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Future Perfect
Future Perfect
Vox

Future Perfect explores provocative ideas with the potential to radically improve the world. We tackle big questions about the most effective ways... more

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Episodes

Good Robot #4: Who, me?

What can we actually do as our world gets populated with more and more robots? How can we take control?... more

22 Mar 2025 · 53 minutes
Good Robot #3: Let's fix everything

A simple parable about a drowning child sparks a moral revolution. Can AI help us do the most good in... more

19 Mar 2025 · 49 minutes
Good Robot #2: Everything is not awesome

When a robot does bad things, who is responsible? A group of technologists sounds the alarm about the ways AI... more

15 Mar 2025 · 57 minutes
Good Robot #1: The Magic Intelligence in the Sky

Before AI became a mainstream obsession, one thinker sounded the alarm about its catastrophic potential. So why are so many... more

12 Mar 2025 · 52 minutes
Introducing: Good Robot

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05 Mar 2025 · 3 minutes
Sucking the carbon out of the sky

Most of our efforts to fight climate change, from electric cars to wind turbines, are about pumping fewer greenhouse gases... more

28 Apr 2021 · 43 minutes
Should I still have kids if I’m worried about climate change?

Climate scientist Kimberly Nicholas co-led a study that showed the single most effective thing an individual can do to decrease... more

21 Apr 2021 · 1 hour, 2 minutes
Engineering our way out of the climate crisis

In an ideal world, cutting carbon emissions would be enough to stop global warming. But after dithering for decades, the... more

14 Apr 2021 · 35 minutes
Unexplainable

Unexplainable is a new podcast from Vox about everything we don’t know. Each week, the team looks at the most... more

16 Mar 2021 · 28 minutes
Rethinking meat

How can we convince people to change their relationship with meat? Melanie Joy has been grappling with this question for a... more

04 Nov 2020 · 21 minutes