Benjamin Breen: The Intersecting Histories of Psychedelics and AI Research

In episode 108 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Professor Benjamin Breen.

Professor Breen is an associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz specializing in the history of science, medicine, globalization, and the impacts of technological change. He is the author of multiple books including The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade and the more recent Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science, which …

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