Timothy B. Lee, author of the newsletter Understanding AI, and Robert Wright discuss recent developments in AI and debate how concerned we should be about the pace of its evolution in the near and long term.

Robert Wright and journalist Jefferson Morley, publisher of the JFK Facts newsletter, discuss what we know—and still don’t know—about the JFK assassination.

Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis pick their winners and losers of 2023 on the year-end edition of the DMZ.

Glenn Loury speaks with lawyer Philip Howard about his new book, in which he argues that public employee unions are unconstitutional.

Neuroscientist Kathryn Devaney of the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics and Robert Wright discuss altered states of consciousness.

Robert Wright and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman discuss the Gaza war and its aftermath.

Are we ending 2023 on a disturbing note? Or are we getting an early Christmas? Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss the latest Donald Trump developments on this week’s DMZ.

Émile P. Torres, author of the book Human Extinction, and Robert Wright discuss the past, present, and future of effective altruism. Plus: the TESCREAL bundle, “longtermism”, and the AI doomer/utopian divide.

In a conversation with Glenn Loury, Tabia Lee, a former DEI officer at De Anza Community College, describes the pushback she received when she attempted to bring attention to antisemitism on her campus.

Will impeachment backfire on Republicans? Or is Biden ill-equipped to counter GOP messaging? Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss on this week’s DMZ.

Robert Wright and political scientist Max Abrahms discuss the Gaza war’s effects on American society.