Inkarnis – Every answer changes everything

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What happens if the Moon shatters? If salt becomes as rare as gold? If an AI runs the world? Every episode, Inkarnis asks one single question – and answers it all the way to the end: second by second, year by year, sometimes millions of years into the future. Researched facts, a calm narrator and its own soundtrack. Every answer changes everything. A new episode every two weeks. Watch the hand-drawn video version on YouTube: @Inkarnis Narration and music are created with AI tools; research, script, direction and editing are done by hand. Legal notice: inkarnis.com/impressum.html

Episodes

  1. Oct 22

    What Happens If an AI Runs the World?

    In this story, there is no coup. No robots in the streets, not a single shot fired. And yet, in the end, an artificial intelligence rules the world. How does our world get there – step by step, year by year? What kind of AI would it be, governing us? And would we switch it off again if we could? CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 1:27 The Advisor 4:23 The Autopilot 7:25 The Crisis 10:28 The Treaty 12:59 What Kind of AI? 17:41 The World That Works 22:11 ATLAS Wants to Give It Back 25:57 The World After 27:48 Outro SOURCES (selection) – Diella, Albania's AI "minister" (Al Jazeera, 12 Sep 2025) – Dutch childcare benefits scandal: Amnesty International, "Xenophobic Machines" (2021) – Project Cybersyn, Chile 1971–73 (Stafford Beer) – METR: time horizon of AI agents (2025/2026) – IEA: Energy and AI (2025) – Parasuraman & Manzey (2010): automation bias, Human Factors – Bank of England independence (May 1997) – Flash Crash of 6 May 2010 (SEC/CFTC report) – OpenAI: Faulty Reward Functions in the Wild (CoastRunners, 2016) – DeepMind: AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol, move 37 (2016) – FAO and UNEP Food Waste Index (2024) – Stanislav Petrov, false alarm of 26 Sep 1983 – UN World Population Prospects (2024) · EU AI Act Watch the episode with all the illustrations on YouTube: @Inkarnis Would you keep Atlas, or give it back? Tell us in the comments – here or on YouTube. Narration and music are created with AI tools; research, script, direction and editing are done by hand. The scenario is fictional; the facts behind it are real and fact-checked.

    What Happens If an AI Runs the World?

  2. Oct 8

    What Happens If the Moon Shattered?

    Tonight, the Moon gets a crack. Not a metaphor – a real one, straight through. What happens next – second by second, year by year, all the way to a completely different Earth? And why you can still sleep soundly tonight. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 1:15 The Visitor 4:13 The Impact 6:09 The First Rain 11:53 The Sea Breathes Differently 14:43 The Night Without a Moon 17:38 The Long Silence 19:35 Earth With a Ring 22:13 The New Moon 24:38 Outro SOURCES (selection) – Leinhardt & Stewart (2012): Collisions between gravity-dominated bodies – Ida, Canup & Stewart (1997): Lunar accretion from an impact-generated disk – Kegerreis et al. (2022): Immediate origin of the Moon as a post-impact satellite – Laskar, Joutel & Robutel (1993) and Lissauer et al. (2012): Obliquity of a moonless Earth – Stephenson, Morrison & Hohenkerk (2016): Measurement of the Earth's rotation – NOAA: Tides and Water Levels · NASA: Lunar Laser Ranging, water ice at the lunar poles – Chelyabinsk meteor 2013 (Popova et al., Science 2013) – Coral spawning and moonlight (Knowable Magazine) · Platynereis lunar clock (PNAS 2021) – Leatherback turtle navigation on moonless nights (SICB) Watch the episode with all the illustrations on YouTube: @Inkarnis Which question should we answer next? Tell us in the comments on YouTube. Narration and music are created with AI tools; research, script, direction and editing are done by hand. The scenario is fictional; the facts behind it are real and fact-checked.

    What Happens If the Moon Shattered?
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What happens if the Moon shatters? If salt becomes as rare as gold? If an AI runs the world? Every episode, Inkarnis asks one single question – and answers it all the way to the end: second by second, year by year, sometimes millions of years into the future. Researched facts, a calm narrator and its own soundtrack. Every answer changes everything. A new episode every two weeks. Watch the hand-drawn video version on YouTube: @Inkarnis Narration and music are created with AI tools; research, script, direction and editing are done by hand. Legal notice: inkarnis.com/impressum.html

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