On June 1, 2026, OpenAI, Oracle, and contractor Walbridge officially broke ground on 'The Barn,' a $16 billion supercomputer facility designed to power the next generation of artificial intelligence. While the tech industry pours billions into physical infrastructure to achieve artificial minds, podcasters are looking back at a different kind of government-adjacent venture: the Stargate Program.
Speaking on The Joe Rogan Experience, researcher Dean Radin detailed the history of the military's psychic research initiative. Radin noted that while "a lot of the Stargate program is now public" across four volumes of archives, a significant portion of the project remains classified. "So a lot of the military stuff won't, will never be released because it involves people and methods," Radin explained, highlighting the tension between public disclosure and state secrets.
As an insider who worked on the project, Radin told host Joe Rogan that "I know about that because I was, I was in there," suggesting that the full scope of the government's psychic experiments may never be fully understood by the public. Whether building massive supercomputers or researching the limits of human consciousness, the obsession with pushing past technological boundaries remains a central fixation. As AI models scale, the line between government intelligence and corporate power will only continue to blur.