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.
The Trajectory
Latest Episodes
Benjamin Bratton - Planetary Computation and the Future of Life (Worthy Successor, Episode 30)
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Benjamin Bratton, Professor of Philosophy of Technology at UC San Diego and Director of Antikythera.In this conversation, Benjamin argues that intelligence is not ...
Terrence Deacon - AI Is a “Deep Fake of Intelligence” (Worthy Successor, Episode 29)
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Terrence Deacon, an emeritus professor of cognitive science and anthropology from UC Berkeley.In this conversation, Terrence argues that current large language mod...
Vincent C. Müller - AI Is Accelerating - But Toward What? (Worthy Successor, Episode 28)
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Vincent C. Müller, Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Ethics of AI at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.In this conversation, Vincent discusses how artificial ...
Lee Spector - The Next Phase of Evolution Is Artificial (Worthy Successor, Episode 27)
This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Lee Spector, a professor at Amherst College and a researcher in evolutionary computation, whose work applies concepts like variation and selection to the development of in...
Aza Raskin - Why AGI Demands New Global Coordination (AGI Governance, Episode 12)
This is an interview with Aza Raskin, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology and co-founder of the Earth Species Project. His work has focused on the societal impacts of technology systems and how incentives shape large-scale human beha...