Foresight Institute Radio

This recording with Neha Narula is from Vision Weekend Puerto Rico 2026, hosted by the Foresight Institute in February 2026. Neha Narula is the Director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative and a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab, where she has spent a decade studying digital currencies, payment systems, and the infrastructure of money. In this talk, she examines what the rise of digital currencies, central bank digital currencies, and programmable money means for the future of how value moves through the world, and what it would actually mean for money itself to change fundamentally.Vision Weekend, where this talk was recorded, is where we gather leading builders, thinkers, and funders in AI, bio, nano, neuro, and space to celebrate technological progress and explore how to advance it for the betterment of life. If you want to join a future Vision Weekend live, upcoming events are listed at foresight.org and in our Luma calendar.

This recording with Tom Griffiths is from our Secure AI seminar series, hosted in May 2026. Tom Griffiths is a professor of psychology and computer science at Princeton University and co-author of Algorithms to Live By, which explores how computational thinking can illuminate human judgment and decision-making. In this talk, Tom applies the tools of cognitive science to map the jagged edges of AI capability: the areas where AI dramatically outperforms human cognition, and the areas where it fails in ways human cognizers typically do not. He argues that understanding the precise shape of this frontier is essential for anyone building systems that combine human and AI judgment.If you want to join future seminars live, the schedule is at foresight.org and in our Luma calendar.

This recording with Robin Hanson is from Vision Weekend Puerto Rico 2026, hosted by the Foresight Institute in February 2026. Robin Hanson is an economist at George Mason University and the author of The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth. In this talk, he presents the core scenario of the book: a future in which whole brain emulations are the dominant form of intelligence, and works through the economic logic of what work, relationships, and social structure would look like under those conditions. It is a rigorous thought experiment that applies economic reasoning to questions that usually remain in the domain of science fiction.Vision Weekend, where this talk was recorded, is where we gather leading builders, thinkers, and funders in AI, bio, nano, neuro, and space to celebrate technological progress and explore how to advance it for the betterment of life. If you want to join a future Vision Weekend live, upcoming events are listed at foresight.org and in our Luma calendar.

This recording with Brandon Green is from Vision Weekend Puerto Rico 2026, hosted by the Foresight Institute in February 2026. In this talk, Brandon Green makes the case that monetary infrastructure is upstream of many of the world's most persistent problems: that flawed money enables misalignment and short-termism at a systems level. He argues that fixing the foundations of how money works would unlock progress across a wide range of domains, and lays out what that would require.Vision Weekend, where this talk was recorded, is where we gather leading builders, thinkers, and funders in AI, bio, nano, neuro, and space to celebrate technological progress and explore how to advance it for the betterment of life. If you want to join a future Vision Weekend live, upcoming events are listed at foresight.org and in our Luma calendar.

This recording with Lauren Wagner is from Vision Weekend Puerto Rico 2026, hosted by the Foresight Institute in February 2026.Lauren Wagner is a computational social scientist and policy expert who serves as a Nonresident Fellow at the Abundance Institute. Her work focuses on AI governance, technology trust and safety, and reducing regulatory barriers to beneficial emerging technologies. In this talk, she addresses what it actually takes to build AI systems people can trust: which technical and institutional properties matter most, how trust gets built and broken, and where current frameworks are not keeping pace.Vision Weekend, where this talk was recorded, is where we gather leading builders, thinkers, and funders in AI, bio, nano, neuro, and space to celebrate technological progress and explore how to advance it for the betterment of life. If you want to join a future Vision Weekend live, upcoming events are listed at foresight.org and in our Luma calendar.

This recording is from Vision Weekend Puerto Rico 2026, hosted by the Foresight Institute in February 2026. View the recording of this talk on our Youtube.Allison Duettmann is the President and CEO of the Foresight Institute. In this talk, she presents the Foresight AI Nodes program: a distributed network of locally-based research groups working on AI for science and safety. She covers how the program is structured, the rationale for a decentralized approach, and what the early nodes have been working on.Vision Weekend, where this talk was recorded, is where we gather leading builders, thinkers, and funders in AI, bio, nano, neuro, and space to celebrate technological progress and explore how to advance it for the betterment of life. If you want to join a future Vision Weekend live, upcoming events are listed at foresight.org and in our Luma calendar.

This recording with Anders Sandberg is from the Foresight Institute Secure AI seminar series, hosted in February 2026. You can view the recording of the talk on our YouTube.Anders Sandberg is a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm and a former senior research fellow at Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, where he worked for fifteen years on existential risk, brain emulation, and the long-term future of intelligence. In this talk, he examines what AI means for human autonomy and political freedom: what kinds of concentrated power AI systems enable, what political philosophy has to say about state capacity and individual liberty, and whether current legal and governance frameworks are adequate to the challenge.If you want to join future seminars live, the schedule is at foresight.org and in our Luma calendar.

This recording with Ramez Naam is from Vision Weekend Puerto Rico 2026, held in February 2026. Ramez Naam is the author of the Nexus trilogy and The Infinite Resource, and has written and spoken extensively on technology, AI, and long-range forecasting. In this talk, he offers a contrarian assessment of where AI actually stands: examining what the data shows, where conventional narratives overshoot or undershoot reality, and what a more evidence-grounded view of AI progress looks like. The full video recording of this talk available at our YouTube channel.If you want to join a future Vision Weekend live, upcoming events are listed at foresight.org and in our Luma calendar.