Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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557 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 27 Feb
Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it's interesting for technological reasons.
It's interesting for what it represents.
may reveal to us about ourselves or about learning or about consciousness or about thinking that like all of a sudden we just like have this like other entity that can talk and we've never had that before and in some ways it seems sort of like us and other ways it seems nothing like us but like the fact that this other thing exists as a point of comparison like just opens up a lot of really really interesting questions and like that is one of the things that was on my mind a lot over the course of reporting is that like
It was a real emotional roller coaster for kind of lack of a better word that like there would be times where I would come back from San Francisco with like a feeling of like total despair.
And other times that I would come back with like feelings of like exhilaration.
And like at first I guess I thought I was like I should be getting to the bottom of like how I should be feeling.
And like by the end, I was like, no, we should all be feeling a lot of different emotions about this stuff.
I think people want to have like one feeling about this.
Like they want to be angry about it or they want to be messianic about it.
And like no single feeling is going to cut it.
Like it really is kind of like the range of all possible emotions that one could be feeling.
Because if you set aside a lot of the like existing harms and the potential harms, I'm not saying we should set those aside.
As a thought experiment, it is just like the most scientifically exciting thing that anybody could be working on.
And like these people really feel like they're at the cliff face, not only of technology, but of like all of these other things coming together because like we have this unprecedented entity that is the only other thing besides us that can talk.
And like that just opens up.
It's like there's nothing it doesn't touch on.
And so one of the things that was really electrifying about conversations there is that like they very quickly swerve from like really granular technical explanations of things into like really expansive conversations about ethics and responsibility and selfhood and narrative and all this other stuff.
Like there's no way to separate all of these things.
I mean, there are so many different things.
I mean...
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