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The internet has warped public life: Politicians behave like influencers, the economy resembles a casino, and people can no longer agree upon a consensus reality. New conspiracy theories, memes, and main characters seem to pop up every day.

Spoken has transcripts of 50 Galaxy Brain episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 2, 2026.

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Latest Galaxy Brain transcripts

An Argument Against AI Doom

October 2, 2026

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

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SPEAKER_2 (0:21)

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Zack Korman (0:46)

I think that realistically what will happen is models will get better, and if the labs do not up their cybersecurity game, and if the company's running AI agents do not up their cybersecurity game, they will cause real harm. And then we will like literally get them in trouble. Like we will put someone in prison…

Whereas I'm not.

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