Should We Stop Catastrophising About AI? With Eleanor Drage and Carl Miller
We are deeply confused about artificial intelligence: what it is, who it serves and whether it is leading us towards utopia or catastrophe....
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The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook, with Robert Peston (Part Two)
Robert Peston is one of Britain’s most trusted journalists. A fixture in British politics and business coverage, he came to national promine...
The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook, with Robert Peston (Part One)
Robert Peston is one of Britain’s most trusted journalists. A fixture in British politics and business coverage, he came to national promine...
How Sex Scenes in Film Can Reshape Real Intimacy, With Intimacy Coordinator Ita O’Brien
Intimacy coordinators have irreversibly transformed how we portray sex on screen, and they are not without their detractors. In the wake of...
Olivia Laing on Art, Solitude, and The Lonely City at 10 (Part Two)
Olivia Laing is known as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature. Their work is renowned for its capacity to make abst...
Olivia Laing on Art, Solitude, and The Lonely City at 10 (Part One)
Olivia Laing is known as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature. Their work is renowned for its capacity to make abst...
How Did World War II Create Modern Asia? With Professor Hans van de Ven
Is our history of World War II missing its most important chapter? For many in the West, the story of the Second World War is told through D...
An Evening with Maggie O’Farrell: Land (Part Two)
Maggie O’Farrell is the award-winning author of nine novels, including Hamnet, a breathtaking fictional retelling of the death of Shakespear...
An Evening with Maggie O’Farrell: Land (Part One)
Maggie O’Farrell is the award-winning author of nine novels, including Hamnet, a breathtaking fictional retelling of the death of Shakespear...
Can We Make the Internet Safe for Children? With Baroness Beeban Kidron
Filmmaker and activist Baroness Beeban Kidron has been warning of the digital dangers facing young people for over a decade, and has played...
Hotel with History | Copacabana Palace, Rio De Janeiro
This is an episode of Hotels with History, produced by Intelligence Squared on behalf of Perowne International. Picture being on a sweep of...
Andrew Ross Sorkin and Zanny Minton Beddoes on Markets, Crashes and The Future of The Global Economy (Part Two)
Andrew Ross Sorkin began his career at the forefront of Wall Street news, reporting extensively for The New York Times on the financial cras...
Andrew Ross Sorkin and Zanny Minton Beddoes on Markets, Crashes and The Future of The Global Economy (Part One)
Andrew Ross Sorkin began his career at the forefront of Wall Street news, reporting extensively for The New York Times on the financial cras...
Is Our Justice System Failing Women? With Barrister Charlotte Proudman
Recent high-profile legal disputes with Johnny Depp and Amber Heard and Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have renewed public debate about gen...
How Should We Prepare for the Unknown? With Statistician David Spiegelhalter
In a world of economic shocks, geopolitical crises and constant predictions about the future, how should we make decisions when certainty is...
Was George Forster the Enlightenment’s Lost Visionary? With Andrea Wulf
In this episode, historian and philosopher Sophie Scott Brown speaks with writer Andrea Wulf about her new book The Traveller: The Revolutio...
Reasons for Hope in Turbulent Times, with Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit is an award-winning American writer and activist whose incisive work explores feminism, democracy, climate change and social...
The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook: Leadership Special, with Francine Lacqua (Part Two)
Emmanuel Macron. Demis Hassabis. Volodymyr Zelenskiy. George Soros. Mark Carney. Christine Lagarde. Ray Dalio. Leena Nair. Few journalists h...
The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook: Leadership Special, with Francine Lacqua (Part One)
Emmanuel Macron. Demis Hassabis. Volodymyr Zelenskiy. George Soros. Mark Carney. Christine Lagarde. Ray Dalio. Leena Nair. Few journalists h...
How Did the Americas Transform Renaissance England? With Lauren Working
The English Renaissance is often remembered as an age of Shakespeare, exploration and cultural flourishing. But it was also shaped by encoun...