Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse
by Agoric Media
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<p>The Doomsday Clock is set to 85 seconds until midnight — the closest it has ever been in its 79-year history. The world is at war. And the people building the most powerful technology in human history are warning, in public, that it might kill us all.</p><br><p><br></p><p>Season One of <em>Suspicious Minds</em> examined what happens when AI fractures individual minds. Season Two asks a harder question: what happens when it shatters our collective sense of the future?</p><br><p><br></p><p>Our ancestors have predicted the end of the world since ancient times. Thus far, they have always been wrong. So what does our eternal obsession with the apocalypse reveal about the human mind?</p><br><p><br></p><p>This season is a meditation on life, death, and what it means to be alive in an age when humanity is creating something that those building it believe has the power to either end all life on Earth or turn our world into a utopia.</p><br><p><br></p><p><em>Suspicious Minds</em> is a two-tim