Anders Sandberg discusses AGI, AI governance, AI safety, and human autonomy through the question of whether artificial intelligence could manage the world economy.

The conversation covers superintelligence, global coordination, legal systems, markets, AI control, human decision-making, evolutionary pressures in software, and whether highly efficient AI systems could leave humans wealthy but less free.

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Philip Metzger explains why moon dust, lunar regolith, and rocket exhaust create a serious problem for future Moon landings.

The conversation covers how lunar landers can blast high-speed dust across the Moon, damaging space hardware, telescopes, solar panels, antennas, sensors, thermal control systems, and future lunar infrastructure.

Metzger also explains why Starship, Artemis, lunar bases, landing pads, and Moon governance all depend on answering one unresolved question: how close can spacecraft safely land to existing equipment on the lunar surface?

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Matthew Weinzierl and Brendan Rosseau, authors of Space to Grow, explain the commercial space economy and the role of NASA, Artemis, commercial space stations, space-based data centers, Starlink, GPS, China’s space program, national security, and space governance.

The conversation covers how governments, private companies, and investors build, fund, regulate, and compete in space, from microgravity research and launch markets to lunar exploration, space resources, and the economics of commercial space.We also try and re-write the Space Treaty and look at the politics of the space race.

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Chapters

(00:00) Government and Markets in Space

(03:35) Microgravity

(07:43) Economic Incentives

(12:14) Political Cycles in Space Policy

(17:09) International Collaboration

(18:45) National Security in Space

(21:36) Space Exploration

(24:27) The Importance Of GPS

(28:49) Space Investment

(30:37) Space-Based Data Centers

(33:40) Space Resources

(38:26) Governance in Space

(40:55) A New Space Treaty

Scott Crowder, Vice President of IBM Quantum Adoption, explains IBM Quantum’s approach to quantum-centric supercomputing, where QPUs, GPUs, CPUs, and HPC systems work together to solve problems that classical computers cannot handle alone.

The conversation covers IBM’s 2029 fault-tolerant quantum roadmap, Starling, Qiskit, quantum algorithms, quantum chemistry, Cleveland Clinic’s protein simulation, RIKEN, superconducting qubits, data centers, Nvidia GPUs, and why quantum computing depends on accessibility, open-source software, and real-world adoption.

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Chapters

(00:00) Trailer

(01:20) Quantum computing

(02:40) IBM Reference Architecture

(05:05) Superconducting

(06:47) Algorithmic Discovery

(12:34) Cleveland Clinic

(13:44) IBM's quantum-centric supercomputing architecture

(16:07) Quantum computers today

(17:58) Quantum and classical converge

(22:28) Richard Feynman

(25:25) Data centers

(32:01) Quantum computers in space

(42:19) Qiskit, NVIDIA, and open source

Transhumanism, mind uploading, AGI, and human augmentation are not separate futures, Anders Sandberg argues.

They are different ways humans extend themselves, first through memory, smartphones, LLMs, and AI agents, then through brain emulation, uploaded minds, and systems that may make decisions better than we do.

The conversation follows that tension into agent accountability, AI safety, consciousness, personal identity, and the possibility of AI-run economies.

It ends at civilizational scale, with space governance, asteroid mining, moon ownership, orbital slots, and the question of what humans become when we can copy, upload, redesign, or outsource parts of ourselves.

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Chapters

(00:00) TRAILER

(08:09) Mobile Technology on Humanity

(11:51) Accountability in AI Agents

(18:25) Empathy

(25:35) AGI vs. Alien Life

(27:36) Consciousness

(35:52) Uploaded Minds

(40:33) Parallel Realities

(45:16) Human Collaboration

(46:24) AGI

(51:23) The Dual Economy

(57:43) Space Ownership

(01:05:18) Human Expansion

(01:17:49) The Space Race

(01:21:43) Space Exploration

(01:24:22) New Forms of Governance

(01:26:18) NASA

(01:28:41) Breakaway Movements in Space

(01:30:16) Space Governance

(01:34:18) Fusion Energy

(01:42:15) Time and Life Extension

(01:48:06) Extended Lifespans

(01:52:03) Technology

AI predictions, algorithms, and prediction markets are not neutral forecasts, Carissa Véliz argues.

They can become self-fulfilling prophecies, especially when they come from Big Tech companies, platform algorithms, tech executives, and markets with enough reach to shape the future they claim only to describe.

The conversation begins with the good life, curiosity, and the analogue world, then turns to AI hiring tools, TikTok, Kalshi, Polymarket, engagement-maximizing algorithms, and the way forecasts can quietly become instructions.

It closes on comedy, serendipity, Epicureanism, and how citizens can resist prophets by choosing more deliberately what to believe, what to build, and how to live.Please enjoy the show.

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CHAPTERS

(00:00) Intro

(01:00) What is the good life?

(02:00) Why knowing yourself matters more than strategy

(04:44) The analog world vs the digital world

(06:45) How prophecies exploit our need for security

(08:47) Ancient Rome

(10:11) The illusion of safety

(12:27) When predictions work

(15:00) Altman, Amodei, Huang

(28:29) How to resist prophecies

(29:53) Prediction markets

(31:49) TikTok, algorithms, and the Molly Russell case

(36:08) Engagement algorithms

(40:54) Self-fulfilling prophecies

(43:44) Comedy

(46:59) Seinfeld

(52:16) Karikó

(53:40) Serendipity

(56:13) Why Epicurus beats the Stoics

The AI meme war between the US and Iran has evolved into an absolute shit show. If you thought it was awful a few weeks ago, you ain't seen nothing yet.

AI-generated Lego propaganda videos were a curiosity. Sometimes funny, often violent, always troublesome and never diplomatic, they quickly gained millions of views across social media... because social media.

The White House Twitter (X) account was responsible for the US videos.

An Iranian media company called Explosive Media, the Iranian. America, either put off by the global consensus that it was losing the war, or bored, switched their AI models to tax season (with equal ineptitude).

Iran, losing the guns and missiles part of the war, has changed tact. Explosive Media turned up the heat. And was duly banned from YouTube. Which could of unleashed the beast. Now Iranian embassies are posting them on Twitter (X) and US creators are using the same format to mock it all with Lego.. Just watch it yourself. And let us know what you think.

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(00:00) Explosive Media

(00:38) US Bowling Iran

(01:52) Trump's Mask

(03:20) Blockade, Blockade

(06:28) Drunken Hegseth

(08:00) Truth

Who owns space, and who has the right to mine the Moon, asteroids, and the resources of the solar system?

This episode uses Space to Grow to examine the Outer Space Treaty, the Moon Treaty, asteroid mining, moon mining, space property rights, and the companies trying to turn space resources into an economy.

It then follows the same question into Space Force, China, anti-satellite tests, national security, and the risk that the race for space resources repeats the power struggles already shaping Earth.

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Chapters

(00:00) Global Conflict

(02:04) Human Nature

(03:28) Asteroid Mining

(05:53) Space Mining

(11:05) The Space Resource Exploration Act

(13:01) Space Mining Legislation

(17:19) Philosophical Perspectives

(20:14) National Security in Space

(20:40) Government in Space Innovation

(21:34) National Security

(23:10) Weaponization of Space

(24:47) The Prisoner's Dilemma

(26:40) Humanity's Moral Compass

(27:03) The Future of Humanity in Space