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The Scientists Studying the End of the World
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:31:03
Publish Date: 2025-07-02 10:00:00
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The New Yorker staff writer Rivka Galchen joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss a class at the University of Chicago with a tantalizingly dark title: Are We Doomed? It’s in the interdisciplinary field of existential risk, which studies the threats posed by climate change, nuclear warfare, and artificial intelligence. Galchen, who spent a semester observing the course and its students, considers how to contend with this bleak future, and how to understand the young people who may inherit it.

This episode originally aired June 5, 2024


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