Podcast

Ben Goertzel and Kennedy Schaal describe how Methuselah Flies have complex emotions and mating rituals and many other things in common with humans besides genes and biology.

What happens when intelligence becomes so cheap that it displaces the very incomes that sustain the market? This episode explores a radical alternative to both doomerism and naive abundance narratives.

Can bacteria teach us how to truly connect brains with AI? What if the future of brain‑computer interfaces depends not on silicon, but on the electrical language of life itself?

Can we stop superintelligence before it stops us? Is humanity running the largest uncontrolled experiment in history?

Are we building AI the wrong way? This episode unpacks a radically different approach, exploring the foundations of “first principles” and the “abstraction tax” of language and symbols.

Dr. Mihaela Ulieru interviews Dr. Chris Percy, philosopher, policy expert, and consciousness researcher, to explore the deepest questions at the intersection of AI, philosophy of mind, and ethics.