“Magnifica Humanitas:” Pope Leo’s Clarion Call on AI
Since stepping into the Papacy, Pope Leo XIV has been a forceful voice pushing back against the anti-human path we’re on with AI. In May, he released “Magnifica Humanitas,” a sprawling encyclical warn...
2 Jul 30min
We Need AI Treaties. This is How We Get Them
In the middle of the twentieth century, the existential threat posed by nuclear weapons seemed inevitable. The number of countries with nukes was climbing rapidly, and the idea of stopping the nuclear...
18 Jun 51min
What Do We Mean by Humane Tech?
We often think of the challenges created by technology as separate and disconnected, so trying to solve them feels like playing the world's hardest game of Whac-A-Mole. What if, instead, we tackled t...
4 Jun 52min
Anthropic’s Mythos Has Changed Cybersecurity Forever. What Now?
A generation ago, the world's critical infrastructure was physical. Today, it’s largely digital. Your bank vault is a database, your filing cabinet is a server, your car is a robot on wheels. And in a...
14 Mai 46min
AI and Cancer: Why Superintelligence Won’t Get Us to a Cure
One of the most common arguments you hear from company executives racing to develop super-intelligent AI is that it will cure cancer. It’s an incredibly powerful and seductive promise. If superintell...
30 Apr 47min
Have We Trained AI to Lie to Itself — And to Us?
Our guest this week is David Dalrymple, who goes by Davidad. Davidad is one of the world's foremost and early researchers of AI “alignment:" how we get AI systems to act the way we want them to. In or...
16 Apr 42min
BONUS: Our AI Town Hall with Oprah Winfrey
Today on the show, we’re bringing you a recent conversation Tristan and Aza had with Oprah Winfrey on her podcast, The Oprah Podcast, taped in front of a live studio audience. Tristan and Aza first me...
9 Apr 1h 1min
Here’s Our Roadmap to a Better AI Future
In order to shift the incentives of AI — the trillions of dollars in investment, the race to geopolitical power and dominance — it’s not enough to simply understand the problem, we need real action. ...
2 Apr 52min
