Good Robot #1: The Magic Intelligence in the Sky

Unexplainable

Vox

Life Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Before AI became a mainstream obsession, one thinker sounded the alarm about its catastrophic potential. So why are so many billionaires and tech leaders worried about… paper clips? This is the first episode of our new four-part series about the stories shaping the future of AI. Good Robot was made in partnership with Vox’s Future Perfect team. Episodes will be released on Wednesdays and Saturdays over the next two weeks. For show transcripts, go to vox.com/unxtranscripts For more, go to vox.com/unexplainable And please email us! [email protected] We read every email. Support Unexplainable by becoming a Vox Member today: vox.com/members Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:15.6	The world's hardest problems can't wait.
0:18.9	Food security, energy resilience, the digital divide, I'm Astro Teller.
0:24.3	For 15 years, I've worked with inventors and engineers to tackle the seemingly impossible.
0:29.7	In the Moonshot podcast, we take you inside X, Google's Moonshot Factory, giving you unprecedented
0:36.8	access to the messy, exhilarating journey
0:39.4	of turning science fiction into reality.
0:42.1	This is the Moonshot podcast.
0:44.0	Out now, wherever you listen.
0:47.5	It's unexplainable.
0:48.9	I'm Noah.
0:49.2	I'm Hassanfeld.
0:50.3	Over the next couple weeks, we're going to be bringing you a special series from the newest
0:54.2	member of our team, Julia Longoria. She's diving deep into AI, which is a topic we've
1:00.5	definitely talked about before. But she's taking a new kind of expansive perspective.
1:06.8	It's not just about AI. It's about the people behind it, what they believe in, the stories they tell, and how those stories are shaping the future of AI itself.
1:19.0	I really can't wait for you to hear it.
1:26.1	Suppose in the future there is an artificial intelligence.
1:30.3	We've created an AI so vastly powerful, so unfathomably intelligent,
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