AI - Space Breakthroughs with Terry Virts and Toufi Saliba | GAiNTS Are Bread Episode 6 LIVE

GAiNTS ARE BREAD - AI is shaping our lives in a profound and intimate ways. GAiNTS ARE BREAD is a podcast that discusses with global thought leaders how this and other global trends are creating common existential risks for us individually and collectively. Rather than being dismayed, we look at such challenges as bread, a resource, that will fuel our desire to learn – to turn these common obstacles into uncommon opportunities.

Past episodes include Jaan Tallinn (Founder, Skype), Thomas Schneider (European Venture Cap), Captain Ho (103-year-old ww2 pilot)

Episode Title: “AI-SPACE Breakthroughs”
Guests: Terry Virts and Toufi Saliba
Host: Philip Wu
Date: 14 November 8am SGT (GMT +8)

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This episode explores the GAiNTS that we face with 2 amazing individuals. One who had done something that no one else on earth has done, and another, who is embarking on a global project of a similar nature.

Terry Virts – NASA astronaut Terry Virts has served as a pilot of the space shuttle Endeavour, a crew member on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft and most recently as commander of the International Space Station during 200 consecutive days in space, one of the longest continuous space missions of any NASA astronaut. He is currently devoted to champion renewable energy.

Toufi Saliba – Toufi’s a history of building various AI projects, cryptography and cybersecurity centric, he has experienced both failures and successes, with his first AI exit occurring in his early 20s in 2002 and several successes continuing through a couple decades later in October 2022 took on the leadership of Hypercycle.ai and grew from 500 licenses sold to over 280,000 in one year and valuation growth also of over 60X reaching a unicorn status in less than a year from inception and still expecting bigger growth to come.

Toufi continues to work tirelessly across many nations and towards a secure and benevolent AI for the benefits of all humanity.