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Dr. Stephen Cave discusses the philosophical implications of intelligence, immortality, and the human condition in relation to technology and society.

In this episode of See See by Ceci, Dr Stephen Cave, philosopher of technology, intelligence and the human quest to outlive death, joins us in our Berlin studio. At heart, this episode turns on two questions most of us would sooner leave undisturbed: why do human beings insist on ranking one another, and why can we not make our peace with the fact that we die? Academic Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and Co-Director of the Institute for Technology and Humanity, both at the University of Cambridge, Dr Cave took his PhD in philosophy at Cambridge before spending the better part of a decade as a British Foreign Office diplomat. He is the author of Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization, a New Scientist Book of the Year, and, with the philosopher John Martin Fischer, Should You Choose to Live Forever?: A Debate. He is also co-editor of AI Narratives, Imagining AI and Feminist AI, all published by Oxford University Press. In this wide-ranging conversation, Dr Cave traces the idea of "intelligence" across two and a half thousand years, from Aristotle's "natural slaves" to Francis Galton's invention of both eugenics and the…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Cecilia Ponce Rivera

Guest: Stephen J. Cave

Topics covered

• intelligence
• immortality
• AI
• philosophy
• humanity
• colonialism
• scientific racism

Keywords

• intelligence
• immortality
• AI
• philosophy
• colonialism
• scientific racism
• humanity
• eugenics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Institute for Technology and Humanity, University of Cambridge

Books & works: Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization, Should You Choose to Live Forever?: A Debate, AI Narratives, Imagining AI, Feminist AI

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