In today’s episode, we’re interviewing Muriel Leuenberger who is a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy at the Digital Society Initiative at the University of Zurich. She works on ethics of technology with a focus on generative AI and neuroethics. In those fields, she analyses the impact of different technologies on identity, authenticity and meaning in life. We dive into her latest research paper ‘Should you let AI tell you who you are and what you should do?”. We discuss to what extent AI act...
May 15, 2025•34 min
What if questions could replace our KPIs and companies could legally work like an organism? Companies are one of the most powerful technologies humans have ever invented. But they can no longer maximise profit at the cost of the planet, we need a new approach. This is why Amit Paul, previous member of A-teens and co-founder of Innrwrks, has invented a new legal business form that is inspired to function like nature. By hacking the current system, Amit and his co-founder Nils von Heijne, has foun...
Oct 10, 2024•46 min
Einstein once said: "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." Someone that understands this is John Bunzl, a businessman and a political activist from the UK. He’s the founder of Simpol , the International Simultaneous Policy Organisation, a new political innovation to overcome the obstacles that are today refraining governments to cooperate with each other. By applying game theory from business school, he explains the concept "The Political Priso...
Jul 30, 2024•57 min•Season 1Ep. 1
New disruptions and technological advancements always lead to new ethical dilemmas and uncertainties. In the past year, we've seen an explosion of technological advancements, and hence, new ethical discussions have become a hot topic. Ben Wilberforce-Ritchie is an Ethics Manager and Philosopher who helps companies think better and make wiser decisions. During this episode, Ben guides us through four approaches to ethics that can help your decision-making process. There are no easy answers to eth...
May 09, 2024•48 min
What if we let a plant rule the world? It is, in fact, already possible. In this episode, we discover Herbie, a plant that has been given autonomy through the power of AI to make its own decisions based on its own health. Herbie can decide to invest in things like replanting a forest or protecting wetlands. Mark Bünger is the co-founder and CTO of Futurity Systems, who has built Herbie as part of the ' Plantiverse ' project. In this episode, you’ll learn: How a plant can be given autonomy to rul...
Mar 07, 2024•33 min
The word artificial in artificial intelligence, is the polar opposite of nature's natural intelligence. What if we could find some answers on how to navigate the AI disruption in nature itself? In today's solo episode, we'll dive into five ways to navigate the AI disruption, drawing inspiration from nature's intelligence itself. We'll discuss: AI from an Anti-Fragility Point of View AI from the Lens of Parenthood AI Ethics from a Biological Evolutionary Perspective AI from an Ecosystem Point of ...
Oct 12, 2023•21 min
In today's episode, I'm stepping out of my comfort zone to share my own thoughts in a solo podcast format. In this debut episode, we'll explore AI through the lens of parenting. I wrote an article a few years ago about how we don't truly understand the potential of what we can become, until we've already become. The current AI boom is no different. In the recent AI safety discussions, I've come to think of parallels between AI creation and parenting. Who's responsible for ensuring well-behaved c...
Sep 28, 2023•17 min•Ep. 21
Finding Answers to Human Challenges in Outer Space? In this episode, we go on a cosmic journey with the space entrepreneur Mattias Hansson, CEO and Founder of I.S.A.A.C International Space Asset Acceleration Company AB, who is passionate about finding answers to some of our most pressing earthly challenges through insights from the space industry. Join us as we dive into the intriguing world of space exploration and its unexpected lessons for life on our planet. You'll learn: Why Space Entrepren...
Sep 21, 2023•35 min•Ep. 20
In today's episode, we're interviewing the crypto-professional Ludvig Öberg, co-founder of Safello and the Swedish Bitcoin Association, currently developing an open-source blockchain at ChromaWay. In other words, he is a true blockchain expert. He has recently pioneered one of the first theses on management controls within so-called Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, which are members-driven organizations powered by Blockchain technologies. Blockchain technologies have opened new possibilit...
Aug 18, 2023•47 min
Two years ago, Devin Gonier, TEDx speaker and CTO at Wageup , joined the show to talk about how AI can be taught morality and ethics by replicating the way humans learn ethics as kids. Devin has now founded a new company, DebaterHub , hoping to help secure AI safety through another process humans use to learn ethics: debate. He also has a Master’s degree in machine learning and a double major in philosophy and religion. In today’s episode, Devin provides an overview of the methods and rese...
Apr 20, 2023•58 min
Have you ever thought about how money is created in our new digital era? If it is neither coins created from gold nor physical cash notes, what really happens when new digital money is created in our modern world? Together with Brett Scott , who is an author, monetary anthropologist and former financial broker, we investigated this seemingly simple, but in reality very complex question. You'll learn: The different types of money and the different roles they play in our society How digital money ...
Mar 10, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 17
In previous episodes, we’ve covered the topic of regenerative living. Whilst sustainability focuses on sustaining Mother Earth, regenerative living goes one step beyond that and focuses on restoring it. Across the globe enthusiasts and change-makers are building so-called Smart Villages, or eco-villages, based on these regenerative principles that restore our planet. OASA is a non-profit focusing on innovating and building these Smart Villages at scale. They are currently building a regenerative...
Jan 20, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 16
What if there was a simple way to explain why people can have such different worldviews? What if there was a simple reason to understand why some countries care more about solving climate change than others? What if there was an easy way to understand polarization and create a win-win-win situation to unite people? _____ Spiral Dynamics offers a simple framework to understand human development and how humanity’s values change and are expressed in different sequential stages. The model can be app...
Dec 16, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Hubville: Learnings from building a Smart Village with the Government Imagine living in a city where not only every single architectural detail is optimised to restore Mother Earth, but also city life itself is designed to enhance wellness and improve social sustainability. Anders Varger, the founder of Hubville , is building one of the world’s first self-sustaining city districts in Vetlanda in Sweden. Hubville is fundamentally rethinking sustainability and reinventing how we can live together,...
Oct 19, 2022•46 min
What if companies would pay the true cost of their footprint, and anyone could get paid for planting trees and restoring the Earth? What if we redesigned the economic system so that the true gains and costs are fully represented in the financial return? What if we could transition into an impact economy? __ Alan Laubsch is an internationally recognized risk management thought-leader and impact investor. His mission is to protect life and regenerate Earth’s ecosystems by growing an Earth Positive...
Aug 31, 2022•47 min
What could modern tech executives, learn from the street dialogues of the ancient philosophers? Quite a lot it turns out. Ancient wisdom doesn't grow old, in fact one could argue that the teachings are more relevant now than ever. To learn more about the topic, we interview Ben Wilberforce-Ritchie who is a philosopher, author and an Ethics Manager* and a true ancient philosophy enthusiast. He walks us through the basic principles that some of the most prominent philosophers throughout history we...
Jul 06, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Does ancient wisdom, especially found in Stoic Philosophy and Buddhism, have elements in common with modern psychology? Dr Debbie Joffe Ellis is a world-renowned expert on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), which is in fact the pioneering cognitive approach in the field of psychotherapy and the precursor of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT).* Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy focuses holistically on the human being, even more than classic CBT does, reminding us that the mind and behavior ...
Jun 10, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 10
In today’s episode we interview Dr Brennan Jacoby, founder of Philosophy at Work , who holds a Ph.D in philosophy and is specialized in the philosophy of trust. Blockchain is argued to solve the human trust issue, or even scaling human trust. However is this really what blockchain is doing? What is the actual benefit of blockchain? And what is trust really, according to philosophy? You’ll learn: The definition of trust from a philosophy point of view Why blockchain is argued to solve human trust...
Apr 28, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 11
What if we could combine the best out of ancient direct democracy and modern delegative democracy? Where you can vote for representatives in regular elections but override their votes on any specific topic when you disagree with your representative? This is something that David Ernst, CEO of Secure Internet Voting , Liquid Democracy Technologies, and Secure ID, set out as a mission to build. By building a modern technological platform his company is enabling states to integrate liquid democracy ...
Feb 24, 2022•52 min
How can you unlock your hidden creative genius? Today's guest is Stephan Schwartz , who is a scientist, futurist, award-winning author, columnist for the journal EXPLORE, and editor of the daily web publication Schwartzreport.net. He is a Distinguished Consulting Faculty of Saybrook University, and a BIAL Foundation Fellow who has spent 40 years as an experimentalist researching the nature of consciousness. He has also studied creativity and found during his research a pattern that all creative ...
Jan 20, 2022•44 min
What will journalism look like in the future? In today's episode, together with Viktor Lidholt, the founder of Newsvoice who are on a mission to 'fix the news', we're discussing the future trends of journalism. Journalism used to be a dedicated and trusted profession, however when anyone in the world can become a publisher, how can we trust anything we read online? Accelerated by filter bubbles, the need for unbiased news has become a pressing societal matter. Unbiased news is the backbone of ou...
Nov 19, 2021•38 min
Companies have mastered the art of design to grow their businesses, but how could you UX principles to design a better future? Stephen Bau, a designer, writer and educator decided to, after 30 years in the design industry, retire to focus on projects that enhance not only humanity but all life forms. In the episode, he shares his learnings from 30 years as a UX designer and how the design principles could be, instead of building products, be applied to build a better future. You'll learn: What s...
Nov 09, 2021•57 min
In today's episode, it's exciting to host one of the brain's behind Universal Basic Income; professor and author Guy Standing who is a founding member of Basic Income Earth Network . Guy Standing has been working on the concept of Basic Income, a new political system for wealth distribution, for over 30 years. During the last years the concept of Basic Income has gained rapid traction and interest across the globe and he is one of the few to have been able to test his ideas in real. The Basic In...
Oct 15, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Can technology help us build authentic and meaningful relationships? This is something that Nina Iordanova, an award-winning actor turned tech start-up founder, and Niloo Ravaei, an ex-film maker and blockchain professional, set out as their mission to build. Both Nina and Niloo were tired of endless swiping on the phone and realized the one area where technology has not helped to improve is our relationships. They discovered our relationships have one thing in common: ourselves. So perhaps that...
Jun 02, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 4
What if you could live in a house where every single attribute is optimized for your well-being? Where by each single day that passes, you in fact help to restore our planet, only by living in your house. ______________ This is something that James Ehrlich, a faculty member at Stanford, Singularity University and senior fellow at NASA Ames Research Center, set out as his mission to build. Sustainability is obsolete. It is too late to sustain our planet - we need to restore our planet. This is wh...
Apr 21, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 3
In today's episode, we have Devin Gonier on the show - a passionate machine learning expert from the U.S., who will take us deep into artificial intelligence morality and ethics. Devin is the CTO of a machine learning company WageUp, has a Masters degree in machine learning, and a double major in philosophy and religion. He argues that the best way to apply philosophy in our modern society is to, in fact, work with artificial intelligence. Is there a way to teach artificial intelligence morality...
Apr 21, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 2
