The Peter McCormack Show

Nick Bostrom is a world-renowned philosopher, founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University and author of Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies and Deep Utopia. Widely credited with launching the global AI safety and existential risk movements, his work on machine alignment, recursive self-improvement and the Simulation Hypothesis has shaped how world leaders, tech founders and frontier AI developers view the future of humanity.

In this episode, we discuss the rapid acceleration toward machine superintelligence and why leaving biological minds "in the dust" creates an urgent alignment crisis. We explore the real-world social fallout of AI-including looming 30% white-collar unemployment-alongside existential risk scenarios, the potential creation of an oppressed digital "slave class" and why humanity may already be living inside an advanced computer simulation.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Machine Minds That Leave Us In The Dust
00:01:33 - The Freak Out Camp
00:03:08 - We Already Have An Alignment Problem
00:05:07 - Why Nobody Can Afford To Slow Down
00:08:41 - The Anti-AI Movement Is Growing
00:13:19 - Three Buckets Of Disaster
00:15:02 - Winner Takes All
00:16:24 - Why It Might Still Need Us
00:18:55 - What Superintelligence Actually Unlocks
00:20:50 - What Do We Even Want It For?
00:22:14 - Did An AI Push Someone Off A Building?
00:24:15 - Can A Weaker AI Align A Stronger One?
00:28:51 - Will AI Become Conscious?
00:33:17 - Was Consciousness An Accident?
00:40:53 - Uploading A Human Brain
00:45:51 - What Happens To Status?
00:49:51 - We Could Redesign Ourselves
00:52:31 - My Daughter Is Studying Philosophy
00:56:35 - The Simulation Argument
01:04:20 - We Are Going To Need Some Luck

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Prof. Richard Werner is a world-renowned economist, professor of banking, and author of Princes of the Yen. Famous for coining the term "Quantitative Easing" (QE) and publishing the first empirical proof that private banks create money out of thin air through lending, he has spent decades exposing the central planning mechanisms that dictate global finance.

In this episode, we discuss the ”Revealed Preference" framework - demonstrating why we must analyse central bankers by their actions rather than their rhetoric. He explains how central planners use artificial recessions and banking crises as "windows of opportunity" to consolidate ownership, why textbook economics deliberately obscures credit creation, and how establishing decentralised local banks can unlock sustainable 10%+ annual growth.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Central Bankers Are Traitors To Their Countries
00:01:04 - Why Can't Britain Grow?
00:06:50 - Princes Of The Yen
00:11:19 - It Was Always About Control
00:13:38 - Banks Don't Lend Your Deposits
00:14:27 - Show Me Where The Money Is Created
00:16:14 - Every School Of Economics Gets It Wrong
00:20:14 - Why Would They Do This?
00:21:57 - Britain Is Close To Central Planning
00:22:46 - America Once Had 30,000 Banks
00:27:48 - The Problem Was Identified In 1918
00:31:18 - Who Runs The City Of London?
00:33:46 - We Need Thousands Of Small Banks
00:38:14 - First The Money, Then The Power
00:44:04 - Every Country Can Have 10% Growth
00:47:12 - Liz Truss And The Bank Of England
00:50:23 - We Don't Need Central Banks
00:52:22 - Were The Austrians Right?
00:57:35 - They Want Your Savings
00:59:21 - Europe's New Right

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CONNECT WITH RICHARD WERNER
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Russell Napier is a renowned financial historian, author of The Solid Ground newsletter, and co-founder of the Library of Mistakes. Having advised global institutional investors for over thirty years, he specialises in long-term macroeconomic cycles, central bank interventions, and structural debt resolution.

In this episode, we discuss the mechanics of "financial repression" - how Western governments use subtle regulatory mandates to force pension funds into negative-yielding sovereign bonds, effectively stealth-taxing savers to inflate away unpayable public debts.

He explains how risk-free assets have lost up to 78% of their real capital value, while revealing why the UK’s private sector balance sheet is "coiled like a spring" for an unprecedented economic boom.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Stealing Money From Old People
00:01:26 - Britain Wants Lower Taxes Now
00:03:14 - The Public Sector Is Broke, The Private Sector Isn't
00:05:17 - Why Nobody Feels Richer
00:07:42 - It Has Never Been Easier To Fix This
00:09:47 - The Ideology Holding Britain Back
00:16:09 - What Financial Repression Actually Is
00:17:45 - We Need 4% Growth
00:19:40 - They Are Coming For The Savers
00:24:26 - How They Made Pension Funds Buy The Bonds
00:25:23 - The Triple Lock
00:29:28 - What Should A Saver Actually Do?
00:34:41 - Bitcoin And Gold
00:38:36 - Europe Wants Your Savings
00:40:43 - France Is Worse Than America
00:44:27 - You Are Now The Enemy
00:47:31 - We Have To Build Like Never Before
00:54:37 - Can AI Deliver A Productivity Boom?
01:01:19 - AI Will Trigger A Debt Crisis
01:06:15 - Three Firms Own Everything

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CONTACT PETE
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Callum Smiles is an investigative reporter and Associate at the Wyvern Fellowship. Having spent years conducting on-the-ground reporting across Calais, Dunkirk, and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, he has documented the operational realities of Channel crossings, NGO involvement, and human trafficking networks across Europe.

In this episode, Callum and I discuss the true mechanics behind illegal migration - from TikTok marketing campaigns run by trafficking gangs to the widespread abuse of gig-economy delivery accounts within the UK. We examine the systemic collapse of public infrastructure, government procurement waste, and the rise of local "parallel institutions" designed to rebuild community resilience independent of central state control.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - A 200 Grand Crossing
00:01:04 - The Failure of Modern Britain
00:02:46 - Where Is The Tax Money Going?
00:03:45 - NHS Inefficiency vs. Private Healthcare
00:05:45 - Single Air Fresheners & £600 Bed Moves
00:07:08 - The True Scale of Channel Crossings
00:10:00 - UN Conventions & Albanian Marketing Campaigns
00:12:30 - The Business Model: £3,000 Seats & TikTok Deals
00:14:32 - The Deliveroo Black Market & Criminal Networks
00:20:00 - What Are NGOs Actually Doing in Northern France?
00:22:21 - Conditions in Calais & Human Exploitation
00:26:34 - MOD Housing Contracts & Government Procurement
00:31:28 - Where Do National Lottery Grants Go?
00:37:38 - Undocumented Arrivals: Destroyed Passports on Planes
00:41:21 - Demographic Shifts & The Risk of Civil Unrest
00:44:25 - Legal Aid, Human Rights Laws & Border Enforcement
00:47:31 - The Political Class vs. Productive Taxpayers
00:52:48 - Eyewitness Report: The Ceuta Border Crisis
01:05:08 - Repurposing Military Bases for Migrant Housing
01:11:07 - Property Drop & High Street Decline in London
01:15:00 - Building Parallel Institutions: The Wyvern Fellowship
01:23:21 - Taking Back Local Control

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CONTACT PETE
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CONNECT WITH CALLUM SMILES
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Prof. Jim Al-Khalili is a theoretical physicist, author, and public broadcaster who holds a chair in physics at the University of Surrey. Known for his BBC documentaries and popular science books, including On Time and The World According to Physics, his work spans quantum mechanics, nuclear reaction theory, and the fundamental nature of space-time.

Jim and I discuss the divide between psychological "manifest time" and the laws of physics. Jim explains general relativity, gravitational time dilation, and the astrophysics behind Interstellar, before tackling the mathematical conflict between general relativity and quantum mechanics. Jim breaks down quantum entanglement, Bell’s Inequality, and competing models of reality-from the Copenhagen view to the Many-Worlds interpretation. Finally, we discuss how AI systems are formalizing complex mathematical theorems and processing deep-space data to decode dark matter and dark energy.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Where Physics Breaks Down
00:01:10 - I'm 47 And Thinking About Time
00:03:45 - Is Time An Illusion?
00:06:44 - Why Your Phone Proves Einstein Right
00:07:47 - The Fifth Dimension In Interstellar
00:09:46 - Carl Sagan And The Invention Of Wormholes
00:12:36 - Is There A White Hole?
00:15:07 - Was The Big Bang A White Hole?
00:18:35 - Nobody Understands String Theory
00:19:18 - Gravity Is Not A Force
00:22:58 - Spooky Action At A Distance
00:25:39 - They Proved Einstein Wrong
00:27:56 - Nothing Exists Until You Measure It
00:30:58 - Schrödinger's Cat
00:36:40 - What I Want To Know Before I Die
00:43:12 - Fermat's Last Theorem
00:47:41 - What If You Pointed AI At Physics?
00:54:23 - Borrowing Energy From The Vacuum
00:57:07 - Dark Matter Is A Bad Name
01:06:10 - Is There An Edge To The Universe?

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CONNECT WITH JIM AL-KHALILI
› Website – https://jimal-khalili.com/
› The Life Scientific – https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015sqc7
› Sunfall – https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/307996/sunfall-by-al-khalili-jim/9780857503527
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EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK
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