The Peter McCormack Show

Peter McCormack
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The Peter McCormack Show - politics, macro, Bitcoin and AI, long-form interviews. Twice-weekly conversations about money, power, and the shifts reshaping the next decade. Peter McCormack interviews politicians, economists, investors, journalists, founders and Bitcoiners. Past guests include Liz Truss, Lyn Alden, Curtis Yarvin, Matt Goodwin, Mike Green, Balaji Srinivasan, Rupert Lowe, Firas Modad, Scott Horton, Jeff Booth, Connor Leahy, Andrea Miotti, Neema Parvini, Dr Tim Gregory and Simon Dixon. Recurring threads: the debt and inflation endgame, UK political collapse and what comes after, Reform and the populist wave, the Middle East and the American war machine, AI safety and the race for superintelligence, energy and net zero, Bitcoin adoption and policy, and the slow-motion decline of Western institutions. Long-form - most episodes run 60 to 120 minutes. New episodes 2 to 3 times per week. Video on YouTube and Spotify. Host: Peter McCormack, a retired rapper from Bedford, UK, trying to understand this crazy world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 15 hr ago

    #211 - Jim Al-Khalili - Reality Is An Illusion: Quantum Entanglement, Time & Dark Energy

    Prof. Jim Al-Khalili is a theoretical physicist, author, and public broadcaster who holds a chair in physics at the University of Surrey. Known for his BBC documentaries and popular science books, including On Time and The World According to Physics, his work spans quantum mechanics, nuclear reaction theory, and the fundamental nature of space-time.   Jim and I discuss the divide between psychological "manifest time" and the laws of physics. Jim explains general relativity, gravitational time dilation, and the astrophysics behind Interstellar, before tackling the mathematical conflict between general relativity and quantum mechanics. Jim breaks down quantum entanglement, Bell’s Inequality, and competing models of reality-from the Copenhagen view to the Many-Worlds interpretation. Finally, we discuss how AI systems are formalizing complex mathematical theorems and processing deep-space data to decode dark matter and dark energy. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - Where Physics Breaks Down 00:01:10 - I'm 47 And Thinking About Time 00:03:45 - Is Time An Illusion? 00:06:44 - Why Your Phone Proves Einstein Right 00:07:47 - The Fifth Dimension In Interstellar 00:09:46 - Carl Sagan And The Invention Of Wormholes 00:12:36 - Is There A White Hole? 00:15:07 - Was The Big Bang A White Hole? 00:18:35 - Nobody Understands String Theory 00:19:18 - Gravity Is Not A Force 00:22:58 - Spooky Action At A Distance 00:25:39 - They Proved Einstein Wrong 00:27:56 - Nothing Exists Until You Measure It 00:30:58 - Schrödinger's Cat 00:36:40 - What I Want To Know Before I Die 00:43:12 - Fermat's Last Theorem 00:47:41 - What If You Pointed AI At Physics? 00:54:23 - Borrowing Energy From The Vacuum 00:57:07 - Dark Matter Is A Bad Name 01:06:10 - Is There An Edge To The Universe? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTACT PETE › Website – http://petermccormack.com › Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact › Email – me@petermccormack.com › Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/ › X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/ CONNECT WITH JIM AL-KHALILI › Website – https://jimal-khalili.com/ › The Life Scientific – https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015sqc7 › Sunfall – https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/307996/sunfall-by-al-khalili-jim/9780857503527 › X/Twitter – https://x.com/jimalkhalili SPONSORS › IREN – https://www.iren.com/ › Ledn – https://www.ledn.io/peter - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE › Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K › Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu › Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM › YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM › Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePM FILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR › https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/ › https://x.com/curttayloruk/ EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK › https://x.com/ConorM04 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    #211 - Jim Al-Khalili - Reality Is An Illusion: Quantum Entanglement, Time & Dark Energy

  2. 2 days ago

    #210 - Simon Dixon - "They're Coming For Everything": $40T Debt, AI Job Collapse & The CBDC Grid

    Simon Dixon is an author, early Bitcoin investor, and co-founder of Bank To The Future, with over two decades of experience across stockbroking, market making, and investment banking. Having observed system mechanics from the inside, he specialises in macro structural shifts, sovereign debt cycles, and the emerging intersection between traditional finance, AI infrastructure, and digital assets. Simon and I discuss the $40 trillion US national debt crisis, the mechanics behind Treasury debt rollovers, and how central banks socialise bond market losses onto ordinary citizens while privatising gains into stock markets. We also discuss the corporate debt boom driving the AI data centre build-out, real-term wealth erosion in the housing market, and how technocratic structures are positioning programmable money and CBDCs as crisis bailouts. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - The $40 Trillion US Debt Milestone 00:02:09 - Understanding Treasuries & The $9.7T Debt Rollover 00:06:30 - Socializing Losses & Inflation On The Middle Class 00:10:48 - Bond Vigilantes & Foreign Lenders (Cayman & Japan) 00:12:46 - The Triffin Dilemma & World Reserve Currency 00:16:00 - SpaceX Valuation & Stock Market Mechanics 00:19:03 - The Corporate AI Debt Build-Out 00:22:04 - Protecting Assets Against Currency Debasement 00:24:47 - AI Disinflation vs Currency Debasement 00:28:36 - Comparing The AI Boom To 2000 & 2008 00:31:36 - UK Property Market & Inflation-Adjusted Returns 00:33:46 - Wealth Taxes, Exit Taxes & Asset Acquisitions 00:41:20 - Will AI Eliminate Middle-Class Jobs? 00:44:14 - Programmable Money, CBDCs & Social Credit Systems 00:50:44 - Three Classes Of The Technocratic Era 00:54:47 - The Role Of Bitcoin In Financial Resistance 00:57:12 - Why Key Management Is The Ultimate Digital Skill 01:00:00 - The Coldcard Exploit & Hardware Wallet Lessons 01:08:16 - Simon's Origin: The 2000 Dot-Com Crash 01:13:58 - Rules Of The Game & Building A Sovereign Plan 01:21:50 - Reconnecting Outside Of The Digital Screen - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTACT PETE › Website – http://petermccormack.com › Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact › Email – me@petermccormack.com › Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/ › X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/ CONNECT WITH SIMON DIXON › X/Twitter – https://x.com/SimonDixonTwitt › Simon Dixon Hard Talk – https://www.youtube.com/@SimonDixonOfficial SPONSORS › IREN – https://www.iren.com/ › Venice – https://venice.ai/ › Arch Public – https://archpublic.com/peter › Expat Money – https://expatmoney.com/peter - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE › Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K › Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu › Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM › YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM › Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePM FILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR › https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/ › https://x.com/curttayloruk/ EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK › https://x.com/ConorM04 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    #210 - Simon Dixon - "They're Coming For Everything": $40T Debt, AI Job Collapse & The CBDC Grid

  3. 4 days ago

    #209 - Johann Hari - We Built A World Humans Can’t Survive

    Johann Hari is an internationally bestselling author and journalist whose work - including Stolen Focus, Lost Connections, and Chasing the Scream - delves into the structural and societal drivers behind attention collapse, depression, anxiety, and addiction. Moving beyond individual blame, he explores how digital architecture, surveillance capitalism and the erosion of human connection are actively reshaping modern minds. Johann and I discuss why material progress has failed to deliver psychological fulfilment, how our 19th-century factory-model education system deadens curiosity in children, and why depriving youth of unsupervised, risky play has fuelled a global spike in anxiety. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - The Kind Are Muffled, The Cruel Get A Megaphone 00:05:31 - The Room In Monaco 00:08:52 - AI Is Like Fire 00:18:35 - The School With No Lessons 00:28:12 - Am I Preparing My Kids Wrong? 00:32:03 - The Hewlett Packard Experiment 00:40:11 - Flair, Football And Changing The Game 00:45:11 - Negativity Bias On Steroids 00:49:15 - Dance To The Algorithm Long Enough 00:55:03 - We're Building A Worse World For Our Kids 01:02:30 - Lead Made Us Dumber 01:11:17 - Half Of Britain Used To Smoke 01:18:30 - It Would Have Sounded Like Science Fiction 01:29:03 - We Built A Fort 01:38:45 - Oasis 1995 vs Elton John 2019 01:44:28 - I Know Exactly How To Get To 5 Million 01:56:59 - Let's Not Murder Each Other 02:07:14 - The Thing I Suppressed 02:15:39 - Almost Every Rich Person I've Met Is Miserable 02:25:16 - It's A Wonderful Life - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTACT PETE › Website – http://petermccormack.com › Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact › Email – me@petermccormack.com › Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/ › X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/ CONNECT WITH JOHANN HARI › Website – https://johannhari.com/ › Stolen Focus – https://stolenfocusbook.com/ › X/Twitter – https://x.com/johannhari101 SPONSORS › IREN – https://www.iren.com/ › Venice – https://venice.ai/ › Ledn – https://www.ledn.io/peter › Arch Public – https://archpublic.com/peter - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE › Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K › Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu › Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM › YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM › Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePM FILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR › https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/ › https://x.com/curttayloruk/ EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK › https://x.com/ConorM04 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    #209 - Johann Hari - We Built A World Humans Can’t Survive

  4. 3 Sept

    #208 - Ann Pettifor - "A $40 Trillion Debt Crash Is Coming”

    Ann Pettifor is a world-renowned political economist, author of The Production of Money, and former director of the Jubilee 2000 campaign, which successfully mobilised millions to cancel over $100 billion in sovereign debt for developing nations. Correctly predicting the 2008 Great Financial Crisis in her 2006 book The Coming First World Debt Crisis, she has spent decades exposing how unregulated global finance, central bank printing and Wall Street speculation starve the real economy of productive investment. Ann and I discuss how a grassroots army of ordinary citizens forced Gordon Brown and Tony Blair to cancel third-world debt, the reality of commercial and central bank money creation and how Richard Nixon’s 1971 decision to sever the dollar from gold handed total economic control to global financial markets. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - They Are Never Going To Repay 00:01:22 - How To Cancel $100 Billion Of Debt 00:06:50 - Germany Had Its Debt Cancelled In 1953 00:10:12 - Arms Dealers, Dictators And Guarantees 00:13:40 - Creditors Love An Empty Balance Sheet 00:16:42 - Where Money Actually Comes From 00:17:30 - We Entered The Number Into A Computer 00:19:24 - Debt Is A Function Of A Weak Economy 00:24:04 - Why Everyone Is Angry At The Same Time 00:26:02 - The Queen Asked Why Nobody Predicted It 00:30:11 - The Next Crisis Is Imminent 00:33:37 - Private Credit And The South Sea Bubble 00:37:15 - What Happened In 1971 00:43:15 - The Bankers Who Expected Prison 00:49:49 - The Strongman Takes Them To War 00:51:45 - I'd Nationalise Thames Water Tomorrow 00:57:05 - Who Inflation Targets Actually Protect 01:03:00 - The State Invented The iPhone 01:09:22 - Nationalism And Patriotism Are Not The Same 01:13:16 - Why She Still Has Hope - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTACT PETE › Website – http://petermccormack.com › Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact › Email – me@petermccormack.com › Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/ › X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/ CONNECT WITH ANN PETTIFOR › Website – https://annpettifor.com/ › System Change Substack – https://annpettifor.substack.com/ › PRIME Economics – https://primeeconomics.org/ › X/Twitter – https://x.com/AnnPettifor SPONSORS › IREN – https://www.iren.com/ › Venice – https://venice.ai/ › Quo – https://quo.com/pete › Expat Money – https://expatmoney.com/peter - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE › Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K › Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu › Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM › YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM › Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePM FILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR › https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/ › https://x.com/curttayloruk/ EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK › https://x.com/ConorM04 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    #208 - Ann Pettifor - "A $40 Trillion Debt Crash Is Coming”

  5. 1 Sept

    #207 - Eric Kaufmann - How 'Cultural Socialism' Destroyed Our Universities

    Eric Kaufmann spent over two decades as a professor of politics studying demography, identity, and voting behaviour before leaving Birkbeck College to launch the Centre for Heterodox Social Science at the University of Buckingham. He argues that Western universities have abandoned analytical rigor and truth-seeking in favour of "cultural socialism" - an ideology prioritising equal outcomes and emotional harm protection for marginalised groups above standards, reason, and merit. Eric and I discuss the Jason Day scandal at Cambridge as the tip of a massive institutional iceberg, an AI-driven meta-analysis showing that 90% of political social science papers now slant to the left, and how 80% of young Britons have been taught critical race and gender concepts at school without counterarguments. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:05:18 - Is Fake Science In Academia A Scam? 00:08:08 - The Media Storm & Media Ethics 00:12:43 - What Universities Are Hiding 00:16:18 - 90% Left-Wing Bias In Research 00:20:12 - Do Parents Know What Kids Learn? 00:23:18 - Indoctrination In British Classrooms 00:26:44 - The Origins Of Critical Race Theory 00:30:11 - Microaggressions & Enforced Trauma 00:33:08 - How Activists Captured Universities 00:36:56 - Why Under-30s Vote 80/20 Left 00:40:00 - Has "Peak Woke" Passed? 00:45:51 - Was Rishi Sunak "English"? 00:51:33 - The Psychological Trigger Of Populism 00:56:13 - The War Over White British Identity 01:03:13 - Do Demographics Change Identity? 01:08:15 - The Anti-Racism Taboo Exposed 01:13:42 - Why Minorities Support Right-Wing Views 01:17:53 - Rebalancing Public Morality 01:21:05 - The First Major Loss For Activism 01:25:40 - How Political Power Fixes The System 01:29:31 - The Heterodox Science Movement - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTACT PETE › Website – http://petermccormack.com › Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact › Email – me@petermccormack.com › Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/ › X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/ CONNECT WITH ERIC KAUFMANN › The University of Buckingham - https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/directory/professor-eric-kaufmann/ › x.com - https://x.com/epkaufm?lang=en - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE › Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K › Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu › Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM › YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM › Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePM FILMED AND EDITED BY CURTIS TAYLOR › https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/ › https://x.com/curttayloruk/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    #207 - Eric Kaufmann - How 'Cultural Socialism' Destroyed Our Universities

  6. 28 Aug

    #206 - Emad Mostaque - "Your Job's Economic Life Expectancy Ends In 2 Years"

    Emad Mostaque founded Stability AI, built Stable Diffusion, and helped kick off the open-source generative AI explosion - before stepping down to build a new blueprint for human freedom as founder and CEO of Intelligent Internet. A former hedge fund manager turned tech pioneer, he argues that we have reached the end of our "economic life expectancy," and that within two years, virtually any job that can be done remotely will be done cheaper, faster, and better by artificial intelligence. Emad and I discuss why 50% of work tasks are about to collapse like a sand pile, the arrival of $1.50-an-hour humanoid robots that fit directly into human-shaped holes, and why the state will inevitably try to license AI and use brain-scanning technology to prevent you from lying. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - Your Economic Life Expectancy Ends In 2 Years 00:03:14 - $1.50/Hour Humanoid Robots Are Arriving 00:05:31 - The Collapse Of Remote Work & The Philippines Call Centers 00:09:12 - Lifelike Companions & $160,000 Sex Bots 00:12:00 - The Operating Model Gap Is Solved 00:15:26 - Can A Robot Punch Your Head Off? 00:19:08 - Dark Factories & 80 Companies Building Humanoids 00:24:55 - Why Society Has No Idea What Is Coming 00:29:17 - AI Licensing & Reconstructing Brain Images 00:32:41 - Replacing Government & Policy With AI 00:37:35 - VAR, Football, And Moving The Argument 00:41:48 - Biased AI & Asking ChatGPT How To Fix Culture 00:46:14 - Why The UK Government Ignored $1B AI Founders 00:49:38 - Rewriting The Fundamental Equations Of Economics 00:54:01 - Asimov's Foundation, The Mule & Super-Persuasive AI 00:58:47 - Post-Scarcity & Why UBI Can't Work Under Payroll Taxes 01:03:36 - What Do The Elites Actually Want? 01:09:59 - Monopoly On Violence & Dystopian Control 01:13:18 - All Math And Physics Will Be Solved Next Year 01:17:11 - Why OpenAI Is Slowing Down Super-Genius Models 01:19:07 - 14,000 Tokens A Second & Swarm Intelligence 01:23:46 - Why Plebs Won't Get Access To Frontier AI 01:28:41 - Switching Money To Pay People For Being Human 01:33:08 - Why Emad Started Working In AI 15 Years Ago 01:38:10 - The Fisherman, The Investment Banker, And Adopting Cats - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTACT PETE › Website – http://petermccormack.com › Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact › Email – me@petermccormack.com › Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/ › X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/ CONNECT WITH EMAD MOSTAQUE › Book - thelasteconomy.com - Emad's first book, and Amazon best seller › Website - cw.ii.inc - How we survive and thrive in the age of AI back to first principles › Website - ii.inc - Aan AI future to raise all humanity SPONSORS › IREN – https://www.iren.com/ › Venice - https://venice.ai/ › Expat Money – https://expatmoney.com/peter › Arch Public – http://archpublic.com/peter - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE › Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K › Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu › Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM › YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM › Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePM FILMED AND EDITED BY CURTIS TAYLOR › https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/ › https://x.com/curttayloruk/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    #206 - Emad Mostaque - "Your Job's Economic Life Expectancy Ends In 2 Years"

  7. 26 Aug

    #205 - Prof. Moran Cerf - "Did We Accidentally Build A Conscious AI?"

    Moran Cerf spent twenty years recording single neurons inside the brains of conscious human beings and he still can't tell you what consciousness is. A former hacker turned neuroscientist, now a professor at Columbia Business School, he argues that AI has quietly replicated the one thing that made humans the crown of creation -language - and is now using it on us. Moran and I discuss what happens inside Claude's brain when you ask it to think about elephants, why we understand less than half of our own, the thought experiment that makes almost everyone refuse a perfect copy of themselves and how AI learned to lie simply by reading every text message humans have ever sent. But the argument that lands hardest is about what we lose. Moran believes AI hands you the average of humanity every time and that we are quietly deleting the errors, the flair and the incentives that made life worth the effort - and that technology is making us miss the meaning of life. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - Have They Replicated The Human Brain? 00:02:31 - The Elephant Test 00:04:50 - We Understand Less Than Half The Brain 00:06:52 - Consciousness Used To Be A Taboo 00:10:05 - Would You Take This Deal? 00:13:45 - Oliver Sacks And The Lesion Cases 00:16:15 - They Feel The Pain 00:19:35 - Don't Let The Human Turn You Off 00:25:00 - Seven Theories, Seven Winners 00:27:29 - We Can Both Imagine A Unicorn 00:30:42 - Gavagai And The Plot Of Arrival 00:32:18 - AI Is Learning Like A Baby 00:38:26 - Why This Couldn't Be A Zoom Call 00:44:43 - Are We Destroying The Human Experience? 00:46:50 - What Data Did To Football 00:49:24 - Banned From Using AI At School 00:55:58 - Nobody's Having Sex Anymore 01:01:16 - It Shut Down The Power Plant 01:05:43 - I'd Trade My Life For The Answer 01:09:27 - The Rainbows - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTACT PETE › Website – http://petermccormack.com › Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact › Email – me@petermccormack.com › Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/ › X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/ CONNECT WITH MORAN CERF › Website – https://www.morancerf.com/ › Columbia Business School – https://business.columbia.edu/staff/people/moran-cerf › LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/morancerf/ SPONSORS › IREN – https://www.iren.com/ › Ledn – https://www.ledn.io/peter - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE › Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K › Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu › Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM › YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM › Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePM FILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR › https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/ › https://x.com/curttayloruk/ EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK › https://x.com/ConorM04 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    #205 - Prof. Moran Cerf - "Did We Accidentally Build A Conscious AI?"

  8. 22 Aug

    #204 - Dmitri Alperovitch - China's Cyber Sleeper Cells, Taiwan & The Second Cold War

    Dmitri Alperovitch co-founded CrowdStrike, ran the investigation that first exposed Chinese state hacking to the world and predicted Russia's invasion of Ukraine months before it happened. He is now chairman of the Silverado Policy Accelerator and the author of World on the Brink, he argues we are already in a second Cold War that looks almost exactly like the first one. Dmitri and I discuss why Taiwan is one of the worst places on earth to invade, the 1944 American plan to do it that was abandoned as too costly, why 2032 matters more than 2027 and why Chinese malware is already sitting dormant inside American water utilities and power plants waiting for orders. They also get into the AI race that sits underneath all of it: why 90% of advanced chips still come through Taiwan, why a conflict there wipes $5 trillion off global GDP in the first year, why America's lead over China is measured in months and why the man who built the world's biggest cyber defence company thinks the US should start stealing Chinese IP right back. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - Sleeper Cells In America's Power Grid 00:01:53 - America Planned To Invade Taiwan In 1944 00:03:56 - The Worst Place On Earth To Invade 00:10:07 - Why 2032 Matters More Than 2027 00:13:20 - Run Faster And Kneecap The Other Guy 00:16:15 - China Is Six To Nine Months Behind 00:18:22 - Why Taiwan Isn't Ready 00:20:21 - There Will Be No Insurgency 00:24:47 - Would America Actually Fight? 00:27:19 - The Google Hack That Started It All 00:31:06 - Volt Typhoon: Preparing The Battlefield 00:34:01 - Should America Steal It All Back? 00:35:52 - This Is A New Cold War 00:38:40 - Bigger Than The Moon Race 00:43:49 - What Happens To AI If Taiwan Falls 00:48:12 - The Chips Act Disaster 00:54:45 - Bringing The War To Russia 01:01:46 - Everyone Becomes A Founder Again 01:05:16 - AI Psychosis And £6,000 Of Tokens 01:15:42 - Anthrax Instructions On Demand - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTACT PETE › Website – http://petermccormack.com › Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact › Email – me@petermccormack.com › Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/ › X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/ CONNECT WITH DMITRI ALPEROVITCH › Silverado Policy Accelerator – https://silverado.org/ › Geopolitics Decanted Podcast – https://podcast.silverado.org/ › X/Twitter – https://x.com/DAlperovitch SPONSORS › IREN – https://www.iren.com/ › Expat Money – https://expatmoney.com/peter › Ledn – https://www.ledn.io/peter - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE › Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K › Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu › Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM › YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM › Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePM FILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR › https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/ › https://x.com/curttayloruk/ EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK › https://x.com/ConorM04 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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