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 <a href="https://freakonomics.com/should-a-i-move-to-space/" rel="noopener noreferrer">two-part series</a>.)
 
<ul>
 <li>SOURCES:
 <ul>
 <li><a href="https://research.google/people/106776/?&type=google" rel="noopener noreferrer">Blaise Agüera y Arcas</a>, vice president and fellow at Google, C.T.O. of technology and society.</li>
 <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/travisbeals/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Travis Beals</a>, senior director of product management at Google, Project Suncatcher lead.</li>
 <li><a href="https://investors.planet.com/governance/board-of-directors/person-details/default.aspx?ItemId=f7006907-5951-46a9-abf9-ee5a2bc7ccd9" rel="noopener noreferrer">Will Marshall</a>, co-founder and C.E.O. of Planet Labs.</li>
 </ul></li>
</ul>
 
<ul>
 <li>RESOURCES:
 <ul>
 <li><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049955/what-is-intelligence/" rel="noopener noreferrer">What Is Intelligence?</a>, by Blaise Agüera y Arcas (2025).</li>
 <li>"<a href="https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/suncatcher_paper.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer">Towards a future space-based, highly scalable AI infrastructure system design</a>," 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).</li>
 <li><a href="https://addsdonna.com/old-website/ADDS_DONNA/Science_Fiction_files/2_Asimov_Reason.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer">Reason</a>, by Isaac Asimov (1941).</li>
 </ul></li>
</ul>
 
<ul>
 <li>EXTRAS: 
 <ul>
 <li>"<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/are-our-tools-becoming-part-of-us/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Are Our Tools Becoming Part of Us?</a>," by People I (Mostly) Admire (2024).</li>
 </ul></li>
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