682. Should A.I. Move to Space?
2026-07-24 · 48 min · episode 682 · 6 entities
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At first it sounds ridiculous. But it might be inevitable. Guest host Steve Levitt talks to a team that hopes to push A.I. infrastructure off the planet. Part one of a two-part series .)
SOURCES:
Blaise Agüera y Arcas , vice president and fellow at Google, C.T.O. of technology and society.
Travis Beals , senior director of product management at Google, Project Suncatcher lead.
Will Marshall , co-founder and C.E.O. of Planet Labs.
RESOURCES:
What Is Intelligence? , by Blaise Agüera y Arcas (2025).
" Towards a future space-based, highly scalable AI infrastructure system design ," by Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Travis Beals, Maria Biggs, Jessica V. Bloom, Thomas Fischbacher, Konstantin Gromov, Urs Köster, Rishiraj Pravahan, and James Manyika (Google, 2025).
Reason , by Isaac Asimov (1941).
EXTRAS:
" Are Our Tools Becoming Part of Us? ," by People I (Mostly) Admire (2024).
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