We travel to Stockholm to visit Dr Anders Sandberg at the Mimir Centre for Long Term Futures Research – part of the Swedish Institute for Futures Studies – for a conversation on existential risks posed by AI, the state of futures studies today, being a polymath in the Nordics, and why there are so many Swedish futurists...

Sandberg holds a PhD in computational neuroscience and was previously a Research Fellow at the renowned Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) at the University of Oxford, alongside other prominent futurists, such as Nick Bostrom and Toby Ord.

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Hosts: Casper Skovgaard Petersen & August Leo Liljenberg

Guest: Anders Sandberg

Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

As digital payments take over, cash is disappearing – but should we think twice? From privacy concerns to power dynamics, the push toward a cashless society raises questions about control, choice, and trust.

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Author: Josh Sims

Narration: August Liljenberg (with ElevenLabs AI)

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The recent boom in prediction markets has breathed new life into an old debate: does the wisdom of the crowd combined with financial incentives produce the best forecasts of future events?

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Author: Casper Skovgaard Petersen

Narrator: August Leo Liljenberg (with ElevenLabs AI)

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Climate economists are playing dice with our future. Some are now sounding the alarm that the models they rely on are fundamentally flawed.

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Authors: Mikolaj Kowalewski & Caitlin van Bommel

Narrator: Manya Lind (with ElevenLabs AI)

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We speak to researcher and adult content creator Aella about sex, technology, artificial wombs, and the future of disembodied sex.

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Author: Caitlin van Bommel & August Leo Liljenberg

Narration: August Leo Liljenberg (with ElevenLabs AI)

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The ubiquity of smartphones and social media has turbocharged visual culture. With the addition of increasingly sophisticated and affordable cosmetic surgeries, beauty standards are pushed into strange new territories.

Caroline Zielinski

Narration: Manya Lind (with ElevenLabs AI)

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Future generations lack political representation, constituting ‘shadow interests’ in our systems of governance. Yet ensuring their wellbeing may soon become a political concern.

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Author: Nicklas Larsen & Thor Svanholm Gustavfson

Narration: August Leo Liljenberg (with ElevenLabs AI)

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Some believe distinctions between the organic and the artificial are meaningless in a techsaturated world. Personality-altering brain implants may force us to rethink this notion.

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Author: Christian Kaarup Baron

Narration: August Leo Liljenberg (with ElevenLabs AI)

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Chile's cybernetic control project collapsed in 1972. Why did Project Cybersyn fail, and what can we learn from its history?

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Author: Casper Skovgaard Petersen

Narration: Manya Lind (supported by ElevenLabs AI)

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The rich, willing, and techno-optimistic are spending fortunes optimising their biological functions to perpetuate youth. Biohacking, once described as ‘garage transhumanism’, has more than left the garage.

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Author: Caitlin van Bommel

Narration: August Leo Liljenberg (supported by ElevenLabs AI)

Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies