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Francis Fukuyama and Stuart Russell both worry that AI may escape human control, or just follow instructions too closely and kill us all. They agree that it’s hard to prevent. Let’s try red-lines.ai.
Guests
- Francis Fukuyama
- Stuart Russell
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Episode 717 Global Town Hall Sept 2025
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Bill Leikam is removing concrete from a creek. Brian von Herzen wants Metta to be more balanced. Moji Agha says AI is not conscious. Davidson Akhonya tells us about Kenya’s difficult political situation.
Guests
- Bill Leikam
- Moji Agha
- Brian von Herzen
- Davidson Akhonya
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Episode 719 Peacebuilders’ Current Agenda
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Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan edits the annual publication that tracks landmines around the world. He’s at the UN’s First Committee to persuade five countries to reverse their withdrawal from the treaty,
Guests
- Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan
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Episode 718 China and the AI Contest
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Rebecca is a journalist who writes about hi-tech business; Frank Yu is an entrepreneur who has lived in China and knows the AI industry. They explain the state of the race between China and the US. The winner will be the one that gets AGI first, for they will stay ahead.
Guests
- Rebecca Fannin
- Frank Yu
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Episode 716 Persistent Fact-checking
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Stephan Lewandowsky knows how to convert conspiracy theorists: Just keep arguing with them. Most people get exasperated and quit, but AI is patient and keeps arguing logically. Finally they concede!
Guests
- Stephan Lewandowsky
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Episode 715 Refresh the Constitution
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Paul Zeitz – and most Americans – worry about the US. He wants states to hold citizens’ assemblies to plan changes to the constitution. Then a federal one may follow.
Guests
- Paul Zeitz
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Episode 713 Deceiving us Users
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Siwei Lyu and David Castillo co-chair a center at U of Buffalo that works to detect deepfakes technologically. Cynthia Stewart is the program director, and they are joined by Leon Kosals in a discussion about AI deception.
Guests
- Siwei Lyu
- David Castillo
- Cynthia Stewart
- Leon Kosals
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Episode 714 Please Poop for the Whales
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Jenn Bonilla and Hugo Hinrichsen are creating a cruise company to visit waters where whales were once abundant. The passengers will compensate for some much-needed but scarce whale products.
Guests
- Jenn Bonilla
- Hugo Hinrichsen
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Episode 712 Beyond Extraction
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Brian von Herzen invited some of his friends and colleagues – Soumitra Das, Steve Hamilton, and Shannon McArthur – to discuss a book, Stellar, by Jamie Arbib and Tony Seba. It is enthusiastic about the prospect of an economy that no longer extracts raw materials from nature and emits pollution but that will be abundant for all.
Guests
- Brian von Herzen
- Soumitra Das
- Steve Hamilton
- Shannon McArthur
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Episode 711 Expecting Superintelligence
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Maxim Gromov and Ben Hassine work in AI already, and in this forum they consider the risks that it will shortly bring and the ways in which humanity should be preparing.
Guests
- Maxim Gromov
- Ben Hassine
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Episode 710 International Higher Education
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Marianne Larsen and Leon Kosals are retired professors. She is an expert on international education and he has taught in both Russia and Canada. They dscuss the advantages of such education and the ways in which geopolitics is now reducing those opportunities.
Guests
- Marianne Larsen
- Leon Kosals
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Episode 709 Lawmaking Beyond Nationalism
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Alyn Ware, a tireless organizer for peace and climate action, is expanding into artificial intelligence. In this episode, he shares recent activities within his group, including parliamentary efforts on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament, as well as related discussions on AI governance.
Guests
- Alyn Ware
- Metta Spencer
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Episode 708 That Woman in Black
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Michele Landsberg became a Zionist at 13, but when living in New York Jewish women friends showed her I0
.srael’s injustice to the Palestinians. Today she leads demonstrations of Women in Black against the war crimes in Gaza.
Guests
- Michele Landsberg
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Episode 707 Global Town Hall Aug 2025
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We argued about whether Russia has been mistreated and therefore justified in aggressing against other countries. Then we talked about whether symbolic and therapeutic efforts can save lives in the current wars, especially in Gaza, Opinions differed.
Guests
- Joan Montgomerie
- Alexey Prokhorenko
- Bill Leikam
- Leda Raptis
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Episode 705 Famine Today
Episode 705 Famine Today
Timmo Gaasbeek began as an irrigation engineer. His work in Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and Sudan have familiarized him with the challenges now facing the hungry or starving Sudanese.
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Episode 704 Trees, Climate, Money
Episode 704 Trees, Climate, Money
Parag Kadam and Theri Reichlin were foresters who work on the preservation of forests for sequestering carbon. They describe their jobs and how they are helping to combat climate change.
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