Imagine A World podcast artwork
Society & Culture

Imagine A World

by Future of Life Institute
Claiming needs an RSS feed. Contact us.

Recently ranked · United States

Last recorded placements from this show’s chart history. These are not current rankings.

Not on the United States charts we track today.

If you like Imagine A World, try…

Latest episodes

  • Imagine: What if AI advisors helped us make better decisions?

    October 17, 2023 · 60 min

    Are we doomed to a future of loneliness and unfulfilling online interactions? What if technology made us feel more connected instead? Imagine a World is a podcast exploring a range of plausible and positive futures with advanced AI…

  • Imagine: What if narrow AI fractured our shared reality?

    October 10, 2023 · 51 min

    Let’s imagine a future where AGI is developed but kept at a distance from practically impacting the world, while narrow AI remakes the world completely. Inequality sticks around and AI fractures society into separate media bubbles with…

  • Imagine: What if AI enabled us to communicate with animals?

    October 3, 2023 · 1 hr 4 min

    What if AI allowed us to communicate with animals? Could interspecies communication lead to new levels of empathy? How might communicating with animals lead humans to reimagine our place in the natural world? Imagine a World is a podcast…

  • Imagine: What if AI-enabled life extension allowed some people to live forever?

    September 26, 2023 · 59 min

    If you could extend your life, would you? How might life extension technologies create new social and political divides? How can the world unite to solve the great problems of our time, like AI risk? What if AI creators could agree on an…

  • Imagine: What if we developed digital nations untethered to geography?

    September 19, 2023 · 56 min

    How do low income countries affected by climate change imagine their futures? How do they overcome these twin challenges? Will all nations eventually choose or be forced to go digital? Imagine a World is a podcast exploring a range of…

Show 4 more episodesShow fewer episodes

Full episode archive on Apple Podcasts →

About the show

The year is 2045. Humanity is not extinct, nor living in a dystopia. It has averted climate disaster, major wars and the risks from advanced Artificial Intelligence. How? This was what we asked the entrants of our Worldbuilding Contest to imagine last year. Our new podcast series digs deeper into the eight winning entries, their ideas and solutions, the diverse teams behind them and the challenges they faced. You might love some; others you might not choose to inhabit. FLI is not endorsing any one idea. Rather, we hope to grow the conversation about what futures people get excited about. Ask yourself, with each episode, is this a world you’d want to live in? And if not, what would you prefer? Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. Explore the worldbuilds discussed in these episodes here: https://worldbuild.ai/winners This podcast was produced by the Future of Life Institute. FLI is a non-profit that works to reduce large-scale risks from transformative technologies and promote the development and use of these technologies to benefit all life on Earth.