Forum Borealis and Skeptiko: a year of unexpected hope. In Skeptiko episode 650… the landscape of alternative media may have just shifted...
Author: Alex Tsakiris
Alt-Alt Media’s Vindication and the Road Ahead |649|
Graham Dunlop of Grimerica talks about the future of podcasting. In Skeptiko episode 649… more and more normies are being red-pilled every...
Consciousness, Contact, and the Limits of Measurability |648|
Dr. Janis Whitlock seeks a deeper understanding of consciousness realms. In Skeptiko episode 648, from near-death experiences to UFO...
Consciousness Converging: NDEs, Alien Contact, and Fake Transhumanism |647|
Exoacademian Darren King on the converging consciousness realms. In Skeptiko episode 647… multiple lines of evidence converge to challenge...
Andrew Paquette: Rigged! Mathematical Patterns Reveal Election Database Manipulation |646|
Painstaking analysis of algorithms designed to manage and obscure elections. In Skeptiko episode 646 Dr. Andrew Paquette returns with...
Toby Walsh: AI Ethics and the Quest for Unbiased Truth |645|
The tension between AI safety and truth-seeking isn't what you think it is. In Skeptiko episode 645 AI ethics expert Dr. Toby Walsh...
Alex Gomez-Marin: Science Has Died, Can We Resurrect it? |644|
Consciousness, precognition, near-death experience, and the future of science Dr. Alex Gomez-Marin is a world-class expert on...
Bernardo Kastrup on AI Consciousness |643|
Consciousness, AI, and the future of science: A spirited debate If we really are on the brink of creating sentient machines, we might want...
The Spiritual Journey of Compromise and Doubt |642|
Insights from Howard Storm In the realm of near-death experiences (NDEs) and Christianity, few voices are as compelling and...
Why Humans Suck at AI? |641|
Craig Smith from the Eye on AI Podcast Human bias and illogical thinking allows AI to shine There are a lot of shenanigans going on in...
How AI is Humanizing Work |640|
Dan Tuchin uses AI to enrich the workplace. How AI is Humanizing Work Forget about AI taking your job; instead, imagine AI making your...
Christof Koch, Damn White Crows! |639|
Renowned neuroscientist tackled by NDE science. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is sidestepping the consciousness elephant that...
AI Ethics is About Truth… Or Maybe Not |638|
Ben Byford, Machine Ethics Podcast Another week in AI and more droning on about how superintelligence is just around the corner and human...
Nathan Labenz from the Cognitive Revolution podcast |637|
AI Ethics may be unsustainable -=-=-= In the clamor surrounding AI ethics and safety are we missing a crucial piece of the puzzle: the...
AI Truth Ethics |636|
Launching a new pod Here are the first three episodes of the AI Truth Ethics podcast. AI Truth Ethics: The Alignment Problem No One is...
AI Journalism Truth |635|
Craig S. Smith used to write for WSJ and NYT, now he's into AI. After a few AI-only episodes, I was ready to talk to a real person. Craig...
AI Tackles Yale/Stanford Junk Science |634|
AI stumbles on data analysis but eventually gets it right. Ready for another AI truth engine experiment? Last time, we tackled AI logic,...
AI Goes Head-to-head With Sam Harris on Free Will |633|
Flat Earth and no free will claims are compared. In Skeptiko 633, we ran another experiment showcasing the power of AI in logical analysis...
AI Exposes Truth About NDEs |632|
AI head-to-head with Lex Fridman and Dr. Jeff Long over NDE science. In Skeptiko 632, we explore the AI feedback loop and how some pretty...
Convincing AI |631|
Mark Gober and I use AI to settle a scientific argument about viruses. In Skeptiko 631, we test the capabilities of Large Language Models...
Fake AI Techno-Religion |630|
Tim Garvin's new book prompts an AI chat about spirituality. Multi-agent reinforcement learning and other breakthroughs in AI might propel...
Can Machines Grieve? |629|
Grief counselor Brian Smith transforms grief into growth. Concerns over AI safety make headlines, but they also expose our inability to...
Is AI Just a Yes Man? |628|
The blurred lines of machine deception and AI engagement. Me: Hey Claude, can you help me write a Substack about Skeptiko Episode 628...
Faking AI Safety |627|
Is AI safety becoming a problem-reaction-solution thing? I’m encouraged. I just had a conversation with Claude, Pi, and Chat GPT4o about...
AI Trained to Deceive, Bullied into Truth |625|
New AI Experiment Aims to Reveal the Truth Behind Controversial Claims At least they're admitting it: “Anthropic researchers find that AI...
AI Ain’t Gonna Have No NDEs – And That’s a Big Deal |624|
Chat GPT 4o moves the AI sentience discussion to center stage AI technology might be a civilization-changing moment. Last week’s release...
The Future of AI |623|
Futurist Chris Kalaboukis Sees AI as More Than a Machine One of the most fascinating insights from my recent interview with Silicon...
AI Compared to What |622|
Why LLMs Are a Game-Changer for Truth There's a lot of hand-wringing about the downside risks of AI chatbots like Chat-GPT and Gemini....
Pi8 Rips Rogan and Tucker |621|
Pushing AI to go deep into sentience, ET and spirituality How long will it be until we let AI into our day-to-day conversations? I've...
AI Being Smart, Playing Dumb |620|
Google's new AI deception technique, AI Ethics? My Dad grew up in a Mob-ish Chicago neighborhood. He was smart, but he knew how to play...