
Watch and listen to the minds building the future
63 curated interviews, talks, documentaries, films, channels, and podcasts on AI, the Singularity, and the future of intelligence.
YouTube channels worth subscribing to
Foundational ML education from a top practitioner. The "Zero to Hero" series (Let's build GPT, tokenizers, micrograd) is required viewing for anyone working with neural networks.
Exponential technologies, longevity escape velocity, and the abundance mindset. Home of the Moonshots podcast, A360 summit talks, and interviews with frontier thinkers.
Visual math and ML explanations, the neural networks and transformers series is essential
In-depth analysis of AI breakthroughs, benchmarks, and safety research. Clear, rigorous, and investigative.
AI research breakthroughs explained in short, visual summaries. "What a time to be alive!"
The clearest explanations of AI alignment, safety, and existential risk on YouTube
Top AI engineers, researchers, and founders on AGI timelines, market disruption, and what is actually happening at the frontier
Long-form futurism on Dyson spheres, Kardashev scale, Matrioshka brains, and post-human civilizations. Science-grounded speculation about deep-time outcomes.
Blueprint, biomarkers, and the Don't Die project. Longevity biohacking from its most public practitioner.
In-depth ML paper reviews and industry analysis from a researcher perspective
Longform AI alignment debates across the doomer-accelerationist spectrum. Serious engagement with the question of whether AGI ends us.
Polished science and futurism. Notable episodes on the Kardashev scale, Matrioshka brains, and existential risk.
Daily Singularity and AGI news analysis with commentary on what each development means
Open-source AI model reviews, news, and futurism with clear explanations
AI philosophy, AGI implications, and navigating the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Weekly AI tools roundups and news, accessible entry point for non-technical audiences
Fast-paced developer news and AI explainers. The "100 seconds" format distills complex topics into pure signal.
Fiction that imagines what comes next
The sequel deepens the question: what makes consciousness real? A replicant hunts a miracle. Arguably more philosophical than the original.
A programmer evaluates whether an AI has achieved consciousness. The best film on the Turing test.
A dying AI researcher uploads his mind. The most literal Singularity film ever made.
TARS is the best AI companion in film. Space colonization, time dilation, and human survival.
A man falls in love with an AI operating system. Prescient about human-AI emotional bonds.
Post-scarcity humanity atrophies while a robot inherits purpose. Automation as both salvation and warning.
Predictive AI, surveillance, and free will. Its vision of targeted interfaces became real.
Kubrick's concept, Spielberg's execution: a robot child engineered to love searches for his mother across a drowned post-human future. The long arc of what we become after we make things that love us.
Simulation hypothesis, posthumanism, and machine intelligence as civilization. Shaped a generation.
A "god-child" of genetic selection in a world where biology is destiny. The foundational transhumanism film: what happens when enhancement becomes the default, and the unenhanced become disposable.
A cyborg officer hunts an AI hacker, then merges with it. The definitive posthuman anime.
Replicants, consciousness, and what makes us human. The film that defined AI cinema.
HAL 9000 remains the defining portrayal of superintelligent AI and the alignment problem.
Non-fiction films exploring AI and technology
A father-to-be tries to understand what AI means for his child's future, featuring Sam Altman and leading researchers
Five years inside DeepMind, from AlphaFold to the race for AGI. By the team behind the AlphaGo documentary.
Former Google, Facebook, and Pinterest insiders on how recommendation AI optimizes for attention at the cost of human agency. Thematic anchor for Moloch-style coordination failures.
MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini exposes how facial recognition systems are biased against certain races and genders.
How AI is being weaponized by governments and corporations. Urgent questions about surveillance, autonomy, and democratic freedom.
Features Elon Musk, Ray Kurzweil, and leading researchers on AI risks: warfare, deepfakes, surveillance, and the race to superintelligence.
The story of DeepMind's AlphaGo defeating Lee Sedol, a pivotal moment in AI history
Ray Kurzweil lays out his Singularity thesis on camera: exponential curves, longevity escape velocity, and the path to posthuman intelligence. The definitive Kurzweil documentary.
Three-part documentary on transhumanism: genetics, robotics, nanotechnology, and AI enhancing the human mind
Series and episodes worth following
Weekly coverage of AI capabilities, safety research, and industry developments from a practitioner perspective
The leading AI engineering podcast, technical deep dives on building with LLMs, agents, and infrastructure
A field guide for techno-optimists living through the Singularity. AI, longevity, transhumanism.
ML researchers interview paper authors on methodology, bridging the gap between arXiv and mainstream
The best long-form AI interviews: Amodei, Zuckerberg, Aschenbrenner, John Carmack, and more
Deep interviews on AI safety, alignment, and existential risk with leading researchers
The most extensive archive of long-form interviews with AI leaders: Altman, Hassabis, Musk, Kurzweil
Talks, explainers, and presentations
The clearest visual explanation of how neural networks, backpropagation, and transformers work
Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin on the pace of AI development and societal implications
Sutskever's talk on the surprising effectiveness of next-token prediction and what it implies for AGI
One of the most-watched AI talks ever. Ng frames AI as a general-purpose technology that will transform every industry.
The creator of ImageNet explains how training AI on millions of images gave machines sight, launching the deep learning revolution.
The foundational talk on exponential growth in technology and the path to the Singularity
Long-form conversations with the people building the future
Scaling limits, $10B training runs, whether Anthropic is underinvesting in compute, and AGI in 2 years
DeepMind's CEO on winning the Nobel Prize, Gemini, simulating reality, and the path to AGI
Meta's bet on open-source AI, why Llama matters, and AI writing most of Meta's code
Altman on the board crisis, GPT-5, Sora, AGI timelines, and OpenAI's trajectory
Anthropic's CEO on building safe AI, scaling laws, and his essay "Machines of Loving Grace"
The ex-OpenAI researcher on AGI by 2027, superintelligence by 2030, and national security implications
The Godfather of AI warns about the technology he helped create. The interview that brought AI safety to mainstream attention.
Deep dive into NVIDIA's history, GPU supply chain, and why Jensen Huang bet everything on AI
Kurzweil on exponential growth, AGI by 2029, Singularity by 2045, and longevity escape velocity
Karpathy on Tesla Autopilot, Optimus, neural networks, and the path to AGI
Sutskever on deep learning, AGI, and the future, before he left OpenAI to found SSI