Foresight Institute Radio

This recording with João Pedro de Magalhães is from Vision Weekend UK 2026, held in London in June 2026. View the recording along with the slides on our YouTube channel.

João Pedro de Magalhães is Chair of Molecular Biogerontology at the University of Birmingham, following training at Harvard Medical School. He has published over 100 papers in journals including Science, Nature, and Cell, and maintains some of the most widely used databases in aging research, including GenAge, AnAge, and DrugAge.
In this talk, João argues that aging is not a fixed biological constant and makes the case for a systematic scientific program to understand and intervene in the aging process. He covers the genomic and molecular data on long-lived species, the interventions that appear most promising, and where the field is likely to produce real breakthroughs in the years ahead.

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This recording with Marius Hobbhahn is from Vision Weekend UK 2026, held in London in June 2026. View the recording along with the slides on our YouTube channel.
Marius Hobbhahn is CEO and founder of Apollo Research, a London-based AI safety company that works with OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Amazon to evaluate dangerous capabilities in frontier AI systems. Before founding Apollo, he completed a PhD in machine learning and worked on AI forecasting at EpochAI. Apollo's product, Watcher, provides real-time oversight and control for AI coding agents.

In this talk, Marius makes the case that a specific category of AI safety research and tooling can both reduce the risks of AGI and be commercially viable. He argues that safety and profitability are not inherently in tension, and that the field needs more founders willing to build safety as a product rather than treat it purely as a research cost.
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This recording with Greg Wayne is from Vision Weekend UK 2026, held in London in June 2026. View the recording along with the slides on our YouTube channel.
Greg Wayne is Director of Research at Google DeepMind, where he leads Project Astra, Google's research prototype for a universal AI assistant. His research combines neuroscience with AI systems design, focusing on memory, contextual grounding, and how agents can reason over time.

In this talk, Greg examines what it would take to build AI assistants that are truly situated: embedded in a physical and temporal context, capable of maintaining persistent memory, and able to act in the world rather than simply respond to queries. He draws on his work at DeepMind to outline the design challenges and the scientific questions that remain open.

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This recording with Andrew Trask is from the Foresight Institute Secure AI seminar series, hosted in April 2026. Andrew Trask is the founder of OpenMined and creator of PySyft, one of the most widely used frameworks for privacy-preserving machine learning. He has spent the last decade building technical infrastructure that allows AI systems to train on sensitive data without exposing it.

In this talk, Andrew makes the case that the field has developed a powerful set of privacy and security tools, including federated learning, homomorphic encryption, and differential privacy, and that the moment has arrived to move from research to real-world deployment. To see the slides that go along with this presentation, see the recording on YouTube.

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This recording with Taylor Tondelli is from Vision Weekend Puerto Rico 2026, held in February 2026. In this talk, Taylor argues that intelligence alone, whether human or AI, is not what drives innovation. Raw capability needs the right conditions: incentives, institutional scaffolding, and the diversity of thought that lets new ideas find their footing. The talk examines what those conditions look like and where they tend to break down.

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.
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