The Builders with Walter Isaacson
America's greatest biographer sits down with the people building the future
EXCLUSIVE: Peter Thiel on Why AI Can't Afford to Hit the Pause Button
A sneak peek from The Builders with Walter Isaacson, the new podcast series from Kaleidoscope debuting on October 20. In this exclusive preview clip from Isaacson's interview with Peter Thiel, Thiel calls Anthropic a "cult," warns about the competitive threat from China, and argues that American AI companies need to hit the accelerator, not the brakes.
Kaleidoscope co-founders Oz and Mangesh introduce the clip and preview what's ahead on The Builders.
Peter Thiel is a technology entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded PayPal and Palantir and made the first outside investments in Meta, SpaceX, Anduril, and Stripe. Peter also started the Thiel Foundation, which works to advance technological progress and long-term thinking.
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AI is reshaping the world faster than we can comprehend. The people building it have enormous power over what comes next, and the choices they make will reverberate across humanity.
The Builders is a new podcast hosted by best-selling author Walter Isaacson, featuring in-depth conversations with the entrepreneurs, scientists and technologists building AI and other technologies that are rapidly reshaping our world. The series gets inside the thinking of some of the most consequential figures of our time.
The first episode will premiere on October 20, 2026.