The Last Invention
Episodes
The AI Skeptics
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we dive into the views of the people who think the AGI race is being oversold, misunderstood, or misframed. As you’ll hear, we brea...
“Build the AI Wall” with Steve Bannon
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Andy interviews Steve Bannon and his War Room tech editor, Joe Allen. They make the populist right-wing case for breaking up Big Tech, forcing ...
Ezra Klein on the Uncertain Politics of A.I.
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ezra Klein – New York Times opinion columnist and an influential voice on the American left – joins us at a hinge moment in the A.I. revolution. A...
EP 8: The Accelerationists
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet the accelerationists: a rising movement that believes expediting AI development is not only inevitable but morally necessary – humanity’s bes...
EP 7: The Scouts
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A decade ago, the leading minds in AI gathered to make sure this technology would benefit everyone. Today, those hopes are colliding with the reality ...
EP 6: The AI Doomers
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when some of the most idealistic techno-optimists come to believe that superintelligence poses a threat to humanity's survival? Today, th...
EP 5: Contact
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the strange months after ChatGPT’s release, the world made contact with something new. A tech CEO begged to be regulated, a chatbot seemed to fal...
EP 4: Speedrun
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is the only way to stop a bad guy with an AGI… a good guy with an AGI? In a twist of technological irony, the very people who warned most loudly abo...
EP 3: Playing the Wrong Game
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if the path to a true thinking machine was found not just in a lab… but in a game? For decades, AI’s greatest triumphs came from games: check...
EP 2: The Signal
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1951, Alan Turing predicted machines might one day surpass human intelligence and 'take control.' He created a test to alert us when we were gettin...
EP 1: Ready or Not
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A tip alleging a Silicon Valley conspiracy leads to a much bigger story: the race to build artificial general intelligence — within the next few yea...
Introducing: The Last Invention
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For over seventy years, technologists have dreamed of building a true “thinking machine.” An artificial intelligence so powerful it would reshape ...