58: Recipes for Future Plagues | Kevin Esvelt

Update: 2022-02-28

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USAID's new "DEEP VZN" program aims to discover new pandemic-grade viruses, then broadcast their genomes to the world, according to MIT evolutionary engineer Kevin Esvelt. He estimates that 30,000 people in dozens of countries could then easily assemble them.

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60: Deep Fakes | Sam Harris and Zohaib Ahmed

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59: Generative AI | What's New & What's Next

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58: Recipes for Future Plagues | Kevin Esvelt

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57: Octopus Intelligence (and more!) | Roger Hanlon

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56: A Massive Future for an Old Vaccine? | Megan Murray

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55: Detecting Disease Outbreaks from Internet Traffic | Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

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54: Announcing a New Season

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53: The Case Against Reality | Don Hoffman (classic + updated)

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52: Many Quantum Worlds | Sean Carroll

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51: On Consciousness | Annaka Harris

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50: About that TED Talk | Kevin Rose

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49: Canceling PTSD with MDMA (part 2) | Rick Doblin

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48: Canceling PTSD with MDMA (part 1) | Rick Doblin

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47. AI Boom, or Doom? | Stuart Russell

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46: Defeating Food Allergies | Kari Nadeau

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45: End Games (part 2) | Naval Ravikant

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44: End Games (part 1) | Naval Ravikant

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43: Synthetic Neurobiology | Ed Boyden

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42: Live from Gainesville + the 2019 Plan

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