“People will get used to it.”

Google Quantum AI founder Hartmut Neven says the quantum multiverse will soon seem as obvious as a round Earth.

Full episode: youtu.be/DhifEzMSsGA

"Why not consider for bicameral legislatures to have one house elected and the other house chosen by lottery? A Senate and a people's house."

Political philosopher Michael Sandel has big ideas to save democracy.

Full episode here: youtu.be/kgoOo8-A7vI

"’If you didn't go get a university degree, your failure is your fault.’ It's no wonder that many working people came to feel patronized and looked down upon."

Michael Sandel on how meritocracy bred resentment.

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"Change is hard, it’s happening fast, but we’ve done it before."

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel on the pattern of change.

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"The digital and offline worlds are actually one and the same… The more that we recognize that we can help shape technology to fit the world that we already live in."

Evan Spiegel on ending digital dualism.

Full episode here: youtu.be/Q49rfO_Gvqw

"Seven dollars for older folks to every dollar for folks under the age of 18. It's no wonder there's that feeling of nihilism."

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel on why investing in young people is our most urgent priority.

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"Seven dollars for older folks to every dollar for folks under the age of 18. It's no wonder there's that feeling of nihilism."

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel on why investing in young people is our most urgent priority.

Full episode here: youtu.be/Q49rfO_Gvqw

"The worst wars in human history – in the name of what? Not religion, not ethnicity, not race – in the name of nationalism."

Reza Aslan on why nationalism isn’t long for this world.

Full episode here: youtu.be/05Oz9bZrWRE

"The problem with that cosmic war mentality is that it makes the terms of the conflict both unwinnable and unlosable."

Reza Aslan on why the war in Iran is doomed.

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“We might see armies that are no longer under control by the state, but controlled by private companies.”

Political philosopher Lea Ypi (@leaypi.bsky.social) on what the collapse of Western democracy could look like.

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“Every authority is going to try to convince you the present is superior to the past.”

Political philosopher Lea Ypi (@leaypi.bsky.social) on surveillance states, then and now.

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"We're putting the world's greatest doctor in everyone's pocket."

D.A. Wallach on AI as the great equalizer in healthcare.

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“It’s a very clever deep fake of human emotion.”

Renowned neuroscientist Christof Koch explains why LLMs are not the path to conscious machines

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I love you with all my hypothalamus.

Neuroscientist Christoph Koch reminds us how far we’ve come in the biology of consciousness (and love) with some clues about where we’re headed next.

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Who should oversee the ethics of DNA editing? For Nobel Prize-winning chemist Jennifer Doudna (@innovativegenomics.bsky.social)the scientists who understand it best should at least be at the table.

Listen to the full conversation here on Futurology:

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As society grapples with its understanding of RNA editing, scientists like Jennifer Doudna (@innovativegenomics.bsky.social) see treatments for terrible diseases hiding in plain sight.

Listen to the full conversation with the Nobel Prize-winning chemist here: youtu.be/VpAxyrd8vKA

Would you implant a chip in your kid’s brain? Probably not. Max Hodak (@maxhodak.bsky.social) says brain computer interfaces are not ready for children, even if future generations may eventually learn to use them in awesome ways.

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Will Hollywood stand up to AI’s creative takeover or parrot the big tech party line? Oscar-winner Daniel Kwan sees us in a window of opportunity.

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To build a utopia, we need to create tomorrow today. Oscar-winning director Daniel Kwan says the future must be evenly distributed.

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Will brain-computer interfaces let people “hack” our minds?

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Max Hodak (@maxhodak.bsky.social) argues the real effects may be subtle and potentially less dramatic than the influence social media already has over attention and behavior.

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Hollywood is uniting to protect human creativity.

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With Creators Coalition on Artificial Intelligence, Oscar-winning Director Daniel Kwan has joined many supporters across the entertainment industry to push back against the industrialization of imagination.

AI is about to make thinking effortless. Is that… good?

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World-renowned mathematician Terence Tao makes a simple comparison: when food got cheap and abundant, we didn’t stop eating. We had to learn how to eat well. So what’s your rule of thumb?

Will AI slop ruin our appetite for creativity? 

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Daniel Kwan, director of Everything Everywhere All at Once, says that imagination processed by AI could be just as harmful as America’s ultra-processed diets.

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In mathematics, trying something that does not work is not a disaster. It is the method.

Terence Tao, mathematician at UCLA, explains why mathematics is one of the few disciplines where being wrong is how progress is made.

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AI can produce answers that sound right but are often wrong.

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Terence Tao (@teorth.bsky.social), mathematician at UCLA, argues that mathematics has spent centuries refining how to verify truth making it essential to the future of AI.

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“Failure is very cheap in math.”

Terence Tao, mathematician at UCLA, explains why mathematics is one of the few disciplines where being wrong is how progress is made, and why that matters in an AI-driven world.

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Will machines feel pain? If they can, what will we do about it?

David Chalmers on why consciousness, even uncertain consciousness, matters in the age of AI.

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“We want the fundamental laws of consciousness —
something simple enough to fit on a T-shirt.”

David Chalmers on why consciousness is still an open scientific frontier.

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“We don’t know whether AI systems can suffer.
If they can, imposing suffering would be gratuitous.”

David Chalmers on why consciousness even uncertain consciousness matters in the age of AI.

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“What is beyond reality?” AI Artist Refik Anadol says all artists ask themselves this question

Can machines see behind the curtain in ways that humans can’t?

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