Bots Don't Cry

In this episode, I interview Dr. Valerio Capraro about how Generative AI is changing how we think, make judgments, and understand ourselves, and why that could be REALLY dangerous for our society. This episode covers: How AI made the number of people saying “I DON'T KNOW” drop from 43% to just 3%.How people became MORE confident but LESS accurate, with accuracy dropping from 27.5% to 9.2%.The 7 key DIFFERENCES between HUMAN COGNITION and LLMs, and why understanding them matters.WHY do humans ...

Did you vote for Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, or Elon Musk? No? Me neither. So why are they (and other tech billionaires) deciding the future of AI and our democracy? 🤔 In this episode, I interview political philosopher Dr. Annette Zimmermann about what happens when a handful of tech billionaires control AI, and whether AI can ever be truly democratic. This episode covers: Why political philosophy is essential to understanding what's happening with AI today.The dangers of letting billionaire...

In my first episode, I interview Dr. Emily M. Bender and Dr. Alex Hanna about the current AI hype in the industry and what everyday people should learn about LLM/Generative AI and AI agent technologies so big tech can't play them. This episode covers: 1. The technology behind Generative AI and AI agents (LLMs) 2. How LLMs are essentially probabilistic machines that predict tokens and assemble letters without understanding their meaning. 2. How AI agents are enhanced LLMs tasked with taking a...