Podcast Episodes

Algorithmic Cancer: Why AI Development Is Not What You Think with Connor Leahy

Recently, the risks about Artificial Intelligence and the need for ‘alignment’ have been flooding our cultural discourse – with Artificial Super Intelligence acting as both the most promising goal an…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

The 10 Core Myths Still Taught in Business Schools | Frankly 99

Economics departments around the world teach a narrow boundary story of the way our world works. A narrative of infinite growth driven by consumption and money, which has dominated our culture and un…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

The National Security Risks We’re Not Prepared For: Adapting In an Age of Actorless Threats with Rod Schoonover

National security concerns have been the invisible hand guiding governance throughout recorded history. In the 20th century, it was defined by a country versus country dynamic: whichever nation was t…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

The Systems Science Behind Our Global Crises: How Energy Drives Economics, Ecology, and Our Future | The Great Simplification Movie

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Three years ago, my team and I created a 30-minute movie that provides a comprehensive systems analysis of the human predicament—spanning energy, economics, ecology, and be…

Published on 3 months ago

Globalization End Game: How Localization Builds Resilient Communities & Economies with Helena Norberg-Hodge

Over the last few decades, humanity has globalized everything – from food production and supply chains to communication and information systems – making countries, businesses, and individuals more co…

Published on 3 months ago

10 Qualities That Could Change the Future: The Seeds of New Cultural Mitochondria | Frankly 98

Living in a period increasingly fraught by various crises and risks, it is more necessary than ever to be able to metabolize anxiety into something useful. But what about at a cultural level? The beh…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

AI’s Unseen Risks: How Artificial Intelligence Could Harm Future Generations with Zak Stein

Episode 180

While most industries are embracing artificial intelligence, citing profit and efficiency, the tech industry is pushing AI into education under the guise of ‘inevitability’. But the focus on its pote…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Why the World Feels Like It’s Falling Apart: The Superorganism Explained in 7 Minutes | Frankly 97

In a world grappling with converging crises, we often look outward – for new tech, new markets, new distractions. But the deeper issue lies within: our relationship with energy, nature, and each othe…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

The Fish are Fleeing: How Shifting Marine Ecosystems are Upending Life with Malin Pinsky

Episode 179

For all of human history, the oceans and the life within them have remained a stable and fundamental part of Earth as we know it. Yet, for the past few decades, fisheries and scientists alike have ob…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

The 8 Faces of AI: Who Will You Become As AI Accelerates? | Frankly 96

In a world increasingly mediated by machines, the boundaries between human identity and artificial intelligence are beginning to blur. While some embrace the tools of the future, others quietly resis…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago