About this episode
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). Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.