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Nate Soares on Why AI Could Kill Us All
Nate Soares is president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and co-author, with Eliezer Yudkowsky, of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies:…
11 months ago
The Good Fight Club: A Warm Welcome for MBS, the Future of MAGA, and Democrat Infighting
Edward Luce, Russell Muirhead, Lauren Harper Pope, and Yascha Mounk on this week’s news. In this week’s conversation, Ed Luce, Russ Muirhead, Lauren …
11 months ago
James Loxton on Democracies and Dictators
James Loxton is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Authoritarianism: A Very Short Introductio…
11 months, 1 week ago
William MacAskill on Effective Altruism
Yascha Mounk and William MacAskill also discuss artificial intelligence. William MacAskill is a moral philosopher and cofounder of the effective altr…
11 months, 1 week ago
Shadi Hamid on Why We Need American Power
Shadi Hamid is a columnist at The Washington Post and a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. Hamid’s n…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
George Packer on Liberal Values in Authoritarian Times
Yascha Mounk and George Packer discuss autocracy in literature and real life. George Packer is an award-winning author and staff writer at The Atlant…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
The Good Fight Club: Mayor Mamdani, the Crackup at Heritage, and the Death of Dick Cheney
In this conversation, Sam Kahn, Mike Pesca, Christine Rosen, and Yascha Mounk discuss what the election results mean for the direction of the Democra…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Joseph Heath on the Death of Marxism
Joseph Heath is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Trudeau Fou…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
The Good Fight Club: Mamdani Mania, the Neverending Shutdown, and the Trump-Xi Summit
Richard Aldous, Sabina Ćudić, and Damon Linker join Yascha Mounk to dissect this week’s news. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk, Richard Aldo…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Geoffrey Hinton on Artificial Intelligence
Yascha Mounk and Geoffrey Hinton discuss how AI works—and why it’s a risk. Geoffrey Hinton is a cognitive psychologist and computer scientist known …
11 months, 3 weeks ago