Can 'Big Math' Solve for the Future? (with Terence Tao and Dawn Nakagawa)
As AI floods the world with answers that merely sound right, math tethers them to the need to be actually right. New machine learning tools and collaboration platforms are pushing theoretical mathem...
20 Jan 1h 4min
Why Consciousness Matters in the Age of AI (with David Chalmers and Nils Gilman)
It’s extremely difficult to doubt that you’re conscious, but still nearly impossible to explain why. As AI starts to speak in a voice that feels familiar, this ancient philosophical puzzle is becoming...
13 Jan 1h 29min
Breaking Out of a Black-and-White World (with Brook Ziporyn and Bing Song)
We live in a culture that flattens the world into yes or no. Hot takes and hard binaries promise simplicity. But complexity is leaking through the cracks. Opposites depend on each other. If you try to...
6 Jan 56min
The Future of Sovereignty Is Closer Than You Think (with Graham Brewer and Grant Slater)
The current world order seeks to make sovereignty simple. One map. One flag. One final authority. But in Indian Country, the borders break down. Tribal nations govern alongside the United States, and ...
23 Des 20251h 36min
Conjuring Art from Machine Hallucinations (with Refik Anadol and Claire Webb)
For Artist Refik Anadol, data is not just information. It is pigment. He feeds weather records, river flows, forests and archives into custom AI models and treats the outputs as brushstrokes. The poin...
16 Des 202556min
The Dangers of Seeing Ourselves in Artificial Intelligence (with Anil Seth and Nils Gilman)
Humans are built for pattern recognition. It is the engine behind perception, emotion, and the fragile sense of self that feels so solid from the inside. For Anil Seth, this pattern-making power expla...
9 Des 20251h 5min
What Whales Can Teach Us About Talking to Aliens (With David Gruber and Claire Webb)
We’ve spent decades beaming radio waves into space listening for an answer. But it might be enough to start here on Earth, or more accurately, under the seas. Sperm whales live in complex clans and co...
25 Nov 20251h 16min
The Big Lie Behind AI (with Jaron Lanier and Grant Slater)
Artificial intelligence isn’t alive. But our belief that it is may be the most dangerous illusion of all. Tech leaders talk about AI as if it thinks for itself. But that fantasy hides a more nuanced s...
18 Nov 20251h 39min
