Innovation & Creativity at Disney DUNCAN WARDLE
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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The Hidden Humans Behind Artificial Intelligence & the Sociopathology of Elon Musk
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Art, Technology & Society with Author T.C. BOYLE
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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On Regulating the Attention Market & Prevent Algorithmic Emotional Governance w/ FABIEN GANDON & FRANCK MICHEL
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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PAY ATTENTION: A Call to Regulate the Attention Market & Prevent Algorithmic Emotional Governance
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Who Defends the Defenders? UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders MICHEL FORST
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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AI & The Limits to Growth w/ Co-President of The Club of Rome PAUL SHRIVASTAVA
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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The Club of Rome & The Limits to Growth w/ Co-President PAUL SHRIVASTAVA
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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Elon Musk, Putin's Russia, Murdoch's Fox News: How Billionaires Shape Our World with DARRYL CUNNINGHAM
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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AI, Technology, Art & Culture - Artists, Philosophers, Economists & Scientists discuss the Future
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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Photographer & Musician JULIAN LENNON on AI, Art, Empathy & Creativity (Copy)
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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AI & The Pathway to Flow with Neuroscientist, Fmr. Dancer DR. JULIA CHRISTENSEN
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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AI, Technological Progress & the Growth Dilemma w/ Economist DANIEL SUSSKIND - Highlights
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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Growth: A Reckoning with Economist DANIEL SUSSKIND
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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The Human Smart City: Balancing Ecology & Economy with CARLOS MORENO - Highlights
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time & Our Planet with CARLOS MORENO
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Neuroscience, AI & The Future of Humanity - DR. BEN SHOFTY - Highlights
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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The Neuroscience of Creativity with DR. BEN SHOFTY
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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What is good design? How AI is Shaping OurWorld? - SCOTT DOORLEY & CARISSA CARTER - Co-authors of Assembling Tomorrow - Highlights
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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Can Design Save the World? - SCOTT DOORLEY & CARISSA CARTER - Co-authors of Assembling Tomorrow - Directors of Stanford’s d.School
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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AI, Tech & The Future of Museums - STEPHEN REILY, Founding Director of Remuseum on Transforming Cultural Spaces
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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AI, Curiosity, Cognition & Creativity with Neuroscientist DR. JACQUELINE GOTTLIEB
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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AI, Cognitive Bias & the Future of Journalism w/ Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist NICHOLAS KRISTOF
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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AI, Populism & Consumer Society with Historian FRANK TRENTMANN
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Is AI capable of creating a protest song that disrupts oppression & inspires social change? - JAKE FERGUSON, ANTHONY JOSEPH & JERMAIN JACKMAN
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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The SDGs, AI & UN Summit of the Future - GUILLAUME LAFORTUNE - VP, UN SDSN, Paris
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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AI & How Utopian Visions Shape Our Reality & Future - Highlights - S. D. CHROSTOWSKA
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Utopia in the Age of Survival with S. D. CHROSTOWSKA
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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AI’s Role in Society, Culture & Climate with CHARLIE HERTZOG YOUNG
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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The Future of Energy - RICHARD BLACK - Director, Policy & Strategy, Ember - Fmr. BBC Environment Correspondent
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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DIANE VON FÜRSTENBERG: Woman in Charge & How AI Will Change Storytelling w/ Oscar-winning Director SHARMEEN OBAID-CHINOY
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Does AI-generated Perfection Detach Us from Reality, Life & Human Connection? - Highlights - HENRY AJDER
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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How is AI Changing Our Perception of Reality, Creativity & Human Connection? w/ HENRY AJDER - AI Advisor
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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How to Fight for Truth & Protect Democracy in A Post-Truth World? - Highlights - LEE McINTYRE
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth & Protect Democracy in the Age of AI - LEE McINTYRE
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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How will AI Affect Education, the Arts & Society? - Highlights - STEPHEN WOLFRAM
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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What Role Do AI & Computational Language Play in Solving Real-World Problems?
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Can we have real conversations with AI? How do illusions help us make sense of the world? - Highlights - KEITH FRANKISH
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Is Consciousness an Illusion? with Philosopher KEITH FRANKISH
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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What can AI teach us about human cognition & creativity? - Highlights - RAPHAËL MILLIÈRE
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May 17, 2024 |
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How can we ensure that AI is aligned with human values? - RAPHAËL MILLIÈRE
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May 17, 2024 |
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Is understanding AI a bigger question than understanding the origin of the universe? - Highlights, NEIL JOHNSON
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May 14, 2024 |
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How can physics help solve real world problems? - NEIL JOHNSON, Head of Dynamic Online Networks Lab
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May 14, 2024 |
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Exploring Consciousness, AI & Creativity with JOSEPH LEDOUX - Highlights
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May 03, 2024 |
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How does the brain process emotions and music? JOSEPH LEDOUX - Neuroscientist, Author, Musician
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May 03, 2024 |
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Emotional Intelligence in the Age of AI - Highlights - DANIEL GOLEMAN
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Author of Emotional Intelligence DANIEL GOLEMAN on Focus, Balance & Optimal Living
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Feminism, Resistance & AI in the Global South w/ INTAN PARAMADITHA - Author of The Wandering
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Exploring Science, Music, AI & Consciousness with MAX COOPER - Highlights
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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What can music teach us that science can’t? - MAX COOPER - Musician, Fmr. Computational Biologist
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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How does a changing climate affect our minds, brains & bodies? - Highlights - CLAYTON ALDERN
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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How climate change is making us sick, angry & anxious - CLAYTON ALDERN - Neuroscientist turned Eco-Journalist
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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How can music help us expand our understanding of consciousness & AI? - Highlights - DUSTIN O’HALLORAN
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Consciousness, AI & Creativity with DUSTIN O’HALLORAN - Emmy Award-winning Composer
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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The Pursuit of Happiness - JEFFREY ROSEN - President & CEO of the National Constitution Center
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Can AI help us understand animal language? - Author SY MONTGOMERY & Illustrator MATT PATTERSON
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Revolutionizing Sustainability: BERTRAND PICCARD's Path to a Cleaner Planet - Highlights
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Beyond the Horizon: Pioneering Green Aviation with BERTRAND PICCARD - Aviator, Explorer, Environmentalist
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Who were the Neanderthals? - Highlights - DR. LUDOVIC SLIMAK
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Will human efficiency destroy the planet and us? - DR. LUDOVIC SLIMAK - Author of The Naked Neanderthal
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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What does the future hold for our late-stage capitalist society with mega-corps controlling everything? - Highlights - KYLE HIGGINS, KARINA MANASHIL & KID CUDI
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Comics, Music, Ethics & AI: KYLE HIGGINS, KARINA MANASHIL & KID CUDI on the Making of Moon Man
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Tech, Spirituality & Selfhood: TARA ISABELLA BURTON - Author of Here in Avalon, Social Creature, & Self-Made
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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What is the impact of AI on how we live, burn energy, and mitigate climate change? - KATHLEEN ROGERS - President, EarthDay.ORG
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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How will AI change the film and television industry? - ALAN POUL - ALAN POUL - Emmy & Golden Globe-winning Producer/Director
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Can AI help us understand animal intelligence? - Highlights - POORVA JOSHIPURA
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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How Will AI & New Technologies Change the Role of Artists? - Highlights - JONATHAN YEO
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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JONATHAN YEO - Celebrated Portrait Artist on the Importance of Connection & Intuitive Intelligence
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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How has our biology shaped world history? - Highlights - LEWIS DARTNELL
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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LEWIS DARTNELL - Author of Origins: How the Earth Made Us & Being Human: How Our Biology Shaped World History
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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How can we develop AI systems that are more respectful, ethical, and sustainable? - Highlights - DR. SASHA LUCCIONI
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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DR. SASHA LUCCIONI - Founding Member Climate Change AI - Climate Lead & AI Researcher - Hugging Face
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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How can AI & new technologies help reverse biodiversity loss and restore our ecosystems? - Highlights - THOMAS
CROWTHER
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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THOMAS CROWTHER - Ecologist - Co-chair of the Board for UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration - Founder of Restor
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Does having too many choices make us unhappy? - Highlights - DR. BARRY SCHWARTZ
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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DR. BARRY SCHWARTZ - Author of The Paradox of Choice & Why We Work
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Highlights - How do we navigate ambiguity, uncertainty & move beyond linear thinking? - RUPERT SHELDRAKE
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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RUPERT SHELDRAKE - Biologist & Author of The Science Delusion, The Presence of the Past
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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How can we learn to speak the language of the Earth? - Highlights - TIOKASIN GHOSTHORSE
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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TIOKASIN GHOSTHORSE - Founder/Host of First Voices Radio - Founder of Akantu Intelligence
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Are we living in a Simulated Universe? - Highlights - MELVIN VOPSON
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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MELVIN VOPSON - Physicist - Author of Reality Reloaded: The Scientific Case for a Simulated Universe
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Does privacy exist anymore? Or are humans just sets of data to be traded and sold? - Highlights - WENDY WONG
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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WENDY WONG - Author of We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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MAX BENNETT - Author of A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains - CEO of Alby
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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HOWARD GARDNER - Author of A Synthesizing Mind & Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences - Co-director of The Good Project
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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What distinguishes our consciousness from AI & machine learning? Highlights: LIAD MUDRIK - Neuroscientist, Tel Aviv University
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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LIAD MUDRIK - Neuroscientist - Principal Investigator Liad Mudrik Lab, Tel Aviv University
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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How is AI Changing Education, Work & the Way We Learn? - MICHAEL S. ROTH, President of Wesleyan University
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Highlights - MAX STOSSEL - Youth & Education Advisor, Center for Humane Technology, Award-winning Poet
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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MAX STOSSEL - Youth & Education Advisor, Center for Humane Technology, Award-winning Poet
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Highlights - BRIAN DAVID JOHNSON - Director of the ASU Threatcasting Lab - Author of The Future You
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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BRIAN DAVID JOHNSON - Author of The Future You: How to Create the Life You Always Wanted - Futurist in Residence, ASU’s Center for Science & the Imagination
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Highlights - ALLEN STEELE - Hugo Award-winning Science Fiction Author of the Coyote Trilogy, Arkwright
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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ALLEN STEELE - Hugo Award-winning Science Fiction Author of the Coyote Trilogy, Arkwright
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Highlights - SUSAN SCHNEIDER - Author of Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind, Fmr. Distinguished Scholar, US Library of Congress
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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SUSAN SCHNEIDER - Director, Center for the Future Mind, FAU, Fmr. NASA Chair at NASA
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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AI & THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Highlights - SIR GEOFF MULGAN - Fmr. UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit Director, Downing Street’s Head of Policy
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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SIR GEOFF MULGAN - Author of Another World is Possible - Prof. Collective Intelligence, Public Policy & Social Innovation, UCL
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Highlights - ADAM ALTER - Author of Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology - Professor NYU’s Stern School of Business
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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ADAM ALTER - Author of Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology - Anatomy of a Breakthrough
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Highlights - NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS - Author of Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society - Director of Human Nature Lab, Yale
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS - Director of Human Nature Lab, Yale - Author of Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Highlights - NICK BOSTROM - Author of Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies - Founding Director, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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NICK BOSTROM - Founding Director, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford
- Philosopher, Author
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Oct 27, 2023 |