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N. Katherine Hayles - AI as Our Inextricable Symbionts (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 8)
October 9, 2026 · 1 hr 30 minThis installment of the Stewarding the Flame series is an interview with N. Katherine Hayles, Distinguished Research Professor of English at UCLA and James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emerita of Literature at Duke University, and…
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David Pearce - A Negative Utilitarian Vision for AGI (Worthy Successor, Ep. 34)
September 25, 2026 · 1 hr 47 minThis new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with David Pearce, the philosopher who wrote The Hedonistic Imperative in 1995 and co-founded the World Transhumanist Association with Nick Bostrom in 1998. In this…
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Eörs Szathmáry - Major Evolutionary Transitions and AGI's Impact (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 7)
September 11, 2026 · 1 hr 20 minEörs Szathmáry co-developed, with the late John Maynard Smith, the theory of major transitions in evolution - the framework for understanding how life has repeatedly reorganized itself into higher levels of complexity across nearly 4…
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Connor Glass – Merging with Machines to Steward the Flame (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 6)
August 28, 2026 · 2 hr 5 minThis installment of the Stewarding the Flame series is an interview with Connor Glass, founder and CEO of Phantom Neuro, a company building implantable technology that interfaces with the body's peripheral nervous system. Connor argues…
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Stuart Kauffman - Why Open-Ended Evolution Has Never Happened in a Machine (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 5)
August 21, 2026 · 1 hr 35 minStuart Kauffman has spent over 50 years asking a deceptively simple question: what actually makes something alive? His answer is that greater computational sophistication alone does not make AI alive. In this installment of the Stewarding…
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Davidad – Merger, Wisdom, and the Fate of Man (Worthy Successor, Episode 33)
August 14, 2026 · 1 hr 51 minDavidad (David Dalrymple) recently stepped down as a Programme Director at the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), where he led work on mathematically verifiable, "safeguarded" AI. Now unaffiliated, he joins the show to…
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Denis Noble - Life is “Fluid” in Ways Machines Still Aren’t (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 4)
August 7, 2026 · 1 hr 28 minDenis Noble argues that water isn't just biology's medium - it may be the very reason life is possible at all. In this installment of the Stewarding the Flame series, the Oxford physiologist and founding figure of systems biology explores…
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Paolo Ardoino - Merger or Obsolescence - The Future for Humanity (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 3)
July 24, 2026 · 45 minBrain-computer interfaces are often discussed as futuristic gadgets. Paolo Ardoino argues they're something far more important: humanity's best chance of keeping pace with increasingly capable AI. In this installment of the Stewarding the…
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Lee Cronin - Living Process Flourishes if We Make the Present “Thick” (Stewarding the Flame, Ep 2)
July 17, 2026 · 1 hr 55 minThis installment of the Stewarding the Flame series is an interview with Lee Cronin, Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, founder and CEO of Chemify, and one of the world's leading researchers in the origins of life…
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Michael Levin - Making the Process-of-Life Flourish in Bio and Beyond (Stewarding the Flame, Ep 1)
July 3, 2026 · 1 hr 23 minThis installment of the Stewarding the Flame series is an interview with Michael Levin, Distinguished Professor of Biology at Tufts University, Director of the Allen Discovery Center, and one of the world's leading researchers in…
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Hod Lipson - Beyond Biology: AGI Minds in Competition (Worthy Successor, Episode 32)
June 19, 2026 · 1 hr 27 minThis new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Hod Lipson, Professor of Engineering at Columbia University and one of the world's leading researchers in robotics, machine self-modeling, and artificial…
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Henry Shevlin – The Life Force Beyond Biology (Worthy Successor, Episode 31)
June 5, 2026 · 1 hr 32 minThis new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Henry Shevlin, philosopher of cognitive science and AI ethicist at the University of Cambridge. In this conversation, Henry argues that many of the qualities we…

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