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SCOUT· 56%1h 07m·2026-08-19·ScienceThrough a Glass, Darkly: Part Two
Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse · 11
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…
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