Brian Barrett

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2,652 appearances 24 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 10 Sep

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Uncanny Valley | WIRED · Did China’s Moonshot AI Steal From Anthropic?; OpenAI Loses Control of Two Models · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

Not that we have a script.

Oh, me?

Well, my Wired is life out there in space.

No, and look, I think it's obviously a big mystery of the universe.

Are we alone here?

I think two developments in the last week, super interesting, not saying that they mean that we're not, but for the first time in history, astronomers detected a sugar molecule floating around in space.

tens of thousands of light years away, you need these kinds of molecules for life to happen.

So it is not a confirmation there's life out there, but it is a sign like, oh, there's a stew out there that could potentially work.

Similarly, just a few days after that, 48 light years away, astronomers confirmed for the first time the existence of a rocky planet with an atmosphere that's also in the habitable zone, which means that it is like a similar earth capable of supporting life.

It probably has water.

It probably has all those elements.

So some big breakthroughs in astronomy that suggest we're not alone.

I don't know.

I think the idea that there's no form of life on any other planet in the entire universe feels crazy to me.

I don't know if it's like, yeah.

I don't know if we'd call it sentient life.

I don't think they have Tinder.

But I think there's got to be something.

That's the bar.

Yeah.

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