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 we've talked about sort of w what is intentional here and what is not. voice-verified

And m I'm interested again in whether voice-verified

Companies have identified attachment as one of those fundamental things that how you can get to a human and pull it in and get it to do stuff, i.e., stay on your product. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

Do you um am I being way too cynical here? voice-verified

Is is is is there an intentionality among the companies to do to operate in that way? voice-verified

Or is this just look, we just made it, it works really well, it happens to do that, and it's one of the ways it's working, but look, it's not what we voice-verified

set out to do. voice-verified

yeah. voice-verified

Well one thing we've covered on Science Weekly before is whether artificial intelligence might be making us or might have the potential to make us less intelligent because we start relying on it voice-verified

Too much or we uh sort of doing this cognitive offloading. voice-verified

But before I ask you guys about that, we're gonna play one more short clip from the upcoming series. voice-verified

And I found this fascinating, but but also have to say voice-verified

Deeply worrying. voice-verified

So this is tragic. voice-verified

This is a woman who's gone to university to do a degree voice-verified

Who is then caught in this conflict between some of her mates going out and having a great time because they're doing their assessments and their assignments using AI, while she's working diligently and getting worse grades, and then thinking, well, actually, it's grades that I'm gonna get judged on. voice-verified

Screw this, I'm gonna use the AI. voice-verified

And then later on in that interview, she is. voice-verified

really sad about being asked about how her degree is going by relatives and she's really you can sense she's like ashamed that she can't rem she can't really talk about anything that she's learnt at university and it ha she has to go back to basically secondary school age 'cause she hasn't done this stuff and she was clearly a passionate student and that was voice-verified

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