Elon Musk says the likelihood that we are not actually all living in a simulated world is ‘one in billions’ . In this episode of Chips with Everything, philosopher and cognitive scientist Dr David Chalmers weighs in to explore those odds

What if our ability to develop technology becomes – or, in theory, already became – so advanced that we are living in a computer simulation that more technologically-capable humans have constructed for us? For tech mogul Elon Musk and a flurry of high-profile scientists and philosophers, that theory is very much plausible.

Dr David Chalmers, professor of philosophy at New York University, joins us over Skype to investigate the question: are we living in a computer simulation?