Created on 28 May 2025
The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is now presented in podcast, bringing you lively conversations between Professor Jeffrey Sachs and authors of inspiring books about history, social justice, and the challenges of building a decent world. Find ‘Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs’ on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other major podcast apps. Be sure to subscribe for episode updates! The episodes can also be accessed directly here.
Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and futurist Ray Kurzweil for a compelling conversation on the accelerating pace of technological change and its profound implications for the future of humanity. In his new book, ‘The Singularity Is Nearer,’ Kurzweil revisits and updates his ground-breaking predictions on AI & AGI, exponential growth, and human evolution and longevity.
Together, they explore a future where AI rivals human intelligence by 2029, nanotechnology rebuilds the world atom by atom, and our minds merge with the cloud to expand intelligence beyond biological limits. They examine radical life extension, the promise of renewable energy, and how exponential technologies are reshaping industries, reducing poverty, and transforming global well-being. But they also confront the risks while discussing a vision of the future–both awe-inspiring and cautionary–challenging us to rethink what it means to be human in an age of rapid and relentless innovation.
How to engage
- Watch
Watch the monthly author conversations. Past session recordings are in the SDG Academy Library for on-demand viewing.
- Listen
Subscribe to ‘Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs’ on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts!
About the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs
The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is a free global forum to discuss outstanding, recently-published work that examines the most important topics for humanity.
Hosted by Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs, the eminent thought-leader in economics and sustainable development, the Book Club features monthly interviews with renowned authors about their ground-breaking work in sustainability, economics, history, social justice, and more.
The Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs is brought to you by the SDG Academy, the flagship education initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. All information about the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs can be found at www.bookclubwithjeffreysachs.org.
Visit SDG Academy Library at https://sdgacademy.org/sdgacademy-library/
