Allison Duettmann — Why We Don't Have to Die: Cryonics, Uploading, and Existential Hope

Juan BenetFounder and CEOAllison Duettmann

Juan Benet speaks with Allison Duettmann, CEO of the Foresight Institute, about why cryonics and mind emulation could mean we don't have to die, how whole-brain emulation and connectomics could keep humans compatible with superintelligent AI, how nanotechnology could rebuild the physical world, and the case for Existential Hope — imagining flourishing futures as a precondition for building them.