Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Hosted by Alexander Wissner-Gross, Dave Blundin, Peter H. Diamandis & Salim Ismail · 34 decoded episodes · newest Oct 7, 2026
Tracking the future of technology and how it impacts humanity. Named by Fortune as one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” Peter H. Diamandis, MD, is a founder, investor, advisor, and best-selling author. Join Peter on his mission to uplift humanity through technology. Follow Peter on X - https://x.com/PeterDiamandis
Episodes 34
- Oct 7, 2026 · 2h 46mAI Safety Collides With the Race for SuperintelligenceThe episode examines who should control increasingly capable AI, how much risk society should accept, and whether abundance can offset disruption.
- Oct 5, 2026 · 40 minAstro Teller explains how X turns moonshots into businessesThe episode examines whether organizations can make radical innovation repeatable without sacrificing judgment, speed, or ambition.
- Oct 3, 2026 · 2h 26mRecursive AI collides with science, warfare, and economic changeThe episode tests whether self-improving AI can accelerate discovery while exposing unresolved risks in alignment, autonomous weapons, regulation, and work.
- Oct 2, 2026 · 2h 24mAI safety accord tests voluntary governanceThe episode examines whether frontier AI can be governed responsibly when enforcement, liability, ownership, and even personhood remain unsettled.
- Sep 30, 2026 · 43 minAI and gene editing push biology toward programmable lifeThe episode examines how rapidly converging biological tools could reshape conservation and organism design while outrunning ethical and regulatory safeguards.
- Sep 28, 2026 · 2h 44mAI’s race forces a choice between acceleration and controlFrontier AI is advancing across science, labor, education, and geopolitics faster than institutions can decide how to govern its risks and rewards.
- Sep 28, 2026 · 51 minAI panel shifts the risk debate from takeover to misuseThe discussion tests whether slowing AI is prudent risk management or a costly surrender in competition, augmentation, and biological discovery.
- Sep 28, 2026 · 26 minFuture Vision XPRIZE bets on hopeful science fictionThe competition tests whether optimistic stories can shape technological ambition as powerfully as dystopian warnings do.
- Sep 28, 2026 · 21 minAI builders turn prize money into new social infrastructureThe episode tests whether AI can expand opportunity through practical tools for education, entrepreneurship, work, and personal data.
- Sep 28, 2026 · 37 minPalmer Luckey argues defense AI must survive disconnected battlefieldsThe conversation examines how autonomous weapons, procurement, and founder responsibility shape the future of defense technology.
- Sep 27, 2026 · 52 minAI panel rejects doom-driven pauses while confronting real risksThe discussion tests whether slowing AI development can reduce catastrophic risk without sacrificing advances in science, medicine, and human longevity.
- Sep 22, 2026 · 1h 26mMoonshots panel tests abundance against AI’s hardest risksThe discussion connects AI’s promise of abundance to the institutional, economic, security, and human risks that could determine whether it arrives safely.