We’re back with part 2 of our Existential Risks Edition! Welcome to the fifth episode of the Intergenerational Fairness Day Podcast coming September 19th! Our discussion today has got everything: a hostile takeover, technological advancements, power and peril and a few heroes like my guest today trying to warn us about it all. This is "Episode 5: The Future of Intelligence: AI and the Survival of Humanity." In today's episode, your host Lena Winzer and her guest founder and director of the Existential Risk Observatory, Otto Barten, are going to break it all down—what AGI actually is, why it could pose such a significant risk, and what's being done to address it. So, buckle up as we separate fact from fiction and explore the existential risks of AI, a topic that could very well determine the fate of humanity.

For more information about the Existential Risk Observatory and their projects - check out the links below!

Website: https://www.existentialriskobservatory.org/

Policy proposals: https://existentialriskobservatory.org/papers_and_reports/Policy%20Proposals.pdf

Articles in TIME: https://time.com/author/otto-barten/

Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@existentialriskobservatory

X: https://x.com/xrobservatory

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/71570894/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/existentialriskobservatory/

For more information on the Existential Risk of AI:

Kurzgesagt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa8k8IQ1_X0

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artificial_general_intelligence

Yoshua Bengio's blog: https://yoshuabengio.org/2024/07/09/reasoning-through-arguments-against-taking-ai-safety-seriously/

Superintelligence (in German): https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/nick-bostrom-superintelligenz-t-9783518586846

The Precipice: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Toby-Ord/dp/0316484911

PauseAI: https://pauseai.info/

For more information about the double issue of the Intergenerational Justice Review on Existential Risks and other projects of the FRFG check out the links below:
Intergenerational Justice Review: https://igjr.org/ojs/index.php/igjr/issue/view/118
All other FRFG projects: https://www.intergenerationaljustice.org

For more information about the Intergenerational Fairness Day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergenerational_Fairness_Day
..and for this podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2273376