Singularity.FM
Nikola Danaylov interviews Ray Kurzweil, Michio Kaku, Noam Chomsky, Max More, Aubrey de Grey, Jeremy Rifkin & others...
Singularity 1 on 1 is a series of podcast interviews with the best scientists, writers, entrepreneurs, film-makers, journalists, philosophers and artists, debating the technological singularity. The podcast aims to spark a discussion about the impact of technology, exponential growth and artificial intelligence on the future of humanity…
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Apr 6, 2026 • 1h 27min
Steven Kotler on We Are As Gods: Godlike Power, Stone Age Minds
We have godlike technology. Do we have godlike responsibility to match? In this third conversation with Steven Kotler — our first in 14 years — we dig into his latest book, We Are As Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance, co-written with Peter Diamandis. And while the book makes a powerful case […]
Mar 23, 2026 • 4min
We Don’t Need More. We Need Better: Intelligence Scales. Wisdom Does Not.
We don’t need more AI. We need a better why for our AI. We are told the why is obvious — cure everything, fix everything, transcend everything. But “solve everything” is not a philosophy. It is an assumption. Even the most powerful intelligence cannot erase moral disagreement or competing visions of justice. Because without a […]
Mar 3, 2026 • 8min
Why I Cancelled ChatGPT and Switched to Claude, And Why You Should Too
A couple of days ago, I cancelled my ChatGPT paid subscription and switched to Claude. Not because of the technology. Because of their respective values, or the lack thereof. The Moment That Changed Everything On February 27, 2026, Anthropic, the company behind Claude, refused to give the Pentagon unrestricted access to its AI for mass […]
Feb 15, 2026 • 3h 2min
Ada Palmer on Inventing the Renaissance: How Golden and Dark Ages Are Constructed and Why They Matter
Was the Renaissance truly a Golden Age? Or was it something far more powerful — and far more revealing? In my third conversation with Ada Palmer, we dive into her new book, Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age, and dismantle one of the most enduring myths in Western history: that civilization moves cleanly […]
Feb 12, 2026 • 2h 50min
Graham Priest on Dialetheism, True Contradictions, the Liar Paradox & Why Classical Logic Isn’t Enough
What if some contradictions are not mistakes — but truths? For over 2,500 years, Western philosophy has treated contradiction as catastrophic. From Aristotle’s law of non-contradiction to modern formal systems, logic has operated under one sacred assumption: a statement cannot be both true and false. But what if that assumption is wrong? In this deep, […]
Dec 8, 2025 • 1h 48min
Breaking: Did Integral AI’s Jad Tarifi Just Announce AGI?
In my latest Singularity.FM conversation with Dr. Jad Tarifi, CEO of Integral AI, I heard something I don’t say lightly: a credible claim that AGI may have just arrived — or at least the foundation of it. I don’t often say “Wow” during interviews, but in this one I simply couldn’t stop. Tarifi describes a […]
Nov 29, 2025 • 1h 17min
Jacob Ward on The Loop, AI, and a World Without Real Choices
What happens to free will in a world where AI tells us what to watch, buy, believe, and even who to love? In this new episode of Singularity.FM, I sit down with Jacob Ward — veteran technology journalist and author of The Loop: How AI Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight […]
Nov 16, 2025 • 1h 51min
Robot Souls & Junk Code: Dr. Eve Poole on Programming Humanity into AI
Are we building better versions of ourselves in AI – or a master race of very efficient psychopaths? In this new episode of Singularity.FM, I sit down with Dr. Eve Poole, theologian, leadership scholar, and author of Robot Souls: Programming in Humanity, to ask a simple yet brutal question: what makes us human, and what happens if we […]
Sep 29, 2025 • 1h 36min
Petter Törnberg on Algorithmic Tyranny, the Rise of Digital Modernity and Seeing Like a Platform
What do Facebook, Google, and TikTok see when they look at us — and what do they miss? In this episode of Singularity.FM, I sit down with Petter Törnberg, Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science at the University of Amsterdam and co-author of Seeing Like a Platform: An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Modernity. Törnberg […]
Sep 25, 2025 • 1h 10min
The World’s a Circus | Nikola Danaylov Keynote at St. John’s Circus Fest 2025
What if the world isn’t just a stage… but a circus? 🎪 In this opening keynote at St. John’s International Circus Fest 2025, futurist and philosopher Nikola Danaylov (aka Socrates) explores why context is more powerful than content — and why those who create context don’t just win attention, they shape the future. 👉 Themes […]
