The Boundless Podcast

Dina is undertaking her Masters in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield with plans to pursue a PhD within the area of tropical ecology and conservation. Her interest is around the socioeconomic costs and benefits of wildlife conservation and how to halt biodiversity loss in the face of environmental pressures such as climate change and a growing population. She’s also studied at the National University of Singapore and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
This episode gave me the chance to ask Dina how we are doing in the race to recognise the intrinsic value of nature, and implement changes that support this. We discussed what stands in our way of combatting species loss and whether the UN sustainability goals are our best route to biodiversity success. We talked about the role that AI can play in monitoring the heartbeat of the planet and reducing food miles. Finally I asked her how she rates our chances of avoiding cataclysmic climate change.

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Thomas is PhD student in physics at the University of Oxford. He hosts the podcast, Physical Attraction, speaking on wide ranging issues including artificial intelligence and the future of humanity. He is a writer for the Singularity Hub.

Thomas and I talked about how we can understand and mitigate the risks around powerful AI, and he compared these to the risks of rouge gene editing and Nuclear war. Thomas explained why it is that we model neural networks on the human brain and our tendency to anthropomorphise machines. He gave us a startling update on fusion power and what he thinks of mining the moon for natural resources.

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Stuart is a James Martin Research Fellow at Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University.
His research centres on the safety and possibilities of Artificial Intelligence, how to define the potential goals of AI and map humanity’s partially defined values into it, and the long term potential for intelligent life across the reachable universe. He has written and contributed to many papers about how AI will affect, influence or control our future.

Stuart and I talked about why the future matters and what it takes to unite humanity. About applying safety to Artificial general intelligence and our likelihood of surviving en mass the hurdles and crises’ of the next two centuries. We talked about what it will be like to live on digitally and have a relationship with your as yet unborn descendants, and what we do now that could appall future, more enlightened generations. Stuart predicts our likelihood of experiencing the unseen vistas of the galaxy and paints a picture of a remarkable multi-planetary existence.

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David is the US Head of Carewell Lepu. Partner of Intel Life Science AI Division. He’s a patient turned AI technologist. Not a doctor or scientist. He just calls himself an average American citizen with an above average appetite for fixing the healthcare system.

I invited David into a conversation since he has an astute way of making sense of science, technology and logical analysis. He’s worked across the industrial, service, IT, legal and healthcare industries and now David is passionate to explore how AI will eradicate diseases, improve equality and reverse climate change.

He’s on a mission to build a better world for our future generations
David and I had a no holds barred conversation about the state of the world and the impacts of AI. We talked about quantum computing and exponential growth in compute speed, the nature of being human, robot rights, space wars, money and God.

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Born in Iceland, Jon Thor is a musician, writer and director and philosopher. A TEDx Speaker, and AI for good start-up startup founder, Jon Thor is known for his fresh perspectives and creative insights. He is not scared of pushing back against capitalism
I met Jon Thor through a mutual friend and asked his permission to dive deep into his thoughts on the future, we had a challenging conversation about the nature of good and evil, growth vs empathy, the power of stories and why so much money is in the hands of so few. We discussed the role AI will play in improving equality and social dynamics.
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Peter received his master’s degree in Computer Science from Cambridge University, he’s delivered a TEDx talk and has worked for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for over thirty years, helping advance our exploration of the Solar System. Peter is the author of Crisis of Control: How Artificial SuperIntelligences May Destroy or Save the Human Race. A pioneering book about the existential crises facing humanity.
He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and two daughters and writes the Human Cusp blog on dealing with exponential change.
I came across Peter during one of his talks in London, and reached out for a conversation about how we can ratify our thinking about an uncertain future that is merged with machines.
We had a wide ranging talk that covered Narrow, General and Super Intelligent AI, Consciousness, Human-machine augmentation and the dangers of AI and the dangers of a human power processing and wielding advanced AI.

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