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Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

by Agoric Media

The Doomsday Clock is set to 85 seconds until midnight — the closest it has ever been in its 79-year history. The world is at war. And the people building the most powerful technology in human history are warning, in public, that it might kill us all. Season One of Suspicious Minds examined what happens when AI fractures individual minds. Season Two asks a harder question: what happens when it shatters our collective sense of the future? Our ancestors have predicted the end of the world since ancient times. Thus far, they have always been wrong. So what does our eternal obsession with the…

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Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse ·1w ago ·1h 10m

Better Angels (Part One)

Better Angels (Part One) examines effective altruism (EA) and its influence on AI development, framing it as a modern eschatology rather than a philosophy. Host Sean King O'Grady explores how EA—the idea of using reason and evidence to do the most good—has shaped powerful figures in AI, while questioning whether this…

Worth it if you're interested in the philosophical underpinnings of AI ethics, effective altruism's influence on tech, or how apocalyptic thinking shapes contemporary movements—and can handle abstract philosophy with some effort.

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