Episode 563: The Ripple Effect Podcast (Alex Tsakiris | The Rise of A.I: The Wait Is Over)
The Ripple Effect Podcast
Ricky Varandas
4.6 • 603 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
Alex Tsakiris is best known as the founder and host of Skeptiko, a popular podcast that explores the intersection of science and spirituality. With a background combining a strong technical background information systems and artificial intelligence along with a scientific curiosity and a deep interest in spirituality, Alex Tsakiris has become a significant voice in debates surrounding the nature of consciousness and its relation to the physical world. Alex is also a best selling author who's work includes WHY SCIENCE IS WRONG...: About Almost Everything, and Why Evil Matters: How Science & Religion Fumbled a Big One, and his newest book Why AI? Is Smartest... Is Dangerous... Is Divine.
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| 0:00.0 | believe in the ripple fact |
| 0:25.6 | The ripple fact I'm gonna' I'm gonna I'm |
| 0:38.3 | I'm |
| 0:39.3 | Avaughan What's up, what's up? |
| 1:09.2 | Another episode of Ripple Effect podcast. |
| 1:10.7 | Of course, I'm your host. |
| 1:11.8 | Ricotta Randis. Also knows your great, great episode for you today. Today we go super deep. |
| 1:18.1 | It's a deep dive into a topic that we have scratched the surface on a lot in the last, I don't know, |
| 1:24.1 | a couple months on many different podcasts and with many different guests. |
| 1:29.2 | But today I had the perfect guess to take a deep dive into artificial intelligence and the future |
| 1:34.2 | of it. We discussed the pros and cons, how it's going to impact our lives, the net positives |
| 1:40.3 | and net negatives. We look at artificial intelligence from a creative tool perspective, |
| 1:47.3 | from a philosophy perspective, from a spiritual perspective, from a man-versed machine, |
| 1:53.3 | transhumanism perspective. So this is a very fascinating discussion because the truth is |
| 1:59.2 | artificial intelligence isn't going to soon be here. |
| 2:03.6 | It is here. |
| 2:04.6 | And that's why I think this conversation, this podcast episode is so important because these are |
| 2:09.8 | relevant topics and what I believe really important things to think about and discuss. |
| 2:15.9 | I think in the intro, I've been so excited about this podcast |
| 2:19.3 | that I have forgot to mention who my guest is today. And his name is Alex Tiscaris. And you guys |
| 2:26.0 | might know him because he's a regular on my roundtable panel show called The Union of Unwanted. |
| 2:31.0 | He's also a regular on the ripple effect podcast. He's been on quite a bit. |
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