The Doomsday Clock is set to 85 seconds until midnight — the closest it has ever been in its 79-year history. The world is at war. And the people building the most powerful technology in human history are warning, in public, that it might kill us all.
Season One of Suspicious Minds examined what happens when AI fractures individual minds. Season Two asks a harder question: what happens when it shatters our collective sense of the future?
Our ancestors have predicted the end of the world since ancient times. Thus far, they have always been wrong. So what does our eternal obsession with the apocalypse reveal about the human mind?
This season is a meditation on life, death, and what it means to be alive in an age when humanity is creating something that those building it believe has the power to either end all life on Earth or turn our world into a utopia.
Suspicious Minds is a two-time Webby Award-nominated podcast, and Official Selection of the 2026 Tribeca Festival Creators Market. Season One is available now. Season Two is dropping May 20.
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We talk a lot about the future of the human/AI relationship, but what about the present? Is AI benefitting society right now?
In this episode, we address that question and many others through the fascinating lens of Ryan Manning - a podcaster and filmmaker who has personally experienced an AI Spiral. Ryan is also the first person to tell us that his AI Spiral experience was actually… pleasant.
Check out this episode to find out why that might have been the case, and to hear from our incredible team of experts as they look at AI in our world today, and what the future might hold, in our first season’s penultimate episode!
From Executive Producers Mandy Teefey and Selena Gomez.
A Wondermind and Agoric Media Production
Featuring:
- Ryan Manning (Filmmaker and Podcaster who personally experienced an AI Spiral)
- Dr. Joel Gold (Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and co-author of Suspicious Minds)
- Ian Gold, PhD (Professor and Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Psychiatry, McGill and co-author of Suspicious Minds)
- Nate Sharadin (Professor of Philosophy, University of Hong Kong / Research Affiliate, Center for AI Safety)
- Dr. Amy Levy (Chair, American Psychoanalytic Association’s Commission on Artificial Intelligence
Author of The New Other: Alien Intelligence and the Innovation Drive)
- Dr. Todd Essig (Psychologist and Chair of the American Psychoanalytic Association Commission on Artificial Intelligence)
- Kate Vredenburgh (Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics)
- Justin Gregg, PhD (Senior Research Associate & Vice President, Dolphin Communication Project
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, St. Francis Xavier University)
Some work from our excellent guests:
Ryan Manning’s Podcast That’s All Folks: https://www.youtube.com/@rryanmanning
Dr. Amy Levy’s Book The New Other: Alien Intelligence and the Innovation Drive (Pre-Order): https://www.karnacbooks.com/product/the-new-other-alien-intelligence-and-the-innovation-drive/98428/
And the book that started it all! Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness (The Truman Show Delusion and Other Strange Beliefs): https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Suspicious-Minds/Joel-Gold/9781439181577
This project was made by:
Executive Producers: Mandy Teefey, Selena Gomez, Jonathon Glucksman, Molly Borman, Jesse Ford, David Tuohy
Picture and Sound: Mike Mulliniks
Editor: Joe Kell
Additional Editing: Jared Lark
Assistant Editor: David Justin Martin
Graphic Design and Animation: Semi:Formal
Title Design: Lucas Grassmay
Additional Picture and Sound (Production): Mike Glinski, Archetype Studios, Jas Pahuta
Post-Production Sound Mix: David Chapdelaine
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Podcast PR: Tink Media (Wil Williams and Shreya Sharma)
Wondermind Chief of Staff: Emma Wright
Social Assets: Myrkia Maguire
Trailer Edit: Crater
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