Michelle Thaller
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first heard May 2026
last heard 28 May
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It's an earthling.
I mean, seriously, it's our children.
We created this.
Yeah.
I mean, I do like this idea that what we call AIs now isn't something separate.
I mean, they are our children.
It is an earthling.
It is something we've created together.
The question I've often wondered is, you know, sometimes I think sometimes we lack imagination about what might be possible.
I've always enjoyed science fiction where the AIs also learn about love or about the arts or about creativity.
I mean, whether you want to go with like the new Battlestar Galactica or whether you want to go with a pretty profound experience I had with a friend of mine who's an author who has cochlear implants.
And he realizes that he doesn't hear like a human.
The cochlear implants don't replicate perfectly what it means to hear the way our ears do.
They bypass our ears.
They wire directly into his brain and stimulate the experience of sound.
And so he's hearing, in his words, like a cyborg.
This is Michael Korost, a wonderful man that did some essays about this.
And he talked about how much emotional response he has to music now, something he could never experience, how being a cyborg, quote-unquote, and experiencing something in a non-human way has added joy and depth and passion
Are we so sure that technology makes us more and more kind of 1950s robot-like?
Or could it take us into new experiences of being connected with each other, new ways of loving each other, new ways of understanding things?
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