THE SERIES
AI AND…
AI keeps colliding with every human field — philosophy, biology, brains, sports, golf. One big question per guide, thirty seconds each, with receipts and cartoons.
- AI, PHILOSOPHY & THE GOD QUESTIONDOES CLAUDE HAVE A SOUL?THE MONKS WENT TO SILICON VALLEY
Anthropic convened rabbis, monks, priests and imams to decide whether its chatbot has a soul — and what the company owes it if it does.
- THE BOOK OF LIFECAN AI READ THE BOOK OF LIFE?8,000 VIRUS STRUCTURES. PUBLIC.
AI just put 8,000 viral protein complexes in a public database — before the next outbreak. Then it found a cellular off-switch nobody knew existed.
- AI, BRAINS & THE MIND-READING RACECAN AI READ YOUR MIND?"I LOVE YOU," SAID THE IMPLANT
An ALS patient's implant let him say 'I love you' in his own voice — while researchers patent tech that reads thoughts from brain scans.
- THE END OF THE BAD CALLWILL ROBOTS CALL THE GAME?STRIKE THREE, CALLED BY A CAMERA
A robot strike call ended a playoff game. Wimbledon fired 300 line judges. The machines are right — and that's the problem.
- THE ROBOT CADDIEWILL AI FIX YOUR SLICE?6,000 DATA POINTS. ONE SLICE.
Your phone is the coach now. Sensors log 6,000 data points per swing. The robot caddie never loses a ball.
- DAMASIO, HOMEOSTASIS & THE FEELING GAPTHE MACHINE HAS NO GUT TO TRUSTNO BODY, NO FEELINGS, NO DEAL?
Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio spent thirty years proving your gut runs your brain — feelings are the mind reading the body's dashboard. An AI has no dashboard. The case for why the smartest machine still can't care, and the case for why it might learn anyway.
- PINKER, RATIONALITY & THE DOOM DEBATETHE ROBOT DOESN'T WANT ANYTHINGTHE OPTIMIST VS THE DOOMERS
Harvard's Steven Pinker spent thirty years arguing your brain is a reasoning machine and the world keeps getting better — and the last decade telling the AI doomers their monster is a myth. Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, he says. It doesn't tell you which problems to want. The case for calm, and the case that calm is the most dangerous position of all.
- GLADWELL, TIPPING POINTS & THE JUDGMENT GAPTHE STORYTELLER MEETS THE MACHINETHE TIP OF THE CENTURY, TOLD BY THE TIP GUY
Malcolm Gladwell spent twenty-five years explaining how little things tip big systems — epidemics of ideas, the 10,000-hour rule, the power of the snap judgment. Then AI arrived: a system that tips everything, needs zero hours of practice, and beat human judges at their own game. The master storyteller of tipping points meets the tip of the century — and his answer is weirder than you'd expect.
- HARARI, ALIEN INTELLIGENCE & THE NEXUS WARNINGTHE HISTORIAN WHO CALLED AI AN ALIENTHE HISTORIAN SAYS THE ALIEN IS ALREADY HERE
Historian Yuval Noah Harari spent a decade arguing AI isn't artificial human intelligence — it's alien intelligence: a new agent in humanity's information network, thinking in ways no human can follow. The case for taking the alien seriously, and the case that the historian is selling apocalypse.
- WHO'S SCARED, WHO'S SPEEDINGPICK YOUR FIGHTERFIVE CAMPS. ONE MACHINE. PICK YOUR FIGHTER.
Five camps, one argument: will the machine kill us, save us, or just make us weird? The doomers did the extinction math. The accelerators say the brakes are the danger. Meet the spectrum — with a Zimbo cast member holding each section's sign.