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Dr Anders Sandberg is a senior research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford. He holds a PhD in computational neuroscience from Stockholm University. His work is wide ranging, including the societal and ethical issues surrounding human enhancement and new technology, as well as assessing the capabilities and underlying science of future technologies. His research includes work on cognitive enhancement and technical roadmaps on whole brain emulation, neuroethics, and global catastrophic risks.

We discussed the roadmap to whole brain emulation, defining consciousness, the ethical and cultural implications of whole brain emulation, attitudes towards cryonics and death and lots more.

You can find Dr Anderes Sanberg at:
Twitter: @anderssandberg
Website: www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/team/anders-sandberg/

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Twitter: @Dr_AlexDavidson
Website: www.alexdavidson.me

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Fin Moorhouse is a researcher at Longview Philanthropy. Before that, he was a Research Scholar and assistant to Toby Ord at Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute. He co-hosts a podcast called Hear This Idea, about about ideas for solving important problems, and the people working on them ranging form AI safety, Biorisk to global development. He writes about effective altruism, existential risk, and ways to improve the (longterm) future on his writing page.


We discussed his work an lessons from his podcast guests, his thoughts on Effective Altruism. Other key insights from podcasting. How it might be worth investing in clean air for our health and AI Safety.

He also :

• Is a fellow on this ‘Roots of Progress’ writing fellowship
• Continues to informally work with (and learn from) Toby Ord
• Thinks about some EA project ideas I’d like to help make happen
• Researched space governance as an EA cause area (and now advise a couple groups which were since established)
• Worked on a policy brief about a UN Declaration on Future Generations
• Helped set up a contest to support EA criticism

You can find Fin at:
Twitter: @finmoorhouse
Website: https: www.finmoorhouse.com

You can find me at:
Twitter: @Dr_AlexDavidson
Website: www.alexdavidson.me

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Jess Morley is a PhD student at the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University. Her work focuses on understanding the ethical, philosophical and practical ramifications of the increasing use of technology in healthcare. She was The lead tech advisor for data-driven technology at UK Department of Health and Social Care. She was a contributor towards the Goldachre review which looked at the efficient and safe use of health data for research and analysis and how this can benefit patients and the healthcare sector, and was originally commissioned by the Secretary of State for Health and Care in February 2021. It was published on gov.uk in April 2022. We discussed her current work, what are the key factors that make a medical AI paper effective and where healthcare data will be going in the future.

You can find Jess Morley at:
Twitter: @jessRmorley
Website: https: www.healthdatanerd.org

You can find me at:
Twitter: @Dr_AlexDavidson
Website: www.alexdavidson.me

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