SINCE ITS creation in 1958, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has grown to become the Defense Department’s most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science research and development agency. Investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen discusses her new book The Pentagon’s Brain, the first-ever history of DARPA.Continue Reading

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When a superintelligent artificial intelligence arrives, will religions try to convert it? Author and futurist Zoltan Istvan discusses Transhumanism and the concept of spiritual machines.Continue Reading

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WHAT HAPPENS when machines become smarter than us? Dr. Stuart Armstrong, a Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford, discusses his book Smarter Than Us: The Rise of Machine Intelligence.Continue Reading

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It is likely we’ll see a functional machine intelligence sometime in the 21st century. Dr. Hugo de Garis believes that such a development will inevitably lead to a conflict that could cause the deaths of billions.Continue Reading

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Gary Stearman and Bill Salus

Bill Salus of Prophecy Depot Ministries discusses his forthcoming book, which focuses on a section of the book of Jeremiah that may prophesy judgment against Iran–possibly a nuclear disaster.

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