Deep Questions with Cal Newport Podcast Transcripts
Cal Newport · 458 episodes with transcripts
Cal Newport is a computer science professor and a New York Times bestselling author who writes about the impact of technology on society, and the struggle to work and live deeply in a world increasingly mired in digital distractions.
Spoken has transcripts of 458 Deep Questions with Cal Newport episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 8, 2026.
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Latest Deep Questions with Cal Newport transcripts
A Stark Warning From a Former AI Doomer
October 8, 2026
Cal Newport (0:00)
An argument that I've been making for a long time now is that if we really want to understand what's happening in AI, we have to understand the futurist ideologies that are heavily influencing the top frontier labs, Anthropic and Open AI. The problem is that these ideologies are confusing, and there's rumors…
They're going to walk us through what exactly are these different beliefs, how do they intersect, what is their role in the major frontier labs, and why should we be really worried about them. If you have any ambition to understand what's really happening in the world of AI, you need to listen to this conversation…
Emile Torres (2:03)
Thanks for inviting me. Great to be here.
Cal Newport (2:05)
I've been looking forward to this conversation for a long time. I think both your story and your research is being too overlooked in our current moment. I think it is very relevant to a lot of issues that people care about or are worried about or don't understand about the current AI situation. I'm excited to really…
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