This episode is a reading of “Why ‘Virtual Intelligence’? Naming, Agency, and Accountability in the Age of Large Language Models,” the second essay in the series. It makes the formal case for the term: why existing language fails, what agency actually requires, and why the distinction between fluency and self-governance determines where accountability lies.

Read the full essay:

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