Which episodes touch which theme — labelled episode-by-episode in the July run and G2-audited. This grid answers the “which guests…” questions that pure search is worst at.
What properties would make a successor worthy; guests' proposed criteria. · ask →
aaronson1 arcas1 bach1 bostrom1 boyden1 bratton1 carlsmith1 deacon1 floridi1 goertzel2 hanson1 hawkins1 heylighen1 johnson1 levin1 lipson1 muller1 ngo1 rees1 ronn1 sandberg1 schneider1 shear1 shevlin1 singer1 smart1 sutton1 swimme1 weinbaum1 wilson1 zeng1
borderline: spector1, wolfram1
Whether and when humanity hands off; guests' attitudes toward being succeeded. · ask →
ardoino1 bengio1 bostrom1 bratton1 carlsmith1 dileep1 duvenaud1 goertzel2 heylighen1 lipson1 rees1 ronn1 sandberg1 shevlin1 smart1 spector1 sutton1 swimme1 wilson1
borderline: mundie1, tegmark1
Whether AI systems have or will warrant moral patiency; obligations toward digital minds. · ask →
bach1 bostrom1 dileep1 floridi1 ronn1 schneider1 shear1 singer1
borderline: rees1
Machine phenomenology, substrate-independence, whether there is something it is like. · ask →
arcas1 bach1 deacon1 hawkins1 heylighen1 johnson1 levin2 ronn1 schneider1 shevlin1 singer1
Alignment, corrigibility, keeping systems within bounds. · ask →
clymer1 deacon1 floridi1 heylighen1 lipson1 miotti1 russell1 shear1 smart1 sutton1 yampolskiy1
borderline: beridze1, harris1, sandberg1
BCI, uplift, merging as the path through the capability gap. · ask →
ardoino1 bostrom1 levin2 smart1 zeng1
borderline: sutton1, wolfram1
Where values come from; what is worth wanting; guests' axiological positions. · ask →
aaronson1 arcas1 bach1 bengio1 bostrom1 boyden1 bratton1 carlsmith1 cronin1 deacon1 dileep1 goertzel2 hanson1 heylighen1 johnson1 muller1 rees1 ronn1 sandberg1 schneider1 shevlin1 singer1 smart1 spector1 weinbaum1 wilson1 wolfram1 zeng1
borderline: hawkins1
When, how fast, continuity vs discontinuity. · ask →
ardoino1 clymer1 dileep1 duvenaud1 goertzel1 heylighen1 yampolskiy1
borderline: brown1, ibaraki1
Who decides; states, labs, coordination, concentration of power. · ask →
aaronson1 bach1 bengio1 beridze1 bostrom1 boyden1 bratton1 brown1 carlsmith1 carson1 clymer1 cukor1 duvenaud1 goertzel1 goertzel2 hanson1 harris1 hendrycks1 ibaraki1 johnson1 krier1 lan1 leahy1 miotti1 mundie1 ord1 raskin1 ronn1 russell1 shanahan1 singer1 smart1 sutton1 tallinn1 tegmark1 weinbaum1 yampolskiy1 yudkowsky1
borderline: arcas1, dileep1, levin1, predd1, rees1, sandberg1, spector1, swimme1, wilson1
Labour, post-labour economy, distribution through the transition. · ask →
borderline: clymer1
The long-run, cosmic-scale purpose of intelligence. · ask →
ardoino1 bengio1 floridi1 goertzel2 heylighen1 levin1 rees1 sandberg1 swimme1
borderline: shevlin1
Guests' positions on the magnitude, probability, and nature of the downside; what is actually at stake. · ask →
bach1 bengio1 carlsmith1 clymer1 duvenaud1 hendrycks1 heylighen1 ord1 predd1 russell1 shanahan1 tallinn1 yudkowsky1
borderline: ibaraki1
Questions are logged so Margaret can keep improving this. Answers are composed by Sonnet from retrieved passages only (~1–2¢ each) and quote-checked by script.