Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Podcast series on humanity's obsession with apocalyptic predictions and AI AI summary

Agoric Media Visit website › Science · EN · 37 episodes · latest 2026-11-12

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The Doomsday Clock is set to 85 seconds until midnight — the closest it has ever been in its 79-year history. The world is at war. And the people building the most powerful technology in human history are warning, in public, that it might kill us all.Season One of Suspicious Minds examined what happens when AI fractures individual minds. Season Two asks a harder question: what happens when it shatters our collective sense of the future?Our ancestors have predicted the end of the world since ancient times. Thus far, they have always been wrong. So what does our eternal obsession with the apocalypse reveal about the human mind?This season is a meditation on life, death, and what it means to be alive in an age when humanity is creating something that those building it believe has the power to either end all life on Earth or turn our world into a utopia.Suspicious Minds is a two-time Webby Award-nominated podcast, and Official Selection of the 2026 Tribeca Festival Creators Market. Season One is available now. Season Two episodes drop weekly. Follow now wherever you listen so you don’t miss an episode. From Wondermind and Agoric MediaExecutive Producers Mandy Teefey and Selena GomezSubscribe to our newsletter to stay updated on all things Suspicious Minds and more: https://agoricmedia.substack.com/ If you’ve had an experience with AI that you’d like to share with us, please contact us: info@agoricmedia.comhttps://www.agoricmedia.com/suspicious-mindshttps://www.instagram.com/agoricmedia/https://www.tiktok.com/@agoricmediahttps://www.youtube.com/@agoricmedia

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In the Age of Mechanical Generation (Part Three)

2026-11-12 · 1 hr 30 min · Season 2, episode 23

In 2002, Al Pacino played a director who hid the fact that the star of his hit film was AI, and ended up arrested for her murder. The movie was Simone, written by Andrew Niccol, who also wrote The Truman Show, which…
Survival Is Insufficient (Part Two)

2026-11-05 · 1 hr 12 min · Season 2, episode 22

In February 1945, an American prisoner of war was locked in an underground slaughterhouse in Dresden while the city above him burned. Twenty-four years later, the prisoner, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, turned that night into his…
The Year Without a Summer (Part One)

2026-10-29 · 1 hr 19 min · Season 2, episode 21

In April 1815 a volcano in Indonesia erupted so violently that the next summer never arrived. The sky over Europe went dark, the crops failed, prophets wandered the continent announcing the end, and five people took…
An Enormous Mistake (Part Three)

2026-10-22 · 1 hr 7 min · Season 2, episode 20

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Moral Insurance (Part Two)

2026-10-14 · 56 min · Season 2, episode 19

The Secretary of War called it “defective altruism.” The New York Post called it a cult. The Economist put it on the cover and called it the most important social movement of the century. Hardly anyone in America has…
Better Angels (Part One)

2026-10-07 · 1 hr 10 min · Season 2, episode 18

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A Great Loss to the Universe (Part Three)

2026-09-30 · 1 hr 14 min · Season 2, episode 17

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Engineering Consciousness (Part Two)

2026-09-23 · 1 hr 8 min · Season 2, episode 16

When Richard Feynman died, a sentence was left on his blackboard at Caltech: “That which I cannot create, I do not understand.” Mark Solms took this as a challenge.A quick word up top about the week AI doom went…
The Problem of Other Minds (Part One)

2026-09-16 · 52 min · Season 2, episode 15

When Mark Solms was four years old, his older brother fell, hit his head, and woke up as somebody else. Mark has spent the fifty years since asking the question that accident left behind: how does a self come out of a…
Dreaming Machines

2026-09-10 · 1 hr 0 min · Season 2, episode 14

On a summer afternoon in 2001, a freight train caught fire in a tunnel beneath Baltimore. The blaze burned at 1,500 degrees for days. And within hours, two thousand miles away, the internet slowed down… in Los…

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