Podcast Episodes

The Scouts

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Season 1 Episode 7

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A decade ago, the leading minds in AI gathered to make sure this technology would benefit everyone. Today, those hopes are colliding with the reality of an AI arms race. Today, game theorist Liv Boer…

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Published on 9 hours ago

The AI Doomers

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Season 1 Episode 6

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What happens when some of the most idealistic techno-optimists come to believe that superintelligence poses a threat to humanity's survival? Today, the best case for the worst case scenario. We sit d…

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Published on 1 week ago

Contact

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Season 1 Episode 5

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In the strange months after ChatGPT’s release, the world made contact with something new. A tech CEO begged to be regulated, a chatbot seemed to fall in love, and the godfathers of AI became frighten…

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Published on 3 weeks ago

Speedrun

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Season 1 Episode 4

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Is the only way to stop a bad guy with an AGI… a good guy with an AGI? In a twist of technological irony, the very people who warned most loudly about the existential dangers of artificial superintel…

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Published on 4 weeks ago

Playing the Wrong Game

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Season 1 Episode 3

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What if the path to a true thinking machine was found not just in a lab… but in a game? For decades, AI’s greatest triumphs came from games: checkers, chess, Jeopardy. But no matter how many trophies…

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Published on 1 month ago

The Signal

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Season 1 Episode 2

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In 1951, Alan Turing predicted machines might one day surpass human intelligence and 'take control.' He created a test to alert us when we were getting close. But seventy years of science fiction lat…

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Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Ready Or Not

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Season 1 Episode 1

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A tip alleging a Silicon Valley conspiracy leads to a much bigger story: the race to build artificial general intelligence — within the next few years — and the factions vying to accelerate it, to st…

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Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Introducing: The Last Invention

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For over seventy years, technologists have dreamed of building a true “thinking machine.” An artificial intelligence so powerful it would reshape every aspect of human life. Would it unlock unimagina…

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Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago