Robert Wright and Connor Leahy—CEO of AI alignment firm Conjecture—discuss the dangers of AI, whether to trust our tech leaders, what an aligned AI would actually look like, and more!
Glenn Loury talks with journalist Matt Johnson about how Christopher Hitchens’s opposition to identitarianism could benefit today’s left.
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus also discuss Sen. Chris Murphy’s war on loneliness, the unraveling of Threads, RFK’s Covid conjecture, and more.
Robert Wright and Tamler Sommers discuss the politics of Zionism, the apartheid question, the BDS movement, and how the Overton window has shifted in conversations about Israel/Palestine.
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter discuss the effect the Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision and how it may effect elite universities.
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss the issue.
Robert Wright talks to Nikolay and Kirill about Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the conflict’s historical context, and why they both support the war.
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus also discuss the GOP primary, Russian mutiny aftermath, the odds of Ukrainian victory, MSM deep-sixing affirmative action, Zuckerberg’s Twitter clone, and more.
Glenn Loury and Jay Bhattacharya discuss the possibility that COVID originated in a lab.
Glenn Loury asks Cornel West, who is running for the Green Party presidential nomination, if he risks splitting the left-liberal vote and handing the presidency to a conservative candidate.