Michio Kaku: Future of Humans, Aliens, Space Travel & Physics

Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist, futurist, and professor at
the City College of New York. He is the author of many fascinating
books on the nature of our reality and the future of our
civilization. This conversation is part of the Artificial
Intelligence podcast. If you would like to get more
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timestamps for this episode (on some players you can click on the
timestamp to jump to that point in the episode): 00:00 -
Introduction 01:14 - Contact with Aliens in the 21st century 06:36
- Multiverse and Nirvana 09:46 - String Theory 11:07 - Einstein's
God 15:01 - Would aliens hurt us? 17:34 - What would aliens look
like? 22:13 - Brain-machine interfaces 27:35 - Existential risk
from AI 30:22 - Digital immortality 34:02 - Biological immortality
37:42 - Does mortality give meaning? 43:42 - String theory 47:16 -
Universe as a computer and a simulation 53:16 - First human on Mars