Transhumanism, mind uploading, AGI, and human augmentation are not separate futures, Anders Sandberg argues.

They are different ways humans extend themselves, first through memory, smartphones, LLMs, and AI agents, then through brain emulation, uploaded minds, and systems that may make decisions better than we do.

The conversation follows that tension into agent accountability, AI safety, consciousness, personal identity, and the possibility of AI-run economies.

It ends at civilizational scale, with space governance, asteroid mining, moon ownership, orbital slots, and the question of what humans become when we can copy, upload, redesign, or outsource parts of ourselves.

Please enjoy having your mind expanded.

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Chapters

(00:00) TRAILER

(08:09) Mobile Technology on Humanity

(11:51) Accountability in AI Agents

(18:25) Empathy

(25:35) AGI vs. Alien Life

(27:36) Consciousness

(35:52) Uploaded Minds

(40:33) Parallel Realities

(45:16) Human Collaboration

(46:24) AGI

(51:23) The Dual Economy

(57:43) Space Ownership

(01:05:18) Human Expansion

(01:17:49) The Space Race

(01:21:43) Space Exploration

(01:24:22) New Forms of Governance

(01:26:18) NASA

(01:28:41) Breakaway Movements in Space

(01:30:16) Space Governance

(01:34:18) Fusion Energy

(01:42:15) Time and Life Extension

(01:48:06) Extended Lifespans

(01:52:03) Technology