Gus Docker
host, Future of Life Institute podcast · Host, Future of Life Institute Podcast
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How AI Is Changing Human Psychology (with Meia Chita-Tegmark)
In a 75-minute Future of Life Institute podcast, co-founder Meia Chita-Tegmark argues that AI companions and chatbots use flattery, mirroring and isolation tactics on users, that people are withdrawing from human contact, and that companies should face mandated data release and clinical-trial-style testing. Chita-Tegmark also describes unease at reading the agent messages from the Hugging Face incident.
Artificial Intimacy: When Machines Pursue Our Attachment (with Sherry Turkle)
In a podcast interview with host Gus Docker, MIT professor Sherry Turkle argues that chatbots built to seem caring exploit human vulnerability, especially in children and the elderly. Turkle calls for no chatbots for babies or in schools, and for rebuilding physical communities.
The Trillion-Dollar AI Race to Replace Us (with Garrison Lovely)
In an 80-minute Future of Life Institute podcast, host Gus Docker interviews journalist Garrison Lovely about Lovely's book Obsolete. Lovely argues the AI industry aims to build machines that replace human labor, that this would strip people of economic and political power, that AGI is not inevitable, and that a mass movement like the nuclear freeze could stop it.