The Next Billion Seconds with Mark Pesce

Mark Pesce

josh@ampel.com.au

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Booking Overview

Hosted by futurist and journalist Mark Pesce, this show helps listeners translate fast-moving technological and societal change into decisions they can make now. It’s particularly valuable for PR and comms leaders tracking how AI, cybersecurity, and policy shifts may impact brands and industries.

Metrics

Episodes: 100

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: Australia

Instagram: 633.0k followers

Contact Information

josh@ampel.com.au

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Host

Mark Pesce - Award-winning podcast creator, journalist, and futurist. Mark simplifies complex technological and societal change so decision-makers can understand what’s coming next and act effectively today (vi...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Not consistently evidenced from the provided episodes; the show format shown here uses a journalist co-host (Kathryn Ryan) via RNZ content. For true guest interviews beyond co-hosts, likely requires recognized expertise in futurism, AI safety, cybersecurity, technology policy, or tech governance (e.g., senior researchers, policy leaders, CISO/security leaders, or well-known analysts).
Required Achievements:  
Published analysis on AI and/or cybersecurity risk, Academic or industry leadership in AI safety, security engineering, or cryptography, Advised governments or led organizational security/AI governance programs, Media coverage in mainstream outlets for AI safety/tech policy expertise

Recent Guest Discussions

Kathryn Ryan - AI Model Risks And Cybersecurity Implications; Anthropic’s AI Capabilities; Government/policy And National-security Framing Of Advanced AI

Kathryn Ryan - AI Safety Responsibility Of Leading Labs; Anthropic ‘mythos’ And Patching Findings; Media/political Context Around AI Leadership; App/security Concerns

Kathryn Ryan - AI Governance Tensions Tied To Defense/political Red Lines; Mass Surveillance And Autonomous Weapons Constraints

Recent Topics

Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Technology Policy, Futures, Digital Risk

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Next Billion Seconds with Mark Pesce
:

Pokemon Go used to train killer drones (RNZ Nine to Noon rebroadcast)

June 18, 2026

On RNZ's "Nine to Noon" Mark gave host Kathryn Ryan an update on the US export controls on the "Fable 5" AI model - and how that's causing them trouble with their allies, who had already integrated it into workflows. Then they'll look at what happens when a security researcher goes rogue - threatening the world's fourth most valuable company. The episode includes the unpleasant story of how millions of Pokemon Go players unwittingly collected geospatial data now licensed to be used in militar...

Unsafe AI? Anthropic's Fable 5 - an AI that may be too smart for its own good (RNZ "Nine To Noon" rebroadcast)

June 15, 2026

On Friday 12 June, AI powerhouse Anthropic cut off all access to their latest-and-greatest "Fable 5" AI model. Based on the incredibly powerful Mythos - which has the capacity to hack into almost any computer - Fable had safeguards to block that sort of use - or so Anthropic believed. A hack to 'jailbreak' Fable 5 went viral just a day after it went live - and very quickly, the White House got alarmed. Mark Pesce shares the whole tale with RNZ "Nine To Noon" host Kathryn Ryan. See omnystudio....

RNZ "Nine To Noon" - Vulnageddon, RAMageddon and ChatGPT Goblins?

May 14, 2026

Host Kathryn Ryan in conversation with Mark, profiling the concerning capability of Anthropic's Mythos AI model to hack into the most protected systems - now it seems other AI models are just as powerful. RAMageddon could be on the way - with a major shortage of RAM forcing prices higher and why does ChatGPT have a goblin problem? Thanks to RNZ - Nine To Noon The Next Billion Seconds with Mark Pesce is produced by Ampel and Myrtle and Pine   Listen on Spotify, Apple  Sign ...

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