Yuval Noah Harari (Extended)

If you don't know the story behind her favorite sandwich, or the first concert she attended, do you really know Hollywood icon Sigourney Weaver? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad ch ...  Show more

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham argues that the authors of the Constitution anticipated that authoritarian leaders would one day seek to corrupt the principles on which this country was founded. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: http ...  Show more

With his ever growing popularity I take a look back at my interview with Yuval Noah Harari, author of bestseller ‘Sapiens: A Brief History Of Humankind’. We discuss how homo sapiens came to dominate the world, how our society is built on fiction, the creation of a class of useles ...  Show more

Artificial intelligence has made headlines all year long, but the turn of events this week was extraordinary. OpenAI was thrown into chaos with the firing and eventual rehiring of CEO Sam Altman. There was a shakeup in the company’s board of directors and fierce debates about ...

Show notes | PDF & Infographic | Free Audiobook | What happens when artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence? This is the world that Nick Bostrom explores in his book, Superintelligence. Read 1 million books in minutes. For free. Get the PDF, infographic, full ad-fr ...  Show more

An artificial intelligence capable of improving itself runs the risk of growing intelligent beyond any human capacity and outside of our control. Josh explains why a superintelligent AI that we haven’t planned for would be extremely bad for humankind. (Original score by Point Lob ...  Show more