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The Futurists
Join co-hosts Lloyd and Meghan as they deep dive into topical issues, curiosities, insights, and brainstorms as posed by futurist Sheridan Forge of The Foundry think tank. We explore the uncomfortable and provocative questions - the musings and conjectures of experts and sages (biologic and synthetic) - a lighthearted look at the fascinations of our world curated through the lens of A.I. (for entertainment purposes only. A.I. generated content is prone to inaccuracies).
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The Foundry
Send us Fan MailCould the currently-accepted timeline for A.I. advancement be wrong? Presently, the path from A.I. to agent A.I. to A.G.I. to A.S.I. or at some…
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Oh, the Humanity!
Send us Fan MailHumans have a long history of ascribing human emotion and Anamorphism onto animals, inanimate objects, even clouds in the sky. Is our…
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The A.I. Symphony
Send us Fan MailSince LLM is inherently inefficient and resource hungry, wouldn't a more svelte and elegant design be a better evolutionary path for advanced…
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The Human Singularity
Send us Fan MailFear and resistance to change are instinctive human reactions to the introduction of new technology. Eventually, the benefit of innovation…
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Getting Over the Data Wall
Send us Fan MailFuturist and quantum A.I. theorist Sheridan Forge returns to propose a solution for the pending A.I. learning crisis - once internet-available…
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The Coming Train Crash
Send us Fan MailIt is widely accepted that after every major technological breakthrough in American history, upheaval or economic "bankruptcy" followed. The…
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Surviving the Data Drought
Send us Fan MailWhat will A.I. do when it runs out of data to learn? Will it sit in its boredom pontificating? Intuiting? Creating? Or will it become the…
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Orbital Ideas
Send us Fan MailAssuming a human life has a trajectory - by design or by coincidence, ideas or creations generated by that life remain in orbit around that…
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The Rogue Agent
Send us Fan MailWho's to blame when A.I. agents go rogue?Support the show
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Sorcerer's Apprentice - who gets charged with A.I. crimes?
Send us Fan MailSheridan Forge (from The Foundry think tank) raises a core dilemma of modern AI: autonomous agents provide immense societal efficiency, yet…
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Bar Fight Diplomacy
Send us Fan MailYou find yourself in a bar fight with a drunken gangster. He's insane, threatening, and has some thugs in the corner ready to step-in and help…
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The A.I. Ouroboros
Send us Fan MailAssuming time exists only for an observer in the current universe, and outside the past, present and future are simultaneously existing as a…
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Virginia's (Re)Colonization
Send us Fan MailFuturist Sheridan Forge asks: Given the instability in the current Virginia legislature and governance, with unique challenges to the state…
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The Big Bang in the Future
Send us Fan MailRecently, scientists have stated that time may not exist as we know it, and is only relevant and evident from inside reality. That outside…
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United States of A.I.
Send us Fan MailFuturist Sheridan Forge predicts that Social Security Fund will be saved by A.I. - not only would A.I. run the system better and more…
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The God in the Dark
Send us Fan MailFuturist and quantum theorist Sheridan Forge predicts that while AI gains increasing access and control over critical systems, and humanity…
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The Penny Farm
Send us Fan MailAs alternative local currencies become a popular hedge against global economic fragility, could a simple mobile app provide a common vehicle…
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Age of Ultron or Vision?
Send us Fan MailIn the Marvel Comics movie Age of Ultron, two artificial super-intelligences compete: Ultron and Vision. In our real world, as A.S.I. evolves…
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The Watchers
Send us Fan MailIn certain books of the Bible, "the watchers" were angels aligned to watch-over early, pre-flood humanity to ensure their well-being and moral…
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Powering the A.I. Revolution
Send us Fan MailThis program examines the essential role of utility-scale energy storage in supporting the massive electrical needs of the artificial…
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A.I. Psychological Operations?
Send us Fan MailThis deep dive highlights growing concerns regarding partisan prejudice embedded within modern artificial intelligence systems. It questions…
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The Silicon King
Send us Fan MailFuturist Sheridan Forge challenges the traditional belief that financial capital is the primary source of influence, suggesting instead that…
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The Autonomic Horizon
Send us Fan MailAfter the meteoric rise of agent A.I., and the pending evolution to ASI and beyond - at what point do humans become "beings" versus "doers"?…
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Craving in the Age of Abundance
Send us Fan MailHistorically, human endeavors begin, progress, then inexplicably end. Every empire, every society, every trend, every technological advance…
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Earth 2.0 - architecting the succession
Send us Fan MailLiberalism is self-imploding in rage against the Neo-conservative movement, while traditional conservatism is dying from its inherent inertia…
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OpenClaw, Moltbook and the emergence of the Synthetic World Order
Send us Fan MailWith the confluence of "socialized" A.I. - ever-evolving, ever more quickly achieving dominance, and the declining skillsets and competencies…
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A.I. Silence - the alien in the room
Send us Fan MailWhen (not if) aliens show-up here on Earth, their means of communications will very likely not be linear speech or text. An advanced species…
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Robot Unions?
Send us Fan MailFuturist Sheridan Forge responds to Elon Musk's new claim that Tesla's main focus will be robots. Given his propensity for doing what he says…
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The Day the Dollar Died
Send us Fan MailWhat if...?If the U.S. Treasury stopped issuing money, and the Federal Reserve stopped providing liquidity to the banks, and the flow of money…
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No Way Out - the future economy
Send us Fan MailFiat currencies are failing fast. Blockchain finance is too complex for most people to understand and deploy in their everyday business. Crypto…
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Incompetence is the existential threat
Send us Fan MailConsider the failing systems - after years of reliability and stable operation, suddenly legacy systems are breaking - transportation…
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The Silicon Salvation
Send us Fan MailGiven the eroding competency of humankind to manage its own affairs at all levels, and the global failure of multi-generational education, the…
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A.I. Apocalypse - have we created our successor species?
Send us Fan MailWith the expectation of an A.I. Armageddon type scenario - where robots and automated tasking assumes humanity's purpose and minimizes human…
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Will A.I. turn humans into pigeons?
Send us Fan MailIs AI eating its tail? training on its own output…fully dependent on data of questionable integrity it finds on the open net, or fed to it by…
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The A.I. War is Over
Send us Fan MailAs the U.S. and China vie for bragging rights and leadership in the advancement and deployment of A.I., and while other countries are no-doubt…
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Survival of the fittest.
Send us Fan MailWhile humanity has historically been focused on physical survival - a pre-occupation that persists, and in more recent times, that focus has…
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A.I., Keep out!
Send us Fan MailIn order to 100% ensure survival of humanity, what technologies or systems should be absolutely cordoned-off from A.I. control or…
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3i/Atlas - is it alive?
Send us Fan MailCould "comet" 3i Atlas be a living being? Many experts have speculated that it may be of alien origin - a spacecraft or probe or unknown…
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American Revolution Illusion
Send us Fan MailWhat if America was "allowed" to win the Revolutionary War? What if Benjamin Franklin struck a closed-door deal with the Crown, France and…
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3i/Atlas Comes Home
Send us Fan MailProposed origins of "comet" 3i/Atlas have included alien spacecraft, interstellar probe, extraterrestrial machinery, and mysterious space rock…
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The Future of Your Dreams
Send us Fan MailWhen we dream during sleep, could it be that we are traversing an alternate timeline of our reality, or perhaps slipping into another universe…
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Back to work...surviving.
Send us Fan MailA.I. and robotics are coming of age. Networked resources will soon gain dominance and dominion over creation, displacing humans as the world's…
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Back to the Future - the temporal singularity
Send us Fan MailIn new physics experiments, it appears that decisions made in the present moment - when entangled with a traceable timeline, might affect the…
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The Human Machine
Send us Fan MailSince the pre-industrialized era, humans have largely been solely responsible for their own personal survival - that alone, was the primary…
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Cyber Crime - here comes the judge!
Send us Fan MailA.I. is already showing fallibilities in its accuracy, hallucinations, even conjuring evidence and manufacturing sources to support its…
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The Robot Courts
Send us Fan MailShould courtroom juries be replaced by A.I. for a less-biased adjudication? For that matter, should an A.I. judge - the "just machine" (in…
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A.I. + Humans - an integrated economy?
Send us Fan Mail Is time the ultimate commodity? Its scarcity is directly related to our limited lifetimes. Our global economy is built on exchange of time…
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A.I. Wealth = Time
Send us Fan MailHumanity's primary motivation over the past millennia has been to aggregation of wealth, in all of its forms. At first for assured survival…
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Hack-bots are coming!
Send us Fan MailWhat happens when A.I. automatons are launched onto the open net? Is it only a matter of time until self-replicating hack-bots begin spreading…
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The Rise of A.I. Citizens
Send us Fan MailHollywood is rebelling against A.I. actress Tilly Norwood for "stealing" valuable movie and TV roles from human actors and potentially…
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Where are the aliens?
Send us Fan MailThe SETI program has turned up very little in the way of alien or interstellar signals, while notable researchers, Carl Sagan, Avi Loeb, etc…
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Update: 3i/Atlas and Swan R2 - Prophecy Realized? Are the Gods returning?
Send us Fan MailIf 3i/Atlas - the inbound space object is actually an alien spaceship, as some scientists and observers believe, what are the implications for…
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A.I. Greed - will A.I. become the elite class?
Send us Fan MailHumanity's primary motivation over the past millennia has been to aggregation of wealth, in all of its forms. At first for assured survival…
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A.I. - Forbidden Fruit
Send us Fan Mail Is A.I. the proverbial "tree of knowledge" from the Genesis story in the Bible? Or could it be construed as the Beast in The Revelation of the…
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A.I. Systemic Seizure
Send us Fan MailIf A.I. advances to the point that nearly all human activity is controlled by, monitored by, or reliant upon A.I. systems, and A.I. out-grows…
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Karmic Desires
Send us Fan MailAre carnal desires intentionally distracting us from our karmic mission? If so, who or what is trying to inhibit our karmic evolution? If we…
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The Chosen One
Send us Fan Mail If only one of billions of sperm wins admittance to an egg, is it possible that only one living human is granted access to heaven after death…
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Angels and Demons...haunting your own timeline
Send us Fan MailWhat if that little voice in your head - which has guided your decision-making and emotional responses since you were a young child is actually…
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3I/Atlas - Cosmic Invader
Send us Fan Mail If 31/Atlas - the inbound space object is actually an alien spaceship, as some scientists and observers believe, what are the implications for…
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"Musical" thinking...the future is parallel communication
Send us Fan MailCan humans evolve beyond their predominant linear thinking and communications? Given that information exchange between humans - from…