Striving for a utopia of utopias with Allison Duettmann

What the (Bio)Hack?! Podcast

Bronic's What the (Bio)Hack?! is a podcast to discover what the hack security means for biology. Our host interviews some of the world's mad scientists and rad hackers across deceivingly unrelated disciplines to uncover what the future holds and how we can design against crime.
In this episode, we jump on a journey with our guest Allison Duettmann that started out as a cold call and got her leading the Foresight Institute as CEO - an organisation founded in 1986 to pursue long-term futures today. But futures can be scary and often dystopian. Allison talks to us about Existential Hope scenarios instead, displacing the concept of catastrophic risk with utopian alternatives. We explore the power of cooperation and privacy-preserving technology development and debate on whether open or closed security building is more effective. Allison explains her belief in "swarming problem solving" and we discuss the promise of multi-polar Artificial Intelligence (AI) as security design of a better future. Tune in to discover how to attend Vision Weekend and how you can contribute to AI safety!