Feb 28, 2026
Nitrous oxide (better known as “laughing gas”) is widely used in medicine as a safe anaesthetic and pain reliever. It’s also found in whipped cream canisters and even used in car engines. But Angela Chiew, toxicologist and Associate Professor at UNSW, joins me to set the record straight: the growing recreational...
Feb 21, 2026
In the final episode of the Great AI Safety Debrief series with Dr. Petr Lebedev, we discuss job eradication, AI alignment and the rise in cases of AI deceiving humans. Petr unpacks ideas like AI scheming, situation awareness, parasitic relationships between humans and machines, and even the possibility of AI developing...
Feb 14, 2026
In part two, Dr. Petr Lebedev and I dive deeper into how modern AI systems are grown, not programmed, and the emergence of Shutdown Resistance. We explore AI performance in math and coding competitions, the rapid evolution of ChatGPT models, and why companies are already letting AI write the majority of their code. Petr...
Feb 7, 2026
Intelligence is emerging from sand and less than 1% of the
population seems to care!
Physicist and science communicator Dr. Petr Lebedev joins the
podcast following his SXSW talk to explore the rapid advancement of
AI and how it's dramatically shifting the global status quo. From
completing a PhD in physics and writing...