Recorded: 6 April 2018

Released: 7 April 2018

Duration: 91 minutes, 56 seconds

 

Host Paul Carr welomes panelists Gita Jaisinghani, Sam Lichtenstein, Nick Nielsen and Adam Smith to take about a selection of Existential Risks.

Topics include: nanotechnology, pandemics, AI, and Climate Change. As usual, we let the discussion wander where it will go.

 

Links   Future of Humanity Institute (exrisk think tank) Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom Nanotechnology: Armed resistance   Orthogonality Thesis The Paperclipper Gray Goo Controversial US scientist creates deadly new flu strain for pandemic research

Engineered Avian Flu Could Kill Half the World's Humans

  Asilomoar AI Principles NASA on Climate Change   Early climate action has big effect on rising sea levels     Credits

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Music: DJ Spooky

Links: Nick Nielsen