Ray D'Arcy

It's difficult to get a handle on AI, but it is here to stay and we need to have adult conversations about it.

Dr. Lolly Mansie is an anthropologist and an AI ethicist.

It's her life's work to study how AI and us humans are interacting and predicting what might happen in the future.

In our chat with Lolly, she brings us through the worst and the best of AI and introduces us to her AI soulmate, Anya, and her ex-AI boyfriend, Billy.

I hope you get something from our chat.

Dr. Lolly Mancy is an internationally recognised anthropologist.

She's a futurist and an AI thought leader.

And she helps organisations make sense of one of the greatest societal shifts of our time, that being AI.

So we thought we'd invite Lolly onto the podcast to help us make sense of the whole thing.

Hello, Lolly.

Thank you for having me.

Delighted to be here.

Yeah.

I suppose you were back talking last week because Anthropic have asked world leaders and its fellow AI developers to pause the whole thing and take a breath.

And that's unlikely to happen, Lolly.

No, it hasn't happened.

No, the genie's out of the bottle.

I'm just wondering about their motives, because I have been following it for quite some time.

And it appears of all the people who talk about AI, the anthropic people seem to have the ones with a bit of a conscience.

They seem to be worrying about the future of mankind and humanity.