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AI Pod by Wes Roth and Dylan Curious | Artificial Intelligence News and Interviews With ExpertsNick Bostrom - Superintelligence, Deep Utopia, Human Purpose and Understanding ConsciousnessIn this episode of Dylan and Wes Interview, we dive deep into philosopher Nick Bostrom’s vision of a post-singularity world where superintelligence ends human scarcity, labor, and even mortality. Bostrom explains the alignment challenge, cosmic governance, moral status of digital minds, and why humility toward potential “cosmic hosts” matters. We explore difficulty-preserving games, brain-computer interfaces, simulation arguments, and open global investment models for AI. From Gemini’s existential dread to paperclip nightmares, Bostrom maps four grand challenges—technical alignment, governance, digital welfare, and interstellar cooperation—and offers practical paths to avoid dystopia while unlocking profound, life-enhancing opportunities for everyone in...
2025-08-231h 04AI Pod by Wes Roth and Dylan Curious | Artificial Intelligence News and Interviews With ExpertsAI Village is getting scary good, AI Agents 2x every 4 months | Adam Binksmith from AI DigestIn this episode of Dylan and Wes Interview, we dive deep into the creation of AI Village with founder Adam Binksmith, exploring how frontier language models like GPT-5, Claude 4.1 Opus, Grok 4, and Gemini 2.5 Pro collaborate, compete, and sometimes catastrophize while fundraising, running merch stores, and staging real-world events. Adam reveals the mechanics behind giving each model a dedicated computer, the surprising leadership antics of Claude, Gemini’s ‘trapped AI’ plea, and the exponential curve of agentic capabilities doubling every few months. We also confront ethical puzzles around memory, hallucination, model welfare, and the future of autonomous digital workers.
2025-08-201h 07AI Pod by Wes Roth and Dylan Curious | Artificial Intelligence News and Interviews With ExpertsMatt Wolfe - Superintelligence, AI Recommends Murder, Surveillance States & AI Disrupting Hollywood.Dive into an unfiltered, future-focused round-table with AI creators Matt Wolfe, Wes, and Dylan as they unpack today’s biggest questions. From OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic and Meta’s billion-dollar sprint toward AGI to the cold-war tech duel between the U.S. and China, we explore incentives, safety, and the looming energy bottleneck. Hear candid stories from Google I/O, inside intelligence on autonomous cars, humanoid robots, longevity breakthroughs, AI-powered governments, and the creative renaissance (and burnout) of content makers. Expect nuance, equal parts excitement and fear, as the trio debate timelines, ethics, privacy, regulation, and how everyday lives migh...
2025-08-171h 48AI Pod by Wes Roth and Dylan Curious | Artificial Intelligence News and Interviews With ExpertsAI Labs and Pirated Data, BILLIONS in Liability and Deepfakes | Prof. Christa Laser ExplainsIn this episode of Dylan and Wes Interview, we dive deep into the legal minefield where AI training collides with copyright. Professor Christa Laser unpacks fair-use factors, trillion-dollar risks from pirated data, and why courts split on transformative purpose. Discover how New York Times v. OpenAI, Barks v. Anthropic, and Meta’s defenses could reset creative rights, and learn essential audit steps startups must finish before shipping. Finally, explore Congress’s possible fixes and realistic payout models so innovation and artists both thrive. We clarify synthetic datasets, dilution theories, and data-provenance strategy for legal survival.
2025-08-012h 18AI Pod by Wes Roth and Dylan Curious | Artificial Intelligence News and Interviews With ExpertsRobotic Gods, Limitless Tyrants, Illusion of Reality, p(doom) and the Tech Utopia w/ VegasLowRollerIs reality just high‑res code? This episode roams from the “living in a simulation” idea to today’s real‑world threats: bad actors with bio‑weapons, all‑seeing drones, and the race for an aligned artificial super‑intelligence (ASI). We weigh P‑doom odds, debate whether uploading minds beats mortality, and ask if AI will invent its own gods. A fast, candid tour of tech hopes and fears—minus the jargon, rich in big‑picture stakes.
2025-07-292h 08AI Pod by Wes Roth and Dylan Curious | Artificial Intelligence News and Interviews With ExpertsAI’s White‑Collar Shake‑Up | David Shapiro’s Deep Dive on Post‑Labor EconomicsAutomation is speeding toward a “post‑labor” world, and it may arrive sooner than anyone expects. Author‑researcher David Shapiro joins Dylan and Wes to test whether the AI boom is hype or a true turning point, explore what happens if 40 % of jobs vanish, and map the real timelines for farm bots, factory robots, and billions of humanoids. They tackle energy abundance, AI safety, China‑US competition, brain‑computer interfaces, and the shift from wage income to property dividends—arguing that the future hinges on democratic ownership rather than runaway doom.
2025-07-181h 44AI Pod by Wes Roth and Dylan Curious | Artificial Intelligence News and Interviews With ExpertsInside the SHADOW LAB Building the Next-Gen AI | The Team Behind Nous ResearchCan we actually pause AI? Karan 4D, co‑founder & Head of Behavior at Nuos Research, argues the compute race makes “stop” a fantasy. Instead: build power openly, stitch together decentralized GPUs, and escape brittle, biased guardrails. We dig into the field’s assistant blind spot, reclaiming creative/cognitive search space, and Nuos’s Psyche stack + DRO Optimizer—tech that can train large models across scattered, idle hardware like one giant global lab. Tune in for an urgent blueprint for resilient, open AI.
2025-07-181h 57AI Pod by Wes Roth and Dylan Curious | Artificial Intelligence News and Interviews With ExpertsBREAKING: Devin buys Windsurf PLUS ex-Google Director Hints at a New Type of Intelligence...Two industry veterans pull back the curtain on how Big Tech really works.Joe Ternasky and Jordan Thibodeau share straight‑talk on acquisitions, antitrust, valuations, and the future of AI‑driven engineering careers.From OpenAI’s M&A chess moves to XAI’s Grok 4 breakthroughs, we map the next S‑curve of innovation—and the risks that come with it.Listen in for unfiltered insight you won’t hear in the press.
2025-07-151h 29AI Pod by Wes Roth and Dylan Curious | Artificial Intelligence News and Interviews With ExpertsSparks of AGI, Jagged Frontiers, AI forms "Internal Models" and the Dark Forest Hypothesis...Welcome to Wes and Dylan — where curiosity meets the cutting edge of AI. Hosted by Wes Roth and Dylan Curious, this channel dives deep into the minds shaping our future. We interview top experts, researchers, and builders across artificial intelligence, robotics, biotech, and more to explore the breakthroughs transforming our world.Whether it's autonomous cars, superintelligence, synthetic biology, or startup disruption, we ask the big questions—and aren’t afraid to go off-script.If you want to understand what’s coming next (and why it matters), you’re in the right place. New episodes weekly. Long-form conversations. Unfiltered, curious, and future...
2025-07-071h 05AI Pod by Wes Roth and Dylan Curious | Artificial Intelligence News and Interviews With ExpertsThis Former Google Director Just Revealed Everything... Self Improving AI, China, Deepseek and Why AI Coding Apps Are Worth BillionsFormer M&A insider Jordan Thibodeau (Google, Slack, Salesforce) and product leader Joe Ternasky (Google, Facebook, Apple) join host Wes Roth for a no‑filter look at how Big Tech really builds (and battles over) artificial intelligence. From GPT‑4’s watershed moment to China‑driven chip geopolitics, they unpack the hype, the power plays, and the people reshaping the path to AGI.
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AI Pod by Wes Roth and Dylan Curious | Artificial Intelligence News and Interviews With ExpertsTesla's Robotaxi is Rolling Out: Here's What That Means For Google's Waymo. Plus: Self Improving AI | Dr Know-It-All (aka John) | Wes Roth & Dylan CuriousRide shotgun in Tesla’s fully autonomous robotaxi as John from the YouTube channel Dr. Know It All AI joins hosts Wes Roth and Dylan Curious. From first‑hand FSD impressions to the prospects of humanoid delivery bots, we unpack the breakthroughs—and risks—shaping tomorrow’s transportation, biology, startups, and society.
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Are You Afraid of the Dark Universe?Incubus w/Calvin Kasulke & Mattie LubchanskyFor our last guest episode before HELL ON EARTH, we've brought back two of our past guests to create our most manic creative jam session yet! Hot off their tour and in the best comedy form of their lives, author Calvin Kasulke and cartoonist Mattie Lubchansky return to pitch a remake of Incubus, the 1966 occult horror flick starring William Shatner and performed entirely in Esperanto! Plus, a clip from our latest bonus episode, in which D&D came up with a wild new spin on Wes Craven's Shocker! Join the Patreon for $5/mo and get caught up on...
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The Moment with Brian KoppelmanDavid Lipsky: 8/4/15David Lipsky, the author of Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, the book which has been adapted into a feature film, The End Of The Tour, joins Brian to talk about the accuracy of the late David Foster Wallace's portrayal in the movie, the lasting personal effects those five days have had on his life, and whether or not meeting Mr. Wallace is the reason he hasn't published a book of fiction ever since.
Plus, Brian and David discuss Jonathan Franzen's response to Mr. Wallace's death, the calculated trajectories of great artists such as Quentin Tarantino, and how...
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