Juan Benet Podcast

Latest episodes

• We Are Massively Underinvesting in the Human Brain | Dr. Adam Marblestone

  August 27, 2026 · 2 hr 30 min

  New episode with Dr. Adam Marblestone, CEO and co-founder of Convergent Research. Adam is an extraordinary catalyst and accelerant for science: he has influenced or routed billions in funding, he helped start significant companies and…

• We Don't Have to Die: Cryonics and Uploading | Allison Duettmann

  July 20, 2026 · 2 hr 9 min

  New episode with Allison Duettmann, the CEO of the Foresight Institute.  Foresight has spent the past 40 years backing frontier science too early or too interdisciplinary for legacy institutions. Foresight has helped inspire and organize…

• The Power of a Single Neuron, How Brains Learn, and Simulating the Brain | Dr. Konrad Kording

  June 22, 2026 · 2 hr 30 min

  New episode with Dr.  Konrad Kording, professor of bioengineering and neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania and co-director of CIFAR's Learning in Machines & Brains program. Konrad works at the intersection of causality, machine…

• Reading the Brain Without Opening the Skull | Tom Oxley, Synchron

  June 11, 2026 · 1 hr 29 min

  New episode with Dr. Tom Oxley, co-founder and CEO of Synchron. Synchron has built a BCI called the Stentrode, which reaches the motor cortex via a blood vessel — leveraging the approach of cardiovascular stents, without having to open the…

• The Mission to Get Breakthrough Brain Treatments to Everyone | Jacques Carolan of ARIA

  May 27, 2026 · 1 hr 48 min

  Episode 3 of my new podcast features Dr. Jacques Carolan, a founding Program Director at ARIA, the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency. He directs two neurotech programs aimed at one of the most important opportunity spaces…

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