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Oct 13, 2026 —
Robert Wright & Jeremie Harris
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Teaser
- Jeremie’s podcast and prescient AI report
- Is scale still (mostly) all you need?
- Jeremie: We’re way past “stochastic parrots”
- Inside the early AI safety ecosystem
- What Yudkowsky got less wrong than most
- Why capability is outpacing alignment
- Were Altman’s fears ever sincere?
- Would pausing AI crash the economy?
- Overtime preview: Debating China
Oct 8, 2026 —
Robert Wright & Alex Gibney
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Teaser
- Alex’s new documentary about Elon
- How Alex’s film turned epic
- Simulation theory + social Darwinism = Elon?
- Inside the mind of Musk
- Has the job-pocalypse already begun?
- Elon’s daddy issues
- Elon’s lady issues
- Elon’s electoral propriety issues
- Has Elon gotten weirder over time?
- The damage DOGE could still do
- Heading to Overtime
Oct 6, 2026 —
Robert Wright & Garrison Lovely
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Teaser
- Garrison’s background and his new book, Obsolete
- Is the left dangerously downplaying AI?
- What is the “obsoleting project”?
- Inside the minds of Altman and Amodei
- Has the job-pocalypse already begun?
- Why AI bio-threats could be extra deadly
- Is alignment doomed?
- “Verifiable rewards” and the OpenAI breakout
- Garrison’s proposal to stop the AI race
- Heading to Overtime
Oct 2, 2026 —
Robert Wright & Liron Shapira
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Cold Open
- Round Two of Nonzero × Doom Debates
- Trump, the FTC, and an Industry Feeling the Heat
- Google Says Gemini 4 Exists
- Greg Brockman Pulls His $25M from Leading the Future
- The Break-Ins Keep Coming
- The Market Wants Agent Swarms
- The End of “Alignment by Default”
- The Prelude to Recursive Self-Improvement
- David Sacks Can’t Explain Dario
- The All-In Echo Chamber
- Scott Alexander vs. Steven Pinker
- Jason Calacanis vs. the Public Benefit Corporation
- The Elephant in the Room Is the AI
- What the Average American Thinks
- From Chatbot to Agent to Swarm
- Boeing, Agent Swarms, and the Off Switch
- Skynet as a Botnet That Trades With Us
- Tyler Cowen: National Treasure, Net Negative on AI
- Liron’s Doomer DCF Yields a 20x P/E
- Interest Rates: Where Cowen Has Me
- Does Pinker Owe Us a Debate?
- Pinker vs. Instrumental Convergence
- Wrap-Up
Sep 29, 2026 —
Robert Wright & Paul Triolo
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Teaser
- Paul’s impeccable timing
- Is Dario’s AI slowdown proposal for real?
- How chip controls can undermine AI safety
- Why the 2024 US-China AI talks failed
- America’s cognitive empathy gap on China
- Taiwan and the chip war
- War over AI: The real doom scenario?
- A possible (grim) path to global AI cooperation
- Heading to Overtime
Sep 24, 2026 —
Robert Wright & Jill Filipovic
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Teaser
- Jill’s book OK Boomer, Let’s Talk
- When is generalizing about a group okay?
- The world boomers built
- Are boomers really uniquely selfish?
- Is blaming boomers counterproductive?
- Who’s actually driving the generational divide?
- The generational blame spiral
- Millennials vs Gen Z
- Does America have a gerontocracy problem?
- Why Kenyans are looking toward China
Sep 22, 2026 —
Robert Wright & Nick Bostrom
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Teaser
- Nick’s singular place in AI history
- Where is Nick on the pause-accelerationist spectrum?
- Utilitarianism vs the “moral parliament”
- Is a “singleton” coming? What kind?
- Is global cooperation on AI doomed?
- The pros and cons of reading an AI’s mind
- Do AIs deserve moral status?
- AI, evolution, and the cosmic purpose question
Sep 22, 2026 —
What’s Driving Dario?
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Sep 16, 2026 —
Robert Wright & Zvi Mowshowitz
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
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