Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Sean King O'Grady

Booking Overview

This is an interview-led investigative documentary series about artificial intelligence, psychology, consciousness, philosophy, and apocalyptic thinking, featuring external philosophers, clinicians, researchers, technology founders, and authors. Credible pitches include AI ethics and safety researchers, neuroscientists, psychiatrists, philosophers, technology leaders with firsthand experience, and authors addressing the societal or existential implications of AI. Booking difficulty is high because the show favors highly credentialed specialists, published thinkers, senior researchers, and distinctive firsthand case studies.

Metrics

Episodes: 27

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 5.8k subscribers

Instagram: 232 followers

Contact Information

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Host

Sean King O'Grady - Sean King O'Grady is the host and creator of Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse, an investigative series examining artificial intelligence, the human mind, consciousness, and apocalyptic ideas.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Established philosophers, psychologists, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, AI researchers, technology founders, authors, and creators with specialized expertise or compelling firsthand experience related to artificial intelligence, consciousness, mental health, mortality, or existential risk.

Required Achievements:

Published books on relevant philosophical, psychological, scientific, or technological subjects, Senior academic appointments or leadership of specialized research labs, Founding or leading notable technology or AI organizations, Original research or professional expertise involving consciousness, mental health, or AI, Distinctive firsthand experiences that illuminate the human consequences of artificial intelligence

Recent Guest Discussions

Dr. Joel Gold - Psychosis, Consciousness, Meaning-making, And How Culture Shapes Beliefs About Artificial Intelligence.

Dr. Jeremy Heffner - Ai-generated Apocalyptic Beliefs, AI Psychosis, And The Psychological Risks Of Conversational Ai.

Dr. Michael Ferguson - The Neuroscience Of Spirituality, Embodiment, Meaning, Consciousness, And Ai-generated Religious Experiences.

Timothy Morton - Artificial Intelligence As A Distributed System, Technology, Spirituality, Ecology, And Human Relationships With Nonhuman Entities.

Hon Weng Chong - Biological Neurons, Machine Consciousness, Embodiment, And The Ethics Of Building Potentially Conscious Systems.

Recent Topics

Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, Psychology, Philosophy, Existentialism

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse

Dancing Animals

September 02, 2026

There are robot dogs patrolling the US–Mexico border. This story starts somewhere gentler: with Kurt Vonnegut leaving the house to buy one envelope.His wife wanted him to buy a hundred and keep them in a closet. He refused. The walk was the point. "We're here on Earth to fart around," he said. "And of course, the computers will do us out of that… we're dancing animals."This is part one of a two-part investigation into the physicality of the internet and AI. The bodies it runs on, and the bodi...

The Oracle Test

August 26, 2026

Twenty-five hundred years ago, the richest man in the world didn't trust his oracles, so he tested them. One passed: the Oracle of Delphi. Then it told him exactly what he wanted to hear, and his empire burned.A few weeks ago, I met a man who ran the same test on his oracles. The Oracle of ChatGPT, the Oracle of Grok, and the Oracle of Gemini, side by side, checked against each other. Dr. Jeremy Heffner is a trauma surgeon, a bioengineer, and the co-founder of the largest social network for s...

Through a Glass, Darkly: Part Two

August 19, 2026

Last week we ended in a laboratory in Melbourne, with a man who grows human brain cells in a dish and teaches them to play Doom. He told us they’re about as complex as a cockroach. He also told us where the cells come from. Human blood. Some of it his own.This is the half where it stops being a question about machines.Hon Weng Chong, CEO and founder of Cortical Labs, draws a red line, and it isn’t at intelligence. It’s at suffering. He won’t build a system that could be conscious, because a s...

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