A former OpenAI researcher who refused to sign away his right to criticise the company says the founding stories behind the biggest AI labs are rationalisations, and that what these companies say in public differs entirely from what happens inside. Daniel Kokotajlo, one of the world’s leading AI forecasters and […]
Is passive income actually possible, or is it the biggest myth in making money online? Serial entrepreneur Chris Koerner, who has started more than 80 businesses and is known as the King of Side Hustles, reveals the truth about passive income and the simple way he tests any business idea […]
Is the world about to be hit by something nobody is prepared for? Eric Weinstein, a Harvard-trained mathematician and physicist and former managing director of Thiel Capital, returns to warn that the “tsunami of a lifetime” he predicted on his last visit has already started to arrive. Discover: • What […]
Do the people building AI secretly believe it could wipe us out? Jeffrey Ladish, executive director of Palisade Research and former security engineer at Anthropic, reveals that many researchers inside the leading AI companies really do think superintelligence might kill everyone, and explains why they keep building it anyway. Discover: […]
Behavioural researcher Vanessa Van Edwards explains why first dates have become more awkward than ever, and points to a habit almost everyone now has: asking for someone’s Instagram instead of their number. Discover: • Why asking for someone’s Instagram is ruining first dates • The three levels of conversation and […]
Steven tells Oxford mathematician John Lennox that he is sitting on the fence. He finds every explanation of existence incomplete, from religion to the Big Bang, and asks directly: where does belief begin for someone like him, and how would he ever know it is true? Discover: • Why the […]
Tech critic Ed Zitron, host of the Better Offline podcast, argues that the AI boom is being propped up by subsidies, circular money and the most disingenuous marketing campaign in history, and that ordinary people are already paying for it. Discover: • Why most AI use today is subsidised, and […]
Professor Jiang Xueqin, the geopolitical analyst who predicted the Iran war, maps out where the world’s next conflicts will actually begin. His answer is not oil. It is water. He starts with how fragile modern manufacturing really is. Semiconductors cannot be built without a globalised economy. China produces roughly 70% […]
Professor Jiang Xueqin, the geopolitical analyst who publicly predicted the Iran war, argues that the closest historical parallel to our current moment is not World War Two but the Bronze Age collapse, and that the conditions for a similar unravelling are already in motion. Discover: • Why the Bronze Age […]
Professor Brian Greene, a theoretical physicist at Columbia University, explains why he has high confidence that artificial intelligence will become conscious, and why we should be working out the legal implications now rather than later. Discover: • Why a Columbia physicist has high confidence AI will become conscious • Whether […]
