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BhTV: The Wright Show (audio) — 100 episodes

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1

The AI Companion Question (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

2

The Race to Control AI (Robert Wright & Jeremie Harris)

3

Inside Elon's Mind (Robert Wright & Alex Gibney)

4

Will AI Make Humans Obsolete? (Robert Wright & Garrison Lovely)

5

Trump and the AI Safety Vibe Shift (Robert Wright & Liron Shapira)

6

Dario’s China Syndrome (Robert Wright & Paul Triolo)

7

Did Boomers Ruin Everything? (Robert Wright & Jill Filipovic)

8

Superintelligence, the Singularity, and the Singleton (Robert Wright & Nick Bostrom)

9

What’s Driving Dario? (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)

10

Is the AI "Slowdown" for Real? (Robert Wright & Zvi Mowshowitz)

11

The Week in AI that Changed the World (Robert Wright & Liron Shapira)

12

Israel’s Lobby (Robert Wright, Eli Clifton, and Ian Lustick)

13

Is AI a Form of Life? (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

14

Iran, Ukraine, and the Future of War (Robert Wright & Paul Scharre)

15

The OpenAI Breakout and Other AI Spookiness (Robert Wright & Stephen Casper)

16

Demis Hassabis and the Quest for AGI (Robert Wright & Sebastian Mallaby)

17

Trump’s New War on Iran (Robert Wright & Hooman Majd)

18

The AI Safety Vibe Shift (Robert Wright & David Krueger)

19

Is (Human) Writing Doomed? (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

20

Trump’s Unending War (Robert Wright, Andrew Day, and Curt Mills)

21

Ukraine, Iran, and America’s Arms Overreach (Robert Wright & Jennifer Kavanagh)

22

Fasten Your Bot-belts (Robert Wright & Samuel Hammond)

23

The intensifying slow-AI-down vibe (Robert Wright & Holly Elmore)

24

Are the Ukraine and the Iran Wars Merging? (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)

25

The Ideology Behind AI (Robert Wright & Connor Leahy)

26

Trump’s Self-Inflicted Iran Quagmire (Robert Wright & Zaid Jilani)

27

Iran, Israel, and the Future of US Power (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)

28

Are Russia and NATO Headed for War? (Robert Wright & Leonid Ragozin)

29

Are Books Dead? (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

30

Is AI Humanity’s Last Exam? (Robert Wright, Andrew Day, and Curt Mills)

31

AI and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)

32

The World After the Iran War (Robert Wright & Joshua Landis)

33

The US-China AI Race (Robert Wright & Ryan Fedasiuk)

34

The AI Lobby’s Dirty Tricks (Robert Wright & Tyler Johnston)

35

The Secret of AI’s Power (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

36

Seeing China Clearly (Robert Wright & Tianyu Fang)

37

AI, Evolution, and The God Test (Increments Podcast) (Robert Wright, Ben Chugg, Vaden Masrani)

38

Trump’s Iran War Merry-Go-Round (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)

39

The Pope Takes On AI (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)

40

Can Rituals Save Us? (Robert Wright & Bruce Feiler)

41

Understanding Iran (Robert Wright & Hamidreza Azizi)

42

Rethinking China (Robert Wright & Zhengyu Huang)

43

Is the AI Takeoff Starting? (Robert Wright & Timothy B. Lee)

44

The New Middle East (Robert Wright & Annelle Sheline)

45

Trump Lost the Hormuz Round (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)

46

Mythos and China (Robert Wright & Lennart Heim)

47

The Mattering Instinct (Robert Wright & Rebecca Goldstein)

48

The Future of Intelligence (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

49

Can Trump and Iran Make a Deal? (Robert Wright & Robert Malley)

50

Iran and the Demise of US Hegemony (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)

51

Can AI Stop Wars? (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)

52

Dario, Demis, Sam: Assessing the AI Guys (Robert Wright & Shakeel Hashim)

53

The Iran War: A Debate (Robert Wright & Eli Lake)

54

MAGA Opposition to the Iran War (Robert Wright, Andrew Day, and Curt Mills)

55

Averting a Superintelligence Takeover (Robert Wright & Andrea Miotti)

56

The Iran War and the Singularity (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)

57

Israel, America, and the Iran War (Robert Wright & Ron Kampeas)

58

The Allure and Danger of Agentic AI (Robert Wright & Liron Shapira)

59

Israel’s Plan for Iran (And Beyond) (Robert Wright & Daniel Levy)

60

Iran's War for a New Middle East Order (Robert Wright & Hooman Majd)

61

Israel, Iran, and Antisemitism (Robert Wright & Peter Beinart)

62

Trump's Gulf War (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)

63

Will the Iran War Spiral Out of Control? (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)

64

Iran War II (Robert Wright & Joshua Landis)

65

Is Anthropic Misanthropic? (Robert Wright & Holly Elmore)

66

The AI Apocalypse Cometh? (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

67

Agency, AI, and the MAGA Impulse (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)

68

Is the Singularity Near? (Robert Wright & Timothy B. Lee)

69

Trump's Big Gambles: Iran, China, and AI (Robert Wright, Andrew Day, and Curt Mills)

70

The Meaning of Moltbook (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

71

The Grand Unified Theory of MAGA (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)

72

The Case Against AI (Robert Wright, Alex Hanna, and Emily Bender)

73

The Trump Foreign Policy Roller Coaster (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)

74

AI After Us: The "Succession" Scenario (Robert Wright & Dan Faggella)

75

The Past and Future of Digital Media (Robert Wright & Mike Pesca)

76

The Minneapolis Shooting Rorschach Test (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

77

NASA’s Plans for the Moon and Mars (Robert Wright & Cameron Berg)

78

NASA’s Plans for the Moon and Mars (Robert Wright & Joel Achenbach)

79

2025: A Year-End (And Quarter-Century-End) Reckoning (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

80

What Era Are We Living In? (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)

81

The Year in Trump Foreign Policy (Robert Wright, Andrew Day, and Connor Echols)

82

Elon, Trump, Fuentes: Bad Men or Trolls or Both? (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

83

Venezuela, China, and Trump’s Incoherence (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)

84

Using AI to Fight Cancer (Robert Wright & Nathan Labenz)

85

The Hard Truth about Peace in Ukraine (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)

86

The Life and Legacy of William F. Buckley (Robert Wright & Sam Tanenhaus)

87

20 Years Ago, Bloggingheads Was a Trailblazer, with Robert Wright (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Robert Wright)

88

China Hawks in Retreat? (Robert Wright & Kaiser Kuo)

89

Larry Summers, Jeffrey Epstein, and Other Elite Malefactors (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

90

Will One AI Rule Us All? (Robert Wright & Alex Komoroske)

91

Disorder as the New Normal (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)

92

Is American Might Right? (Robert Wright & Shadi Hamid)

93

Zohran, Epstein, and Two Decades of Bob and Mickey (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

94

Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and the Gatekeeper Question (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

95

Trump-Xi Truce, Gaza Ceasefire & Other Sketchy Deals (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)

96

The Trump Doctrine (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)

97

Mindfulness and the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Robert Wright & Vincent Fakhoury Horn)

98

The US-China Microchip-Minerals Showdown (Robert Wright & Paul Triolo)

99

Rationalism and AI Doomerism (Robert Wright & Liron Shapira)

100

Whose Toady is Bari Weiss? (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)