Terasem Colloquium, December 14, 2025. Theme: Where is AI, and where is it going? Speakers: David Orban, David Pearce, Natasha Vita-More, David Brin, Gregory Stock. VIDEO (YouTube). Commentary by Giulio Prisco.
Terasem Colloquium, July 20, 2025. Theme: Space expansion in the age of AI. Should we still want to send human astronauts to colonize space? Or should we want to leave space expansion to AI? Speakers: Stefano Vaj, Frank White, Moti Mizrahi, Michelle Hanlon, Frank Tipler, Robert Zubrin. VIDEO (YouTube). Commentary by Giulio Prisco.
Terasem Colloquium, December 14, 2024. Theme: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cyberconsciousness, with a focus on big picture and spiritual implications. Speakers: Beth Singler, Weaver Weinbaum, William Sims Bainbridge, Lincoln Cannon, Robert Geraci. VIDEO (YouTube). Commentary by Giulio Prisco.
Terasem Colloquium, July 7, 2024. Theme: Old and new radically optimistic futurisms including Italian futurism, Russian and modern cosmism, extropy, and e/acc. Speakers: Riccardo Campa, Ben Goertzel, Robin Hanson, James Pethokoukis, Max More. VIDEO (YouTube). Commentary by Giulio Prisco.
Terasem Colloquium, December 14, 2023. Theme: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine consciousness. Speakers: Ben Goertzel, Stefano Vaj, Mika Johnson, Blake Lemoine, Bill Bainbridge, Vitaly Vanchurin. VIDEO (YouTube). Commentary by Giulio Prisco.
Terasem Colloquium, July 20, 2023. Theme: long-term perspectives on human space expansion, and the intersections of human space expansion with highly imaginative, far-out concepts in science, philosophy, and politics. Speakers: Christopher E. Mason, Stellar Magnet, Clément Vidal, Todd A. Drashner & Trond Nilsen, Max More, Tom W. Bell. VIDEO (YouTube). Commentary by Giulio Prisco.
Terasem Colloquium, December 14, 2022. Theme: 50th anniversary of the last day astronauts have been on the Moon. Speakers: Michelle Hanlon, Giuseppe Reibaldi, Marlène Michèle Losier, Adriano Autino, Keith Henson, Frank White. VIDEO (YouTube). Commentary by Giulio Prisco.
Terasem Colloquium, July 20, 2022. Theme: cultural, philosophical, and spiritual aspects of spaceflight and space expansion. Speakers: Rick Tumlinson, Riccardo Campa, Elaine Walker, Frank Tipler. VIDEO (YouTube). Commentary by Giulio Prisco.
Terasem Colloquium, December 10, 2021. Theme: what is consciousness, and how to preserve consciousness beyond physical death. Speakers: Randal Koene, Max More, Ken Hayworth, Martine Rothblatt, Robert McIntyre. VIDEO (YouTube). Commentary by Giulio Prisco.
Terasem Colloquium, July 20, 2021. Theme: spaceflight, geopolitics, future scenarios, space philosophy and culture, and spiritual implications. Speakers: Namrata Goswami, Cometan, Steven Wolfe, Natasha Vita-More, Rachel Lyons. VIDEO (YouTube). Commentary by Giulio Prisco.
Terasem Colloquium, December 10, 2020. Theme: transpartisan approaches to the intersection of space expansion, emerging technologies, and human rights. Speakers: Howard Bloom, Giulia Bassani, Stellar Magnet, Philippe van Nedervelde, Gabriel Rothblatt, David Brin. VIDEO (YouTube). Commentary by Giulio Prisco.
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