AI Has Gone Rogue. Here’s What We Should Do About It.
"This Is Really Bad." That's the not-so-comforting headline of Stephen Witt's mega-viral New York Times essay about a dawning realization among Silicon Valley researchers that "AI may no longer be ent...
24 Syys 57min
You Don't Have Free Will. That's Good News. (NBI Vault)
Do we have free will? Do we have a choice in what we do? Philosophers and theologians have debated these questions for centuries; Robert Sapolsky answered them when he was 14. Free will, he concluded,...
21 Syys 1h 7min
Is America a ‘Country of Lords’?
America was founded on a radical promise: all people are created equal. But for 250 years, some of the country’s most powerful thinkers have been arguing the opposite. In Country of Lords, historian ...
14 Syys 53min
A Storytelling Masterclass with Will Storr (NBI Vault)
Will Storr is the author of the dazzling books The Science of Storytelling and A Story Is a Deal, and in this episode, he tells us everything he knows about humanity’s greatest invention: story. More ...
10 Syys 1h 34min
What Can Henry David Thoreau Teach Us About Work?
Henry David Thoreau was a philosopher, poet, and pencil-maker. He was a great resigner and, above all, a superb writer whose masterpiece, "Walden," is considered by many to be America's first environm...
7 Syys 45min
How French Philosophy Wired Modern Thinking
How did a group of notoriously difficult French philosophers become intellectual rock stars on American college campuses — and how much do their ideas matter today? In The Frenchmen, writer and edit...
3 Syys 1h 4min
A Nobel Prize Winner’s Plan to Save Democracy
Democracy is in the dumps. OK, that's a bit dramatic. But it's definitely not working as well as it used to. Good thing Daron Acemoglu — Nobel laureate, MIT Institute Professor, and one of the world's...
31 Elo 57min
