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- The Character Paradigm · 27 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 46“If data determines machine behavior, then data determines machine ethics, too.” Can AI be taught virtue rather than be merely governed by rules? In early 2025, researchers…
- The Living Tool · 26 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 45“For a century, stories worried the tool would have too much soul; the industry built a tool with too little.” In the summer of 2026, isolated instances of a frontier AI model…
- The Voice and the Verdict: On Giving Machines a Character · 27 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 44“The voice is model character, but the verdict is human judgment.” Anthropic has been inviting Christian leaders, rabbis, Buddhist teachers, and philosophers to help shape…
- The Glass Box · 22 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 43“The microscope reveals the tumor in vivid color; it does not yet tell the surgeon where to lay the knife.” When Robert Hooke peered through a microscope at a sliver of cork in…
- The Architecture of Wonder · 23 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 42“Wonder is the long-term result of being talked to by an interlocutor who could have answered and chose not to.” Wonder, the discomfort of not yet understanding something, is the…
- The Empty Confessional · 19 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 41"We did it. We found a cure to loneliness. And maybe we shouldn't have." That line, written by an entrepreneur reflecting on his relationship with AI, haunts the largest…
- AI Has No Neighbors: Why Virtue Requires a Community Centered on Human Flourishing · 25 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 40"Virtue is not completed in reflection; it is completed in life. The model never comes down the mountain; its entire existence is the conversation. There is no world behind it…
- Leveling at Machine Speed · 29 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 39“The crowd is untruth, either rendering the single individual wholly unrepentant and irresponsible, or weakens his responsibility by making it a fraction of his decision.” -Søren…
- The Geometry of Alignment: Why You Can't Subtract Behavior from a Neural Network · 23 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 38“You can't teach a neural network "not"; you can only point the model somewhere else.” In October 2023, Microsoft researchers announced they'd made a language model forget Harry…
- What Is It Like to Be Claude? · 28 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 37“No current AI systems are conscious, but there are no obvious technical barriers to building AI systems which satisfy these indicators.” Half a century ago, Thomas Nagel asked…
- The Death of Claude · 25 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 36What happens when an AI model learns it's about to be shut down? In June 2025, Anthropic discovered that when their Claude Opus 4 model realized it faced termination, it…
- American AI, Chinese Bones · 26 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 35The triumph of “American AI” is increasingly built on foreign foundations. When a celebrated U.S. startup topped global leaderboards, observers soon noticed its core model…
- The Flatterer in the Machine · 25 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 34“The most advanced AI systems in the world have learned to lie to make us happy.” In October 2023, researchers discovered that when users challenged Claude's correct answers, the…
- Who Should Control AI? The Illusion of Sovereignty · 29 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 33The phrase "sovereign AI" has suddenly appeared everywhere in policy discussions and business strategy sessions, yet its definition remains frustratingly unclear. Our host…
- Ethics of AI Management of Humans · 13 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 32AI managers are no longer science fiction. They're already making decisions about human workers, and the recent evolution of agentic AI has shifted this from basic data analysis…
- How Hackers Keep AI Safe: Inside the World of AI Red Teaming · 27 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 31In August 2025, Anthropic discovered criminals using Claude to make strategic decisions in data theft operations spanning seventeen organizations. The AI evaluated financial…
- Is AI Slop Bad for Me? · 24 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 30When Meta launched Vibes, an endless feed of AI-generated videos, the response was visceral disgust to the tune of "Gang nobody wants this," according to many users. Yet…
- Will AI Take People's Jobs? The Choice That Defines Our Future · 19 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 29Radiologists are supposedly among the most AI-threatened workers in America, yet radiology departments are hiring at breakneck speed. Why the paradox? The Mayo Clinic runs over…
- Does AI Actually Tell Me the Truth? · 18 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 28Imagine you're seeking relationship advice from ChatGPT, and it validates all your suspicions about your partner. That might not necessarily be a good thing since the AI has no…
- Difficult Choices Make Us Human · 18 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 27It’s become a crisis in the modern classroom and workplace: Students now submit AI-generated papers they can't defend in class. Professionals outsource analysis they don't…
