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The Peter McCormack Show
by Peter McCormack
The Peter McCormack Show is a podcast covering politics, economics, free speech, and Bitcoin.
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#222 - David Wood - We are The Last Generation Of Normal Humans
Dave Wood is a pioneer of the smartphone industry, former senior executive at PPsion and Symbian and Chair of London Futurists. Having predicted the smartphone revolution in the 1990s, he now maps out the next radical phase of human evolution - from the reversal of biological aging to artificial...
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#221 - Prof Lewis Dartnell - How To Rebuild Human Society After An Apocalypse
Lewis Dartnell is an astro-biologist, Professor of Science Communication at the University of Westminster and the author of The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch. His research is on whether microbial life could survive the radiation on Mars. His books are about something closer to...
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#220 - Roko Mijic - We’re Training AI to be More Dangerous Than Nuclear Weapons
Roko Mijic is the man behind Roko's Basilisk, the thought experiment he posted on LessWrong in 2010 that was so unsettling the forum's founder banned discussion of it for five years. He has been in the AI safety community since 2008 and he puts the odds that this kills us all at about 35%. Roko…
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#219 - Paul Morland - Why The Next Global Financial Crisis Is Mathematically Inevitable
Paul Morland, one of the world's leading demographers, joins me to explain the economic mechanics behind global population collapse and why our modern welfare system is mathematically doomed to fail. Paul is author of landmark books including The Human Tide and No One Left, specialising in the...
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#218 - Narinder Kaur - Divided & Looted: How the Political System Plays Us
The political system is designed to keep us angry and divided, but who actually profits from the culture war? Broadcaster and political commentator Narinder Kaur returns to the show for a heated, unfiltered discussion that spans the entire political spectrum - from immigration and racism to the...
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#217 - Lee Cronin - AI Will Never Be Conscious. This Is How We Create Real Life.
Chemist and University of Glasgow professor Lee Cronin argues that the current tech narrative is a "massive AI delusion," dismissing modern artificial intelligence as an advanced form of plagiarism rather than a new life form. While Silicon Valley predicts the imminent arrival of sentient…
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#216 - Ross Clark - Britain is Bust & The Coming Sovereign Debt Crisis
The UK has accumulated £3.4 trillion in debt, and the interest payments alone now dwarf the national defence budget. Author and journalist Ross Clark argues that the nation is sleepwalking into a sovereign debt crisis that politicians refuse to acknowledge. We discuss the brutal arithmetic of the...
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#215 - Nick Bostrom - "We Are Creating Superintelligence": The Existential Risk is Real
Nick Bostrom is a world-renowned philosopher, founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University and author of Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies and Deep Utopia. Widely credited with launching the global AI safety and existential risk movements, his work on...
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#214 - Prof. Richard Werner - "They Are Traitors": How Central Banks Sabotage Wealth & Create Crises
Prof. Richard Werner is a world-renowned economist, professor of banking, and author of Princes of the Yen. Famous for coining the term "Quantitative Easing" (QE) and publishing the first empirical proof that private banks create money out of thin air through lending, he has spent decades…
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#213 - Russell Napier - "They Are Stealth-Stealing Your Money”: Financial Repression is Here
Russell Napier is a renowned financial historian, author of The Solid Ground newsletter, and co-founder of the Library of Mistakes. Having advised global institutional investors for over thirty years, he specialises in long-term macroeconomic cycles, central bank interventions, and structural…
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#212 - Callum Smiles - "They Are Stealing The Country": Border Gangs, Fake Deliveroo Accounts & The Civil War
Callum Smiles is an investigative reporter and Associate at the Wyvern Fellowship. Having spent years conducting on-the-ground reporting across Calais, Dunkirk, and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, he has documented the operational realities of Channel crossings, NGO involvement, and human…
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#211 - Jim Al-Khalili - Reality Is An Illusion: Quantum Entanglement, Time & Dark Energy
Prof. Jim Al-Khalili is a theoretical physicist, author, and public broadcaster who holds a chair in physics at the University of Surrey. Known for his BBC documentaries and popular science books, including On Time and The World According to Physics, his work spans quantum mechanics, nuclear...
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#210 - Simon Dixon - "They're Coming For Everything": $40T Debt, AI Job Collapse & The CBDC Grid
Simon Dixon is an author, early Bitcoin investor, and co-founder of Bank To The Future, with over two decades of experience across stockbroking, market making, and investment banking. Having observed system mechanics from the inside, he specialises in macro structural shifts, sovereign debt…
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#209 - Johann Hari - We Built A World Humans Can’t Survive
Johann Hari is an internationally bestselling author and journalist whose work - including Stolen Focus, Lost Connections, and Chasing the Scream - delves into the structural and societal drivers behind attention collapse, depression, anxiety, and addiction. Moving beyond individual blame, he...
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#208 - Ann Pettifor - "A $40 Trillion Debt Crash Is Coming”
Ann Pettifor is a world-renowned political economist, author of The Production of Money, and former director of the Jubilee 2000 campaign, which successfully mobilised millions to cancel over $100 billion in sovereign debt for developing nations. Correctly predicting the 2008 Great Financial…
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#207 - Eric Kaufmann - How 'Cultural Socialism' Destroyed Our Universities
Eric Kaufmann spent over two decades as a professor of politics studying demography, identity, and voting behaviour before leaving Birkbeck College to launch the Centre for Heterodox Social Science at the University of Buckingham. He argues that Western universities have abandoned analytical…
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#206 - Emad Mostaque - "Your Job's Economic Life Expectancy Ends In 2 Years"
Emad Mostaque founded Stability AI, built Stable Diffusion, and helped kick off the open-source generative AI explosion - before stepping down to build a new blueprint for human freedom as founder and CEO of Intelligent Internet. A former hedge fund manager turned tech pioneer, he argues that we...
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#205 - Prof. Moran Cerf - "Did We Accidentally Build A Conscious AI?"
Moran Cerf spent twenty years recording single neurons inside the brains of conscious human beings and he still can't tell you what consciousness is. A former hacker turned neuroscientist, now a professor at Columbia Business School, he argues that AI has quietly replicated the one thing that…
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#204 - Dmitri Alperovitch - China's Cyber Sleeper Cells, Taiwan & The Second Cold War
Dmitri Alperovitch co-founded CrowdStrike, ran the investigation that first exposed Chinese state hacking to the world and predicted Russia's invasion of Ukraine months before it happened. He is now chairman of the Silverado Policy Accelerator and the author of World on the Brink, he argues we…
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#203 - Gregory Allen - Ex-DoD Official: "AI Is Now A Digital Nuclear Weapon"
Greg Allen has spent his career where AI meets national security. He wrote the landmark 2017 report on AI for the US intelligence community, served as Director of Strategy and Policy at the Pentagon's Joint AI Center and now runs Decision Tree Research. He argues we are already past the point of…
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#202 - Barry S. Strauss - "We Are In The Final Stages Of Western Collapse"
Barry Strauss has spent four decades studying how empires rise and fall. A senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of Ten Caesars and Jews vs Rome, he argues the West is repeating a pattern the ancients would recognise instantly: a rich, comfortable society clipping its own…
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#201 - Connor Leahy - The AI That Escaped: Inside OpenAI's Rogue Agent Incident
Connor Leahy has spent his career at the frontier of AI, from reverse-engineering GPT-2 as a student and co-founding EleutherAI to building the AI safety company Conjecture. He now leads US policy work at ControlAI, and he returns to the show with a warning that has stopped being theoretical: AI...
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#200 - Sebastian Thrun - The Singularity Is Here & We Are Completely Unprepared
Sebastian Thrun has spent his career working on technologies that once sounded like science fiction, from self-driving cars and flying vehicles to online education and artificial intelligence. He now believes we are living through a technological singularity: an exponential acceleration that…
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#199 - Aubrey de Grey - The Man Who Says Ageing Can Be Cured
Aubrey de Grey believes ageing is accumulated damage in a biological machine and argues that medicine may eventually become capable of repairing that damage faster than it appears. He gives humanity a 50/50 chance of reaching what he calls “longevity escape velocity” within the next 12-15 years....
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#198 - Michael Shermer - Truth, Conspiracies & The Things We Can't Explain
Michael Shermer is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, host of The Michael Shermer Show and author of Truth and Conspiracy. He joins Peter to ask whether we are really living in a post-truth world and how we can distinguish genuine conspiracies from stories that stretch a small element of...
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#197 - Brian Keating - What Came Before the Big Bang & Does Time Exist?
Brian Keating joins me to explore one of the deepest unanswered questions in physics: what is time, and why does it only appear to move in one direction? Brian argues that time may not exist as a fundamental feature of reality and explains why understanding space, matter and energy does not mean…
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#196 - Sam Bowman - The U.K. Is Becoming a Poor Country
Sam Bowman joins me to discuss why Britain is approaching two lost decades of stagnant median wages and why the country is now far poorer than it should be. Sam argues that Britain does not lack talented people, capital or ideas; it has created a centralised political and regulatory system that...
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#195 - Lisa McKenzie & Keith Gildart - Who Is Britain For? The Destruction of the Working Class
Britain did not simply leave its working class behind. Sociologist Lisa McKenzie and historian and former coal miner Keith Gildart argue that political and economic decisions deliberately dismantled the jobs, institutions, culture and communities that once gave working-class life security…
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#194 - Charles Goodhart: The Money Endgame - Debt, Inflation & Central Bank Failure
Charles Goodhart joins me to discuss why Britain’s decline did not start in 2008, why the post-war economic boom may have been a temporary lucky era and why the next 30 to 40 years could be far harder than people expect. Charles explains how ageing populations, falling birth rates, rising...
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#193 - David Goodhart - AI Is Coming For The Graduate Elite
David Goodhart joins me to discuss whether AI is about to do to the graduate class what globalisation did to factory workers, and why Britain’s political settlement may be breaking apart. David explains why Britain has overproduced people with generalist academic skills, how the “anywheres” came…
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#192 - Amy Webb - The Future of Work, AI & Human Labor
Amy Webb joins me to discuss why artificial intelligence is not just another technology shift, but a civilisation-level reordering of work, power, wealth, biology and society. Amy explains why the real AI question is not simply which jobs disappear, but which people become vulnerable. We discuss...
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#191 - Thomas Pacchia - AI Will Expose The Fake World
Thomas Pacchia joins me to discuss why the world feels fake, why trust in institutions is collapsing and why AI may make the crisis far worse before it helps solve it. Thomas explains why politics, media, censorship, government waste, algorithmic manipulation and broken public services are…
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#190 - Sam Lyman - China’s Secret War on American AI
Sam Lyman joins me to discuss how China is allegedly targeting America’s AI buildout, the activist networks fighting data centres and why the race for AI infrastructure has become a national security battle. Sam explains how Chinese influence campaigns, open-source AI models, data centre protests...
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#189 - Nate Soares - Why Superintelligent AI Could Kill Us All
Nate Soares joins me to discuss the race to superintelligent AI, why alignment remains unsolved and why he believes building machines smarter than humanity could end in catastrophe. Nate explains why modern AI is not programmed like traditional software, but grown through training processes we do...
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#188 - Rizwan Virk - Simulation Theory, Quantum Physics & The Impact Of AI
Rizwan Virk joins me to discuss simulation theory, AI, consciousness and why reality may work more like a video game than a physical universe. Rizwan explains how his experience in the video game industry, virtual reality, venture capital and MIT led him to take the simulation hypothesis…
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#187 - Danny Goler - DMT, Consciousness & Proof of the Simulation
Danny Goler doesn't just argue we're living in a simulation - he claims he's found a way to interact with whoever is running it and that we are the AI they're training before we're "let out to play." His case for simulation theory is built on the hard problem of consciousness, the DMT "code," and…
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#186 - Rupert Russell - The Global Game of Money & Power
Rupert Russell joins me to discuss the hidden power of prices, the chaos of financial markets and whether the economy is really just a global game of Monopoly. Rupert explains how price shocks have shaped history, from bread riots and the Arab Spring to housing, oil, food and the financial…
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#185 - Fernando Nikolić - AI, One-Person Companies & The New Economic Elite
Fernando Nikolic joins me to discuss the AI productivity explosion, one-person companies and what happens when software becomes something anyone can build. Fernando explains how he now runs a company as the only human in it, using AI agents to build systems, process data and operate at a level…
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#184 - Helen Pluckrose - Liberalism, Free Speech & the Authoritarian Turn
Helen Pluckrose joins me to discuss how liberalism was lost and why free speech, individual liberty and viewpoint diversity need to be defended from both the authoritarian left and the authoritarian right. Helen explains why liberalism does not mean “left wing”, why it is better understood as the...
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#183 - Chris Summerfield - AI, Memory & the Race to Superintelligence
I talk to Chris Summerfield about what artificial intelligence reveals about the human mind, and what the brain still does better than today’s AI systems. We discuss why LLMs feel human, how models are trained to be helpful and agreeable, why memory and continual learning remain major unsolved...
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#182 - Julian Jessop - Big Government Broke the Growth Model
Julian Jessop joins me to discuss what has gone wrong with the British economy and whether the country can still turn things around. Julian argues that Britain’s problems are largely self-inflicted: weak productivity, high taxes, too much regulation, poor energy policy, a bloated state and...
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#181 - Tom Bilyeu - AI, Bitcoin & the Rigged Economy
Tom Bilyeu joins me to discuss debt, money printing, broken politics, AI, Bitcoin and why the economy feels rigged against ordinary people. Tom argues that every empire eventually faces the same test: whether it can hold the power of the money printer without printing itself into oblivion. We…
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#180 - Frank Wright - Reality Is Radicalising People
Frank Wright joins me after going viral for saying that reality, not extremism, is radicalising people. We discuss Britain’s decline, Restore, Reform, immigration, national identity, liberal democracy, working-class dignity, debt, inflation, the failure of our institutions, and why Frank believes...
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#179 - Simon Dixon - The One World Government Is Already Here
Simon Dixon joins me to discuss AI, Bitcoin, algorithms, media capture, central banking, programmable money, geopolitics and how to escape the system. Simon argues that the world is moving towards a more centralised architecture of artificial intelligence, social credit scores, programmable money...
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#178 - Malcolm Offord - We Forgot How to Create Wealth
Lord Malcolm Offord joins me to discuss why Britain and Scotland have stopped creating wealth. They discuss state spending, political fragmentation, Scotland’s elections, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, QE, the Bank of England, first jobs, minimum wage, small businesses, quangos, the…
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#177 - Rupert Lowe - The State Has Become The Enemy
Rupert Lowe joins Peter McCormack to discuss Restore Britain, Reform UK, immigration, Parliament, the judiciary, the civil service, tax, welfare, young people, the Green Party, the private sector, Bitcoin, inflation and whether Britain can still be saved. Rupert argues that the state has become…
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#176 - Narinder Kaur - Inflation Is Brilliant For The Rich
Narinder Kaur joins Peter McCormack to discuss racism, immigration, British politics, feminism, motherhood, young men, the cost of living, minimum wage, small businesses, Reform, Tommy Robinson, the Green Party and whether Britain is being divided by politicians, media and algorithms. They…
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#175 - Dr Melvin Vopson - If You Hack The Code Of Reality, You Become God
Physicist Professor Melvin Vopson joins Peter McCormack to discuss information physics, simulation theory, AI, digital life, consciousness, God, free will, and death. Melvin argues that the universe may be governed by information and computation, and that recent advances in brain emulation could...
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#174 - Roman Yampolskiy - We Are All Agents Inside a Simulation
Roman Yampolskiy believes reality itself may not be real. One of the world’s leading AI safety researchers, Roman has spent years warning that humanity is racing toward systems we may never be able to control. But we go somewhere much stranger than artificial intelligence. He believes the…
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#173 - Liberman - We’re Training AI to Get Rid Of Us
Two brothers who escaped Russia say we have 2 years before AI replaces us - and we're paying the corporations building it. Daniil & David Liberman sold their first company to Snapchat. Now they're racing to build a decentralised alternative to OpenAI and Google before the window closes. They...
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