The Foresight Institute Podcast
1) Nobel Laureate David Baker on Using AI for Science to Solve Humanity's Biggest Problems [TEASER]
This is a teaser episode of the Existential Hope Podcast with Nobel Laureate David Baker. David reveals how scientists are now inventing entirely new proteins—life's fundamental building blocks—to tac...Show More
2) Welcome to Foresight Institute Radio
This feed is now Foresight Institute Radio—your place for standout talks on frontier technology: from AI and neurotech to nanotech, longevity, and space. You’ll hear highlights from Foresight’s global...Show More
3) Jonathan Anomaly | Embryo selection for health, longevity and intelligence
What happens when parents can choose their children's genetic traits, and which selections benefit society versus harm it? In this talk, Jonathan Anomaly explores the emerging field of embryo selectio...Show More
4) Mary Lou Jepsen | The handheld hospital
What if you could diagnose stroke, treat cancer, and cure depression with a smartphone-sized device that costs $1,000 instead of millions? In this talk, Mary Lou Jepsen demonstrates her revolutionary ...Show More
5) Jean Hebert | ARPA-H: Accelerate better health outcomes for everyone
What if a government agency could fund transformative health research with $200 million budgets and no bureaucratic committees? In this talk, Jean Hebert explores ARPA-H's – a research funding agency ...Show More
6) Irina Rish | AI & Scale
How has the history of AI been shaped by the "bitter lesson" that simple scaling beats complex algorithms, and what comes next? In this talk, Irina Rish traces AI's evolution from rule-based systems t...Show More
7) What history can teach us about doing better science – Eric Gilliam
Eric Gilliam studies how organizations like Bell Labs, early MIT, and the Rockefeller Foundation helped drive scientific progress — and what made them unusually effective.In this conversation, we expl...Show More
8) Existential Hope Podcast: Glen Weyl | Can we use AI to build a fairer society?
Most AI discussions focus on its risks to democracy – disinformation, surveillance, centralization of power. But what if AI could make governance better?Glen Weyl, political economist at Microsoft Res...Show More
9) Existential Hope Podcast: Ada Palmer | The storytelling tools you need for worldbuilding
How can storytelling shape our visions of the future? Ada Palmer—historian, science fiction writer, and futurist—brings a unique perspective on how worldbuilding can be a powerful tool for exploring c...Show More
10) Existential Hope Podcast: Anthony Aguirre | Will AI replace us or help us thrive?
How we develop AI will shape the future of society. In this interview, Anthony Aguirre explores the distinction between Tool AI and Replacement AI, and how this framing can inform AI policy, governanc...Show More