All original. All human. Thinking On Paper is a weekly technology podcast about AI, quantum computing, robotics, space infrastructure, privacy, media, energy and the future of human life. It's a show for people who know technology is changing everything, but don’t trust the hype merchants, doom merchants, or LinkedIn prophets to explain it. Every week, Mark Fielding and Jeremy Gilbertson speak to founders, CEOs, scientists, writers, philosophers and outliers about the technologies reshaping business, society, work, creativity, politics and power. For curious minds.
130 episodes transcribedArtificial intelligence was supposed to accelerate the transition to clean energy. Instead, it’s being used to keep fossil fuels alive. Inside Microso...
OpenAI, Sam Altman, and the Empire of AI are the focus of this Thinking on Paper Book Club episode on Karen Hao’s Empire of AI. We examine OpenAI’s fo...
Andrew Hill, co-founder of Recall, believes the future of work won’t be built on pages or apps, but on swarms of AI agents. Essentially pieces of code...
Irreducible, a book that refuses to end where science usually stops. Federico Faggin proposes that consciousness is not a by product of matter but its...
In Chapter 12 of Irreducible, Mark and Jeremy confront one of the book’s hardest ideas: that consciousness can’t be explained by equations or code.The...
Customer service is a tricky one. It's ripe for an AI takeover, but 20 million people worldwide work in the industry, so what are the trade-offs?9...
There is an energy crisis. There is an environmental crisis. And the two are about to collide.Mark and Jeremy speak with Martin Soltau, co-founder of...
In Machines of Loving Grace, Dario Amodei imagines a future where artificial intelligence works exactly as intended: curing disease, ending poverty, a...
Federico Faggin says a seity is consciousness, identity, free will, and creativity fused into one indivisible whole. If quantum information is the fab...
Materialism says matter comes first and mind comes later. Federico Faggin says the opposite.In Chapter 9 of Irreducible, the physicist who built the f...
In this week's show, Jeremy and Mark sit down with Ram Srinivasan, author of The Conscious Machine, to think on paper about consciousness, Advaita...
Compute has become the new oil. Whoever controls it, controls the future of intelligence.In this episode of Thinking on Paper, Jeremy and Mark sit dow...
IBM has announced a $30 billion investment in quantum computing. Today we ask why. In this episode, Oliver Dial, CTO of IBM Quantum, speaks with Jerem...
Katia Moskvitch is a science journalist and physicist, she has written about neutron stars, quantum computers, and the human stories behind them. But...
If consciousness isn’t produced by the brain but instead produces the brain, what does that make reality?In Chapter 8 of Irreducible, Federico Faggin...
Robby Yung, CEO of Animoca Brands, joins Thinking on Paper to discuss how Web3, gaming and decentralized identity could shift ownership of the interne...
Writer Brian Naughton joins Thinking on Paper to discuss The Echo Chamber, a 45,000-word novel generated by Anthropic’s AI model Claude.The experiment...
Would you let your children have an AI boyfriend or girlfriend? We're reading Irreducible, by Federico Faggin. It's Chapter 7 and Mark and Jeremy thin...
Is technology for good anything more than a marketing strategy?Technology shapes everything. From how you work and connect to how you make decisions....
A podcast for people who refuse to let algorithms, headlines, or influencers do their thinking for them.What happens when technology moves faster than...
