The Trajectory
By Daniel Faggella
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Episodes: 64
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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.
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Denis Noble - Life is “Fluid” in Ways Machines Still Aren’t (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 4)
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Aug 07, 2026 |
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Paolo Ardoino - Merger or Obsolescence - The Future for Humanity (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 3)
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Jul 24, 2026 |
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Lee Cronin - Living Process Flourishes if We Make the Present “Thick” (Stewarding the Flame, Ep 2)
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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Michael Levin - Making the Process-of-Life Flourish in Bio and Beyond (Stewarding the Flame, Ep 1)
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Jul 03, 2026 |
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Hod Lipson - Beyond Biology: AGI Minds in Competition (Worthy Successor, Episode 32)
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Jun 19, 2026 |
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Henry Shevlin – The Life Force Beyond Biology (Worthy Successor, Episode 31)
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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Benjamin Bratton - Planetary Computation and the Future of Life (Worthy Successor, Episode 30)
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May 22, 2026 |
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Terrence Deacon - AI Is a “Deep Fake of Intelligence” (Worthy Successor, Episode 29)
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May 08, 2026 |
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Vincent C. Müller - AI Is Accelerating - But Toward What? (Worthy Successor, Episode 28)
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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Lee Spector - The Next Phase of Evolution Is Artificial (Worthy Successor, Episode 27)
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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Aza Raskin - Why AGI Demands New Global Coordination (AGI Governance, Episode 12)
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Ben Goertzel - The Primordial Soup of AGI Minds (Worthy Successor, Episode 26)
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Luciano Floridi - How Life Could Flourish in the Information Ocean (Worthy Successor, Episode 25)
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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Weaver Weinbaum - Designing Intelligence for Freedom and Care (Worthy Successor, Episode 24)
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Francis Heylighen - The Self-Organizing Universe After Humans (Worthy Successor, Episode 23)
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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Stephen Wolfram - In a Sea of Complexity, Does a “Successor” Exist? (Worthy Successor, Episode 22)
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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John Smart - Evolution from Cells to Super-intelligence (Worthy Successor, Episode 21)
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Susan Schneider - Intelligence Is Everywhere, Consciousness Maybe Not (Worthy Successor, Episode 20)
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Brian Thomas Swimme - Life Is Bigger Than Humanity (Worthy Successor, Episode 19)
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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David Sloan Wilson - Darwinian Forces Shape the Earth Superorganism (Worthy Successor, Episode 18)
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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Michael Johnson - Symmetry, Beauty, and the Shape of Consciousness (Worthy Successor, Episode 17)
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Robin Hanson - A Successor Must be Adaptive (Worthy Successor, Episode 16)
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Joe Carlsmith - A Wiser, AI-Powered Civilization is the “Successor” (Worthy Successor, Episode 15)
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Blaise Agüera y Arcas - AGI Symbiosis and the Arrow of Intelligence (Worthy Successor, Episode 14)
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Brad Carson - AGI Competition with Civility and Understanding (US-China AGI Relations, Episode 5)
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Irakli Beridze - Can the UN Help with Global AGI Governance? (AGI Governance, Episode 11)
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Dean Xue Lan - A Multi-Pronged Approach to Pre-AGI Coordination (AGI Governance, Episode 10)
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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RAND’s Joel Predd - Competitive and Cooperative Dynamics of AGI (US-China AGI Relations, Episode 4)
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Drew Cukor - AI Adoption as a National Security Priority (US-China AGI Relations, Episode 3)
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Stuart Russell - Avoiding the Cliff of Uncontrollable AI (AGI Governance, Episode 9)
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Craig Mundie - Co-Evolution with AI: Industry First, Regulators Later (AGI Governance, Episode 8)
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Jeremie and Edouard Harris - What Makes US-China Alignment Around AGI So Hard (US-China AGI Relations, Episode 2)
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Ed Boyden - Neurobiology as a Bridge to a Worthy Successor (Worthy Successor, Episode 13)
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Roman Yampolskiy - The Blacker the Box, the Bigger the Risk (Early Experience of AGI, Episode 3)
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Toby Ord - Crucial Updates on the Evolving AGI Risk Landscape (AGI Governance, Episode 7)
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Martin Rees - If They’re Conscious, We Should Step Aside (Worthy Successor, Episode 12)
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Emmett Shear - AGI as "Another Kind of Cell" in the Tissue of Life (Worthy Successor, Episode 11)
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Joshua Clymer - Where Human Civilization Might Crumble First (Early Experience of AGI - Episode 2)
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Peter Singer - Optimizing the Future for Joy, and the Exploration of the Good (Worthy Successor, Episode 10)
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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David Duvenaud - What are Humans Even Good For in Five Years? (Early Experience of AGI - Episode 1)
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Kristian Rönn - A Blissful Successor Beyond Darwinian Life (Worthy Successor, Episode 9)
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May 23, 2025 |
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Jack Shanahan - Avoiding an AI Race While Keeping America Strong (US-China AGI Relations, Episode 1)
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May 09, 2025 |
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Richard Ngo - A State-Space of Positive Posthuman Futures (Worthy Successor, Episode 8)
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Yi Zeng - Exploring 'Virtue' and Goodness Through Posthuman Minds (AI Safety Connect, Episode 2)
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Max Tegmark - The Lynchpin Factors to Achieving AGI Governance (AI Safety Connect, Episode 1)
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Michael Levin - Unfolding New Paradigms of Posthuman Intelligence (Worthy Successor, Episode 7)
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Eliezer Yudkowsky - Human Augmentation as a Safer AGI Pathway (AGI Governance, Episode 6)
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Connor Leahy - Slamming the Brakes on the AGI Arms Race (AGI Governance, Episode 5)
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Andrea Miotti - A Human-First AI Future (AGI Governance, Episode 4)
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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Stephen Ibaraki - The Beginning of AGI Global Coordination (AGI Governance, Episode 3)
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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Mike Brown - AI Cooperation and Competition Between the US and China (AGI Governance, Episode 2)
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Sébastien Krier - Keeping a Pulse on AGI's Takeoff (AGI Governance, Episode 1)
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Joscha Bach - Building an AGI to Play the Longest Games (Worthy Successor, Episode 6)
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Jeff Hawkins - Building a Knowledge-Preserving AGI to Live Beyond Us (Worthy Successor, Episode 5)
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Scott Aaronson - AGI That Evolves Our Values Without Replacing Them (Worthy Successor, Episode 4)
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Anders Sandberg - Blooming the Space of Intelligence and Value (Worthy Successor Series, Episode 3)
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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Richard Sutton - Humanity Never Had Control in the First Place (Worthy Successor Series, Episode 2)
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Nick Bostrom - AGI That Saves Room for Us (Worthy Successor Series, Episode 1)
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Dan Hendrycks - Avoiding an AGI Arms Race (AGI Destinations Series, Episode 5)
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Dileep George - Keep Strong AI as a Tool, Not a Successor (AGI Destinations Series, Episode 4)
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May 11, 2024 |
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Ben Goertzel - Regulating AGI May Do More Harm Than Good (AGI Destinations Series, Episode 3)
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Jaan Tallinn - The Case for a Pause Before We Birth AGI (AGI Destinations Series, Episode 2)
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Yoshua Bengio - Why We Shouldn't Blast Off to AGI Just Yet (AGI Destinations Series, Episode 1)
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Welcome to The Trajectory - Realpolitik on AGI and the Posthuman Future
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Mar 07, 2024 |