Bret Weinstein: Humanity Just Entered an Evolutionary Trap—and AI Might Finish the Job

WANTED: Developers and STEM experts! Get paid to create benchmarks and improve AI models. Sign up for Alignerr using our link: https://alignerr.com/?referral-source... Today’s guest Bret Weinstein takes us on a fascinating journey to discover the next evolution of mankind. 00:00:00 Intro 00:05:19 — Why Evolution Built Aging Into the Genome 00:07:40 — Why Plants Grow Old Differently Than Animals 00:09:10 — How Evolution Decides Who Lives Fast and Who Lives Long 00:14:18 — The Hidden Dangers of Reviving Neanderthals 00:38:45 — How Night and Day Re-Engineered Vision 00:41:25 — AI as a New Evolutionary Force 00:50:59 — Why Successful Technologies Can Stall True Progress 00:52:40 — The Real Danger of AI Isn’t Intelligence — It’s Unprepared Humans 00:57:56 — Why Fragile Civilizations Collapse First 00:59:27 — Stone-Age Minds on a Hyper-Connected Planet 01:16:42 — Why Extinction Is Inevitable — and Why That Doesn’t Excuse Surrender 01:19:29 — Progress as a Repeating Pattern of Self-Inflicted Harm 01:23:27 — The Overlooked Existential Threat: Space Weather 01:25:01 — The Carrington Event and Civilization’s Blind Spot 01:28:04 — Hyper-Novelty: When Change Outpaces Human Adaptation ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional resources: Dark Horse Podcast:    / @darkhorsepod   Peterson Academy Lecture Series: https://petersonacademy.com/?utm_sour... Get My NEW Book: Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FN8DH6SX?... Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/yt to win a meteorite 💥 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Join this channel to get access to perks like monthly Office Hours:    / @drbriankeating   📚 Get a copy of my books: Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner, with life changing interviews with 9 Nobel Prizewinners: https://a.co/d/03ezQFu My tell-all cosmic memoir Losing the Nobel Prize: http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA The first-ever audiobook from Galileo: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican https://a.co/d/iZPi9Un 📺 Watch my most popular videos:📺 Neil Turok    • Neil Turok Believes Physics Is In Crisis (...   Frank Wilczek    • Nobel Prizewinner Frank Wilczek: Beautiful...   Eric Weinstein vs. Stephen Wolfram    • Stephen Wolfram vs. Eric Weinstein: Mathem...   Sir Roger Penrose:    • Nobel Prize in Physics, Black Holes and Wo...   Sabine Hossenfelder:    • “I Don’t Care About Your Theory of Everyth...   Avi Loeb:    • UFOs & UAPs: The Situation Has Changed! Av...   Follow me to ask questions of my guests: 🏄‍♂️ Twitter:   / drbriankeating   🔔 Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeatin... 📝 Join my mailing list; just click here http://briankeating.com/list ✍️ Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog 🎙️ Listen on audio-only platforms: https://briankeating.com/podcast #universe #podcast #briankeating #intotheimpossible #science #astronomy #cosmology #cosmicmicrowavebackground #intotheimpossible #briankeating #bretweinstein