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Oct 7, 2026
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Indeed, in my re-reading of this cautionary material today, I am struck by how naive some of Drexler's safeguard proposals seem, and how much greater I judge the dangers to be now than even he seemed to then.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Having anticipated and described many technical and political problems with nanotechnology, Drexler started the Foresight Institute in the late 1980s to help prepare society for anticipated advanced technologies.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Most important, nanotechnology.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
The enabling breakthrough to assemblers seems quite likely within the next 20 years.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Indeed, in my rereading of this cautionary material today, I am struck by how naive some of Drexler's safeguard proposals seem and how much greater I judge the dangers to be now than even he seemed to then.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Having anticipated and described many technical and political problems with nanotechnology, Drexler started the Foresight Institute in the late nineteen eighties to help prepare society for anticipated advanced technologies, most important, nanotechnology.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
The enabling breakthrough to assemblers seems quite likely within the next twenty years.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Molecular electronics, the new subfield of nanotechnology where individual molecules are circuit elements, should mature quickly and become enormously lucrative within this decade, causing a large incremental investment in all nanotechnologies.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Indeed, in my rereading of this cautionary material today, I am struck by how naive some of Drexler's safeguard proposals seem, and how much greater I judge the dangers to be now than even he seemed to then.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Having anticipated and described many technical and political problems with nanotechnology, Drexler started the Foresight Institute in the late nineteen eighties to help prepare society for anticipated advanced technologies.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Most important, nanotechnology.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
The enabling breakthrough to assemblers seems quite likely within the next twenty years.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Indeed, in my rereading of this cautionary material today, I am struck by how naive some of Drexler's safeguard proposals seem and how much greater I judge the dangers to be now than even he seemed to then.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Having anticipated and described many technical and political problems with nanotechnology, Drexler started the Foresight Institute in the late nineteen eighties to help prepare society for anticipated advanced technologies, most important, nanotechnology.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
The enabling breakthrough to assemblers seems quite likely within the next twenty years.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Molecular electronics, the new subfield of nanotechnology where individual molecules are circuit elements, should mature quickly and become enormously lucrative within this decade, causing a large incremental investment in all nanotechnologies.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Indeed, in my rereading of this cautionary material today, I am struck by how naive some of Drexler's safeguard proposals seem and how much greater I judge the dangers to be now than even he seemed to then.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Having anticipated and described many technical and political problems with nanotechnology, Drexler started the Foresight Institute in the late nineteen eighties to help prepare society for anticipated advanced technologies.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Most important, nanotechnology.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
The enabling breakthrough to assemblers seems quite likely within the next twenty years.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Indeed, in my rereading of this cautionary material today, I am struck by how naive some of Drexler's safeguard proposals seem and how much greater I judge the dangers to be now than even he seemed to then.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Having anticipated and described many technical and political problems with nanotechnology, Drexler started the Foresight Institute in the late nineteen eighties to help prepare society for anticipated advanced technologies, most important, nanotechnology.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
The enabling breakthrough to assemblers seems quite likely within the next twenty years.
Brendan NorthNARRATOR
Molecular electronics, the new subfield of nanotechnology where individual molecules are circuit elements, should mature quickly and become enormously lucrative within this decade, causing a large incremental investment in all nanotechnologies.
Alison DutmanNARRATOR
Welcome to Foresight Institute Radio.
Alison DutmanNARRATOR
Today, we hear from Greg Wayne, Director of Research at Google DeepMind, where he leads Project Astra, Google's research prototype exploring what a universal AI assistant would look like in practice.
Alison DutmanNARRATOR
His research bridges neuroscience and AI, focusing on memory, contextual grounding, and how agents can reason over time.
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Greg WayneGUEST
One is that I actually live in the Barbican.
Greg WayneGUEST
And it's pretty easy to get here.
Greg WayneGUEST
But no, but more importantly, I was pretty inspired by this focus area of research on the Foresight Institute's website.
Greg WayneGUEST
You know, like many other people, I have some trepidation about what technology will do in the future.
Greg WayneGUEST
But I think it's very important that we construct positive visions of what technology can do for us.
Alison DutmanNARRATOR
Welcome to Foresight Institute Radio.
Alison DutmanNARRATOR
Today's guest is Andrew Trask, founder of OpenMind and creator of PySift, a widely used framework for privacy-preserving machine learning.
Alison DutmanNARRATOR
He has spent the last decade building technical infrastructure that lets AI systems learn from sensitive data without exposing it.
Nathan LabenzHOST
We've spent most of our time talking about all of our immediate problems at hand and not left enough time for talking about the positive vision for the future, but we've got a little time for the positive vision of the future.
Nathan LabenzHOST
So you ran this workshop, I believe it was in Seoul earlier this summer in cooperation with Foresight Institute as well.
Nathan LabenzHOST
What are the best ideas that you are excited about coming out of that experience?
Lewis HammondGUEST
Yeah, so I guess the thing, maybe the kind of positive note I'll try to end on is that we started by talking about how these agents are increasingly just going to be deployed all over the place.
Alison DutmanNARRATOR
[gentle music] Welcome to Foresight Institute Radio.
Alison DutmanNARRATOR
Today's guest is Taylor Tondely.
Alison DutmanNARRATOR
Taylor's talk makes the case that intelligence, whether human or AI, is not sufficient on its own to produce innovation.