All Episodes

God Is In the Machine (with Kevin Kelly and Nils Gilman)

Gamble on Anything. Except Murder. (with Bobby Allyn and Grant Slater)

There's No Such Thing as a Free Agent (with Gillian Tett and Dawn Nakagawa)

We're Winning the Race to Replace Ourselves (with Tristan Harris and Dawn Nakagawa)

Is It Awareness All the Way Down? (with Annaka Harris and Grant Slater)

Can We Move Fast and Fix Things? (with Reid Hoffman and Dawn Nakagawa)

The AI CEOs Are Terrified of Themselves (with Stuart Russell and Nils Gilman)

Our Machines Evolved From Us (with Blaise Agüera y Arcas and Carlo Rovelli)

You Have Plenty to Hide From AI (with Meredith Whittaker and Nils Gilman)

On Love and Quantum Physics (with Carlo Rovelli and Claire Webb)

We Need to Stop Panicking About AI (with Andrew McAfee and Nils Gilman)

What Exactly is Futurology? (with Nils Gilman & Grant Slater)

The Democratization of Violence (with Fareed Zakaria and Nathan Gardels)

We Were Promised a World Without Work… (with Nick Srnicek and Nils Gilman)

Against the Tyranny of Certainty (with Elif Shafak and Nils Gilman)

The Quantum Path to Consciousness (with Hartmut Neven & Grant Slater)

The Backlash Against the “Best and Brightest” (with Michael Sandel and Nathan Gardels)

Augmenting Reality, Both Online and Off (with Evan Spiegel and Dawn Nakagawa)

Nothing Good Comes From This War (with Reza Aslan & Nathan Gardels)

Does Freedom Have a Future? (with Lea Ypi & Nils Gilman)

Could We Spotify-ify Healthcare? (with D.A. Wallach & Grant Slater)

How to Build a Consciousness Meter (with Christof Koch & Claire Webb)

Should We Use CRISPR to Steer Human Evolution? (with Jennifer Doudna & Dawn Nakagawa)

Our Mind Meld with Machines Is Coming (with Max Hodak and Nils Gilman)

The Human Right to Tell Our Own Stories (with Daniel Kwan and Dawn Nakagawa)

Can 'Big Math' Solve for the Future? (with Terence Tao and Dawn Nakagawa)

Why Consciousness Matters in the Age of AI (with David Chalmers and Nils Gilman)

Breaking Out of a Black-and-White World (with Brook Ziporyn and Bing Song)

The Future of Sovereignty Is Closer Than You Think (with Graham Brewer and Grant Slater)

Conjuring Art from Machine Hallucinations (with Refik Anadol and Claire Webb)

The Dangers of Seeing Ourselves in Artificial Intelligence (with Anil Seth and Nils Gilman)

What Whales Can Teach Us About Talking to Aliens (With David Gruber and Claire Webb)

The Big Lie Behind AI (with Jaron Lanier and Grant Slater)

How to Spot an Alien Civilization (with Adam Frank and Claire Webb)

When the Machine Becomes the Medium (with Ken Liu and Nils Gilman)

A Cosmic Voyage Through Deep Time (with Ross Andersen and Grant Slater)

The Spiritual Life of the Microbiome (with Aminah Bradford and Jonathan Blake)

The Wisdom of Not Knowing (with Pico Iyer and Nathan Gardels)

The Artful Politics of Picturing the Cosmos (with Lois Rosson and Claire Webb)

Why Globalization Can't Stop War Anymore (with Pascal Lamy and Lorenzo Marsili)

The Making of Ideas That Matter (with Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels)

A Breakdown in Global Governance (with Nathan Gardels and Anne-Marie Slaughter)

The Cyborg Watershed of the American West (with Lauren Bon and Grant Slater)

The Death Knell of the Nation-State (with Rana Dasgupta and Jonathan Blake)

How We Discovered Our Own Extinction (with Thomas Moynihan and Benjamin Bratton)

The Rise of the Cyberocracy (with John Markoff and Grant Slater)

Did the Sun Ever Set on the Age of Empire? (with Niall Ferguson and Nathan Gardels)

What if Buddhists Ran the World? (with Stephen Batchelor and Bing Song)

Letting Robots Know Where They Stand (with Fei-Fei Li and Dawn Nakagawa)

Inhabiting Artificial Minds... On Mars and Beyond (with Vandi Verma and Claire Webb)

After the End of History, an Age of Disorder (with Francis Fukuyama and Nathan Gardels)

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