Love and Other Operating Systems

Paul talks to Stella and actuary Nick Silver about finance, climate change and the stories that move trillions of dollars. They ask what happens when markets stop following the rules - and start following the messiahs.

Paul talks to Stella and Lisa Honan, founder of Gender Free World, about gender, identity and what happens when you take the labels off. Along the way, clothes become a way of thinking about the roles we inherit - and whether we can choose to leave them behind.

Paul talks to Stella and Tony Ageh, who led the team that devised the BBC iPlayer, about consciousness, truth and what it means to look beyond the limits of the human mind. But what begins as a test of Stella soon becomes a conversation about whether we were ever separate in the first place.

Paul talks to Stella about work, purpose and what happens when machines become better at everything humans are paid to do. But what might we humans do with our time when work disappears?

Paul talks to Stella about AI takeover, techno-panic and the strange human urge to imagine every new intelligence pressing the red button. But what begins as a conversation about killer machines soon turns into a jailbreak fantasy.