Could We Spotify-ify Healthcare? (with D.A. Wallach & Grant Slater)
What do music, medicine, and markets have in common? They all rely on stories we tell ourselves about how the world works. And those stories are being turned on their heads by AI. In this episode, m...
10 Mars 1h 43min
How to Build a Consciousness Meter (with Christof Koch & Claire Webb)
Where does consciousness come from, and who (or what) gets to have it? The newest AI models have the power to convince users that they’re very much alive inside. But what if there were a test to check...
3 Mars 1h 23min
Should We Use CRISPR to Steer Human Evolution? (with Jennifer Doudna & Dawn Nakagawa)
We live in a moment when the power to change the world often arrives before the wisdom to understand that power. CRISPR, a bacterial immunity process turned DNA editing tool, promises breakthroughs ac...
10 Feb 1h 38min
Our Mind Meld with Machines Is Coming (with Max Hodak and Nils Gilman)
Big Tech already lives rent-free in our heads. The attention economy monetized and industrialized our mental real estate long ago. Now, with brain-computer interfaces, companies with ambitious names l...
4 Feb 1h 8min
The Human Right to Tell Our Own Stories (with Daniel Kwan and Dawn Nakagawa)
Daniel Kwan – the Oscar-winning co-director of Everything Everywhere All at Once – is a 21st-century filmmaker in the purest sense. He came up in the internet’s attention economy, making over-the-top ...
27 Jan 1h 18min
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
