The Trajectory
What should be the trajectory of intelligence beyond humanity?The Trajectory pull covers realpolitik on artificial general intelligence and the posthuman transition - by asking tech, policy, and AI research leaders the h...
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- Vincent C. Müller1 ep
- Lee Spector1 ep
- Aza Raskin1 ep
Also: Ben Goertzel, Luciano Floridi, Weaver Weinbaum, Francis Heylighen, Stephen Wolfram, John Smart, Susan Schneider, Terrence Deacon, Benjamin Bratton, Henry Shevlin, Lee Cronin, Michael Levin, Hod Lipson, Connor Glass, Stuart Kauffman, David Dalrymple, Denis Noble
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- 🇨🇱CL · Technology#526.1K to 75K
- 🇷🇴RO · Technology#505.3K to 65K
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11K to 140K🎙 Weekly cadence·67 episodes·Last published 6d ago - Monthly Reach
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23K to 280K🇺🇸71%🇨🇱15%🇷🇴13% - Active Followers
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13K to 154K
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/23/26 |  Eric Smith - AI May be a Prosthetic for the Living Process (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 9) | This installment of the Stewarding the Flame series is an interview with Eric Smith, Specially Appointed Professor at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI), Institute of Science Tokyo, External Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, and co-author with Harold Morowitz of The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth: The Emergence of the Fourth Geosphere. Eric argues that sorting the world into living and non-living things is a category error. He asks whether the difference between a planet with life ... | 1h 49m 44s | ||||||
| 10/9/26 |  N. Katherine Hayles - AI as Our Inextricable Symbionts (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 8) | This installment of the Stewarding the Flame series is an interview with N. Katherine Hayles, Distinguished Research Professor of English at UCLA and James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emerita of Literature at Duke University, and author of How We Became Posthuman, Unthought, and Bacteria to AI. Katherine defines life through cognition: a process of interpreting information in contexts that connect it with meaning, marked by five criteria she calls SIRAL (sensing, interpreting, responding... | 1h 29m 49s | ||||||
| 9/25/26 |  David Pearce - A Negative Utilitarian Vision for AGI (Worthy Successor, Ep. 34) | This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with David Pearce, the philosopher who wrote The Hedonistic Imperative in 1995 and co-founded the World Transhumanist Association with Nick Bostrom in 1998. In this conversation, David argues that the pleasure-pain axis discloses the world's inbuilt metric of disvalue, and that our overriding ethical obligation as a species is to phase out the biology of suffering throughout the living world and replace it with information-s... | 1h 47m 11s | ||||||
| 9/11/26 |  Eörs Szathmáry - Major Evolutionary Transitions and AGI's Impact (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 7) | Eörs Szathmáry co-developed, with the late John Maynard Smith, the theory of major transitions in evolution - the framework for understanding how life has repeatedly reorganized itself into higher levels of complexity across nearly 4 billion years. He's also a co-author, alongside Viktor Müller and Luc Steels, of a recent PNAS paper arguing that AI may be on the verge of undergoing a major transition of its own. In this conversation, Eörs lays out what actually constitutes a major transition... | 1h 20m 09s | ||||||
| 8/28/26 | artificial intelligencecyborgs+3 | Connor Glass | Phantom Neuro | — | Connor GlassPhantom Neuro+5 | — | 2h 04m 56s | ||
| 8/21/26 | open-ended evolutioncomplexity theory+3 | Stuart Kauffman | — | — | open-ended evolutionAI+3 | — | 1h 35m 24s | ||
| 8/14/26 | AIwisdom+3 | David Dalrymple | UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency | — | wisdomAI+3 | — | 1h 50m 55s | ||
| 8/7/26 | biologysystems biology+3 | Denis Noble | OxfordStewarding the Flame+1 | — | waterbiology+5 | — | 1h 27m 43s | ||
| 7/24/26 | brain-computer interfacesAI+3 | Paolo Ardoino | Tether | — | brain-computer interfacesAI+4 | — | 45m 17s | ||
| 7/17/26 | origins of lifesystems chemistry+3 | Lee Cronin | University of GlasgowChemify | — | Lee Croninorigins of life+5 | — | 1h 54m 48s | ||
| 7/3/26 | developmental biologyregeneration+4 | Michael Levin | Tufts UniversityAllen Discovery Center | — | developmental biologyregeneration+4 | — | 1h 23m 12s | ||
| 6/19/26 | artificial intelligencerobotics+3 | Hod Lipson | Columbia University | — | AGIartificial intelligence+3 | — | 1h 26m 37s | ||
| 6/5/26 | cognitive scienceAI ethics+4 | Henry Shevlin | University of Cambridge | — | AIcognitive science+5 | — | 1h 31m 54s | ||
| 5/22/26 | planetary intelligencemachine cognition+3 | Benjamin Bratton | UC San DiegoAntikythera | — | intelligenceplanetary-scale process+5 | — | 2h 08m 33s | ||
| 5/8/26 | AIcognitive science+3 | Terrence Deacon | UC Berkeley | — | AIdeep fake+4 | — | 1h 51m 49s | ||
| 4/24/26 | artificial intelligencedeep learning+3 | Vincent C. Müller | University of Erlangen-Nürnberg | — | AIdeep learning+3 | — | 2h 13m 35s | ||
| 4/17/26 | evolutionary computationintelligent systems+3 | Lee Spector | Amherst College | — | evolutionintelligence+3 | — | 1h 41m 45s | ||
| 4/3/26 | AGI governancetechnology impact+3 | Aza Raskin | Center for Humane TechnologyEarth Species Project | — | AGIgovernance+5 | — | 1h 37m 38s | ||
| 3/20/26 | artificial general intelligencedecentralized systems+3 | Ben Goertzel | SingularityNET | — | AGIintelligence+3 | — | 1h 44m 45s | ||
| 3/13/26 | digital ethicsinfosphere+3 | Luciano Floridi | Yale UniversityDigital Ethics Center | — | digital ethicsinfosphere+3 | — | 1h 56m 17s | ||
| 3/6/26 | intelligencephilosophy+4 | Weaver Weinbaum | NUNET | — | intelligencephilosophy+4 | — | 2h 13m 49s | ||
| 2/27/26 | self-organizing universeevolution+3 | Francis Heylighen | Vrije Universiteit BrusselResearch Centre St. Leo Apostel | — | self-organizing universeevolution+3 | — | 1h 46m 49s | ||
| 2/13/26 | computationcomplexity+3 | Stephen Wolfram | Wolfram ResearchMathematica+1 | — | Stephen Wolframcomputation+5 | — | 2h 22m 42s | ||
| 1/30/26 | intelligence evolutionfutures theory+3 | John Smart | EvoDevo Institute | — | intelligenceevolution+3 | — | 3h 46m 34s | ||
| 1/23/26 | AI consciousnessphilosophy of mind+4 | Susan Schneider | Worthy SuccessorThe Trajectory | — | AIconsciousness+5 | — | 1h 34m 20s | ||
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Chart history for The Trajectory
Peaked at #50 in RO, currently #50 in RO.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO | — | #50 | #50 | — |
| CL | — | #52 | #52 | — |
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2 placements across 2 markets.
Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.