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Daniel Faggella · 65 episodes with transcripts

What should be the trajectory of intelligence beyond humanity?

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Hod Lipson - Beyond Biology: AGI Minds in Competition (Worthy Successor, Episode 32)

June 19, 2026

Daniel Faggella (0:08)

This is Daniel Faggella, you're tuned in to The Trajectory, and this is the 32nd episode of our Worthy Successor series, where we think about the permutations of life that we'd hope to be able to bloom beyond humanity when we're long gone. We've had many different speakers with different backgrounds here, from a…

Hod is a leading thinker in the domain of robotics and even artificial life. He is also the director for the Creative Machines Lab at Columbia University where he's taught for a great many years. In this particular episode, we go in with Hod and get his conception of where AI is taking us and what kinds of life he…

Hod Lipson (2:01)

Pleasure to be here.

Daniel Faggella (2:02)

Yeah, there's a lot to unpack with your thought.

And before we dive into the worthy successor questions, I sort of want to unpack the way that you think about intelligence. I think what separated your work from a lot of other thinkers in my book is sort of a grounded grasp of what intelligence is as sort of an expanding process. And so I'd love to have you maybe…

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