Possible
Reid Hoffman
What if, in the future, everything breaks humanity's way? Possible is an award-winning, weekly podcast that sketches out the brightest version of the future—and what it will take to get there. Hosts Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger explore what’s possible with forward-thinking leaders, deep thinkers, and ambitious builders across many fields, such as technology, art, education and healthcare. These conversations center on the ways technology—and, in particular, AI—is shaping the future. In episodes, AI tools such as OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Inflection’s Pi are at work, offering informational asides, prompting guests, or demoing what they can do. Lastly, between guest episodes, Aria interviews her co-host Reid on his latest takes on what’s possible if we use technology—and our collective effort—effectively.
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May 13, 2026 • 33min
Anthropic’s push into finance
Conversation about how crypto could power identity and transactions in an agent-driven internet. Discussion of tech layoffs as firms reorganize into AI-native structures where humans work with AI. Examination of Anthropic moving its AI into finance and the tradeoffs around accuracy, regulation, and fighting financial crime. Debate over human taste and judgment alongside AI.
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May 6, 2026 • 1h 4min
The artist AI can’t kill
Mike Winkelmann (Beeple), digital artist behind the Everyday project and NFT pioneer, shares how daily discipline and satire shaped his work. He talks about deadlines over inspiration, how NFTs made digital art collectible, absurd future extrapolations, using AI as a creative tool, and why originality and intent matter as tech and art collide.
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Apr 29, 2026 • 27min
Divine intervention in AI
They explore advances in generative image tools and how quickly organizations will adopt them. They discuss how richer visuals could reshape online communication and creative workflows. They consider religious and humanist perspectives weighing in on AI ethics and who should guide its development. They examine an economic shift from selling software to selling outcomes and its effects on jobs and business models.
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Apr 22, 2026 • 1h 1min
Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings: stories, schools, superpowers
Reed Hastings, Netflix co-founder and education philanthropist, reflects on AI, storytelling, and schooling. He discusses how AI reshapes entertainment production and creative roles. He explores AI’s potential as tutors and its promise for global education. He also weighs geopolitical stakes and the politics of sharing AI-driven abundance.
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Apr 15, 2026 • 28min
The grid(lock) slowing AI down
They debate AI moving from apps into everyday devices and why hardware presence alone won’t make a winner. They dig into the $650B data center buildout, its transformer and electrical bottlenecks, and geopolitical supply risks. They explore how memory, personalization, and repeated use create lasting stickiness. They spotlight a challenge that uses AI to rebuild trust in institutions.
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Apr 8, 2026 • 23min
AI’s expanding attack surface
They dig into the geopolitics of chip supply, export controls, and China's push for self-sufficiency. They explore how the race for compute is reshaping global power. They discuss how AI is expanding the cybersecurity attack surface and surfacing new software-stack vulnerabilities. They examine why enterprise AI adoption remains uneven and the forces slowing its spread.
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Apr 1, 2026 • 59min
Should we give AI a bank account?
Sean Neville, co-founder of USDC and now leading Katana Labs to build AI-native banking, discusses agent-native financial infrastructure. He covers why current rails fail for autonomous agents, how stablecoins and Know Your Agent could enable machine-to-machine commerce, and the need for standards, deterministic guardrails, and compliance-first design as agent finance scales.
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Mar 25, 2026 • 21min
After SaaS
They debate whether traditional seat-based SaaS is collapsing or simply transforming under AI-driven customization. They explore token-based pricing, tuned AI systems, and how software will become more integrated and dynamic. They consider shifting engineering roles toward orchestration, verification, and monitoring. They unpack new sources of defensibility like network effects and token/compute economics.
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Mar 18, 2026 • 24min
Humans secretly prefer AI writing
A wide-ranging conversation about where power lives in the AI stack and why applications often capture the most economic value. They debate a viral test comparing human and AI writing and which types of writing remain uniquely human. The discussion ends with worries about AI becoming treated like critical national infrastructure and how that could clash with innovation and security.
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Mar 11, 2026 • 34min
The AI Kept Choosing War
They discuss research showing AI systems tended to escalate simulated nuclear crises and what that implies about machine reasoning limits. They explore why models mimic aggressive human strategies and why human judgment still matters in high-stakes decisions. They cover the rise of agent-like AI labor, the shift from wages to ownership, and using AI-driven automation to rebuild manufacturing competitiveness.
