The Boundless Podcast

Luke Andreski is a professional thinker and the author of the books "Ethical Intelligence" and "Intelligent Ethics" on Amazon. These books offer a toolkit for ethical survival in our tumultuous times.

Boundless Rebooted is a special species of episodes dedicated to understanding and explaining the changes that will happen across soceities, Governments and businesses as we create a new normal.

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This is a conversation with Ade McCormack.

Ade is a technologist turned writer, advisor, and presenter. Furthermore he is an authority on the digital age, particularly in respect of how the world is changing as we leave the industrial era, and how organisations and individuals need to respond in order to remain economically-relevant.

In this episode Ade shared how we are coming to the end of the age of comfort and individualism. Societal blindness and reduced cognitive bandwidth are causing hyper-uncertainty and a need for new types of careers and life goals. Ade shares part of his vision for super-resilience and enjoying the new rollercoaster of life, his work is to help us all find the safety we need to improve our cognitive bandwidth and find a way off the treadmill.

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This is a conversation with David Wood.

A former pioneer of the smartphone industry David is now a full-time futurist speaker, analyst, commentator, and writer. His focus is on potential radical transformations in society and humanity - transformations enabled by accelerating technological disruption and mediated by social and political reaction. David is the author of RAFT 2035. The Roadmap to Abundance, Flourishing and Transcendence.

In this episode, David and I discussed how to overcome the hurdles on our human journey to sustainable super-abundance; evolutionary fatalism, individualism, capitalism, cognitive biases, greed and power. We talked about how existential threats could be a catalyst for a positive shift in human mindset. David concluded with his vision of what true meaning and opportunity looks like in our longer future.

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This is a conversation with Fionnuala O'Conor.

Fionnuala is finding ways to optimise human/AI co-working and she is the Founder and CEO of Project Kindi. Project Kindi is currently a research project focussing on how AI models get built and deployed. Fionnula plans to solve what she calls the "Monday morning problem" - the need for real-world, personalised guidance on making behavioural change happen and stick.

In this episode, we discussed just how far AI can go to predict, influence and control our behaviours and decisions. To get to this answer we talked about truth, trust, historical data, theoretical data, persuasive tech, corporate ethics and how Tech can give us better stories and even be the friend that we need right now. I was stunning at how fluently Fionnuala traversed these challenging topics to draw reference on her research, empirical evidence and insights about the future.

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This is a conversation with Professor David Rothery.

David is a professor of planetary geosciences at the Open University where he chairs a level 2 module Planetary Science and the Search for Life. He serves on the Open University's Senate.
David worked on the Beagle2 project and in 2006 he was appointed U.K. lead scientist for the MIXS (Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer) on the joint European Space Agency/JAXA mission to Mercury named BepiColombo. He has been a guest several times on The Sky at Night, and has authored numerous science books.

In this episode I asked David to give his views and vision on where we might find basic or complex extra-terrestrial life in the galaxy. If we found it, how would we know if it was a second genesis or formed from the same starting point as life on earth. We talked about potential life on icy moons, mars, venus and exoplanets. This conversation covered almost every part of the search for life in space and it was quite stunning to share this time with Professor Rothery, whom I consider to be a learned and informed voice on this subject matter.

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This is a conversation with Dr. Naveen Thomas. Naveen is an AI enthusiast who has a PhD in computer vision from the University of Bristol. During his research, he developed novel algorithms that can detect moving objects from complex videos and used techniques such as spatiotemporal volumes and background subtraction to analyse the type of motion performed by these objects to further understand the video. He is passionate about the potentials of computer vision and AI in general, particularly in the healthcare industry.
In this episode, we talked about how a digital universe is being built beneath us with AI twins that will be ubiquitous in the near future. The opportunities and benefits of commonly used facial recognition systems and how to beat deep fakes. We talked about what connects fire, AI and kitchen white goods and I asked Naveen what he would let AI control in his life.

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This is a conversation with Ben Rayner and Paul Stephenson.

Ben spent two decades working in advertising, developing brand and communication strategies for some of the world’s biggest companies. He has a vision of a business world where branding of the individual becomes the ‘norm’ and is fascinated by why many of continue to forget the lessons of our past.

Paul spent a career in growing people to grow business. He changed company cultures and helped people to break through glass ceilings and overcome limiting beliefs. He is fascinated by the power of the individual and why people can fail to acknowledge all of the options that are available to them.

Ben and Paul formed Zengility in 2019 with a mission to liberate the world from work.

In this episode we talked about how business has been hardwired into the dangerous concept of growth at all costs. I spoke to Ben and Paul about how individually and collectively we can escape this pattern of life and business that is effectively killing us and the biosphere around us. Ben and Paul range from pragmatic to radical as we explored who’s terms we are living life on, status anxiety and essentialism. It gives me hope that people like Ben and Paul have about-turned their consultancy practices to focus entirely on happiness.

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This is a conversation with Sarah Mannion of Nvidia and Andy Feltham of Filament AI.
Sarah is a Tech Evangelist at Nvidia. Formerly with Microsoft and Apple, she has worked in the IT industry for over 20 years. Sarah has a breadth of knowledge across all NVIDIA solutions, from AI to deep learning, to remote graphics.
Andy Feltham is a Master Inventor and former manager of IBM's UK Emerging Technologies team. He worked for IBM for 14 years before joining Filament as the VP of Innovation. Andy has a love for how technology can solve real problems.
In this episode we talked about the problems with calling 'cognitive technologies' 'artificial intelligence'; the risks, the inference, the stories it conjures up and the hype. We compared AI hype to other technologies hype and discussed how enterprises are asking different AI questions this year. Finally, we spoke about how AI bias was potentially a paradox and how AI ethics remains front of mind for organisations deploying AI solutions.

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Gillian Hadfield is the inaugural Schwartz Reisman Chair in Technology and Society at the University of Toronto. She is also a Professor of Law and Professor of Strategic Management and the author of the book Rules for a flat world.

In addition to this Gillian works with OpenAI as a Senior Policy Advisor supporting their mission to ensure that the path to artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

In this episode, I asked Gillian a series of quickfire bonus questions.

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Gillian Hadfield is the inaugural Schwartz Reisman Chair in Technology and Society at the University of Toronto. She is also a Professor of Law and Professor of Strategic Management and the author of the book Rules for a flat world.

In addition to this Gillian works with OpenAI as a Senior Policy Advisor supporting their mission to ensure that the path to artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

In this episode we discussed the problems that have come about because legal and regulatory systems are no longer fit for purpose for the level of complexity, speed, innovation and globalization within our societies and economies. We talked about the challenges of building human normativity into robots and the need for social scientists. We also spoke about how a third space of regulation as a service will take a place between Government regulation and self-regulation.

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