Multispecies Democracy Now! (with Jonathon Keats and Grant Slater)
Democracy counts people, not plants. Humans are only a sliver of life on this planet, but today, we're the only ones who get a vote. What if we gave rights to rivers and standing to trees? In this e...
6 Okt 1h 37min
Let AI Have Intelligence. We’ll Keep Wisdom. (with Arianna Huffington and Dawn Nakagawa)
Somewhere around the Enlightenment we decided that thinking was what made us human. We built our schools, careers, and sense of worth at the altar of intelligence. Now machines are passing us on that ...
29 Sep 1h 4min
Are We Posthuman? (with N. Katherine Hayles and Claire Webb)
Relying on machines to coordinate our lives was just one step toward decentering humanity’s role in the world. Flights, banking, trade, food production... But as we start merging our actual decision-m...
17 Sep 1h 8min
God Is In the Machine (with Kevin Kelly and Nils Gilman)
Technologists have feared (or prayed for) the singularity as a rapture-like inevitability for nearly 70 years. In an instant, they believed, our machine intelligence will overtake us and race ahead. K...
9 Sep 1h 40min
Gamble on Anything. Except Murder. (with Bobby Allyn and Grant Slater)
With prediction markets, gambling has gone ambient. To place your bets, you don't need to visit a casino floor, a racetrack, or your corner bookie. Now any uncertain thing on Earth could be the next b...
18 Aug 1h 16min
There's No Such Thing as a Free Agent (with Gillian Tett and Dawn Nakagawa)
One value proposition of AI is a personalized assistant at your fingertips. Every Average Joe can now have a “pocket pixie," the kind of perk once reserved for Hollywood stars and high-powered CEOs. B...
11 Aug 1h 7min
We're Winning the Race to Replace Ourselves (with Tristan Harris and Dawn Nakagawa)
The people racing to build artificial general intelligence tell us this rush to the future is inevitable. It reads like a forecast, but works like an alibi. If nothing can stop the race, then no one d...
4 Aug 51min
