Taking the HG Wells essay collection as a departure point, this podcast asks the following questions of a range of people:

• What has been awakened? Rough beast? Benevolent angel? Boring super-appliance?
• Could we be less wrong about AI than those considered to be experts?
• Why "No Experts"? Is it possible that there really are any experts on this subject?
• Could a few relatively smart outsiders be less wrong about AI - what it is, what changes it's going to make to our lives - than the glory-drunk founders and their whorish enablers, or the terrifying doomsayers?
• Could we be any less wrong, for that matter, than Wells, who in 1938 brought out a collection of essays that imagined that a global encyclopedia would help bring about a permanent state of world peace?
• Finally, can an unstructured discussion between humans meaningfully enrich our understanding of the boundaries between us and what we've created?

Jobst Landgrebe describes himself as a scientist, entrepreneur, philosopher. He first published Why Machines Will Never Rule the World in 2023 and followed up with The Absolute Limits of Artificial Intelligence in January 2025.

In this lively and wide-ranging interview, Yuri and Matt unroll a surprizing range of assertions and arguments related to the potentials, limitations, and real threats posed by AI.

World Brain: No Experts Episode 2.2 PG Version

Yuri and Matt are back, but this time we've brought our robot friend to summarize the pilot episode as only a robot friend can.

Episode 2.1 FIXED AUDIO

Yuri and Matt are back, but this time we've brought our robot friend to summarize the pilot episodeas only a robot friend can.

Taking the HG Wells essay collection as a departure point, this podcast asks the following questions of a range of people:

• What has been awakened? Rough beast? Benevolent angel? Boring super-appliance?
• Could we be less wrong about AI than those considered to be experts?
• Why "No Experts"? Is it possible that there really are any experts on this subject?
• Could a few relatively smart outsiders be less wrong about AI - what it is, what changes it's going to make to our lives - than the glory-drunk founders and their whorish enablers, or the terrifying doomsayers?
• Could we be any less wrong, for that matter, than Wells, who in 1938 brought out a collection of essays that imagined that a global encyclopedia would help bring about a permanent state of world peace?
• Finally, can an unstructured discussion between humans meaningfully enrich our understanding of the boundaries between us and what we've created?