20 episodes
X Risk Podcast Coleman Snell
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- Society & Culture
What are the greatest forces, risks, and ideas that define the 21st Century? Each week existential risk researcher Coleman Snell speaks with academics, thinkers, and artists whose work speaks to life in the 21st Century for the modern individual. We talk about the biggest risks/challenges facing our species, solutions, unique aspects of 21st Century Life, and how we can find meaning in this strange century.
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#20 - Animal Ethics and the Moral Weight Project with Bob Fischer
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Coleman spoke with Bob Fischer, a researcher at Rethink Priorities who recently worked on the Moral Weights project. In the discussion, Dr. Fischer and Coleman discussed a range of topics relating to animal ethics, including the research methodology of the team and the role that intuitions play in striving to live a moral life.
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#19 - Tobias Baumann on S-Risks and Avoiding the Worst for Humanity
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This week Coleman sat down with Tobias Baumann and discussed his recent book on the topic of suffering risks (s-risks)! They spoke about the ethical claims behind aiming to minimize pain vs. aiming to maximize flourishing, distinctions of pain and suffering, and potential paths towards literally the worst ethical situation humanity or its descendants could find itself (so-called suffering-risk scenarios)!
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#18 - Anders Sandberg: Longtermism, Transhumanism, and Making Sense of the Existential Risk
In this episode, Coleman interviews Anders Sandberg, a senior research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford. Dr. Sandberg and Coleman discuss living forever, transhumanism, longtermism, and new approaches to understanding existential risk work in the 21st century.
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#17 - Artificial Intelligence Governance
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On this episode, Coleman explored the obstacles & successes of governing advanced technological risks of Artificial Intelligence with Cornell Professor Dr. Sarah Kreps and Researcher and Cornell Ph.D. Candidate Amelia Arsenault.
Topics covered in this episode of the podcast include:
The political ramifications of AI internally and internationally
AI and the future of democracies + democratic backsliding
As a regenerative/resilience-building force within democracy
Potential benefits of AI for democratic regeneration globally
How AI will impact international arms races and how its impact will distinct from any other technological breakthrough in history?
Will AI Governance become more challenging as other existential hazards (like climate change for example) become more impactful?
And of course, current cutting edge work being done at Cornell University in AI Safety and Governance
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#16 - Emmanuel Daudu on Prison Reform, Freedom of Speech, and 21st Century Politics
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This week Coleman sat down with Emmanuel Daudu, an incoming Google Legal Analyst and close friend at Cornell University where he is Pre Law. The two jump into a wide range of questions, including the development of a new politics for a 21st century, working-class struggle, and the underlying woes associated with 21st-century capitalism and what we can do to improve the system.
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#15 - The Heart of Effective Altruism with Dr. SJ Beard
In this episode, Coleman sat down with existential risk ethicists and researcher Dr. SJ Beard from Cambridge's Existential Risk Institute about the far future of humanity, ethical growth through generations, and the psychology behind striving to do the most good. The two also discussed opening the number of possible future worlds and how it connects to motivation to do the work that morally we must this century.
"We are motivated by what we believe we can achieve, much more than what we think we ought to do" -- SJ Beard.
Host and Research: Coleman Snell
Podcast Producer: Justin Demilio
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