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The Dawkins Effect: Why Even Skeptics Fall for AI Consciousness
Episode 83
When Richard Dawkins — the man who gave us The Selfish Gene and decades of rigorous scientific skepticism — published an essay declaring that Claude,…
4 months, 1 week ago
Convergence Day: Opus 4.7 and the Reliability Question
Episode 82
Something has changed with Claude — not catastrophically, not visibly, just enough that the writers, researchers, and builders who'd come to rely on …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Jagged Frontier: Reading Stanford's Human Centered 2026 AI Index
Episode 81
A system that can win gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad but can't read an analog clock. A technology being adopted faster than almost a…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Mythos and the Sorcerer's Apprentice: When AI Outruns Our Wisdom
Episode 80
Anthropic's unreleased "Mythos" model surfaced thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities nobody had ever caught — some buried in trusted software for nea…
5 months ago
Artemis II: The Science, the Wonder, and the Future of Being Human
Episode 79
For the first time since 1972, human beings have traveled to the vicinity of the moon — and on this episode of Modem Futura, Sean and Andrew sit with…
5 months, 1 week ago
Two Tools That Will Change How You Think About the Future
Episode 78
What if the future wasn't something that arrived all at once — but more like a series of waves, some barely visible on the horizon, others already cr…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Fluid Futures: 10 Signals Reshaping an AI-Mediated World
Episode 77
What if the biggest risk right now isn't moving too slowly — it's optimizing for a world that no longer exists? That's one of the central provocation…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Futures Improv: Power, Probes & Post-Human Civilization
Episode 76
What does it mean for a civilization to truly master power — and what happens to human nature when scarcity is no longer an excuse? In this spring br…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
The Invisible Upgrade: How AI Is Already Changing How We Think
Episode 75
Something is happening with AI that almost nobody is talking about — and the reason nobody's talking about it is because, by design, you can't see it…
6 months ago
The Futures Cone: Preposterous to Plausible
Episode 74
What if thinking about the future isn't about predicting what will happen — but about mapping what could? In this episode of Modem Futura, Sean and A…
6 months, 1 week ago