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Ezra Klein on the Uncertain Politics of A.I.
Dec 19, 2025 1h 1m

Ezra Klein on the Uncertain Politics of A.I.

Ezra Klein – New York Times opinion columnist and an influential voice on the American left – joins us at a hinge moment in the A.I. revolution. As artificial intelligence accelerates, Klein examin...

EP 8: The Accelerationists
Nov 20, 2025 53 min

EP 8: The Accelerationists

Meet the accelerationists: a rising movement that believes expediting AI development is not only inevitable but morally necessary – humanity’s best chance at transcending its limits. What happens w...

EP 7: The Scouts
Nov 13, 2025 54 min

EP 7: The Scouts

A decade ago, the leading minds in AI gathered to make sure this technology would benefit everyone. Today, those hopes are colliding with the reality of an AI arms race. Today, game theorist Liv Bo...

EP 6: The AI Doomers
Nov 06, 2025 56 min

EP 6: The AI Doomers

What happens when some of the most idealistic techno-optimists come to believe that superintelligence poses a threat to humanity's survival? Today, the best case for the worst case scenario. We sit...

EP 5: Contact
Oct 23, 2025 51 min

EP 5: Contact

In the strange months after ChatGPT’s release, the world made contact with something new. A tech CEO begged to be regulated, a chatbot seemed to fall in love, and the godfathers of AI became fright...

EP 4: Speedrun
Oct 16, 2025 1h 1m

EP 4: Speedrun

Is the only way to stop a bad guy with an AGI… a good guy with an AGI? In a twist of technological irony, the very people who warned most loudly about the existential dangers of artificial superint...

EP 3: Playing the Wrong Game
Oct 09, 2025 50 min

EP 3: Playing the Wrong Game

What if the path to a true thinking machine was found not just in a lab… but in a game? For decades, AI’s greatest triumphs came from games: checkers, chess, Jeopardy. But no matter how many trophi...

EP 2: The Signal
Oct 02, 2025 53 min

EP 2: The Signal

In 1951, Alan Turing predicted machines might one day surpass human intelligence and 'take control.' He created a test to alert us when we were getting close. But seventy years of science fiction l...

EP 1: Ready or Not
Oct 02, 2025 35 min

EP 1: Ready or Not

A tip alleging a Silicon Valley conspiracy leads to a much bigger story: the race to build artificial general intelligence — within the next few years — and the factions vying to accelerate it, to ...

Introducing: The Last Invention
Sep 15, 2025 2 min

Introducing: The Last Invention

For over seventy years, technologists have dreamed of building a true “thinking machine.” An artificial intelligence so powerful it would reshape every aspect of human life. Would it unlock unimagi...