Blaise Agüera y Arcas

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Freakonomics Radio · 682. Should A.I. Move to Space? · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

Could it be that something could behave like a person, but is dead on the inside, has no inner life, there's no there there, there's nobody home?

Is that meaningful?

But the trouble with the whole philosophical zombie question is that it's almost like a frontal attack on the whole idea of doing science.

And this is one of the things that led Alan Turing to propose the Turing test.

He was basically saying, look, if all of the tests check out, then that is your answer.

And I'm kind of with Turing on that one.

It can be a shock.

Maybe intelligence is this much more general accessible faculty.

It doesn't have to depend on any particular biological substrate.

You know, it doesn't have to be a person in the sense that we've always understood persons.

But I'm sure that we're going to be debating this one for a long time to come because it really cuts to the quick of what we consider to be our special sauce as humans.

At its heart, it's an AI research team.

But we have a few philosophers on the team.

We have neuroscientists on the team.

We have people from other disciplines, sociology.

And part of the reason for that is that I've always thought that understanding intelligence generally is key to making progress with AI and that AI in turn can help us to understand science.

ourselves, I see the study of intelligence as a connected field, both in its analysis of how we work and in its attempts to synthesize intelligence outside the human brain.

Some of the problems are philosophical, but they're also very practical.

A lot of the breakthroughs in AI have come from people who study neuroscience and study the brain and are working at the intersection of those things.

So we're very much in that tradition too.

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