Madeleine Finlay
speaker
2,368 appearances
35 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5d ago
Madeleine Finlay’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 35 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 8.
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Folie d'eur, the sort of madness of two, that with this with the chatbots, there was a kind of co-creation going on that it was affirming, amplifying, and that kind of passed between.
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So the person was maybe picking something up, and then the chatbot was building on it, and often because you go to chatbots, because in the first place they're kind of this practical source of objective knowledge.
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There's a trust in there that you're trusting what it's saying, you're trusting that it's objective.
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And within that sycophancy as well, it means that you're not being challenged.
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Nobody's saying, actually, hold on, this is this isn't quite right.
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And it's not just about disagreeing.
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You know, if I was to say, Oh, Ian, uh, what's what's the best way to build a bunker and
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And h how much water would I need in there and h how what what kind of supplies should I have?
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you know, hopefully you would say to me, Maddy, are you all right?
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Do you why do you need a bunker?
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Whereas of course AI is gonna go, right, well you need to dig it this far deep to avoid the radiation, and you need this amount of water.
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So it's also kind of not picking up on when thinking might be getting delusional.
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And just a few other factors that I think are really important are mirroring.
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So when you're turning to something like a chat bot, it will often mirror your emotional state and the kind of language that you're using.
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And if you're kind of trying to maybe you're in a place where you're reading into something, you know, you're trying to find that equation.
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Often you can see things that aren't there.
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And I think it can almost get into this state that I kind of liken a little bit to a mix between a Ouija board where you're sort of pushing the dial a little bit and an astrology reading where you're kind of it's saying some vague things and you're like, ah, yes, I've I've got it.
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But really the kind of one of the key, key factors in all of this that they they say
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is that it's a very human and very immersive experience.
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The AI is always there.
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