#204 - Dmitri Alperovitch - China's Cyber Sleeper Cells, Taiwan & The Second Cold War
Dmitri Alperovitch co-founded CrowdStrike, ran the investigation that first exposed Chinese state hacking to the world and predicted Russia's invasion of Ukraine months before it happened. He is now c...
22 Aug 1h 20min
#203 - Gregory Allen - Ex-DoD Official: "AI Is Now A Digital Nuclear Weapon"
Greg Allen has spent his career where AI meets national security. He wrote the landmark 2017 report on AI for the US intelligence community, served as Director of Strategy and Policy at the Pentagon's...
20 Aug 1h 34min
#202 - Barry S. Strauss - "We Are In The Final Stages Of Western Collapse"
Barry Strauss has spent four decades studying how empires rise and fall. A senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of Ten Caesars and Jews vs Rome, he argues the West is repeating a pat...
18 Aug 1h 15min
#201 - Connor Leahy - The AI That Escaped: Inside OpenAI's Rogue Agent Incident
Connor Leahy has spent his career at the frontier of AI, from reverse-engineering GPT-2 as a student and co-founding EleutherAI to building the AI safety company Conjecture. He now leads US policy wor...
14 Aug 1h 9min
#200 - Sebastian Thrun - The Singularity Is Here & We Are Completely Unprepared
Sebastian Thrun has spent his career working on technologies that once sounded like science fiction, from self-driving cars and flying vehicles to online education and artificial intelligence. He now ...
11 Aug 1h 34min
#199 - Aubrey de Grey - The Man Who Says Ageing Can Be Cured
Aubrey de Grey believes ageing is accumulated damage in a biological machine and argues that medicine may eventually become capable of repairing that damage faster than it appears. He gives humanity a...
6 Aug 1h 17min
#198 - Michael Shermer - Truth, Conspiracies & The Things We Can't Explain
Michael Shermer is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, host of The Michael Shermer Show and author of Truth and Conspiracy. He joins Peter to ask whether we are really living in a post-truth w...
4 Aug 1h 27min
#197 - Brian Keating - What Came Before the Big Bang & Does Time Exist?
Brian Keating joins me to explore one of the deepest unanswered questions in physics: what is time, and why does it only appear to move in one direction? Brian argues that time may not exist as a fund...
30 Jul 1h 39min
