Calum
@cccalum
Speaker, writer, and adviser on AI. Co-founder of Conscium. Co-host of the London Futurists Podcast.
Ben Luong's advice to politicians is to shift the tax base away from payroll and onto land, energy, water, compute. And to trade permits for equity in Big AI now, while Big AI still needs our power and water. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
9/9 Most serious research suggests that AI is not yet causing structural unemployment. If that is due to a common sense gap which AIs close (Hemingway style) slowly and then quickly, we really should have a plan for when full automation arrives. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
I'm looking forward to my keynote at the Lisbon AI Summit on Monday. See you there.
The conversation has moved on from "whether to adopt AI" to "how to deploy it safely". Most of the people asking that question are not getting a satisfactory answer. The gap between deploying agents and deploying trusted agents is huge. The answer is coming...
In the latest episode of the "Eye on AI" podcast, EY's head of consulting Errol Gardner confirms that we are in the phoney war phase of the agentic AI revolution. We have a window of opportunity to learn how to make AI agents safe by verifying them. conscium.com/verifyax
With speakers being boo'ed at prestigious US universities when they talk about AI, will the SpaceX IPO convert the Magnificent Seven into the Hateful Eight?
A pleasure to discuss the future of AI with Dan Blumberg on "Future Around and Find Out". We cover Verify AX, the verification platform for AI agents, and the Economic Singularity. www.futurearound.com/p/what-if-ai...
1/8 Ask an LLM if it’s confident about something, and it replies 'yeah, definitely'. Then you explain that it’s wrong, and it glibly replies 'my bad.' This is not metacognition, says Megan Peters, but mimicry. www.prism-global.com/podcast/mega...
6.6. Musk, the world's richest man, lost his fight with Trump. Today, Presidents beat Plutocrats. But what happens when an individual´s wealth exceeds their nation´s GDP? When compute sits in orbit, outside sovereign control? calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
In 2016 I thought self-driving cars would wake people up about AI and jobs. They didn't. Robotaxis are here, and people just shrug. David´s P(pause) is over 50%, but mine is 0. However, COVID showed humanity can turn on a dime once the cliff is visible. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
9/9 The consciousness we think we have is cartoonish, just like your brain's model of your body is cartoonish. Your sense of having an "inner experience" is a sketch of the real machinery underneath. www.prism-global.com/podcast/mich...
4/8 Human-like AI is quietly reshaping our perception of what it means to be a person. www.prism-global.com/podcast/rose...
Conscium on "The Business of Thinking" podcast. AI agents, verification, and the Economic Singularity. And a discussion about whether making machines conscious could actually make them safer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilBf...
1/6 Our guest this episode is Chris Percy, Director of the Co-Sentience Institute. He is working to map and improve the resources that will enable people to make informed decisions about artificial consciousness. www.prism-global.com/podcast/chri...
Microsoft's AI Economy Institute published this map of AI adoption globally. The USA comes 24th.
CNBC asked 40 business and tech leaders if there is an AI bubble that is about to burst. This chart shows their answers. Which, average to "meh". Details at: www.cnbc.com/2026/01/10/a...
This episode is different: no guest. David and I Iook back at 2025 and forward to 2026. We discuss the rapid improvement of LLMs, the AI bubble, AI agents, artificial consciousness, and the future of jobs. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
This episode is different: no guest. David and I Iook back at 2005 and forward to 2006. We discuss the rapid improvement of LLMs, the AI bubble, AI agents, artificial consciousness, and the future of jobs. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
5/5 Chinese President Xi Jinping says he intends to form a World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO), a step towards a global governance system for AI. Kayla says it remains unclear how much effort will be dedicated to this. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
3/5 In the West, views about AI range from accelerationists to doomers. Kayla says that although AGI and ASI are discussed in China, the focus is more on deployment. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
2/5 From the age of 12, Kayla wanted to represent her country abroad. Not quite able to do so in sports, she switched to diplomacy. US diplomats are expected to be generalists, and her focus on China and technology made her switch to academia. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
13/13 Stephen has an intriguing vision for a future version of his book, which evolves according to each reader’s requirements. He would train “WittGPT” on his voluminous notes, and it would write the ideal book for each reader. calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
6/6 If Cameron had to choose whether the first superintelligent AI is conscious or a zombie, he would choose a conscious one. www.prism-global.com/podcast/came...
7/7 We also discuss why 99% of the human race is not paying attention to the existential risk of superintelligence. Most people have now tried LLMs, and they have seen The Terminator. But their response to serious AI discussions is, “What’s for tea?” calumchace.com/podcast-feed/
1/6 Our guest is Cameron Berg, who leads AE Studio´s research into markers of subjective experience in AIs. He studied cognitive science at Yale, has worked at Meta, and has built psychometric tools used by millions. www.prism-global.com/podcast/came...
This explains a lot. 21% of US adults believe in Santa Claus. (Finding from an IPSOS survey of 1,000 US adults.)