Uploaded December 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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George Dvorsky (@dvorsky) is a Canadian futurist, science writer, and ethicist that has written and spoken extensively about the impacts of cutting-edge science and technology—particularly as they pertain to the improvement of human performance and experience. He is also a senior staff reporter at the popular tech blog Gizmodo, a contributing editor at io9 where he writes about science, culture, and futurism and and blogs at sentientdevelopments.com

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

- How life extension and longevity affect society and the technologies ending aging
- The dangers of AI and problems with containment
- Why consciousness is such a hard problem and what it means for all of us
- How George’s study of the past influences his views on the future
- Why mutually assured destruction could become a thing again
-The reason AI regulation is harder than it seems
- Which technologies have George most excited today and why
- Why tech ethics are so important going forward
- What happens if and when we invent AGI
- The problems and possibilities of exponential technology in today’s world


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