What is left for humans when intelligence is no longer uniquely ours?
After a decade building 4 companies at the frontier of technology and now as founder of an AI research company, I’ve become increasingly interested in a question that sits beyond capability:
If machines can replicate more of what we once considered uniquely human, what should we value about being human?
That question is at the heart of SEEN by Chengxi Taylor: my conversations with leading voices from technology, philosophy, art, science and culture about who we become as the boundaries of human possibility change.
For the first episode, I’m joined by Dr Tom Chatfield, Oxford-trained technology philosopher, author of Wise Animals, former BBC columnist and Visiting Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute.
Tom approaches technology through philosophy, history and human behaviour. I approach it from inside the world of building AI.
Together, we explore AI × Human Intelligence: whether we’re overvaluing intelligence itself, why emotional intelligence may become more important in the age of AI, intuition versus data, the pressure to keep up, and what remains worth doing when machines can do more of what humans once defined themselves by.
Because the deeper question isn’t simply how intelligent can AI become? It is who do humans become when intelligence is no longer enough to define us?
AI × Human Intelligence
Chengxi Taylor with Dr Tom Chatfield
Chapters
00:00 Trailer: Emotional intelligence in the age of AI
01:00 Why I wanted to have this conversation
04:40 Are we overvaluing intelligence?
08:20 Rethinking emotional intelligence
12:22 Are we thinking or being manipulated?
16:02 Intuition, emotion and being authors of our thoughts
17:49 The myth of a fixed “authentic self”
21:01 Speed and FOMO in the age of AI
25:18 Defining the new rules of the game
30:59 What is worth doing when AI can do everything?
37:24 Why humans are more than outcomes
42:15 Caring deeply has a cost
47:43 Detachment doesn’t mean not caring
52:34 How do we live with AI beyond our control?
58:59 The value of an idiosyncratic life
1:03:22 Why we may value human craft more in the age of AI
1:08:01 What we desire may already be within us
1:10:34 A daily practice for AI anxiety
1:11:02 Tom Chatfield on Wise Animals
1:11:45 Why I created SEEN
SEEN by Chengxi Taylor
Technology changes what is possible. SEEN asks what becomes meaningful.
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