TCWD Podcast: AI Bot Me
Deepak Chopra, Laura Kipnis, and Pope Francis all walk their consciousness through an app....
Everyone is eager to turn themselves into a robot these days. Deepak Chopra has created an AI spiritual guru version of himself, Laura Kipnis botted herself up to help Silicon Valley bros read books, and the dead are returning and walking the earth and reviewing art again for UK newspapers. Who will restore our humanity? Well, the Department of Defense is now hiring writers to help us kill people more effectively, hooray. Jessa and Nico get into the urge to replicate, also Elon Musk's Heinlein fantasies of an extinction-level event.
Audio below or in the usual podcast places. Show notes and references after the paywall.
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