Tag: Futurology

• Futurology: Why Consciousness Matters in the Age of AI (with David Chalmers and Nils Gilman)

  January 21, 2026

  Listen: https://ift.tt/thoBx0e 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… more ›

• Futurology: The Future of Sovereignty Is Closer Than You Think (with Graham Brewer and Grant Slater)

  December 23, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/lqauSZ9 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… more ›

• Futurology: The Dangers of Seeing Ourselves in Artificial Intelligence (with Anil Seth and Nils Gilman)

  December 9, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/qG0X2mr 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… more ›

• Futurology: The Big Lie Behind AI (with Jaron Lanier and Grant Slater)

  November 18, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/rnyGxQv 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… more ›

• Futurology: When the Machine Becomes the Medium (with Ken Liu and Nils Gilman)

  November 4, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/ExiGPrN 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 –… more ›

• Futurology: The Rise of the Cyberocracy (with John Markoff and Grant Slater)

  August 15, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/kEU2zyB In the 21st century, Silicon Valley has coded into existence a vast memetic machinery — a self-replicating ecosystem of feedback loops, default settings, and algorithms now steering society… more ›

• Futurology: After the End of History, an Age of Disorder (with Francis Fukuyama and Nathan Gardels)

  August 15, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/zUwhtmo More than three decades ago, Francis Fukuyama saw the future: a world order that looked inevitable, stable, liberal. What emerged instead is something bumpier, louder, and far more dangerous.… more ›

• Futurology: The Death Knell of the Nation-State (with Rana Dasgupta and Jonathan Blake)

  August 5, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/WrEl0jp The modern nation-state wasn’t just a conglomeration of laws and armies. It was a belief in borders, in belonging, in the promise that citizenship could ground identity in… more ›

• Futurology: How We Discovered Our Own Extinction (with Thomas Moynihan and Benjamin Bratton)

  August 4, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/7EGaKxy For most of human history, the end of the world was a divine promise, inevitable and liberating for the holy alone. But the invention of extinction changed that.… more ›

• Futurology: Did the Sun Ever Set on the Age of Empire? (with Niall Ferguson and Nathan Gardels)

  July 16, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/XWfcruN On America’s 250th birthday, historian Niall Ferguson suggests that the US has reached an age when most republics fizzle out. Donald Trump’s rise is merely a symptom of… more ›