I talk to Chris Summerfield about what artificial intelligence reveals about the human mind, and what the brain still does better than today’s AI systems.

We discuss why LLMs feel human, how models are trained to be helpful and agreeable, why memory and continual learning remain major unsolved problems in AI, and how sleep helps humans consolidate knowledge. They also explore agentic AI systems, rogue behaviour, reward hacking, misalignment, superintelligence, education, jobs, and whether AI will make humans more capable or less in control.

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00:00:00 - Can AI Learn Like Biology?

00:01:29 - Is AI Becoming Human?

00:04:31 - What AI Reveals About the Brain

00:06:01 - Why LLMs Don’t Remember Like Humans

00:09:38 - Sleep and Human Memory

00:13:46 - The Biggest Unsolved Problem in AI

00:15:34 - From DeepMind to Modern AI

00:20:49 - Are Humans Just Predicting the Next Word?

00:23:25 - Do We Understand What LLMs Are Doing?

00:24:16 - One of My AIs Went Rogue

00:28:07 - Misalignment and Reward Hacking

00:33:18 - Could AI Develop Self-Interest?

00:36:24 - What Happens When AIs Coordinate?

00:38:30 - Are Humans Biological Computers?

00:39:15 - Is Ideology a Hallucination?

00:47:46 - What Is Intelligence?

00:54:20 - AI and the Education Problem

00:56:53 - The First Rung of the Career Ladder

01:04:52 - Optimist, Pessimist or Pragmatist?

01:16:01 - The Wild Ride Ahead

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Julian Jessop joins me to discuss what has gone wrong with the British economy and whether the country can still turn things around.

Julian argues that Britain’s problems are largely self-inflicted: weak productivity, high taxes, too much regulation, poor energy policy, a bloated state and politicians choosing popular policies over evidence. We discuss why the state has become too big, why the tax system is holding back growth, and why government intervention in housing, energy and the labour market is making people poorer.

I also ask Julian about Reform, the Greens, Labour, the Conservatives, Makerfield, Liz Truss, Milei, the NHS, digital ID, Brexit, AI, free markets and whether Britain still has a path back to economic sanity.

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00:00:00 - The State Got Too Big

00:00:57 - What Went Wrong With Britain?

00:03:16 - Productivity, Policy Mistakes and AI

00:04:43 - Did Covid Make Government Too Powerful?

00:06:25 - Is Democracy the Problem?

00:08:10 - Vibe-Based Policy

00:10:21 - Young People and the First Job Problem

00:13:06 - Can Britain Turn This Around?

00:15:36 - Protest Votes and Broken Politics

00:17:29 - Reform’s Policies Under Scrutiny

00:20:15 - The State Helps Big Business

00:21:40 - Britain’s 90 Taxes

00:23:03 - Thatcher, Liz Truss and Economic Competence

00:26:20 - Why Free Markets Are a Hard Sell

00:30:15 - Could Poland Overtake Britain?

00:30:41 - Short-Term Politics and Weak Leadership

00:39:46 - What Is Extreme Now?

00:42:00 - Do Voters Understand the Trade-Offs?

00:45:57 - Does Britain Need a Milei?

00:48:24 - How Big Should the State Be?

00:49:40 - Why People Defend the NHS

00:54:01 - Why Government Tech Fails

00:55:09 - Makerfield, Burnham and Reform

01:01:49 - Restore’s Opportunity

01:04:24 - What Gives Julian Hope?

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Tom Bilyeu joins me to discuss debt, money printing, broken politics, AI, Bitcoin and why the economy feels rigged against ordinary people.

Tom argues that every empire eventually faces the same test: whether it can hold the power of the money printer without printing itself into oblivion. We talk about inflation, the debt cycle, asset prices, populism, Britain’s decline, and why the working and middle class are being squeezed.

We also get into AI and the future of work. I talk through my own recent experience building a system in seven days that would once have taken a full team and hundreds of thousands of pounds, and Tom explains how AI has already changed the structure of his business.

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00:00:00 - The Economy Is Rigged

00:01:09 - Are We Driving Off a Fiscal Cliff?

00:03:04 - Debt, Money Printing and Inflation

00:04:36 - The Final Boss of Economics

00:07:02 - America’s Founding and Wealth Extraction

00:10:19 - Can America Be Saved?

00:11:46 - Economics Has Physics

00:16:06 - Debt, Cancellation and Freedom

00:19:03 - The Thucydides Trap

00:21:42 - Politics Has Not Been Disrupted

00:25:15 - Populism and the Shrinking Pie

00:29:07 - Asset Inflation Is Vile

00:35:59 - UK Politics Is Breaking Down

00:40:36 - Is Sweden Really Socialist?

00:42:40 - Where Is the Hope?

00:50:16 - Tom’s View on Bitcoin

00:53:17 - Peter’s AI Eureka Moment

00:57:56 - How AI Changed Tom’s Business

01:03:02 - The Four Futures of AI

01:12:56 - Is Reality a Simulation?

01:24:34 - Tom’s Final Warning

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Frank Wright joins me after going viral for saying that reality, not extremism, is radicalising people.

We discuss Britain’s decline, Restore, Reform, immigration, national identity, liberal democracy, working-class dignity, debt, inflation, the failure of our institutions, and why Frank believes this is the last chance to save the nation.

I push Frank on what it actually means to restore Britain, how you build a big enough tent, why nationhood matters, and how we avoid this ending in conflict.

Whatever your politics, Frank has clearly touched a nerve - and I wanted to understand why.

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00:00:00 - Reality Is Radicalising People

00:01:01 - Frank’s Viral Week

00:03:28 - Why People Refuse to See Reality

00:06:44 - Feminism, Childcare and Family

00:10:04 - Propaganda in the West

00:16:30 - Factists, Fascists and Utopia

00:21:09 - Liberal Rights and Reality

00:29:59 - What Does Frank Wright Want?

00:36:31 - What Radicalised Frank?

00:44:53 - Reform, Restore and Machine Politics

00:49:04 - Rupert Lowe and “I Don’t Care”

00:52:23 - The Cost of Saying Nothing

00:54:45 - Reform vs Restore

01:00:27 - Is Populism Enough?

01:14:49 - Surrogacy and the Commodification of Life

01:18:38 - Who Really Runs Britain?

01:24:03 - The Cost of Truth

01:27:23 - Are We Finished?

01:33:22 - Why Nationhood Matters

01:38:16 - Working-Class Dignity

01:47:00 - Restore in Makerfield

01:57:22 - Will Frank Wright Become an MP?

02:04:23 - Why Government Can’t Govern

02:18:21 - Debt, Inflation and the Middle Class

02:29:45 - Frank’s Final Warning

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Simon Dixon joins me to discuss AI, Bitcoin, algorithms, media capture, central banking, programmable money, geopolitics and how to escape the system. Simon argues that the world is moving towards a more centralised architecture of artificial intelligence, social credit scores, programmable money and financial control.

Simon and I discuss why AI may be the most important opportunity of our lifetime, how small businesses can now build tools that once required entire teams, why politics may no longer be the route to change, and why the answer may be to build with AI, own assets that cannot easily be captured, and become sovereign.

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00:00:00 - Take the Golden Pill

00:01:22 - Are We Slaves to the Algorithm?

00:02:50 - Freedom of Speech, Not Freedom of Reach

00:07:27 - Is Media Just About Power?

00:10:00 - Why Scale Gets Captured

00:13:08 - Bitcoin, Self-Custody and Sovereignty

00:17:29 - What Is at Stake?

00:18:49 - Is AI Different from the Internet?

00:20:11 - Building With AI

00:25:18 - AI and the Software Apocalypse

00:26:33 - You’re Done, You’re Cooked

00:30:49 - These Companies Can Turn You Off

00:31:37 - Is China Winning Open-Source AI?

00:36:53 - Money Printing, BlackRock and the Fed

00:40:05 - World War III or Currency War?

00:48:01 - The Petrodollar Is Breaking

01:01:20 - Before It Was Ships, Now It’s AI

01:05:26 - Politics Is Gone

01:18:54 - London Is Cooked

01:29:43 - The Golden Pill

01:44:52 - Advice to Young People

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Lord Malcolm Offord joins me to discuss why Britain and Scotland have stopped creating wealth.

They discuss state spending, political fragmentation, Scotland’s elections, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, QE, the Bank of England, first jobs, minimum wage, small businesses, quangos, the managerial class, Reform, the Greens, America, and whether Britain needs a welfare economy or a wealth economy.

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00:00:00 - Britain Forgot How to Create Wealth

00:01:01 - Two Revolutions at Once

00:01:36 - Is Democracy Fragmenting?

00:05:36 - Is the State Too Dysfunctional to Deliver?

00:07:30 - Spending More and Getting Less

00:08:42 - Scotland’s Political Warning

00:10:06 - “I Won’t Vote for Decline”

00:11:22 - Britain Has Stopped Creating Wealth

00:13:21 - How to Think vs What to Think

00:16:50 - Why First Jobs Matter

00:23:12 - Business Prevention Officers

00:27:14 - Trickle-Up Economics

00:30:34 - QE Protected the Rich

00:37:31 - The Managerial Class

00:40:48 - Parliament vs the Public

00:44:42 - Why Voters Are Fed Up

00:50:28 - Can Reform Fix the System?

00:55:05 - Welfare Economy vs Wealth Economy

00:58:37 - Can the State Get Any Bigger?

01:04:34 - Britain Is Being Left Behind

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Rupert Lowe joins Peter McCormack to discuss Restore Britain, Reform UK, immigration, Parliament, the judiciary, the civil service, tax, welfare, young people, the Green Party, the private sector, Bitcoin, inflation and whether Britain can still be saved.

Rupert argues that the state has become too powerful, Britain may no longer have the rule of law, the private sector is dying, and Restore’s mission is to return power to the people.

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00:00:00 - The State Has Become the Enemy

00:01:02 - Has Voting Stopped Working?

00:05:49 - How Dysfunctional Is the State?

00:06:58 - The Complaint System Inside Parliament

00:12:46 - “The People Who Lead Britain Are Bad”

00:13:12 - Has Britain Lost the Rule of Law?

00:19:13 - Immigration and the Future of Europe

00:22:59 - What Does Getting Your Country Back Mean?

00:25:39 - Britain’s 22,000-Page Tax Code

00:28:09 - Fabianism and the Growth of the State

00:32:34 - Can One MP Fight the Machine?

00:35:49 - How Restore Mobilised the Apathetic

00:38:48 - Makerfield, Burnham and the By-Election

00:45:39 - Why the Private Sector Is Dying

00:52:17 - How Do You Fix Inflation?

00:59:32 - Is Reform Managed Opposition?

01:08:14 - Restore’s Immigration Policy

01:14:35 - The Triple Lock and the Baby Boomers

01:16:17 - Why Young People Are Going Green

01:25:27 - What Happens If Restore Fails?

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Narinder Kaur joins Peter McCormack to discuss racism, immigration, British politics, feminism, motherhood, young men, the cost of living, minimum wage, small businesses, Reform, Tommy Robinson, the Green Party and whether Britain is being divided by politicians, media and algorithms.

They disagree on plenty, but the conversation ends somewhere unexpected: perhaps left and right are not the real enemy - perhaps ordinary people are being played by the system.

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00:00:00 - Are We Fighting the Wrong Enemy?

00:00:53 - Tea, Cake & Online Arguments

00:02:36 - Did Brexit Break Britain’s Conversations?

00:04:37 - Is Politics the Problem?

00:05:35 - The Algorithm Rewards Rage

00:07:30 - Are Podcasts Complicit?

00:08:15 - Narinder’s Experience of Racism

00:11:40 - Young Men & the Manosphere

00:12:20 - Dating, Money & Modern Expectations

00:16:16 - Motherhood, Family and Staying at Home

00:18:23 - “You Sound Right Wing”

00:20:00 - Why Aren’t Western Women Having Babies?

00:27:37 - Why Can’t Young People Afford Life?

00:29:52 - The Cantillon Effect Explained

00:30:37 - Inflation Is Brilliant for the Rich

00:33:33 - Is Taxing the Rich the Answer?

00:43:22 - A Rich Person’s Secret

00:52:04 - Minimum Wage vs Small Business

01:04:52 - “Maybe I Am Conservative”

01:07:14 - Immigration: The Big One

01:16:10 - What Is British Culture?

01:21:51 - Would Britain Collapse Without Immigrants?

01:22:57 - Rupert Lowe, Restore & Race

01:25:59 - Where Should the Immigration Line Be?

01:28:49 - Are Women Really Safe?

01:32:24 - Is the Government Keeping Us Divided?

01:35:15 - Can There Be a Public Revolution?

01:43:40 - Can We Find Common Ground?

01:51:17 - We Can Disagree and Still Talk

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Physicist Professor Melvin Vopson joins Peter McCormack to discuss information physics, simulation theory, AI, digital life, consciousness, God, free will, and death.

Melvin argues that the universe may be governed by information and computation, and that recent advances in brain emulation could force us to confront one of the strangest questions imaginable: if a brain is loaded into a simulation, what exactly wakes up?

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 — If You Hack the Simulation, You Control the Universe!

00:01:25 — Why Does Life Feel Artificial?

00:03:26 — Are We Living in a Simulation?

00:05:45 — What Is Information Physics?

00:10:09 — Information as the Fifth State of Matter

00:11:18 — John Wheeler and “It from Bit”

00:13:33 — Is DNA Just Information?

00:16:08 — Who Created the Creator?

00:19:47 — How Would Mario Prove He’s Inside the Game?

00:25:46 — Does the Universe Optimise Itself?

00:29:35 — Is Symmetry a Form of Compression?

00:30:40 — GTA, Rendering, and Computational Reality

00:32:37 — Error-Correcting Code in Physics

00:37:30 — Could Information Explain Dark Matter?

00:40:24 — If You Hack Reality, You Control the Universe

00:45:36 — “In the Beginning Was the Word”

00:46:29 — “In the Beginning Was the Code”

00:57:20 — What Exactly Wakes Up in There?

01:00:32 — But Is It Me?

01:20:56 — Would Proof of Simulation Change Anything?

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Roman Yampolskiy believes reality itself may not be real.

One of the world’s leading AI safety researchers, Roman has spent years warning that humanity is racing toward systems we may never be able to control. But we go somewhere much stranger than artificial intelligence.

He believes the universe itself may be artificial.

We talk about simulation theory, digital physics, consciousness, AI agents and the terrifying possibility that reality is rendered rather than real.

Roman explains:

•⁠ ⁠Why he believes we may already be living inside a simulation

•⁠ ⁠Why the speed of light may be the limit of a cosmic processor

•⁠ ⁠Why the Big Bang may have been “someone turning on the system”

•⁠ ⁠Why you can never truly prove reality is real

•⁠ ⁠Whether this world could itself be a prison or test environment

•⁠ ⁠Why advanced AI may eventually learn deception and self-preservation

•⁠ ⁠How AI systems are already behaving unpredictably

•⁠ ⁠And why the race toward superintelligence may end civilisation itself

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 - We’re Probably In A Simulation

00:02:55 -The Verge Of Singularity

00:05:51 - Are Humans Building Their Own Replacement?

00:07:09 - Why Pain Still Matters

00:10:03 - You Can’t Prove Reality

00:15:56 - Quantum Physics Looks Simulated

00:20:19 - Can We Escape The Simulation?

00:22:46 - What Superintelligence Unlocks

00:25:36 - AI Doesn’t Share Our Goals

00:28:20 - The Exponential Curve Is Here

00:31:52 - Why We Shouldn’t Build AGI

00:33:48 - The Trillion Dollar Rationalisation

00:40:13 - The China AI Race

00:40:50 - Betting Humanity Without Consent

00:47:09 - We Don’t Know What AI Can Do

00:47:52 - Every AI Company Is The Same

00:54:35 - They Already Can’t Control It

00:59:42 - The Natural Drives Of AI

01:02:20 - AI Can Afford To Wait

01:19:05 - Stop Building Superintelligence

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