HUMAN+
Introducing the Human+ Podcast: Where Humanity Meets the Future
Step into the realm of the possible with Human+, the podcast that unpacks profound challenges and opportunities shaping our future. From the frontiers of longevity science and artificial intelligence to the mysteries of neuroscience and the philosophical underpinnings of what it means to thrive, Human+ is your guide to the next chapter of human evolution.
Each episode promises a thought-provoking journey into the ideas, innovations, and ethical dilemmas that will define the 21st century and beyond. Whether you’re passionate about living longer and healthier, thinking deeper about AI, LLM, and AGI, philosophy, neuroscience, and preparing for an evolving future, Human+ delivers conversations that matter.
Let’s create a future that’s not just smarter—but more humane.
Episode #1. Why Philosophy?
Marouane Jaouat is a postdoctoral researcher within the Chair of Transitions at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) of Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. With a doctorate in sociology, his research examines the philosophical and sociological implications of efforts to ensure humanity's long-term future. To help raise awareness about these important ideas, I'm organizing a series of seminars that make these complex concepts more accessible to a broader audience.
Marouane has devoted eight years to studying humanity and the future. As a Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Caen Normandy (France), he contributed to a report for the French Ministry of Justice on "Transhumanism(s) and Law(s)" (2021) and to the book "Regards Croisés sur les Transhumanismes" (2022). He also co-authored the White Paper of Transitions (2024) and co-edited a special issue on "Transhumanisms" (2024) for France Forum Journal with Prof. Raphaël Liogier. His current research focuses on transhumanism and longtermism", particularly how these movements intersect with questions of existential risks and the future of humanity.
Episode #2. Why AGI?
Peter Voss is a Serial Entrepreneur, Engineer, Inventor and a Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence. While Peter started out in electronics engineering, he moved into software. He developed a comprehensive ERP software package and remarkably took his first software company from a zero to 400-person IPO in seven years.
Fueled by the fragile nature of software, Peter embarked on a 20-year journey to study intelligence and to replicate it in software. His research culminated in the creation of a natural language intelligence engine that can think, learn, reason, and adapt to and grow with the user. He even developed the term “AGI” (Artificial General Intelligence) with fellow luminaries in the field of AI.
Peter founded SmartAction.ai in 2009, which developed the first AGI-based call center automation technology. Now, in his latest venture, Aigo.ai, he is taking that technology a step further with the commercialization of the second generation of his ‘Conversational AI’ technology with a bold mission of providing hyper-intelligent hyper-personal assistants for everyone.
In addition to being an entrepreneur, engineer, inventor and AI pioneer, Peter often writes and presents on various philosophical topics including rational ethics, free will and artificial minds; and is deeply involved with futurism and racial life extension, a term many of us in the 1990s at Extropy Institute favored.