# robert wright (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover robert wright. Page: Feed: --- ## [Navigating the Intelligence Explosion (with Fin Moorhouse)](https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/navigating-the-intelligence-explosion) _2026-08-19 · Dan Williams · Conspicuous Cognition_ Watch now | Explosive technological progress, the "grand challenges" on the path to superintelligence, space expansion, and the ethics and politics of artificial minds [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211183923/6bd634d16f4917a90152039ed46d50ec.mp3) ## [The AI Safety Vibe Shift (Robert Wright & David Krueger)](https://www.nonzero.org/p/the-ai-safety-vibe-shift-robert-wright) _2026-08-18 · Robert Wright · NonZero Newsletter_ Listen now | 0:00 Overtime teaser 0:43 David’s AI safety work, past and present 2:42 Has there been a vibe shift in AI? 8:03 Why two AI godfathers went doomer 12:14 The OpenAI breakout as the warning shot heard round the world 20:52 Breaking down the OpenAI breakout 29:07 AI agents are cooperating. Why? 37:46 Is an AI pause near? 42:36 The hard problem of AI alignment 47:30 Heading to Overtime… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211362041/b48c495e0855ef78bb71cb5bdab961e6.mp3) ## [Is (Human) Writing Doomed? (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)](https://www.nonzero.org/p/is-human-writing-doomed-robert-wright) _2026-08-13 · Robert Wright · NonZero Newsletter_ Listen now | 0:00 Bob channels Dick Cheney 4:01 Is AI killing writing? And thinking? 16:19 How Bob and Paul actually use AI 23:39 The cognitive vs economic value of writing 30:04 AIs aping “Memento” and other frontier freakiness 37:36 Bob: Reckless AI is just good business 41:08 Heading to Overtime obert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Paul Bloom… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211021714/bec5876d728ea9e50272345bc087282e.mp3) ## [Trump’s Unending War (Robert Wright, Curt Mills, and Andrew Day)](https://www.nonzero.org/p/trumps-unending-war-robert-wright) _2026-08-12 · Robert Wright · NonZero Newsletter_ Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 0:48 How is MAGA feeling about Trump 2.0? 3:51 Bob’s good ol’ days at The New Republic 6:43 The biggest threat to the Trump coalition 18:51 Why the MoU unraveled 32:00 Is Iran's regime really divided? 37:01 Part two: This pod’s auspicious return from tech hell 38:14 Trump’s covert catering-truck op 46:10 Have Iran’s demands really gotten more extreme? 53:46 Saudi Arabia vs… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210817299/0aa9b9ad947559c5fc9823c03292d229.mp3) ## [Ukraine, Iran, and America’s Arms Overreach (Robert Wright & Jennifer Kavanagh)](https://www.nonzero.org/p/ukraine-iran-and-americas-arms-overreach) _2026-08-06 · Robert Wright · NonZero Newsletter_ Listen now | 0:00 Jennifer’s foreign policy bona fides 1:07 Could Ukraine and Iran merge into one big war? 5:53 Is Ukraine really “turning the tide”? 15:04 America’s (and Ukraine’s) missile defense issue 18:44 Putin’s ceasefire conditions 25:35 What—and who—are America’s missiles for, really? 29:47 How not to open the Hormuz Strait 41:09 How will the Iran war truly end? 51:05 Heading to Overtime… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210135183/a65e98c68cadbf0aef37fa76b009d5c6.mp3) ## [Fasten Your Bot-belts (Robert Wright & Samuel Hammond)](https://www.nonzero.org/p/fasten-your-bot-belts-robert-wright) _2026-08-04 · Robert Wright · NonZero Newsletter_ Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 0:46 Sam’s ideological leanings 4:02 Sam’s AI Manhattan Project–revisited 8:02 What does the “Pacing” letter say about the state of AI? 19:11 Mythos, Astra, and AI’s accelerating acceleration 28:08 The OpenAI “rogue” model escape 36:48 Recursive self-improvement: Red line or red herring? 42:42 How frontier AI is getting (and will get) freakier 52:28 How is open-source AI… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209758313/7f119d4c6bc47c9d1a4c11dea0ef8c45.mp3) ## [The Social Roots of Delusions](https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/the-social-roots-of-delusions) _2026-08-04 · Dan Williams · Conspicuous Cognition_ Clinical delusions, collective irrationality, and the fragile achievement of human knowledge ## [The intensifying slow-AI-down vibe (Robert Wright & Holly Elmore)](https://www.nonzero.org/p/the-intensifying-slow-ai-down-vibe) _2026-07-31 · Robert Wright · NonZero Newsletter_ Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 1:03 The “Pacing the Frontier” letter signed by AI elites 10:49 Why so many China-hawk AI-safety-hawks? 14:50 Was the “Pacing” letter too small an ask? 27:47 The striking AI vibe shift 37:02 Are AI builders “just following orders”? 46:20 Recursive self-improvement: The wrong red line? 51:57 Heading to Overtime Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209293675/d0ff80b93f404152af5db89d480de2c9.mp3) ## [We Are Stuck With Human Nature, Not Human Ignorance](https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/we-are-stuck-with-human-nature-not) _2026-07-29 · Dan Williams · Conspicuous Cognition_ Why a tragic view of human nature need not imply a pessimistic view of human reason ## [Are the Ukraine and the Iran Wars Merging? (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)](https://www.nonzero.org/p/are-the-ukraine-and-the-iran-wars) _2026-07-29 · Robert Wright · NonZero Newsletter_ Listen now | 0:00 Why did Ukraine hit an Iranian ship 500 miles from Ukraine? 13:45 Ukraine’s war on Russia’s Amazon 19:15 Why Zelensky fired his defense minister and commander-in-chief 22:37 Bob: Ukraine may lose like people go bankrupt—gradually, then suddenly 24:53 Nikita: Why both sides are ready to keep fighting31:02 Kazakh President to Putin: Nobody understands this war35:19 Bob: Everybody… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208914503/0144c40af577333bf5cd77f7c6a319f5.mp3) ## [Try Before You Buy, Risk-Free (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/dof4rXvBSR2x) _2026-07-29 · **Sponsored**_ Free trial hosting plus refunds processed in 12-24 hours, guaranteed. ## [Trump and the AI rational actor problem](https://www.nonzero.org/p/trump-and-the-ai-rational-actor-problem) _2026-07-27 · Robert Wright · NonZero Newsletter_ A new theory about why foreign policy elites aren't worried enough. Plus: Graph of the week. ## [The Wright Stuff (Very Bad Wizards w/ Tamler Sommers and David Pizarro)](https://www.nonzero.org/p/the-wright-stuff-very-bad-wizards) _2026-07-24 · Robert Wright · NonZero Newsletter_ Listen now | The great Robert Wright returns to the podcast to talk about his new book The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning. We debate the magnitude of AI’s potential impact, the natural selection analogy Bob presses in the book, and a whole lot more. Plus, a new AI-powered collar can translate your pet’s sounds and behavior into language with 95% accuracy! Still… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208387447/5964aa1d1d7cf71f60df558080d22bf0.mp3) ## [The Ideology Behind AI (Robert Wright & Connor Leahy)](https://www.nonzero.org/p/the-ideology-behind-ai-robert-wright) _2026-07-21 · Robert Wright · NonZero Newsletter_ Listen now | 0:00 Connor’s place in the AI world 3:15 Mythos: “digital nuke”? 14:11 The milieu that birthed Dario and other AI titans 20:51 Yudkowsky, Marx, and other AI harbingers 35:33 Effective altruism’s effects on big tech 46:21 The “cult” in Silicon Valley culture 59:58 Is the AI race a market failure? 1:05:50 What’s really driving the AI titans? 1:19:03 Connor: ASI is a worse bet than… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207805150/1bb91cfe693daffc023f754dc4cb617a.mp3) ## [Who Will Control Europe’s AI Future? (with Judith Dada)](https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/who-will-control-europes-ai-future) _2026-07-21 · Dan Williams · Conspicuous Cognition_ Watch now | 'Europe 2031', AI sovereignty, and the geopolitics of compute [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207909468/3988cd09a2968e14f693589b2e1945e7.mp3) ## [Highbrow Propaganda](https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/highbrow-propaganda) _2026-07-14 · Dan Williams · Conspicuous Cognition_ Ideological power, populist distrust, and the strongest rational case against rationalism ## [Can Humanity Survive Superintelligence? (with Robert Wright)](https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/can-humanity-survive-superintelligence) _2026-07-03 · Dan Williams · Conspicuous Cognition_ Robert Wright on AI as humanity’s “God Test”: AI progress, superintelligence, the US-China race, global coordination, evolution’s purpose, and consciousness. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/204938853/d505214991edff27e19e7805f8304f34.mp3) ## [How Tribes Construct Rival Realities](https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/how-tribes-construct-rival-realities) _2026-06-22 · Dan Williams · Conspicuous Cognition_ Henry Nowak, George Floyd, and the hidden interpretive machinery that drives political conflict. ## [What If Artificial Intelligence Progress Explodes? (with Benjamin Todd)](https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/what-if-artificial-intelligence-progress) _2026-06-16 · Dan Williams · Conspicuous Cognition_ Benjamin Todd on whether transformative AI is only a few years away, the feedback loops that could compress decades of progress into months, and how to navigate the transition to a post-AGI society. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/202297358/74d053e8a7a6ec9ef04258b7e65ac0e7.mp3) ## [Academics Must Wake Up on AI (with Alexander Kustov)](https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/academics-must-wake-up-on-ai-with) _2026-06-02 · Dan Williams · Conspicuous Cognition_ Is AI already better at many research tasks than humans? And if so, is this a reflection of how good AI is, or how bad much existing research is? [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/200146654/f83cfa4d7548279c092d0ac97b48fb0b.mp3) ## [Stop CI/CD & Supply-Chain Attacks (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/h9M6YrpaRkIV) _2026-06-02 · **Sponsored**_ Per-PR: 17 CI/CD checks and package malware scans with inline Check Run findings. ## [In Europe, There Is No Simple Immigration-Crime Story](https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/in-europe-there-is-no-simple-immigration) _2026-05-28 · Tibor Rutar · Conspicuous Cognition_ Here are some statements that you might have heard at different times and in different venues concerning immigrants and crime in Europe: