In light of Donald Trump’s dominant showing in Iowa, Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss whether it’s all over but the shouting.
Robert Wright and tech entrepreneur Reid Hoffman discuss ways AI anxiety goes wrong (and right). Plus: Reid’s Impromptu book collab with GPT-4; pros and cons of an AI pause; and the Altman paradox: resolved?
Ahead of the Iowa caucuses, Bill Scher and Matt K. Lewis discuss the state of the GOP primary race.
Robert Wright talks to Iowa correspondent Mickey Kaus about the caucuses, the border, Biden versus Trump, AI sexbots, and the grassy knoll.
Robert Wright and Harvard political scientist Stephen Walt discuss.
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.