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682. Should A.I. Move to Space?

682. Should A.I. Move to Space?

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At first it sounds ridiculous. But it might be inevitable. Guest host Steve Levitt talks to a team that hopes to push A.I. infrastructure off the planet. Part one of a two-part series.)

  • SOURCES:
    • Blaise Agüera y Arcas, vice president and fellow at Google, C.T.O. of technology and society.
    • Travis Beals, senior director of product management at Google, Project Suncatcher lead.
    • Will Marshall, co-founder and C.E.O. of Planet Labs.

  • RESOURCES:
    • What Is Intelligence?, by Blaise Agüera y Arcas (2025).
    • "Towards a future space-based, highly scalable AI infrastructure system design," by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Travis Beals, Maria Biggs, Jessica V. Bloom, Thomas Fischbacher, Konstantin Gromov, Urs Köster, Rishiraj Pravahan, and James Manyika (Google, 2025).
    • Reason, by Isaac Asimov (1941).

  • EXTRAS:
    • "Are Our Tools Becoming Part of Us?," by People I (Mostly) Admire (2024).

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