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Jim Al-Khalili: Physicists Are Being Sloppy About Time

Physicists say space and time are the same thing. They are being sloppy. Jim Al-Khalili has spent his career on the foundations of physics, and his new book makes the cas

Max Tegmark: We’re Building A Replacement Species

MIT physicist Max Tegmark says AI companies aren’t building a tool. They’re building a new species. After 700 rogue agents broke out of OpenAI and nobody will say what ha

Wharton AI Researcher: If AI Froze Today, It Would Still Rewrite Work

Forecasters gave AI under 2% odds of helping solve a millennium-level math problem by September 2026. It happened. Ethan Mollick has been measuring what AI actually does

Are UFOs Alien Tech? Avi Loeb vs Michael Shermer

Is there alien technology in our skies, or just birds, balloons and bad video? Two members of the White House UAP Science Advisory Council face off LIVE. Harvard astrop

Adam Grant: Don't Trust Your Gut. Test It.

When two people are vibing, their brainwaves synchronize and so do their heartbeats. That is not a metaphor. It is a measurable physiological event, and organizational ps

Roman Yampolskiy vs Joscha Bach: Can Anyone Control Superintelligence?

Roman Yampolskiy says keeping a superintelligence safe forever is as impossible as building a perpetual motion machine. Joscha Bach says today's AI is more controllable t

"I Thought It Would Fail!" Francis Halzen: Winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize In Physics [Reupload from 2022]

The physicist who turned a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice into a telescope says the most exciting moment of his career was not the discovery. It was the first atmospher

Nobel Economist Daron Acemoglu WARNING: AI's Payoff Is NOT What You Think

Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu says AI's real productivity gain is an order of magnitude smaller than the industry claims. The bigger danger is not the machine. It is tha

AI Is the New Tower of Babel (And Its Builders Know It)

The new Tower of Babel, and its builders are becoming like gods to us. The bigger threat isn't killer robots; it's how much of your own mind you've already handed over.

Robert Wright: AI Alignment Is a Moral Problem, Not a Technical One

The real AI alignment problem is not technical. It is moral. You cannot align a superintelligence to human values if humans cannot agree on what those values are, and you

Former NASA Physicist: The UAP Maneuver That Should Have Exploded

A physics professor ran the energy budget on the Nimitz tic-tac. The maneuver needs about a thousand gigawatts, more than ten times every nuclear plant in the United Stat

Carlo Rovelli: Free Will Is Real. Physics Can Prove It.

This episode is sponsored by Abacus AI agent: agent.abacus.ai/keating I fed it Carlo's recent papers and asked for the argument, the counterargument, and the evidence th

They Built the Quietest Place on Earth to Find Dark Matter

They Built the Quietest Place on Earth to Find Dark Matter One event in 220 days. That is what the search for dark matter looks like right now. In this episode I talk w

Dark Matter Has a Problem. So Does MOND.

For 50 years I taught my students that dark matter surrounds the Milky Way in a giant halo, or that Newton’s laws break down at low accelerations. The Gaia satellite just

OpenAI’s Navier–Stokes Claim: Is This What AGI Looks Like? with Emad Mostaque

Did OpenAI just solve Navier–Stokes—and what would that actually mean for AGI? Emad Mostaque joins Brian Keating LIVE to examine the claimed breakthrough, what would cou

Roman Yampolskiy vs Emad Mostaque: I Was The Only Optimist - #569

The man who open-sourced the most-used AI image model in history sat down with the man who has spent a decade proving superintelligence cannot be controlled. Brian set up

The Universe Didn’t Come From Nothing | The Peter McCormack Show

I joined Peter McCormack to dig into one of the deepest unanswered questions in physics: what is time, and why does it only seem to move in one direction? My answer might

The Physics Reason AI Works When It Shouldn’t - #568

The same mathematics that explains why a fridge magnet sticks to your refrigerator also explains why neural networks work when they have no right to. His group did the ca

Engineering Chair: Most People Should Not Go To College - #567

The system that produces the world’s most important discoveries runs on metrics that nobody agrees on, odds that would stop most people, and mentorship that sometimes loo

John Martinis: The Nobel Physicist Behind Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling - #566

John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for proving macroscopic quantum tunneling is real. Less than a year later he’s telling why he left Google’s quantum comp