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Future Perfect explores provocative ideas with the potential to radically improve the world. We tackle big questions about the most effective ways to save lives, control new and potentially dangerous technology, and address world poverty to create a more perfect future. Good Robot is a new series about AI from Unexplainable and Future Perfect.

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Mar 22, 2025 · 49 min
Good Robot #4: Who, me?
What can we actually do as our world gets populated with more and more robots?
Mar 19, 2025 · 45 min
Good Robot #3: Let's fix everything
A simple parable about a drowning child sparks a moral revolution.
Mar 15, 2025 · 53 min
Good Robot #2: Everything is not awesome
When a robot does bad things, who is responsible?
Mar 12, 2025 · 48 min
Good Robot #1: The Magic Intelligence in the Sky
Before AI became a mainstream obsession, one thinker sounded the alarm about its catastrophic potential.
Mar 5, 2025 · 3 min
Introducing: Good Robot
A new series about AI from Unexplainable and Future Perfect
Apr 28, 2021 · 43 min
Sucking the carbon out of the sky
Scientist and journalist Akshat Rathi explains the promise, and pitfalls, of carbon capture technology.
Apr 21, 2021 · 1 hr 2 min
Should I still have kids if I’m worried about climate change?
Climate scientist Kimberly Nicholas on the question of having children despite the fears of climate change.
Apr 14, 2021 · 35 min
Engineering our way out of the climate crisis
Climate advocate Kelly Wanser explains the potential, and pitfalls, of “solar climate intervention.”
Mar 16, 2021 · 28 min
Unexplainable
A new podcast from Vox about everything we don’t know.
Nov 4, 2020 · 21 min
Rethinking meat
How meat alternatives could help us move away from meat eating
Oct 28, 2020 · 24 min
Can we raise better beef?
A Brazilian man fights for greener pastures in his hometown
Oct 21, 2020 · 24 min
How to prevent a factory farmed pandemic
Flying pigs, swineways, and how our meat supply chain is set up to create novel virus strains
Oct 14, 2020 · 23 min
These bacteria wear chicken shoes
Factory Farms and the future of our antibiotics
Oct 7, 2020 · 25 min
Life on the fast line
Our meatpacking plants run very, very quickly.
Sep 30, 2020 · 28 min
Chicken Big
Why Craig Watts no longer raises thousands of chickens
Sep 23, 2020 · 25 min
The paradox on our plates
Why are dogs pets and pigs food?
Sep 16, 2020 · 29 min
Pig poop lagoon
Some people who live near factory farms also live with a terrible smell
Sep 9, 2020 · 2 min
Season 3: The beef with meat
How the meat we eat affects us all
Sep 7, 2020 · 58 min
What the housing crisis means for the climate
How fixing housing could help the climate
Aug 19, 2020 · 1 hr 13 min
What MLK and Malcolm X would do today
Revisiting the revolutionary lives of MLK and Malcolm X

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