Episode · StarTalk Radio · 2026-10-30
Aza Raskin on StarTalk Radio: books mentioned
The Game Theory of AI with Aza Raskin
Are we losing control of AI? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore AI cyberhacking breaches, supercoordation, and the game theory of the AI alignment problem with Aza Raskin, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology and the Earth Species Project.
Neil deGrasse Tyson discussed Cosmos: Possible Worlds by Ann Druyan.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Cosmos: Possible Worlds
Discussed“And to go back to Carl Sagan's philosophies, which were developed and built by even others around him, his now widow, Andrewian, and also Steve Soder. They co-wrote the first two Cosmoses, the original in 1980, and the first of the two that I had the privilege of hosting.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Ad read Lost in Space
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Plugged Take Me to Your Leader
“Well, I would say the other way around. Like, if we can't understand what the whales are communicating with each other, how do we ever expect to understand what aliens are communicating? Thank you. No, I would invert that, as I did in my recent book on aliens. Take me to your leader.”