AGI, Immortality, & Visions of the Future with Adam Becker

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🗓️ 28 November 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Are we making science fiction a reality? Is that a good thing? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, & Gary O’Reilly and guest Adam Becker, science communicator and author of More Everything Forever, discuss sci-fi dreams, tech-bro promises, and the real science shaping our tomorrow.

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0:00.0	Love me some future talk.
0:01.6	But they spook me, though, with where they take the end of civilization.
0:05.0	But we don't know whose hands are on the steering wheel.
0:07.4	We don't know who's shaping this future, and that's why there's concern.
0:11.2	Well, I know who's saving it, and I'm scared to death.
0:14.3	All right.
0:14.9	It's you.
0:16.7	Let's watch Chuck be scared to death.
0:19.4	As we discuss all the ways tech will be shaping our future coming right up. StarTalk, special edition.
0:27.8	Welcome to StarTalk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:36.4	StarTalk begins right now.
0:40.8	This is StarTalk, special edition.
0:44.4	Neil deGrasse Tyson, you're a personal astrophysicist,
0:47.2	and when I say special edition, it means I turn to my right.
0:50.7	And Gary O'Reilly is sitting there.
0:52.6	I know.
0:52.9	Gary.
0:53.5	Hi.
0:55.1	Would you get your British accent?
0:56.5	Stolen.
1:00.4	Just a thief.
1:01.1	Chuck.
	...

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