All Episodes

The story of how climate worry has turned into AI worry: My interview with Stephanie Wakefield

The AI state of play: My interview with Ramez Naam

An update on AI’s economic impact: My interview with Scott Strand of Google’s AI & Economy program

📈 How economic growth can defeat authoritarianism: My interview with Dalibor Rohac, author of ‘Unshackled’

✨ Why verification is AI's real bottleneck: My interview with economist Christian Catalini

✨ My interview with economist Tyler Cowen on the Age of AI (and more)

🚀 The New Space Age meets the Age of AI: My interview with Phil Metzger

🏁 The Great AI Race as a clash over compute: my interview with analyst Ryan Fedasiuk

💧⚡🖥️ A deep-dive on data centers: My interview with AI researcher Andy Masley

📈 The business of AI: My interview with technology analyst and investor Azeem Azhar

✨ Data center distortions: My interview with energy policy analyst Shuting Pomerleau

✨ My interview with Sebastian Mallaby, author of 'The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence'

✨💪 AI, jobs, and productivity: My chat with economist Erik Brynjolfsson

✨💪 The future of work in an age of AI: My chat with economist Daniel Rock

🏗️ A hub for hard-tech startups: My chat with 'American Shenzhen' builder Joshua Farahzad

✨ The Age of AI, an update: My chat with policy analyst Dean Ball

🌎 Storm watch: My chat with climate policy expert Roger Pielke Jr.

☄️Awaiting apocalypse: My chat with journalist and author Dorian Lynskey

⤴️ Beyond Abundance: My chat with Brink Lindsey about his new book, 'The Permanent Problem'

⚛️ A final (and lasting?) nuclear revival: My chat with nuclear energy advocate Jessica Lovering

🪐 NASA and beyond: My chat with space policy analyst Casey Dreier

✨🔬 Acceleration though AI-automated R&D: My chat (+transcript) with researcher Tom Davidson

🚀 The trillion-dollar space race: My chat (+transcript) with journalist Christian Davenport

🤖 Thoughts of a (rare) free-market AI doomer: My chat (+transcript) with economist James Miller

🛑 Why progress stops : My chat (+transcript) with economist Carl Benedikt Frey

🤖 AI risks and rewards: My chat (+transcript) with AI researcher Miles Brundage

🛩️ Human aspiration and the legacy of 'To Fly!': My chat (+transcript) with filmmaker Greg MacGillivray

👶 Bracing for depopulation: My chat (+transcript) with 'After the Spike' coauthor Dean Spears

⚛️ Our fission-powered future: My chat (+transcript) with nuclear scientist and author Tim Gregory

✨ AI and the future of R&D: My chat (+transcript) with McKinsey's Michael Chui

📊 The US economy at midyear: My chat (+transcript) with economic analyst Joey Politano

🎇 An age of transformation: My chat (+transcript) with techno-futurist Peter Leyden

✨ 🧬 When AI meets biotechnology: My chat (+transcript) with techno-futurist Jamie Metzl

🚀 NASA and the New Space Age: My chat (+transcript) with James Meigs

🤖 Superintelligence and national security: My chat (+transcript) with AI expert Dan Hendrycks

🗽 America's immigration edge: My chat (+transcript) with policy expert Alex Nowrasteh

🌾 Land of plenty: My chat (+transcript) with science journalist Charles C. Mann on the agricultural history you never learned

🚀 Mars or bust! My chat (+transcript) with aerospace engineer Robert Zubrin

📈 Back to the Nineties? My chat (+transcript) with economist Skanda Amarnath on the 2020s productivity outlook

🚀 My chat (+transcript) with economist Matt Weinzierl on the growing business of space

🌍 My chat (+transcript) with researcher Toby Ord on existential risk

🤖 My chat (+transcript) with journalist Nicole Kobie on why the future of tech still hasn’t arrived

⚡ My chat (+transcript) with Virginia Postrel on promoting a culture of dynamism

🌐 My chat (+transcript) with chaos theorist Doyne Farmer on our interconnected economy

🎨 My chat (+transcript) with innovation expert Duncan Wardle on practical tips for corporate creativity

✨ My chat (+transcript) with tech policy expert Neil Chilson on regulating GenAI

🏘️ My chat (+transcript) with economist Bryan Caplan on density and housing deregulation

✨⏩ My chat (+transcript) with ... economist Robin Hanson on AI, innovation, and economic reality

🚀 My chat (+transcript) with space journalist Eric Berger on SpaceX and America's New Space Age

💥 My chat (+transcript) with economist Eli Dourado on creating a fantastic future

☀️ My chat (+transcript) with economist Noah Smith on technological progress

📖 My chat (+transcript) with Mentava founder Niels Hoven on accelerating kids’ education

⚡ My chat (+transcript) with venture capitalist Katherine Boyle on 'American Dynamism'

⚠ My chat (+transcript) with BCG economist Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak on dealing with macroeconomic risk

🤖🧠 My chat (+transcript) with Google DeepMind's Séb Krier on AGI and public policy

⤵ My chat (+transcript) with investor Ruchir Sharma on where capitalist economies went wrong

⚛ My chat (+transcript) with the US Energy Department's Mike Goff on powering the US with more nuclear energy

🤖 My chat (+transcript) with Google economist Guy Ben-Ishai on seizing the historic AI moment

🏙 My chat (+transcript) with ... economist Jason Barr on the skyscrapers of tomorrow

🤖🌈 My chat (+transcript) with Nick Bostrom on life in an AI utopia

🤖 My chat (+transcript) with tech policy analyst Adam Thierer on regulating AI

🚀 My chat (+transcript) with Charles Murray on Project Apollo

🦁 My chat (+transcript) with investment strategist Ed Yardeni on his optimism for a Roaring 2020s

⚡⚛ My chat (+transcript) with Steve Obenschain of LaserFusionX on laser fusion

☢ My chat (+transcript) with Spencer Weart on the history of nuclear energy fear

🌐 My chat (+transcript) with John Bailey on the potential for AI in education

🌐 My chat (+transcript) with James Walker of microreactor startup NANO Nuclear Energy

🌐 My chat (+transcript) with defense policy analyst Todd Harrison on the US Space Force

⚛ My chat (+transcript) with TAE Technologies CEO Michl Binderbauer on the future of fusion

🌐 My chat (+transcript) with Andrew McAfee on how to upgrade any company like a geek

🌞 My chat with Marc Andreessen on the need for techno-optimism

🌐 My chat (+transcript) with Johan Norberg on the case for capitalism — and the myth of Swedish socialism

🌎 My chat (+transcript) with political scientist Francis Fukuyama on technological change and liberal democracy. Some sci-fi, too!

🌎 My chat (+transcript) with climate scientist Zeke Hausfather

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