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How can we solve the greatest challenges facing humanity? Join Jay Friedenberg for in-depth lectures and expert interviews exploring the causes, consequences, and solutions to the most pressing threats to human civilization. From artificial intelligence and climate change to pandemics, disinformation, authoritarianism, and threats to democracy, Save the World Podcast draws on science, psychology, politics, and philosophy to examine the problems shaping our future—and what we can do to overcome them.
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- 4 days ago47 min
Episode 9 - Seth Baum on Existential Risk
Send us Fan Mail What are the new Four Horseman of the Apocalypse? Climate change? Pandemics? War? Cyberattack? Seth Baum and I discuss whether we should worry about any of these particular risk factors in isolation or combination. We discuss the notion of a polycrisis and how that makes thinking about risk management difficult. We find that some of the dangers we face now are exactly those that may have brought about the Bronze Age collapse over 3,000 years ago. Are we any better prepared to...
- 1 weeks ago47 min
Episode 8 - Chris Line on Religious Freedom
Is it permissible to teach the ten commandments in public school? For religious exemptions to vaccination? Chris Line is Legal Counsel at the Freedom From Religion Foundation. In this episode, we discuss the issues surrounding separation of church and state. This constitutional protection is being violated more frequently now in the U.S. In a stimulating discussion we touch on the dangers of theocratic governments, the difference between reason and faith, and historical trends in secularism. ...
- 2 weeks ago46 min
Episode 7 - Ivan Eland on Defense Policy in a Multipolar World
In this episode I interview Ivan Eland, defense analyst and writer, who is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute. We talk about the current and future state of U.S. military foreign policy in the post Cold War era. We address a number of questions in this wide-ranging discusion. What threats do China and Russia pose to world peace? How can we bring the bloated defense budget under control? Will the U.S. fall victim to the Thucydides Trap? What type of foreign policy strategy should we ...
- 3 weeks ago28 min
Episode 6 - AI and Human Values Part II
If you want an AI to "play nice", you need to give it values to ensure it is acting beneficially toward humans. To solve this alignment problem we need to know what values we are talking about. Today I describe a five-level classification system which helps us to understand all values and how they relate to one another. These include survival, cognition, those related to individuality and sociality, and a concern for the wider environment. We then look at how to apply these to AI systems and ...
- Oct 4, 202628 min
Episode 5 - AI and Human Values Part I
There is a lot of talk about AI alignment, which is getting machines to act in our best interests. But how do we go about doing this? The philosophical secret to this conundrum is values. But how do we determine what human values are? This problem needs to be solved before we program computers to do this or that on our behalf. In this two-part series, I discuss what values are and look at evidence on human values coming from evolutionary theory, literature reviews and survey research. The tal...
- Sep 27, 202655 min
Episode 4 - Calum Chace on Machine Consciousness
Can a machine become conscious? Could it feel pain and pleasure, be happy or sad? In this episode we address the question of whether the AI systems we are building now are or could achieve such consciousness. If they can the ramifications are enormous. Join me in this wide-ranging interview with Calum Chace to discuss this issue. Calum is a best-selling author, speaker, and founder of the AI safety company Conscium. We cover whether being alive, having a body, or growing up is essential to co...
- Sep 20, 202623 min
Episode 3 - Civility Part II
In this episode we examine ways to stop incivility. We show that attempts to control bad behavior have always been around and can be categorized in terms of social and individual forms. The social classification looks at organizations like the family and church and how they have regulated behavior. The individual approach looks at how a single person can exert self-control, in some cases in conjunction with outside assistance. Cultivating an attitude of empathy allows us to act kindly to othe...
- Sep 13, 202620 min
Episode 2 - Civility Part I
In this episode we define civility, provide several contemporary examples and describe why it has important social implications. We look at whether people are more rude now than in the past and whether this is being driven by polarization and politics. We examine several psychological explanations of rudeness, including the frustration-agression hypothesis and failures in perspective-taking. Related Links: The Psychology of Polarization https://youtu.be/yQdR3npYtx4?si=jZUBng4w9KmH5OyU Moral P...
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How can we solve the greatest challenges facing humanity? Join Jay Friedenberg for in-depth lectures and expert interviews exploring the causes, consequences, and solutions to the most pressing threats to human civilization. From artificial intelligence and climate change to pandemics, disinformation, authoritarianism, and threats to democracy, Save the World Podcast draws on science, psychology, politics, and philosophy to examine the problems shaping our future—and what we can do to overcome them.
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