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Foresight Institute Radio features the most cutting-edge talks from our events, seminars, and workshops. Fresh experts insights on advanced AI, nanotech, neurotech, longevity biotech, space, and beyond.


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Foresight Institute is an independent nonprofit devoted to steering emerging technologies toward beneficial futures.

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  • Tuesday · 13 min

    The End of Money? | Neha Narula

    This recording with Neha Narula is from Vision Weekend Puerto Rico 2026, hosted by the Foresight Institute in February 2026. Neha Narula is the Director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative and a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab, where she has spent a decade studying digital currencies, payment systems, and the infrastructure of money. In this talk, she examines what the rise of digital currencies, central bank digital currencies, and programmable money means for the future of how value moves through the world, and what it would actually mean for money itself to change fundamentally. Vision Weekend, where this talk was recorded, is where we gather leading builders, thinkers, and funders in AI, bio, nano, neuro, and space to celebrate technological progress and explore how to advance it for the betterment of life. If you want to join a future Vision Weekend live, upcoming events are listed at foresight.org and in our Luma calendar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • September 2 · 54 min

    Mapping the Jagged Edges of AI | Tom Griffiths

    This recording with Tom Griffiths is from our Secure AI seminar series, hosted in May 2026. Tom Griffiths is a professor of psychology and computer science at Princeton University and co-author of Algorithms to Live By, which explores how computational thinking can illuminate human judgment and decision-making. In this talk, Tom applies the tools of cognitive science to map the jagged edges of AI capability: the areas where AI dramatically outperforms human cognition, and the areas where it fails in ways human cognizers typically do not. He argues that understanding the precise shape of this frontier is essential for anyone building systems that combine human and AI judgment. If you want to join future seminars live, the schedule is at foresight.org and in our Luma calendar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • August 31 · 11 min

    Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth | Robin Hanson

    This recording with Robin Hanson is from Vision Weekend Puerto Rico 2026, hosted by the Foresight Institute in February 2026. Robin Hanson is an economist at George Mason University and the author of The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth. In this talk, he presents the core scenario of the book: a future in which whole brain emulations are the dominant form of intelligence, and works through the economic logic of what work, relationships, and social structure would look like under those conditions. It is a rigorous thought experiment that applies economic reasoning to questions that usually remain in the domain of science fiction. Vision Weekend, where this talk was recorded, is where we gather leading builders, thinkers, and funders in AI, bio, nano, neuro, and space to celebrate technological progress and explore how to advance it for the betterment of life. If you want to join a future Vision Weekend live, upcoming events are listed at foresight.org and in our Luma calendar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • August 18 · 10 min

    Fix the Money, Fix the World | Brandon Green

    This recording with Brandon Green is from Vision Weekend Puerto Rico 2026, hosted by the Foresight Institute in February 2026. In this talk, Brandon Green makes the case that monetary infrastructure is upstream of many of the world's most persistent problems: that flawed money enables misalignment and short-termism at a systems level. He argues that fixing the foundations of how money works would unlock progress across a wide range of domains, and lays out what that would require. Vision Weekend, where this talk was recorded, is where we gather leading builders, thinkers, and funders in AI, bio, nano, neuro, and space to celebrate technological progress and explore how to advance it for the betterment of life. If you want to join a future Vision Weekend live, upcoming events are listed at foresight.org and in our Luma calendar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • August 18 · 9 min

    How to Build Trustworthy AI | Lauren Wagner

    This recording with Lauren Wagner is from Vision Weekend Puerto Rico 2026, hosted by the Foresight Institute in February 2026. Lauren Wagner is a computational social scientist and policy expert who serves as a Nonresident Fellow at the Abundance Institute. Her work focuses on AI governance, technology trust and safety, and reducing regulatory barriers to beneficial emerging technologies. In this talk, she addresses what it actually takes to build AI systems people can trust: which technical and institutional properties matter most, how trust gets built and broken, and where current frameworks are not keeping pace. Vision Weekend, where this talk was recorded, is where we gather leading builders, thinkers, and funders in AI, bio, nano, neuro, and space to celebrate technological progress and explore how to advance it for the betterment of life. If you want to join a future Vision Weekend live, upcoming events are listed at foresight.org and in our Luma calendar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • August 11 · 11 min

    AI Nodes: Compute, Community, and Funding for Decentralized AI | Allison Duettmann

    This recording is from Vision Weekend Puerto Rico 2026, hosted by the Foresight Institute in February 2026. View the recording of this talk on our Youtube. Allison Duettmann is the President and CEO of the Foresight Institute. In this talk, she presents the Foresight AI Nodes program: a distributed network of locally-based research groups working on AI for science and safety. She covers how the program is structured, the rationale for a decentralized approach, and what the early nodes have been working on. Vision Weekend, where this talk was recorded, is where we gather leading builders, thinkers, and funders in AI, bio, nano, neuro, and space to celebrate technological progress and explore how to advance it for the betterment of life. If you want to join a future Vision Weekend live, upcoming events are listed at foresight.org and in our Luma calendar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • August 4 · 1 hr

    Law, Liberty and Leviathan: AI and Human Autonomy | Anders Sandberg

    This recording with Anders Sandberg is from the Foresight Institute Secure AI seminar series, hosted in February 2026. You can view the recording of the talk on our YouTube. Anders Sandberg is a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm and a former senior research fellow at Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, where he worked for fifteen years on existential risk, brain emulation, and the long-term future of intelligence. In this talk, he examines what AI means for human autonomy and political freedom: what kinds of concentrated power AI systems enable, what political philosophy has to say about state capacity and individual liberty, and whether current legal and governance frameworks are adequate to the challenge. If you want to join future seminars live, the schedule is at foresight.org and in our Luma calendar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • July 28 · 24 min

    Contrarian Views on the State of AI | Ramez Naam

    This recording with Ramez Naam is from Vision Weekend Puerto Rico 2026, held in February 2026. Ramez Naam is the author of the Nexus trilogy and The Infinite Resource, and has written and spoken extensively on technology, AI, and long-range forecasting. In this talk, he offers a contrarian assessment of where AI actually stands: examining what the data shows, where conventional narratives overshoot or undershoot reality, and what a more evidence-grounded view of AI progress looks like. The full video recording of this talk available at our YouTube channel. If you want to join a future Vision Weekend live, upcoming events are listed at foresight.org and in our Luma calendar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • July 21 · 53 min

    How to Build a Sustainable Longevity Company | Alex Zhavoronkov

    This recording with Alex Zhavoronkov is from our Longevity Biotechnology seminar series, hosted online on June 18th, 2026. View the talk along with the visual presentation on our Youtube channel. Alex Zhavoronkov is the founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine, a clinical-stage biotech building AI platforms for drug discovery and aging research. In this talk, Alex breaks down what a genuinely scalable AI-first biotech looks like from the inside: how to measure scientific productivity with rigorous benchmarks, how to balance internal program progression with licensing, and how to build an AI platform that compounds value with every drug it runs. Drawing on his experience at Insilico, he makes the case for a new model of biotech that can grow, learn, and sustain itself over time. If you want to join future seminars live, the schedule is at foresight.org and in our Luma calendar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • May 11 · 9 min

    Viren Jain | Connectomics and AI @ Vision Weekend USA 2025

    This talk was recorded live at Vision Weekend USA, held December 5–7, 2025 in the Bay Area. Vision Weekends are our flagship conference series, bringing together leading scientists, entrepreneurs, funders, and policymakers to explore frontier science and technology and to imagine paths toward flourishing futures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • May 11 · 16 min

    Steve Jurvetson | Investing in AI Moonshots @ Vision Weekend USA 2025

    This talk was recorded live at Vision Weekend USA, held December 5–7, 2025 in the Bay Area. Vision Weekends are our flagship conference series, bringing together leading scientists, entrepreneurs, funders, and policymakers to explore frontier science and technology and to imagine paths toward flourishing futures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • May 11 · 14 min

    Sonia Arrison | Lobbying for Longevity Progress @ Vision Weekend USA 2025

    This talk was recorded live at Vision Weekend USA, held December 5–7, 2025 in the Bay Area. Vision Weekends are our flagship conference series, bringing together leading scientists, entrepreneurs, funders, and policymakers to explore frontier science and technology and to imagine paths toward flourishing futures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • May 11 · 12 min

    Richard Ngo | Identity & Meaning in SciFi Futures @ Vision Weekend USA 2025

    This talk was recorded live at Vision Weekend USA, held December 5–7, 2025 in the Bay Area. Vision Weekends are our flagship conference series, bringing together leading scientists, entrepreneurs, funders, and policymakers to explore frontier science and technology and to imagine paths toward flourishing futures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • May 11 · 13 min

    Joshua Elliott | The Hail Mary Phase of Climate Change @ Vision Weekend USA 2025

    This talk was recorded live at Vision Weekend USA, held December 5–7, 2025 in the Bay Area. Vision Weekends are our flagship conference series, bringing together leading scientists, entrepreneurs, funders, and policymakers to explore frontier science and technology and to imagine paths toward flourishing futures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • May 11 · 17 min

    John Hallman & Rico Meinl | Accelerating Life Sciences @ Vision Weekend USA 2025

    This talk was recorded live at Vision Weekend USA, held December 5–7, 2025 in the Bay Area. Vision Weekends are our flagship conference series, bringing together leading scientists, entrepreneurs, funders, and policymakers to explore frontier science and technology and to imagine paths toward flourishing futures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • May 11 · 15 min

    Jesse Posner | Fiduciary AI: The New Architecture of Freedom @ Vision Weekend USA 2025

    This talk was recorded live at Vision Weekend USA, held December 5–7, 2025 in the Bay Area. Vision Weekends are our flagship conference series, bringing together leading scientists, entrepreneurs, funders, and policymakers to explore frontier science and technology and to imagine paths toward flourishing futures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • May 11 · 11 min

    Eli Dourado | Thoughts on Philanthrocapitalism @ Vision Weekend USA 2025

    This talk was recorded live at Vision Weekend USA, held December 5–7, 2025 in the Bay Area. Vision Weekends are our flagship conference series, bringing together leading scientists, entrepreneurs, funders, and policymakers to explore frontier science and technology and to imagine paths toward flourishing futures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • May 11 · 11 min

    Ed Boyden | Technological Path to Whole Brain Simulation @ Vision Weekend USA 2025

    This talk was recorded live at Vision Weekend USA, held December 5–7, 2025 in the Bay Area. Vision Weekends are our flagship conference series, bringing together leading scientists, entrepreneurs, funders, and policymakers to explore frontier science and technology and to imagine paths toward flourishing futures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • May 11 · 12 min

    David Eagleman | How Might AI Build us Into Better Humans @ Vision Weekend USA 2025

    This talk was recorded live at Vision Weekend USA, held December 5–7, 2025 in the Bay Area. Vision Weekends are our flagship conference series, bringing together leading scientists, entrepreneurs, funders, and policymakers to explore frontier science and technology and to imagine paths toward flourishing futures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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