Futurology Podcast Transcripts

Berggruen Institute · 54 episodes with transcripts

The future never arrives all at once. It ripples through society long before we know what to call it. At the Berggruen Institute, we know that we need more than prediction to name what’s next; we need invention.

Spoken has transcripts of 54 Futurology episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from June 9, 2026.

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We Need to Stop Panicking About AI (with Andrew McAfee and Nils Gilman)

June 9, 2026

Dawn Nakagawa (0:00)

Hi, I'm Dawn Nakagawa, the host of Futurology. In this interview, Nils Gilman talks with Andrew McAfee.

Andrew was a research scientist, economist, and author who studies technology and its impact on markets and society. At the Berggruen Institute, we consider ourselves dystopian-aware techno-optimists. And what that means is essentially we do understand that there's a great and wonderful future available to humanity…

Nils Gilman (1:01)

Andy McAfee, welcome to the Futurology Podcast.

Andrew McAfee (1:04)

Nils, it is good to be here.

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We Need to Stop Panicking About AI (with Andrew McAfee and Nils Gilman)June 9, 2026

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