Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

How will the future unfold? What is the impact of AI and other exponential technologies on business & society? Join Azeem Azhar, founder of Exponential View, on his quest to demistify the era of exponential change.

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Universal Basic Income

Scott Santens is a writer and an advocate for universal basic income. His articles have been featured in TechCrunch, the Boston Globe, and Politico, among other places. Scott has coauthored two books: What Do We Do About Inequality? and Surviving the Machine Age: Intelligent Technology and the Transformation of Human Work . He also moderates the sub-Reddit /r/BasicIncome. Scott talks about why he believes “citizen’s salary” is a necessary measure for our societies to deal with tech unemployment ...

May 05, 2017•41 min•Ep. 8

How Music Could Take the Place of Drugs

Marko Ahtisaari is the CEO and cofounder of The Sync Project, a collaborative venture of scientists, musicians, technologists, and patients, working toward developing functional music that responds to each individual body and serves as precision medicine. Marko is also a director’s fellow at the MIT Media Lab, working on the Open Music Initiative to develop a new distributed ledger system to identify and compensate music rights holders and creators. He was the executive vice president of design ...

Apr 29, 2017•39 min•Ep. 7

AI, Automation, and the Economy

A discussion with Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs . Jeff is one of the world’s foremost thinkers on economic development; he advises the UN and a host of governments. In a wide-ranging podcast, he and Azeem Azhar talk about how technology has improved the lives of countless humans. They explore how automated systems will increasingly replace both routine and high-skill jobs. How will our societies cope with those changes? What will we do with the inequalities that will be increasingl...

Mar 04, 2017•46 min•Ep. 6

Intimacy with Robots

Kate Devlin , computer scientist and robot-sex expert, on robot intimacy and a new age of sex, relationships, and social life.

Feb 25, 2017•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 5

Homo Deus

A conversation between Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor Yuval Harari and Azeem Azhar . They cover the compelling insights in his new book, Homo Deus . Where are we, as a species, going now that we have conquered much of what ailed preceding generations? How will the twin advances of genetic engineering and artificial intelligence come together to transform humans and human society?

Feb 17, 2017•54 min•Ep. 4

The Future of Longevity

Philosopher and investor Dr. Shamil Chandaria investigates how we might live much longer lives and how we can make them more meaningful. He dives into the emerging medicine and science of life extension in a deep but accessible way. He explains how we should consider super-longevity and super-well-being in tandem. And in discussion with an audience we explore the motivations for — and ramifications of — much longer lives.

Dec 08, 2016•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 3

A Survey of Technology

A wide-ranging conversation on technology with Jason Pontin , editor-in-chief of MIT Technology Review. He touches on gene editing, Moore’s Law, artificial intelligence, Facebook and fake news, and what ties all these disparate strands together.

Nov 20, 2016•42 min•Ep. 2

The Wealth of Humans

A powerfully prophetic discussion about the meaning of work in the 21st century as technology transforms all areas of the global economy. Ryan Avent , economics columnist at The Economist, and Azeem Azhar , curator of Exponential View , explore issues around how digital technologies will continue to exponentially change the relationship between capital and labor. They discuss what new social contracts will ensue and how we will see the reshaping of social and cultural capital in a dramatically r...

Nov 15, 2016•1 hr•Ep. 1

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