The World Unpacked
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
4.5from 106 ratings
- 285
- Episodes
- 22
- Transcribed
- 106
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
About The World Unpacked
The World Unpacked is a weekly podcast where insiders, intellectuals, and iconoclasts dive deep into the most pressing global issues. In a time of violent convulsions and heady new possibilities, host Jon Bateman mixes it up with the thinkers making sense of what’s happening and the power brokers building what comes next. Tune in for lively, free-wheeling conversations with some of the world’s most interesting and informed people.
- Publisher
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Category
- education · government · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 25 Aug 2016
- Latest episode
- 2 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
22 of 285 episodes have a transcript.
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Inside the Race to Replace Humans with AI
11 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Inside the Secret Service | An Impossible Job Is Getting Harder
31 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
A Luddite's Guide to the AI Economy
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Inside the Race to Replace Humans with AI
Published 2 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It sounds so exotic. that it's hard to even describe it in a way that seems sensible and tractable to somebody who is not deep in the weeds here. But then sometimes I think, well, actually, every culture in the world has cautionary tales and fables about people seeking to draw upon dangerous special powers that are beyond their ability to control, whether it's summoning a demon or calling a genie out of a lamp and You ask for a wish to be true, but it gives you something that's like not quite what you want or the monkey's paw. But actually, all of these tropes, they're everywhere in culture and that have been long trying to teach mankind the lesson of not seeking too much power or maybe power like well beyond what we seem prepared to constrain and control. […]
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- An ex-head of the Secret Service
- Brian Merchant
- Andy Masley
- Sophia Besch
- James Acton
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 77 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 29 ratings
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- Engagement
- 92
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