682. Should A.I. Move to Space?

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 (freakonomics.com/should-a-i-move-to-space).)

• SOURCES:

• Blaise Agüera y Arcas (research.google/people/106776/?&type=google), vice president and fellow at Google, C.T.O. of technology and society.

• Travis Beals (linkedin.com/in/travisbeals), senior director of product management at Google, Project Suncatcher lead.

• Will Marshall (investors.planet.com/governance/board-of-direc…), co-founder and C.E.O. of Planet Labs.

• RESOURCES:

• What Is Intelligence? (mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049955/what-is-intelli…), by Blaise Agüera y Arcas (2025).

• "Towards a future space-based, highly scalable AI infrastructure system design (services.google.com/fh/files/misc/suncatcher_p…)," 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).

• addsdonna.com/old-website/ADDS_DONNA/Science_F…, by Isaac Asimov (1941).

• EXTRAS:

• "Are Our Tools Becoming Part of Us? (freakonomics.com/podcast/are-our-tools-becomin…)," by People I (Mostly) Admire (2024).

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