Welcome to the Multiverse with Google Quantum AI’s Hartmut Neven | The Futurology Podcast

Quantum computing can transform technology. Can it also reshape consciousness itself? | Subscribe to Futurology! https://linkin.bio/futurology/ Can quantum computing unlock the secrets of consciousness and hasten the arrival of artificial super intelligence? Hartmut Neven, the visionary founder of Google’s Quantum AI Lab, has spent decades pushing the boundaries of what machines can do. Now he’s betting on quantum computing to clear the path for the next era of possibilities. In this episode, Neven takes us from early adversarial machine learning at DARPA to building the world’s most advanced quantum processors at Google. He makes a case for why the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is our most likely vision of reality and reveals his experimental program to test whether quantum superposition is where consciousness is born. Subscribe to the Berggruen Institute on YouTube to be the first to listen to new Futurology episodes:    / @berggrueninst   Catch up on the Futurology conversation with full episodes on YouTube.    • Futurology   Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2I38HvH... Mentioned in this Episode: The Fabric of Reality — David Deutsch (book, 1997) https://www.daviddeutsch.org.uk/books... Intriguing Properties of Neural Networks — Christian Szegedy, Wojciech Zaremba, Ilya Sutskever, Joan Bruna, Dumitru Erhan, Ian Goodfellow and Rob Fergus (paper, 2013) https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6199 Mécanique quantique. Tome 1, 2 — Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Bernard Diu and Franck Laloë (textbook, French edition) https://www.amazon.fr/M%C3%A9canique-... The Emperor’s New Mind — Roger Penrose (book, 1989) https://academic.oup.com/book/40643 Where to Find Hartmut Neven: Google Research Profile https://research.google/people/hartmu... Google Quantum AI Lab https://research.google.com/teams/qua... Show ideas and feedback? Email: [email protected] Learn more about the Berggruen Institute https://www.berggruen.org Follow Futurology! Instagram:   / futurologypod   Twitter/X: https://www.x.com/futurologypod TikTok:   / futurologypod   Facebook:   / berggrueninst   LinkedIn:   / berggrueninst   Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/futurologypo... Credits Executive Producers: Nicolas Berggruen, Nathan Gardels, Nils Gilman, Dawn Nakagawa, & Jason Hoch Producers: Grant Slater, Alex Gardels, & Nathalia Ramos Associate Producer: Elissa Mardiney Theme Music: Marcus Bagala Audio Engineer: Aaron Bastinelli & Kyle Scott Wilson Futurology is a production of Studio B and Wavland for the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles, California.