FUTURATI PODCAST

David Shapiro is a former engineer who became famous through his dozens of well-received tutorials on Youtube, covering everything from fine-tuning ChatGPT to his proposed solution to the alignment problem. His work focuses on ensuring that advanced technologies are used safely, bringing about an abundant, post-scarcity, post-nihilistic future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...

Peter St Onge is a Ph. D. economist at the Heritage Foundation, a Mises Institute Fellow, and a former MBA professor in Taiwan. His approach to economic analysis is heavily informed by the “Austrian School”, which builds economics on more realistic foundations, and he is driven by a desire to understand the policies and technologies that make the world more prosperous. Learn more about your ad cho...

Dr. Terence Kealey is a professor of clinical biochemistry at the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom, where he served as vice chancellor until 2014. As a clinical biochemist, Dr. Kealey studied human experimental dermatology, and he discovered how distorting government money could be to the scientific enterprise. In 1996, he published his first book, “The Economic Laws of Scientific Re...

Dr. Qichao Hu serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of SES. He is the recipient of MIT Technology Review’s “Innovators Under 35” and was named one of the Forbes “30 Under 30” in 2013. Dr. Hu earned his BS in Physics from MIT and his PhD in Applied Physics from Harvard University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Quintin Pope is a computer science graduate student at Oregon State University, and an alignment researcher focusing on methods of instilling human-compatible values into deep learning-based AI systems, with a particular focus on language models. He co-developed shard theory, an attempt to explain the human value formation process as a consequence of simple reinforcement learning and self-supervis...

Zenobia Godschalk is an entrepreneur and the senior vice president of Hedera, a fully open-source public distributed ledger that utilizes the fast, fair, and secure hashgraph consensus. Its network services include Solidity-based smart contracts, as well as native tokenization and consensus services used by a thriving community of developers to build decentralized applications. Learn more about yo...

Scott Tibbits is a leader, inventor, and founder of both Starsys Research and The Center for Space Entrepreneurship. He was the recipient of the "Esprit Entrepreneur of Distinction" award in 1998 and is the holder of ten patents in technologies as diverse as medical devices, spacecraft products, and telecom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Hendershott is a finance professor, hedge fund CIO, and evangelist for a philosophy he calls "ingenuism". Ingenuism comes from the thesis that human progress stems, at its core, from ingenuity - the unique human amalgamation of curiosity and ambition. Nurturing ingenuity is the most important thing that a culture can do: there is no ceiling on what a society that promotes connection, explor...

Dr. Mohit Jain is a physician-scientist with more than 20 years of expertise in physiology, biomedicine, engineering, computational biology, and mass spectrometry-based metabolomics. Prior to founding Sapient, he formed and was director of Jain Laboratory at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). There he led a multi-disciplinary research team to develop next-generation systems to probe th...

Julian Rodriguez is a serial entrepreneur, product manager, and innovation-focused strategist with a passion for leading teams that build easy-to-use products and solve large problems. After founding a disruptive venture capital-backed tech startup in the B2B food service space he joined Bitcoin Magazine in 2013, where he worked directly with its co-founder Vitalik Buterin. He was a very early tea...

Check out Matt's other podcasts: https://planorama.design/podcast Use this link for early access to sinfonia: https://sinfonia.site Matt Genovese is the CEO of Planorama Design, a software user experience design professional services company based in Austin, Texas. With over 25 years of experience in high-tech spanning semiconductors to software, Matt has a long track record of launching successfu...

Through a series of popular explainer videos, Rob has become one of the most prominent voices in the AI safety community, exploring topics like cryptography, recursive self-improvement, and meso-alignment with hundreds of thousands of fans. In this interview, we spend nearly two hours getting into the weeds on how powerful AI systems might be dangerous, and the technical solutions which can mitiga...

Elizabeth Varghese is well known as a futurist, humanist, and thinker on the topic of space exploration. She leads the People in Space business at Deloitte, she is on the Council of Advisors for The SETI Institute, and she has been called the “Space Philosopher” by leaders from DARPA because she integrates the technological aspects of our expansion into space with imperatives for economic, diploma...

Noel Carroll took the helm of Biofriendly in March of 2018. As its Chief Executive Officer, he focuses on modernizing the company and pushing it toward a leadership role in the environmental community. Always passionate about the environment, Noel is doing this by widening the focus of the company from its flagship product (Green Plus) to a broader organization that educates, invests in and promot...

Tigran Petrosyan is a physicist turned tech enthusiast and entrepreneur who is passionate about building comprehensive teams and making products people love. He is currently building "SuperAnnotate", an automated annotation tool that helps to speed up the computer vision lifecycle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Suman Kanuganti is the co-founder and CEO at Personal.ai, a company that is reinventing human-to-human messaging by leveraging AI that helps people collaborate, exchange ideas, and deepen their relationships with others. As a creator and entrepreneur, Suman is passionate about solving problems for humans by leveraging the power of blockchain, robotics, AI, AR, wearable tech, video streaming, and f...

Tim Kravchunovsky is an experienced network engineer who has decades of experience in consulting and entrepreneurship. Today, he's the CEO of Chirp, where he's using decentralized technologies like the blockchain to change the internet of things. #blockchain #crypto #internetofthings Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zvi Mowshowitz is a former professional Magic: The Gathering player, a former trader and market maker in both traditional and non-traditional markets, and he was CEO of the personalized medical startup MetaMed. Recently, he wrote a very thoughtful analysis of the Future of Life's call to halt experiments with large language models, and that's the subject of our chat today. Learn more about your ad...

effrey Ladish runs a security company called Gordian Research which provides operational security consulting services, and he spends his remaining time thinking about new and old ways of working together to build good communities, governance systems, and ultimately a thriving and robust civilization. #artificialintelligence #aisafety #existentialrisk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho...

Thomas and Trent talk about the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Balaji Srinivasan's bet on Bitcoin and hyperinflation, the CFTC’s lawsuit against Binance, the importance of finance, the morality of price gouging, and the prospects of generative AI. #bitcoin #siliconvalleybank #generativeAI Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Mattmann is the IT Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as well as the Division Manager of the AI, Analytics, and Innovative Development Organization in the Information Technology and Solutions Directorate. He works on ensuring that cutting-edge technologies support NASA’s science missions. If you enjoy this interview please subscribe to the podcast an...

Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum is a tenured Professor and Director of the Center for Medical Mycology at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Medical Center. He is also the co-founder of BIOHM, the first total microbiome company in the United States. He is the preeminent NIH-funded scientist on all things fungi and brings a captivating discussion to this largest life form on earth – whic...

Emiliano De Laurentiis is a trained cognitive psychologist with a lifelong interest in lifelong learning, and an impressive record of using technology to enhance educational outcomes. In the 80s, his "Arrakas Advantage" series was the first educational software to use chatbots. In the 90s, he launched a website that brought adaptive, student-specific learning to the internet. Today, his "Knowledge...

Alex Goryachev is the former managing director of Cisco’s global Co-Innovation Center, where he spearheaded programs and initiatives to accelerate innovation. He is a Silicon Valley veteran who is a sought-after speaker on innovation and is often referred to as the ‘innovation therapist’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight Thomas and Trent are bringing you a solo episode. In recent weeks, the internet has exploded with talk of the incredible tools released by OpenAI. With its remarkable ability to generate and explain code, write in multiple languages, create long, coherent essays, and even generate poetry, nursery rhymes, and fiction, ChatGPT in particular has drawn rapt attention. Tonight, they’re going to...