The great Robert Wright returns to the podcast to talk about his new book The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning. We debate the magnitude of AI's potential impact, the natural selection analogy Bob presses in the book, and a whole lot more. Plus, a new AI-powered collar can translate your pet's sounds and behavior into language with 95% accuracy! Still skeptical about the power of this new technology Tamler?  <a href= "https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/chinese-ai-company-launches-95-accurate-pet-translator-3367432/"> AI Pet Translator</a> [dexerto.com] <a href="https://amzn.to/3SlWt37">The God Test by Robert Wright</a> [amazon.com affiliate link]

Episode 336: That Oceanic Feeling (Stanisław Lem's "Solaris")

Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each podcast includes discussions of moral philosophy, recent work on moral psychology and neuroscience, and the overlap between the two.