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Documentary filmmaker, author of The Debt Generation

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What Machines Can't Do

David Chalmers, Hilary Lawson, Kate Devlin. David Malone hosts.

From Alan Turing to Stephen Hawking, many claim computers could overtake humanity. But no computer can match human intelligence at the moment. So where is the limit between what computers can and cannot actually do? When might machines match their makers? Or is this idea just a hype caused by a misunderstanding of what artificial intelligence is?

In Search Of Ourselves

Is self-discovery a desirable and vital goal?

Speakers: Joanna Kavenna, Ed Stafford, David Chalmers

Is Nothing an Illusion?

Explaining everything and Nothing

Speakers: James Ladyman, John Ellis, Laura Mersini-Houghton

Gravity

Why is gravity so elusive?

Speakers: Erik Verlinde, Frank Wilczek, Laura Mersini-Houghton

Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothi...

Can science solve metaphysics' riddle?

Speakers: Don Cupitt, John Ellis, Lawrence Krauss

The Laws of the Universe

Are the laws of nature just human constructs?

Speakers: Laura Mersini-Houghton, Helen Beebee, Gerard 't Hooft

Hawking vs. Philosophy

Has science killed philosophy?

Speakers: Lewis Wolpert, Jonathan Derbyshire, Steve Fuller

Biography

“I’m interested in how finance actually works, not in the idealized squeaky-clean text books.”

David Malone is an independent filmmaker, Green Party politician, and author of The Debt Generation. He started his career at the BBC science department where he eventually went on to work on the philosophy and science documentary series, Horizon. In The Debt Generation David criticizes the lack of debate that occurred around the financial crisis, and the politicians that failed to oppose the banks. In recent years David has produced and directed the documentary series Why Are We Here? where he met philosophers and scientists including Nobel Prize winning physicist Roger Penrose.