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Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

The Doomsday Clock is set to 85 seconds until midnight — the closest it has ever been in its 79-year history. The world is at war. And the people building the most powerful technology in human history are warning, in public, that it might kill us all.Season One of Suspicious Minds examined what happens when AI fractures individual minds. Season Two asks a harder question: what happens when it shatters our collective sense of the future?Our ancestors have predicted the end of the world since ancient times. Thus far, they have always been wrong. So what does our eternal obsession with the apocal...

Website ↗ Last published 5 November 2026 36 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

“With the original meaning of the word apocalypse meaning unveiling, apocalypse is really more like a genre than an event. It's a genre of prophetic witness, of speaking hidden or secret truths. So you can have many apocalypses. It's not necessarily a definitive end-all thing.” — Ed Simon, Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse
Ed Simon · 5 Nov 2026 Listen →
“The thing that kills me, of course, is that the world has waited till I'm close to retirement to make philosophy of mind sexy. The idea that you could open the New York Times and find out that companies are competing for philosophers of mind is just inconceivable to me. That's less conceivable to me than that AI would destroy the world.” — Ian Gold, Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse
Ian Gold · 30 Sep 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse is hosted by Sean King O’Grady , Joel Gold , Bradley Garrett and Jesse Ford .

Recent Episodes

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  5. 7 Oct 2026

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  6. 30 Sep 2026

    A Great Loss to the Universe (Part Three)

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  7. 23 Sep 2026

    Engineering Consciousness (Part Two)

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  8. 16 Sep 2026

    The Problem of Other Minds

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Guests

Ian Gold (14 episodes), Amy Levy (10 episodes), Nate Sharadin (8 episodes), Michael Ferguson (6 episodes), Dorian Lynskey (5 episodes), Nick Haber (5 episodes), Todd Essig (5 episodes), Ed Simon (4 episodes), Timothy Morton (4 episodes), Hon Weng Chong (3 episodes), Emily Ray (3 episodes), David Benatar (3 episodes), and 35 more.