Episode

An 18 Year Old Just Showed Us The Future

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Big Questions with Cal Fussman
Published
Jan 13, 2026
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872
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Summary

A high school student named Matteo Paz uses old NASA data and new AI to find 1.5 million objects never noticed before in space (including planets in other solar systems). AI can now predict 130 diseases (including heart ailments, kidney failure and strokes) based on studying one night of sleep. And a school called Alpha uses only AI tutors, teaches core academics for only two hours a day and achieves top scores. Don't be late for the future.