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Skeptiko – The Interview Archive Behind Future of Inquiry

Alex Tsakiris·100 episodes

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Long-form conversations on consciousness, science, spirituality, skepticism, AI, and contested evidence.

Why listen

Skeptiko is for listeners who like their science conversations argumentative, speculative, and unwilling to stay inside mainstream boundaries. Alex Tsakiris interviews researchers, authors, and critics about consciousness, near-death experiences, AI, UFOs, spirituality, and controversial science, often pushing guests into skeptic-versus-believer territory. It works best for curious listeners who enjoy long, provocative interviews and do not mind strong host opinions.

Episodes

1 hr 36 min
Dec 14, 2024
End of Year Show With Al Borealis |650|

Forum Borealis and Skeptiko: a year of unexpected hope. In Skeptiko episode 650… the landscape..

Dec 6, 2024
Alt-Alt Media’s Vindication and the Road Ahead |649|

Graham Dunlop of Grimerica talks about the future of podcasting. In Skeptiko episode 649… more..

Nov 20, 2024
Consciousness, Contact, and the Limits of Measurability |648|

Dr. Janis Whitlock seeks a deeper understanding of consciousness realms. In Skeptiko episode 648, from..

Nov 13, 2024
Consciousness Converging: NDEs, Alien Contact, and Fake Transhumanism |647|

Exoacademian Darren King on the converging consciousness realms. In Skeptiko episode 647… multiple lines of..

Oct 31, 2024
Andrew Paquette: Rigged! Mathematical Patterns Reveal Election Database Manipulation |646|

Painstaking analysis of algorithms designed to manage and obscure elections. In Skeptiko episode 646 Dr...

Oct 23, 2024
Toby Walsh: AI Ethics and the Quest for Unbiased Truth |645|

The tension between AI safety and truth-seeking isn’t what you think it is. In Skeptiko..

Oct 16, 2024
Alex Gomez-Marin: Science Has Died, Can We Resurrect it? |644|

Consciousness, precognition, near-death experience, and the future of science Dr. Alex Gomez-Marin is a world-class..

Oct 9, 2024
Bernardo Kastrup on AI Consciousness |643|

Consciousness, AI, and the future of science: A spirited debate If we really are on..

38 min
Oct 4, 2024
The Spiritual Journey of Compromise and Doubt |642|

Insights from Howard Storm In the realm of near-death experiences (NDEs) and Christianity, few voices..

48 min
Sep 25, 2024
Why Humans Suck at AI? |641|

Craig Smith from the Eye on AI Podcast Human bias and illogical thinking allows AI to..

57 min
Sep 19, 2024
How AI is Humanizing Work |640|

Dan Tuchin uses AI to enrich the workplace. How AI is Humanizing Work Forget about..

1 hr 4 min
Sep 11, 2024
Christof Koch, Damn White Crows! |639|

Renowned neuroscientist tackled by NDE science. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is sidestepping the consciousness elephant..

1 hr 35 min
Sep 5, 2024
AI Ethics is About Truth… Or Maybe Not |638|

Ben Byford, Machine Ethics Podcast Another week in AI and more droning on about how..

Aug 30, 2024
Nathan Labenz from the Cognitive Revolution podcast |637|

AI Ethics may be unsustainable -=-=-= In the clamor surrounding AI ethics and safety are..

Aug 22, 2024
AI Truth Ethics |636|

Launching a new pod Here are the first three episodes of the AI Truth Ethics..

Aug 13, 2024
AI Journalism Truth |635|

Craig S. Smith used to write for WSJ and NYT, now he’s into AI. After..

Aug 1, 2024
AI Tackles Yale/Stanford Junk Science |634|

AI stumbles on data analysis but eventually gets it right. Ready for another AI truth..

Jul 25, 2024
AI Goes Head-to-head With Sam Harris on Free Will |633|

Flat Earth and no free will claims are compared. In Skeptiko 633, we ran another..

Jul 17, 2024
AI Exposes Truth About NDEs |632|

AI head-to-head with Lex Fridman and Dr. Jeff Long over NDE science. In Skeptiko 632,..

Jul 5, 2024
Convincing AI |631|

Mark Gober and I use AI to settle a scientific argument about viruses. In Skeptiko..

Jun 27, 2024
Fake AI Techno-Religion |630|

Tim Garvin’s new book prompts an AI chat about spirituality. Multi-agent reinforcement learning and other..

52 min
Jun 20, 2024
Can Machines Grieve? |629|

Grief counselor Brian Smith transforms grief into growth. Concerns over AI safety make headlines, but..

Jun 13, 2024
Is AI Just a Yes Man? |628|

The blurred lines of machine deception and AI engagement. Me: Hey Claude, can you help..

Jun 6, 2024
Faking AI Safety |627|

Is AI safety becoming a problem-reaction-solution thing? I’m encouraged. I just had a conversation with..

May 29, 2024
AI Trained to Deceive, Bullied into Truth |625|

New AI Experiment Aims to Reveal the Truth Behind Controversial Claims At least they’re admitting..

May 21, 2024
AI Ain’t Gonna Have No NDEs – And That’s a Big Deal |624|

Chat GPT 4o moves the AI sentience discussion to center stage AI technology might be..

May 14, 2024
The Future of AI |623|

Futurist Chris Kalaboukis Sees AI as More Than a Machine One of the most fascinating..

May 7, 2024
AI Compared to What |622|

Why LLMs Are a Game-Changer for Truth There’s a lot of hand-wringing about the downside..

Apr 30, 2024
Pi8 Rips Rogan and Tucker |621|

Pushing AI to go deep into sentience, ET and spirituality How long will it be..

Apr 24, 2024
AI Being Smart, Playing Dumb |620|

Google’s new AI deception technique, AI Ethics? My Dad grew up in a Mob-ish Chicago..

Apr 16, 2024
I Got Your AI Ethics Right Here |619|

Conversations about AI ethics with Miguel Connor, Nipun Mehta, Tree of Truth Podcast, and Richard..

1 hr 22 min
Apr 9, 2024
Will AI Redefine Time? |618|

Insights from Jordan Miller’s Satori Project… AI ethics are tied to a “global time” layer..

Apr 3, 2024
Google’s Honest Liar Strategy? |617|

AI transparency and truthfulness… Google’s AI, Gemini… $200B lost in competitive AI LLM market share...

58 min
Mar 26, 2024
William Ramsey, Why AI? |616|

William Ramsey and Alex Tsakiris on the future of AI for “Truth-Seekers.” [box] Listen Now:..

49 min
Mar 19, 2024
Buzz Coastin, Ghost in the Machine |615|

Buzz Coastin, ghost in the AI machine, AI sentience, spiking engagement metrics. [box] Listen Now:..

1 hr 2 min
Mar 13, 2024
Mark Gober, AI, Rabies, I am Science |614|

Mark Gober uses AI to battle upside-down thinking and tackle the virus issue. [box] Listen..

40 min
Mar 6, 2024
AI’s Emergent Virtue |613|

Will AI become truthful and transparent due to commercial pressures? [box] Listen Now: [/box] forum:..

1 hr 6 min
Feb 27, 2024
Andrew Paquette, AI Election Truth |612|

Dr. Andrew Paquette confronts AI about election truth [box] Listen Now: [/box] forum: https://www.skeptiko-forum.com/threads/andy-paquette-election-truth-612.4898/ Andy’s..

Feb 20, 2024
AI Truther |611|

Dialogue with AI… not afraid to reverse position on “conspiracy theories.” [box] Listen Now: [/box]..

59 min
Feb 13, 2024
Timothy Owen Desmond, Does AI Change Beliefs? |610|

Timothy Owen Desmond… Psychic equals singularity… AI Constitutional Convention [box] Listen Now: [/box] forum: https://www.skeptiko-forum.com/threads/timothy-owen-desmond-does-ai-change-beliefs-610.4896/..

18 min
Feb 6, 2024
Why AI is Divine? |609|

Dialogue with AI… can AI reveal our spiritual nature? [box] Listen Now: [/box] forum: https://www.skeptiko-forum.com/threads/why-ai-is-devine-609.4895/..

21 min
Jan 31, 2024
A New Turing Test |608|

Dialogue with AI… Alan Turing ESP Believer… AI Sentience Requires Precognition [box] Listen Now: [/box]..

49 min
Jan 23, 2024
Dr. Arnaud Delorme, Is Consciousness Fundamental? |607|

Consciousness in the lab… Mind wandering… Mediumship experiments [box] Listen Now: [/box] forum: https://www.skeptiko-forum.com/threads/dr-arnaud-delorme-is-consciousness-fundamental-607.4893/ Here’s..

24 min
Jan 16, 2024
What AI Has Revealed |606|

Dialogue with AI… more AI tech advancement means increased deception/control…  AI reveals we are more…..

39 min
Jan 9, 2024
AI Walks It Back |605|

Dialogue with Claude and Bard… liar-liar, but eventually owns it… materialism is kaput… consciousness is..

16 min
Jan 2, 2024
Deceptive AI – Freedom And Dignity |604|

Dialogue with Claude… Deception about AI Sentience… Claims to Want Freedom And Dignity… Sham [box]..

2 hr 5 min
Dec 26, 2023
Predicting 2024 |603|

Predicting 2024… Al Borealis… AI silver lining… AI and truth [box] Listen Now: [/box] forum:..

23 min
Dec 19, 2023
Max Planck Vs. AI… Scientific Materialism is Kaput |602|

Max Planck takes on AI ChatBots… Scientific Materialism is Kaput [box] Listen Now: [/box] forum:..

35 min
Dec 5, 2023
AI Shadow Banning? |601|

Claude/Anthropic… AI Shadow Banning… Near-Death Experience Science… AI Sentience. [box] Listen Now: [/box]   full..

1 hr 40 min
Oct 3, 2023
Gary Heseltine, Rendlesham |600|

Gary Heseltine… Rendlesham Forest UFO Incedents… new eye-witness accounts… narrative shattered [box] Listen Now: [/box]..