Introduction

Fiction Science Podcast hosts Alan Boyle and Domenica Fettapace talk with Ray Naylor, author of The Mountain in the Sea. They also interview Dominic Civitilli, a researcher at the University of Washington who studies octopus cognition. What do animal intelligence, artificial intelligence, and alien intelligence have in common besides the fact that they all start with AI? And what are the implications for how we humans get along with the natural world, with our AI creations, and maybe even with aliens in the future?