Episode 19

The last of four episodes in which I talk with Eric Bruylant about the future of artificial intelligence, particularly the dangers it poses and the problems of managing the associated risks.

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Some relevant links:

• artificial intelligence
• artificial general intelligence
• artificial general intelligence: controversies and dangers
• AI takeover
• machine ethics
• von Neumann probes
• asteroid mining
• Dyson spheres
• Dyson swarms
• The Golden Dawn, "Let's Build a Dyson Sphere" (Sarah Records, 1989)
• secret societies and politics
• space colonisation
• James Gardner, Biocosm (2003) and The Intelligent Universe (2007)
• baobab trees (genus Adansonia)