Existential Hope
Foresight Institute, Jakub Lála, Donnacha Fitzgerald, Keith Patarroyo, Ava, Sidh Sikka, Existential Hope, Mahlaqua Mila Noor, Alex PlesaExploring evidence-based paths to ambitious futures. Focusing on what’s possible with emerging science and technology, and on how people can help build a better world. An initiative of the Foresight Institute.
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How a board game helps Google DeepMind plan for 2030
New podcast episode
Roleplaying AI for science
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In this episode, Zoë Brammer and Ankur Vora, who lead strategic foresight at Google DeepMind, walk us through why they developed an AI-for-science r...
AI is accelerating. Can democracy keep up?
We’re excited to share the the second podcast episode in AI Pathways, our special series about the choices we can still make on how we build AI for a positive future. Stay tuned for the final episode with Stuart Russell at the end of Septem...
The $10,000 Existential Hope Meme Prize is open!
The internet is full of dystopian memes: think P(doom), Shoggoths, Black Mirror, or Ready Player One. It’s easy to imagine how things could go wrong.
So we’re asking for something harder. Can you show us a future that’s both hopeful and sc...
Are you using AI, or is AI using you? Keeping control of our AI future
We’re excited to share the the first podcast episode in AI Pathways, our special series about the choices we can still make on how we build AI for a positive future. Throughout September, we’ll share the other two episodes in the series, fe...
What happens when you let an Al run a science lab
New podcast episode
Inside the government agency building AI scientists
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In this episode, we speak with Antony “Ant” Rowstron, who has worked with ARIA (the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Ag...
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