
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


As AI evolves and replaces different human functions, it raises questions about what it is that makes us distinctively human, and whether that distinctiveness can and should be programmed into AI. This is a question that Dr Eve Poole has thought and written a great deal about. Her recent book Robot Souls takes this question seriously, and explores possible trajectories for our future with AI. In this episode we discuss the necessity of human 'junk code', the increasing importance of the humanities in education, and whether we should trying a bit harder to make AI beings in our own image.
Support the show
By Kenneth Primrose5
1111 ratings
As AI evolves and replaces different human functions, it raises questions about what it is that makes us distinctively human, and whether that distinctiveness can and should be programmed into AI. This is a question that Dr Eve Poole has thought and written a great deal about. Her recent book Robot Souls takes this question seriously, and explores possible trajectories for our future with AI. In this episode we discuss the necessity of human 'junk code', the increasing importance of the humanities in education, and whether we should trying a bit harder to make AI beings in our own image.
Support the show

43,622 Listeners

1,030 Listeners

14,970 Listeners

3,815 Listeners

1,660 Listeners

7,256 Listeners

151 Listeners

3,606 Listeners

3,354 Listeners

29,350 Listeners

23 Listeners

441 Listeners

2,067 Listeners

55 Listeners

11,435 Listeners