We humans could have a bright future ahead of us that lasts billions of years. But we have to survive the next 200 years first. Join Josh Clark of Stuff You Should Know for a 10-episode deep dive that explores the future of humanity and finds dangers we have never encountered before lurking just ahead. And if we humans are alone in the universe, if we don't survive intelligent life dies out with us too.
Josh Clark interviews Nick Bostrom, Anders Sandberg, and Seth Shostak about the simulation argument and its implications for humanity's unique cosmic position.
30 Nov 2018
End
Host Josh Clark interviews Oxford philosophers Toby Ord and Sebastian Farquahar about navigating existential threats through informed involvement and scientific progress.
28 Nov 2018
Embracing Catastrophe
Josh Clark interviews Oxford philosophers Nick Bostrom, Toby Ord, Anders Sandberg, Sebastian Farquahar, and University of Oklahoma professor Eric Johnson about humanity's self-sabotaging biases hindering existential risk survival.
23 Nov 2018
Physics Experiments
Host Josh Clark interviews physicists Don Lincoln, Ben Shlaer, Daniel Whiteson, and law professor Eric Johnson about existential threats posed by particle physics experiments.
21 Nov 2018
Biotechnology
Host Josh Clark interviews Beth Willis and Dr. Lynn Klotz about the dangers of human-made pathogens and risky biotechnology research.
16 Nov 2018
Artificial Intelligence
Josh Clark interviews Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom and philosopher David Pearce about the existential risks of uncontrollable superintelligent AI.
14 Nov 2018
Natural Risks
Host Josh Clark interviews economist Robin Hanson, astrophysicist Ian O’Neill, and philosopher Toby Ord about Earth's natural existential risks and their impact on humanity.
7 Nov 2018
X Risks
Host Josh Clark interviews Oxford philosophers Nick Bostrom, Toby Ord, Sebastian Farquahar, and George Mason economist Robin Hanson about existential risks and humanity's potential future.
7 Nov 2018
Great Filter
Host Josh Clark interviews economists Robin Hanson, philosopher Toby Ord, astrobiologist Donald Brownlee, and paleontologist Phoebe Cohen about the Great Filter hypothesis and humanity's cosmic survival.
7 Nov 2018
Fermi Paradox
Host Josh Clark interviews Anders Sandberg, Seth Shostak, and Toby Ord about the Fermi Paradox and humanity's place in the vast universe.
24 Oct 2018
Trailer 2: Bill, Elon and Stephen
Why are smart people warning us about artificial intelligence? As machines grow smarter and able to improve themselves, we run the risk of them developing beyond our control. But AI is just one of the existential risks emerging in our future.
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17 Oct 2018
Trailer
We humans could have a bright future ahead of us that lasts billions of years. But we have to survive the next 200 years first.
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Nick Bostrom
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