2026-02-20
55 分钟Welcome to Intelligent Squared, where great minds meet.
I'm producer Mia Sorrenti.
Humanity has long dreamed about the idea of immortality,
and in 2026 many believe that dream could soon become a reality.
The world's most powerful technologists and investors are pouring billions into engineering immortality itself.
For these modern-day immortalists, ageing is no longer an inevitability,
it's a technical glitch that can be hacked, reversed.
or eradicated altogether.
On today's episode,
award-winning broadcaster and academic Alex Kratoski speaks to host Carl Miller about the moguls,
effective altruists, geroscientists and entrepreneurs who are seeking to disrupt death.
Let's join our host, Carl Miller, now with more.
Welcome to Intelligence Squared, everyone.
I'm Carl Miller, and I guess today is Alex Kratoski.
Dr Alex Kotoski is an award-winning international broadcaster, author and academic.
She's written loads, she's presented loads.
You may have heard her on BBC Radio 4 with The Artificial Human and The Digital Human and on international television with the BBC Worlds The Virtual Revolution.
She's held fellowships at the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics and received an honorary doctorate from the Open University and she teaches currently at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and today I'm delighted to be speaking to Alex about her new book,
The Immortalists, an investigation into the moguls, the effective altruists, the geroscientists,
the entrepreneurs, and maybe the cults that are seeking to disrupt death.