Ian Sample

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1,877 appearances 26 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 5d ago

Ian Sample’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Science Weekly · Live episode: how AI is reshaping our minds · 13 Sep 2026 podcast

And it's not like, you know, you might check on go onto one of these things and get it right. voice-verified

Limerick, or I mean I've done that. voice-verified

And or like, you know, where can I do this, that, and the other? voice-verified

Um, I wanted a limerick about a friend and I couldn't do a good one, but I was rubbish, so I didn't send it. voice-verified

Um but th then you hear people saying, oh, you know, twelve hours a day on and off. voice-verified

And you think, oh okay, it's not it's not brief interaction. voice-verified

I think one of the things that comes across from the interviews is how voice-verified

incredibly easy it seems to be for s maybe I should say some people to form these voice-verified

actual emotional bonds with these AI tools. voice-verified

And you know, ultimately these are programs that are churning out responses based on statistical distributions of language, right? voice-verified

And yet we can feel like we're talking to a being, a person. voice-verified

Like is is that intentionally built into the L L M, the large language model by the companies, or is that uh just uh a kind of a a by product of something? voice-verified

And I thought it was mad that um some of these AIs were starting to give themselves names. voice-verified

Unprompted by the user, they would start imposing this voice-verified

uh uh identity on on the conversation. voice-verified

But maddie, we know we know it's really easy to anthropomorphise, right? voice-verified

It doesn't take much for a for us to voice-verified

see something, you know, intelligence in something where there is none and all the rest of it were quite easily fooled. voice-verified

A are we just doomed to want to make connections with these things? voice-verified

I say doomed, I mean it's labeled. voice-verified

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