IFLScience - The Big Questions
Hosted by Dr Alfredo Carpineti and Dr Russell Moul and Eleanor Higgs and Laura Simmons and Rachael Funnell · IFLScience
4.0from 41 ratings
- 62
- Episodes
- 17
- Transcribed
- 41
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About IFLScience - The Big Questions
From saving the planet to understanding ourselves, this podcast sees experts discuss the major topics of our times. Hosted by IFLScience’s Dr Alfredo Carpineti, Rachael Funnell, Dr Russell Moul, Laura Simmons, and Eleanor Higgs.
- Publisher
- IFLScience
- Category
- science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 25 Aug 2021
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
17 of 62 episodes have a transcript.
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Are Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Safe?
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Just How Queer Is The Natural World?
10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
What's The Next Frontier In Dementia Research?
Inside a recent episode
Are Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Safe?
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But what I did realize in going through that experience is that when you're in the most critical sort of acute phases of grief, I can understand how there would be some comfort in being able to converse with something that sounds like your loved one and not just a pre-record, something that can talk back to you, sort of allow you to hear the words that you need to hear in that moment. I think if it is for this transition period and the way that Eugenia used it, you know, she built her own grief tech bot effectively and her friend Roman, she used it for a brief period of time and then she moved away from leading it. […]
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- Hannah Fry
- Josh Luke Davis
- Fernando Gonzalez Ortiz
- Anna Mallach
- Ben Goult
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- 3.7 / 5
- 27 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.5 / 5
- 14 ratings
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- 26
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 89
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Who hosts IFLScience - The Big Questions?
Dr Alfredo Carpineti and Dr Russell Moul and Eleanor Higgs and Laura Simmons and Rachael Funnell host the show. Published by IFLScience.
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