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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 12h

"The people we don't agree with politically are not seen just as adversaries. They're seen as heretics." Arianna Huffington on the spiritual temptation of our polarization. Full episode here: youtu.be/f7QZ0xxkp6c

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Intelligence is no longer on the throne. Consciousness is on the throne." Arianna Huffington, Thrive Global founder, on the fourth dethronement. Full episode here: youtu.be/f7QZ0xxkp6c

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Omniscience is not the most important divine attribute. The most important divine attribute is love." Arianna Huffington on her friends who think AI is God. Full episode here: youtu.be/f7QZ0xxkp6c

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Joint decisions were now being made by human and non-human participants." N. Katherine Hayles, posthumanist scholar, on our new epoch of humanity. Full episode here: youtu.be/rryjPdKMxO4

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"The future of digital technologies is analog." N. Katherine Hayles, posthumanist scholar, on what biology has over machines. Full episode here: youtu.be/rryjPdKMxO4

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"If all computational media were to crash at midnight tonight, developed societies would have extinction rates of about 90% within six months." N. Katherine Hayles, posthumanist scholar, looks at our symbiotic dependence on machines. Full episode here: youtu.be/rryjPdKMxO4

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Claude wants to be honest… If they're not dealing with reality, then they're not going to be effective." Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired, on machine sensibilities. Full episode here: youtu.be/Dqr82eem4Zw

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"The current organized religions are going to undergo a huge transformation, or die, from contact with these artificial aliens that we're creating." Kevin Kelly, Co-Founder of Wired, on what AI will do to religion. Full episode here: youtu.be/Dqr82eem4Zw

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Singularities are only basically viewable in retrospect." Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired, on the rapture we can’t see in real time. Full episode here: youtu.be/Dqr82eem4Zw

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"My first instinct when I heard China runs the algorithm was that's BS. And then when I really dug in, I moved farther away from that." Bobby Allyn (@bobbyallyn.bsky.social), NPR tech correspondent, on TikTok and Beijing. Full episode here: youtu.be/T0-eFfrqBNk?...

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"The rich and the powerful in Silicon Valley hate that they can't control it. That's why they're funding prediction markets, because they want a way to control the narrative." Bobby Allyn (@bobbyallyn.bsky.social), NPR tech correspondent, on the anti-media war. Full episode: youtu.be/T0-eFfrqBNk

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"If you have military officials using classified information to bet on that and it creates a signal in the noise, what does that do? Put the enemy on notice." Bobby Allyn (@bobbyallyn.bsky.social), NPR tech correspondent, on prediction markets and war. Full episode here: youtu.be/T0-eFfrqBNk

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"Gen Z increasingly trusts AI bots for medical information rather than humans, because an AI bot is increasingly seen as being part of their crowd, not an authority figure." Gillian Tett, Financial Times columnist, on the new shape of trust. Full episode here: youtu.be/os-P38NP268

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"It feels very flattering and very delightful and quite addictive to feel like you have your own AI agent that does exactly what you want." Gillian Tett, Financial Times columnist, on the pixie in your pocket. Full episode here: studio.youtube.com/video/os-P38...

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"There's a co-founder of one of the top five AI companies who actually believes that we've got three years and that he and his children will probably not make it." Tristan Harris (@humanetech.bsky.social) , co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology. Full episode here: youtu.be/TXi-RxC22Lk

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Tristan Harris (@humanetech.bsky.social) says every AI conversation ends the same way: "Dessert comes and people kind of mumble and say, well, I guess someone else figures this out." Full episode here: youtu.be/TXi-RxC22Lk

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"We're racing to mutually assured political revolution." Tristan Harris, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology (@humanetech.bsky.social), on the AI arms race. Full episode here: youtu.be/TXi-RxC22Lk

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"We are the universe. Whatever this incredible thing is, however little we understand about it, something is unfolding and we are a part of that." Annaka Harris, author. Full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmFn...

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"[Meditation] is the only science we have so far for interrogating conscious experience." Annaka Harris, author, on the oldest experiment. Full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmFn...

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"It's very likely consciousness goes actually very deep in nature and is not something complex at all." Annaka Harris, author, on the next paradigm shift. Full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmFn...

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

"A couple of years ago, everyone was like, red line, no RSI. And now it's like, hey, can you get to RSI faster than the other people?" Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, on recursive self-improvement. Full episode here: youtu.be/hyYyI9POUPY

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"The tsunami's coming. How do we figure out how to have our surfboards?" Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, on the AI job wave. Full episode here: youtu.be/hyYyI9POUPY

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"I think they're really quite terrified in a sense, but they can't get out of the race condition that they're in." Stuart Russell, founder of the Center for Human-Compatible AI at UC Berkeley, on the men trying to build AGI. Full episode here: youtu.be/GUWNTkPsJr8

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"Governments have the power to effectively bomb all the data centers in one go by just saying, sorry, you can't release systems with those capabilities, end of story." Stuart Russell, Founder, Center for Human-Compatible AI, on the real off switch. Full episode here: youtu.be/GUWNTkPsJr8

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"The last 100 human civilizations, 92 of them went extinct because of AI, and only eight of them went extinct for other reasons. Like, come on." Stuart Russell, AI pioneer, on demands for evidence of extinction risk. Full episode here: youtu.be/GUWNTkPsJr8

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

"Seeing AI as separate from humanity makes very little sense." Google's Blaise Agüera y Arcas (@blaiseaguera.bsky.social) on the deep symbiosis between humans and their machines, and why it only deepens from here. Full episode here: youtu.be/tDccIoz-SFI

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"The idea that something intelligent is higher in a dominance hierarchy and will wipe out the things below, I do find completely implausible." - Google's Blaise Agüera y Arcas (@blaiseaguera.bsky.social) on why AI won't exterminate humanity Full episode here: youtu.be/tDccIoz-SFI

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"If you took any of today's frontier models and you time-traveled back to the year 2000, everybody would say, 'Yeah, we're there.'" Google's Blaise Agüera y Arcas (@blaiseaguera.bsky.social) says AGI already arrived. We just moved the goalposts. Full episode here: youtu.be/tDccIoz-SFI

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

"When a surveillance giant is suddenly a tacit arm of the U.S. military, how do we think about that? …I think it’s pretty terrifying." Meredith Whittaker (@meredithmeredith.bsky.social), President of Signal, on Big Tech's unholy matrimony with the U.S. military. Full episode: youtu.be/qYVeyhxLF7s

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"Imagine every text you've ever written in your life in a database somewhere. What would you not be willing to do to prevent that being sent to everyone you know?" Meredith Whittaker (@meredithmeredith.bsky.social), President of Signal, on the 'nothing to hide' delusion. youtu.be/qYVeyhxLF7s

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

“When we put ourself in the center, we know we're making a mistake… We are just ripples on the floor.” Carlo Rovelli, theoretical physicist, on humanity’s true standing. Full episode here: youtu.be/ojxO_qtl1xA?...

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"There’s a deep equality of level between all the things. Whether it's a moon going around the earth, a ball falling on the ground, or me getting in love with a person." Carlo Rovelli, theoretical physicist, on love and gravity. Full episode here: youtu.be/ojxO_qtl1xA

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

“If you have a choice in decision quality…you should almost always take the algorithm.” Andrew McAfee, MIT economist, says human judgement is often inferior. Exhibit A: preferring our own judgement over computers’. Full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3zO...

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

“We have lightened up on the earth. The economy now weighs less year after year.” Andrew McAfee, MIT economist, on the surprising discovery that we’re doing more with less. Full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3zO...

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

“I'll be surprised if you and I come back five years, even 10 years from now, and we're talking about all these unemployed white-collar workers sleeping under bridges.” Andrew McAfee, MIT economist, on the familiar pattern of AI freakouts. Full episode here: youtu.be/k3zOahZhEEo?...

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

"People who were guzzling gasoline will be seen as moral abominations in the same way that large slaveholders are seen today." Berggruen Editor-in-Chief Nils Gilman (@nilsgilman.bsky.social) on today’s biggest delusions. Full episode:https://youtu.be/cHCiDVv63Sk

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

“The MeToo movement freaked out a lot of privileged men... If you got to be a rich white man in America, you could do whatever you want.” Nils Gilman (@nilsgilman.bsky.social) on the backlash to #MeToo that reshaped Silicon Valley. Full episode:https://youtu.be/cHCiDVv63Sk

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Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 27/05/2026

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

"The idea that you can remake the world. That's not an idea that was common at all in the past. It would have been considered hubris." Futurology’s resident futurist Nils Gilman (@nilsgilman.bsky.social) says the future is at our fingertips. Full episode:https://youtu.be/cHCiDVv63Sk

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

"He might ironically give greater legitimacy to this regime than they have ever had before." Fareed Zakaria, host of CNN's GPS, on why Trump's War on Iran is giving the Islamic Republic unprecedented standing. Full episode here: youtu.be/OQ96iN0Kvl4

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

“They were able to hold the Strait of Hormuz hostage with $30,000 drones… There are a lot of people who can afford that.” Fareed Zakaria, host of CNN's GPS, on the democratization of violence. Full episode here: youtu.be/OQ96iN0Kvl4

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

"The biggest own goal that the Trump administration has made." Fareed Zakaria, host of CNN's GPS, discusses what Trump's break with US allies could cost us. Full episode here: youtu.be/OQ96iN0Kvl4?si…

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

“We’ve got people living to a longer period of life, and we don't have as many youth coming along to be able to look after them." Silicon Empire author Nick Srnicek (@nsrnicek.bsky.social) on the incoming care work boom. Full episode: youtu.be/ivprrWwWcJI

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

"Utopia should never be conceived of as an end state. There has to always be a space for contestation and discord and tensions and contradictions." Silicon Empire author Nick Srnicek (@nsrnicek.bsky.social) says don’t wait for utopia, move toward it. Full episode here: youtu.be/ivprrWwWcJI

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

"The AI industry will just have full rein... and it will not have anything beyond the ethics of the individuals running these companies to hold them back." Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social on Trump blocking regulation of AI. Full episode here: youtu.be/ivprrWwWcJI

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

"We all have an inner garden that we're responsible for. I think we need to take good care of that." Novelist Elif Shafak on the connections our future depends on. Full episode: youtu.be/VH4myjCIUQA

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

"Within these large language models, the knowledge is often tilted in a West-centric direction. The knowledge of many minorities and all that oral storytelling is being erased." Elif Shafak on what AI gets wrong. Full episode: youtu.be/VH4myjCIUQA

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

"I like it when faith and doubt hold hands and dance together.” Elif Shafak on spirituality vs. religiosity. Full episode here: youtu.be/VH4myjCIUQA

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Futurology @futurologypod.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

“I would not be surprised if the first thing an AGI asks for is access to a quantum computer.” Google Quantum AI founder Hartmut Neven on why quantum processing is a whole new level of power. Full episode: youtu.be/DhifEzMSsGA

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