Talks

A sampling of talks, interviews, and other opinions.

2026 How then shall we live? Meaning in the age of AI — Open Immanence

2026 On AI's incentive problem — O'Reilly

2026 Controlling your digital self — California Institute for Machine Consciousness

2026 The case for owning your AI — Possible with Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger

2026 On open-source agents and punk software — This Week in AI

2026 AI agents in action — MIT AI Conference

2026 On owning your digital self — This Week in AI

2025 The AI industry is at a major crossroads — Decoder

2025 On empowering humans — Pioneers of AI

2025 On AI and human agency — Nonzero with Robert Wright

2024 On power and AI — Roots of Progress

2024 On agency in the age of AI — South Park Commons

2024 Reinventing AI agents — Gradient Dissent

2023 With Jason Warner — Cerebral Valley

2023 With Josh Albrecht — No Priors

2023 Why AI agents don't work (yet) — Latent Space

2023 Building human-level AI agents — The MAD Podcast

2023 With Josh Albrecht — Thursday Nights in AI

2023 On the real implications of generative AI — Reinvent Futures

2023 Interview with Reid Hoffman — Figma Config

2023 Building robust AI agents — South Park Commons

2023 On AI, metascience, institutions, trauma — Benjamin Yeoh

2023 Enabling humanity with general intelligence — Loving Life

2022 Understanding machine and human minds — with Rhys Lindmark

2022 What machine learning taught me about therapy — Foo Camp

2019 The Art of Scale — UC Berkeley Lecture

2018 TODAY Show: Meet the tech CEO who chooses to live with 15 roommates

2012 Expanding the culture of computing — TIMtalks, MIT