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Charting the AI Frontier: John-Clark Levin on Pope Leo & AI, the ‘Slop-acolypse,’ and What’s Next for Humanity

In this deep and wide-ranging conversation, we sit down with John-Clark Levin — researcher, author, and thought leader at the cutting edge of artificial intelligence — to explore the hopes and hazards of the technological era we now inhabit.

As research lead for Kurzweil Technologies under futurist Ray Kurzweil, Levin conducts long-term AI foresight and has spoken widely about artificial superintelligence and its implications for society, policy, and human flourishing.

We begin by tracing his journey from growing up in Ojai, the book that changed everything for him (Kurzweil's "The Rise of…

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