The Builders

Podcast by iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

The Builders is a podcast by iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope, hosted by Walter Isaacson. TMT covers 1 of its episodes, most often discussing Globalization, Consciousness, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.

Hosts

Walter IsaacsonBiographer and author

Frequent guests

Peter Thiel · 1 episodeInvestor and author of Zero to One

Topics

Globalization
Consciousness
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
Faust
Founder-led companies
Mimetic theory
Regulation of artificial intelligence
China–United States AI rivalry
Technological unemployment
OpenAI
Anthropic
Effective altruism
Antichrist
AI existential risk
Artificial intelligence

Recently covered

Peter Thiel: “We Need to Hit the Accelerator as Hard as Possible” on AI
Oct 22, 2026 · 58 min
Walter Isaacson interviews Peter Thiel on the AI backlash, existential risk, his Antichrist lectures, founder-led companies, René Girard, and why he prefers evil to incompetence.

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Categories: Society & Culture·Technology