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Futurology is a weekly podcast from the Berggruen Institute where we work to name what’s next. Join us as we imagine a future we can accomplish together, instead of one we must all work to prevent.

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Will Hollywood stand up to AI’s creative takeover or parrot the big tech party line? Oscar-winner Daniel Kwan sees us in a window of opportunity.

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09.02.2026 15:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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To build a utopia, we need to create tomorrow today. Oscar-winning director Daniel Kwan says the future must be evenly distributed.

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07.02.2026 16:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Will brain-computer interfaces let people “hack” our minds?

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Max Hodak (@maxhodak.bsky.social) argues the real effects may be subtle and potentially less dramatic than the influence social media already has over attention and behavior.

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06.02.2026 16:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hollywood is uniting to protect human creativity.

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With Creators Coalition on Artificial Intelligence, Oscar-winning Director Daniel Kwan has joined many supporters across the entertainment industry to push back against the industrialization of imagination.

05.02.2026 16:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI is about to make thinking effortless. Is that… good?

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World-renowned mathematician Terence Tao makes a simple comparison: when food got cheap and abundant, we didn’t stop eating. We had to learn how to eat well. So what’s your rule of thumb?

03.02.2026 16:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Will AI slop ruin our appetite for creativity? 

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Daniel Kwan, director of Everything Everywhere All at Once, says that imagination processed by AI could be just as harmful as America’s ultra-processed diets.

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31.01.2026 17:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In mathematics, trying something that does not work is not a disaster. It is the method.

Terence Tao, mathematician at UCLA, explains why mathematics is one of the few disciplines where being wrong is how progress is made.

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25.01.2026 17:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI can produce answers that sound right but are often wrong.

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Terence Tao (@teorth.bsky.social), mathematician at UCLA, argues that mathematics has spent centuries refining how to verify truth making it essential to the future of AI.

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23.01.2026 16:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Failure is very cheap in math.”

Terence Tao, mathematician at UCLA, explains why mathematics is one of the few disciplines where being wrong is how progress is made, and why that matters in an AI-driven world.

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21.01.2026 18:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Will machines feel pain? If they can, what will we do about it?

David Chalmers on why consciousness, even uncertain consciousness, matters in the age of AI.

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19.01.2026 18:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“We want the fundamental laws of consciousness —
something simple enough to fit on a T-shirt.”

David Chalmers on why consciousness is still an open scientific frontier.

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Tune in now to Futurology.

15.01.2026 16:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“We don’t know whether AI systems can suffer.
If they can, imposing suffering would be gratuitous.”

David Chalmers on why consciousness even uncertain consciousness matters in the age of AI.

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13.01.2026 17:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“What is beyond reality?” AI Artist Refik Anadol says all artists ask themselves this question

Can machines see behind the curtain in ways that humans can’t?

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12.01.2026 16:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Buddhism asks you to desire the end of desire — temporarily.

Brook Ziporyn on the parable of the raft, and why goals are tools, not destinations.

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11.01.2026 18:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“The most perfect flower will be the deadest flower.”

Brook Ziporyn on why chasing purity and certainty can strip life of what makes it real.

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06.01.2026 15:41 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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American law often assigns monetary value to things that were never meant to be owned.
That mismatch continues to harm Indigenous lifeways and sovereignty.

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02.01.2026 19:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“All of those things that colonists took through violence could have been attained through diplomatic relations.”

Colonial extraction was a choice, not an inevitability. The same question of consent still shapes the present.

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31.12.2025 01:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“What’s real is people.”

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"The Big Lie Behind AI" with Jaron Lanier is streaming now. Listen and subscribe to the Futurology podcast.

22.12.2025 20:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI isn't human, to filter through the characteristics of AI does however require discernment from a human.

“Conjuring Art from Machine Hallucinations,” with Refik Anadol is streaming now.

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20.12.2025 20:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Perfection is boring.

For AI Artist Refik Anadol, the mistakes are the point. His art emerges from glitches in the matrix that reveal the dreams of machines.

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“Conjuring Art from Machine Hallucinations,” is streaming now.

18.12.2025 19:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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For Refik Anadol data points are his oil paints. The world’s biggest AI artist dips his ‘thinking brush’ into the machine’s mind and paints with its dreams.

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“Conjuring Art from Machine Hallucinations,” is streaming now.

16.12.2025 17:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI is not conscious and that's a good thing.

“The Dangers of Seeing Ourselves in Artificial Intelligence,” featuring Neuroscience researcher Anil Seth, is streaming now.

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13.12.2025 17:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, Anil Seth (@anilseth.bsky.social), and Nils Gilman explore why we keep projecting ourselves onto AI and what is at stake when we do

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“The Dangers of Seeing Ourselves in Artificial Intelligence” is streaming now.

09.12.2025 17:18 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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“Technology has taken on a mythological role in our lives.” — Ken Liu

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"When the Machine Becomes the Medium" is streaming now. Listen and subscribe to the Futurology podcast

08.12.2025 18:25 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Whale communication may be our best chance to prepare for meeting unfamiliar intelligence elsewhere.

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“What Whales Can Teach Us About Talking to Aliens“ is streaming now. Listen and subscribe to the Futurology podcast.

06.12.2025 17:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Machine learning is really good at finding patterns. The question is whose patterns we choose to prioritize,”

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“What Whales Can Teach Us About Talking to Aliens“ is streaming now. Listen and subscribe to the Futurology podcast wherever you listen to podcasts.

05.12.2025 17:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The discovery that whales sing transformed how we think about other minds. AI is taking the next step.

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“What Whales Can Teach Us About Talking to Aliens“ is streaming now. Listen and subscribe to the Futurology podcast wherever you listen to podcasts.

02.12.2025 19:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"The Big Lie Behind AI"

Technologist Jaron Lanier sits down with producer Grant Slater. He warns that the hype around AI is fueled by grandiosity — the belief that something we created could destroy the world.

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24.11.2025 19:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Belief in AI can destroy the world. Responsibility stays human. — Jaron Lanier.

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"The Big Lie Behind AI" Listen to the Futurology podcast.

18.11.2025 18:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Astrophysicist Adam Frank (@adamfrank4.bsky.social) questions the hype around AI.

"How to Spot an Alien Civilization" is streaming now. Listen and subscribe to the Futurology podcast

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16.11.2025 18:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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