Nick Bostrom and Ros Picard - God, AI & the future of humanity: Is technology the key to immortality?

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🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Episode 2 | Season 3 of The Big Conversation. Prof Nick Bostrom, director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University and Prof Rosalind Picard, director of the Affective Computing Research Group at MIT debate the philosophical and spiritual questions raised by AI. Could AI become conscious? Are we living in a simulation universe? Could technology be the key to immortality? For bonus content, updates and details of the Douglas Murray & NT Wright livestream sign up at http://www.thebigconversation.show We'd love to know what you think of the conversation! Take our survey: https://survey-star.co.uk/technology The Big Conversation is a video series from Unbelievable? featuring world-class thinkers across the religious and non-religious community. Exploring science, faith, philosophy and what it means to be human. The Big Conversation is produced by Premier in partnership with John Templeton Foundation. • For Rosalind Picard https://web.media.mit.edu/~picard/ • For Nick Bostrom https://www.nickbostrom.com/ • For Unbelievable? The Conference 2021 http://www.unbelievable.live • For exclusive resources and to support us: USA http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Rest of the World https://resources.premier.org.uk/supportunbelievable • Our regular Newsletter https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievablenewsletter • The Unbelievable? podcast http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable • Facebook https://www.facebook.com/UnbelievableJB • Twitter https://twitter.com/unbelievablejb • Insta https://www.instagram.com/justin.brierley

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0:00.0	You're listening to Unbelievable with Justin Brielly.
0:20.9	Hello and welcome to today's Unbelievable Show with myself Justin Brielly, a very special
0:25.9	one today bringing you episode 2 of our current Big Conversation season 3. On radio, podcast
0:32.0	and video it's all about bringing the biggest thinkers together to discuss the biggest
0:36.1	questions of life, faith, science and philosophy and today we're talking about artificial intelligence
0:41.8	and the search for immortality with two very eminent guests Nick Bossram and Rosalind Picard
0:47.2	and I shall introduce them both shortly. You can find out more about the Big Conversation
0:51.8	and all our bonus content at its own special website, thebigconversation.show and I
0:57.5	very exciting news about a livestreamed edition of episode 3 to announce in just a moment's
1:03.0	time. But only about three weeks away now you can book your place at Unbelievable the
1:08.0	Conference 2021. Find it at Unbelievable.live, so many great speakers and great topics as we show
1:14.9	you how to tell the greatest story ever told, especially in a post-COVID world. Recently
1:20.1	announced our conference sponsors for that conference, a harvester ministry so thanks
1:24.8	so much for them for supporting the conference this year. Again, if you want to get yourself
1:29.3	booked in, it's Unbelievable.live. Now, one of our special guest speakers at the conference
1:34.7	of course is NT Write Tom Wright and we've some very exciting news about the third episode
1:40.5	of this Big Conversation season because as a curtain razor to that conference on Thursday
1:46.3	the 13th of May, Tom will be in a livestreamed dialogue with none other than Douglas Murray,
1:51.9	the well-known journalist and social commentator who has described himself on this very show
1:56.7	as a Christian atheist. I'm really excited about bringing these two together, especially
2:01.7	as it's going to be a livestreamed conversation on our YouTube channel and Facebook page.
2:07.1	So you can find out more about that how to make sure you're in the right place at the
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