Save the World with Jay Friedenberg

Episode 7 - Ivan Eland on Defense Policy in a Multipolar World

In this episode I interview Ivan Eland, defense analyst and writer, who is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute. We talk about the current and future state of U.S

Episode 6 - AI and Human Values Part II

If you want an AI to "play nice", you need to give it values to ensure it is acting beneficially toward humans. To solve this alignment problem we need to know what value

Episode 5 - AI and Human Values Part I

There is a lot of talk about AI alignment, which is getting machines to act in our best interests. But how do we go about doing this? The philosophical secret to this con

Episode 4 - Calum Chace on Machine Consciousness

Can a machine become conscious? Could it feel pain and pleasure, be happy or sad? In this episode we address the question of whether the AI systems we are building now ar

Episode 3 - Civility Part II

In this episode we examine ways to stop incivility. We show that attempts to control bad behavior have always been around and can be categorized in terms of social and in

Episode 2 - Civility Part I

In this episode we define civility, provide several contemporary examples and describe why it has important social implications. We look at whether people are more rude n

Episode 1 - Civilization and Existential Risk

In this episode, we introduce the podcast and preview some of the topics covered in succeeding episodes. I introduce myself and define what we mean by existential risks,