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Whose imagination do you want to live in? In this new series, bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson sits down with the most consequential names in AI and tech to understand the futures they're racing to build. Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Fei-Fei Li, Dario and Daniela Amodei, and more open up about their ambitions, what frightens them, how they think about humanity, and what drives them to build so big and so fast. The conversations are intimate, charming, and sometimes chilling. But mostly, they're impossible to dismiss. Because whether or not you agree with them, it's their imagination we're all starting to live in.
ABOUT THE HOSTWalter Isaacson is the bestselling author of biographies of Elon Musk, Jennifer Doudna, Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, and Albert Einstein. He is a professor of history at Tulane University and previously served as CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair and CEO of CNN, and editor of Time. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2023.
IN THIS SEASONElon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX, xAI)Peter Thiel (Founders Fund, PayPal, Palantir)Mustafa Suleyman (Microsoft AI, DeepMind)Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei (Anthropic)and more!
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After The Builders: On Musk and Thiel
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Oct 23, 2026 |
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Peter Thiel: “We Need to Hit the Accelerator as Hard as Possible” on AI
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Oct 22, 2026 |
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Elon Musk: "Humans Won't Be in Control" When AI Becomes Smarter Than Us
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Oct 20, 2026 |
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ON MUSK Episode Four: What is Musk's Legacy?
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Oct 17, 2026 |
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ON MUSK Episode Three: Storytelling and Hot Takes
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Oct 16, 2026 |
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ON MUSK Episode Two: Demons
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Oct 15, 2026 |
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ON MUSK Episode One: Genius
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Oct 14, 2026 |
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Coming Soon! The Builders
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Oct 06, 2026 |