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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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
How to Spot an Alien Civilization (with Adam Frank and Claire Webb)
For the first time in human history, we can see other worlds. Nearly six thousand planets have been discovered orbiting distant stars — and more appear every year. Each one is a reminder that Earth is...
11 Nov 20251h 8min
When the Machine Becomes the Medium (with Ken Liu and Nils Gilman)
The first machines mimicked our muscles. Today, they’ve learned to mirror our minds. Now they’re beginning to imitate something even closer to the core of our humanity – imagination itself. Sci-fi aut...
4 Nov 20251h 26min
A Cosmic Voyage Through Deep Time (with Ross Andersen and Grant Slater)
Humanity has a deep time problem. Our internal clock simply cannot compute on a time scale that takes into account the rise and fall of civilizations, star systems, and superintelligences. Unable to f...
30 Sep 20251h 26min
