Skeptiko + Future of Inquiry
The interview archive behind a new research layer
Skeptiko is Alex Tsakiris’s long-form interview archive exploring science, consciousness, AI, medicine, philosophy, spirituality, and the boundary between evidence and belief.
Future of Inquiry uses AI to turn contested questions about consciousness, causation, and human experience into transparent, testable research programs.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
