# David Sloan Wilson

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Alex Pentland with David Sloan Wilson - Evolving Alignment Podcast

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland is a Stanford Human-Centered AI Fellow, MIT Toshiba Professor, and one of the world’s most influential computer scientists. His work has helped pioneer computational social science, collective intelligence, and data-driven approaches to understanding how people cooperate, comm…

Iyad Rahwan with David Sloan Wilson - Evolving Alignment Podcast

Iyad Rahwan is the Director of the Center for Humans and Machines at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. He is a pioneer in the emerging fields of machine behavior and machine culture, in which AI systems are studied through the same scientific evolutionary lens long used to understand …

David Sloan Wilson on Co-Creating the Third Attractor

What does it take to build a truly pro-social world?In this conversation, evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson brings Darwinian evolution into dialogue with the vision of the Third Attractor. We explore why cooperation is one of evolution’s greatest achievements, why good intentions alone are …

Eörs Szathmáry - Major Evolutionary Transitions and AGI's Impact (Stewarding the Flame, Episode 7)

Eörs Szathmáry co-developed, with the late John Maynard Smith, the theory of major transitions in evolution - the framework for understanding how life has repeatedly reorganized itself into higher levels of complexity across nearly 4 billion years. He's also a co-author, alongside Viktor Müller and…

Athena Aktipis with David Sloan Wilson - Evolving Alignment Podcast

Athena Aktipis is the Founding Director of the Cooperative Futures Institute and Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University. Her research spans evolutionary biology, psychology, cancer biology, and cooperation science, exploring the principles that enable cooperation to emerge and persist …

Michael Muthukrishna with David Sloan Wilson - Evolving Alignment Podcast

Michael Muthukrishna is Professor of Economic Psychology at New York University & London School of Economics. His research spans cultural evolution, psychology, economics, and artificial intelligence, exploring how culture transformed our species into a uniquely cooperative form of collective intel…

Joe Henrich with David Sloan Wilson - Evolving Alignment Podcast

Joe Henrich is the Ruth Moore Professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. His research uses evolutionary theory to explore how culture has shaped human psychology, cooperation, institutions, and even our genetic evolution. He is the author of The Secret of Our S…

Francis Heylighen with David Sloan Wilson - Evolving Alignment Podcast

Francis Heylighen is a professor at the Free University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), where he functions as the research director of the Center "Leo Apostel", and the associated research group "Evolution, Complexity and Cognition." His interdisciplinary research explores how complex sys…

Eörs Szathmáry with David Sloan Wilson - Evolving Alignment Podcast

Eörs Szathmáry is a professor of evolutionary biology at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and one of the leading theorists of major evolutionary transitions. With John Maynard Smith, he coauthored the landmark 1995 book The Major Transitions in Evolution, which examined the pivotal transitions …

Terrence Deacon with David Sloan Wilson - Evolving Alignment Podcast

Terrence Deacon is a professor of anthropology and a member of the Cognitive Science faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. His research combines human evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and the study of language to explore the evolution of human cognition and the emergence of uniquely…