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London FuturistsAuthor: London Futurists
Anticipating and managing exponential impact - hosts David Wood and Calum ChaceCalum Chace is a sought-after keynote speaker and best-selling writer on artificial intelligence. He focuses on the medium- and long-term impact of AI on all of us, our societies and our economies. He advises companies and governments on AI policy.His non-fiction books on AI are Surviving AI, about superintelligence, and The Economic Singularity, about the future of jobs. Both are now in their third editions.He also wrote Pandora's Brain and Pandoras Oracle, a pair of techno-thrillers about the first superintelligence. He is a regular contributor to magazines, newspapers, and radio.In the last decade, Calum has given over 150 talks in 20 countries on six continents. Videos of his talks, and lots of other materials are available at https://calumchace.com/.He is co-founder of a think tank focused on the future of jobs, called the Economic Singularity Foundation. The Foundation has published Stories from 2045, a collection of short stories written by its members.Before becoming a full-time writer and speaker, Calum had a 30-year career in journalism and in business, as a marketer, a strategy consultant and a CEO. He studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford University, which confirmed his suspicion that science fiction is actually philosophy in fancy dress.David Wood is Chair of London Futurists, and is the author or lead editor of twelve books about the future, including The Singularity Principles, Vital Foresight, The Abolition of Aging, Smartphones and Beyond, and Sustainable Superabundance.He is also principal of the independent futurist consultancy and publisher Delta Wisdom, executive director of the Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) Foundation, Foresight Advisor at SingularityNET, and a board director at the IEET (Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies). He regularly gives keynote talks around the world on how to prepare for radical disruption. See https://deltawisdo Language: en-gb Genres: News, Tech News, Technology Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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LFP 137: Perspectives on Machine Consciousness
Episode 137
Wednesday, 7 October, 2026
Our topic in this episode is a new book that has just been published, “Perspectives on Machine Consciousness”. It contains 26 chapters written by a total of 31 authors, who include a wide range of distinguished neuroscientists, philosophers, technologists, AI specialists, science fiction authors, and futurists. One of the book’s co-editors is Calum, which is why David is asking the questions today.Selected follow-ups:"Perspectives on Machine Consciousness" - the bookAbout Conscium"Dr. Daniel Hulme" - personal websiteVerify ax (AI agent verification platform)"Hard Problem of Consciousness" - Wikipedia"The Evidence for AI Consciousness, Today" - by Cameron Berg"Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Science of Consciousness" by Patrick Butlin et al"Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious" - Anil Seth at TED"Futures with Digital Minds" - by Lucius Caviola and Bradford Saad"Will AI outsmart human intelligence? - with 'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton" - The Royal Institution"Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn’t know it" - The Guardian"Judgment Day" - Terminator Wiki"Mindcrime" - Less Wrong"Elon Musk wants to save Western civilization from empathy" - CNN"Agent Smith's Disgust for Humanity – Iconic Matrix Scene""Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will" (book by Robert Sapolsky) - Wikipedia"International Coordination on Advanced AI Red Lines" - IASEAI"AGI Red Lines and Green Arrows" - Daniel Faggella"Mark Solms: Engineering Consciousness – Can Robots 'Give a Damn?'" - Prism"Can analogue minds live forever?" - Chris Percy"The 'Pandora's Brain' series" - Calum Chace"The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations" - Dwarkesh Patel"Gaia hypothesis" - Wikipedia"Can AI Become Conscious? with Susan Schneider" - Closer to Truth"The frontier of brain science: AI and organoid research takes center stage in Silicon Valley" - UC Santa Cruz NewsMusic: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration
