86. Machine Intelligence, Mental Health, and Humanity's Future with Peter McAllister
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86. Machine Intelligence, Mental Health, and Humanity's Future with Peter McAllister

What if the greatest threat posed by artificial intelligence isn't that machines become evil—but that they inherit humanity's flaws?

In this episode of Alternate Futures, I chat with Peter McAllister, engineer scientist turned technology manager , and author of The Code, a science fiction thriller that began as dystopian fiction and now feels uncomfortably close to current events. Drawing on decades of experience working at the intersection of technology, business, and people, Peter shares his thoughts on the promises and dangers of AI, automation, corporate decision-making, and humanity's tendency to embrace powerful technologies before fully understanding their consequences.

We discuss the AI boom, the disconnect between technology leaders and decision makers, the ethics of machine intelligence, and whether we may be creating the next intelligent species on Earth. We also explore nanotechnology, self-improving systems, unconscious bias in AI training, technological evolution, AI rights, and the possibility that our machine creations may one day judge us by the way we treated them.

Books of his we discuss: The Code: If your AI loses its mind, can it take meds?

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