What will we become with AI? It’s a question easily lost alongside fevered speculation about what AI will do to the economy, politics, national security — and yet it may be the most important question of all. How will AI shape us, as we build it and use it?

Last March, the Octet Collaborative hosted an interdisciplinary colloquium devoted to this question, which became the basis for this special season of the Infinite Corridor podcast. In this, the first of three episodes taking you directly into the conversation, Octet senior theologian Nathan Barczi is joined by MIT professor Roz Picard and MIT researcher Sarp Gurakan for the conversation that framed the day’s conversation, asking: What does AI form in us?

Future conversations in episodes 2 and 3 will address AI and human flourishing, and the critical question of safeguarding the future. Welcome to season 3 of the Infinite Corridor podcast, a special edition on what we will become with AI.