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.
Podcasting since 2024 • 53 episodes
The Trajectory
Latest Episodes
Ben Goertzel - The Primordial Soup of AGI Minds (Worthy Successor, Episode 26)
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Ben Goertzel, founder of SingularityNET and one of the earliest and most persistent thinkers in artificial general intelligence, with decades of work spanning AI architect...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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Luciano Floridi - How Life Could Flourish in the Information Ocean (Worthy Successor, Episode 25)
This installment of the Worthy Successor series features Luciano Floridi, John K. Castle Professor of Cognitive Science at Yale University and Director of the Digital Ethics Center at Yale. Luciano is widely recognized as one of the leading phi...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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1:56:17
Weaver Weinbaum - Designing Intelligence for Freedom and Care (Worthy Successor, Episode 24)
This episode of the Worthy Successor series features Weaver Weinbaum, an independent researcher and founder of NUNET. Weaver’s work sits at the intersection of philosophy, engineering, and the study of intelligence. In this episode,...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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2:13:49
Francis Heylighen - The Self-Organizing Universe After Humans (Worthy Successor, Episode 23)
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Francis Heylighen, a professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and director of the Research Centre St. Leo Apostel. Francis is one of the world's leading theorists...
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Stephen Wolfram - In a Sea of Complexity, Does a “Successor” Exist? (Worthy Successor, Episode 22)
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Stephen Wolfram, founder of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and the Wolfram Language, and a pioneer in computation and complexity.Stephen reframes intelli...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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