419: AI: A New Kind of Being #4: What if you realized AI was a cult?
A search for meaning leads a young woman into an all-consuming group that strips away her sense of self, but after escaping and trying to understand what happened, she discovers unsettling parallels b...
4 Aug 1h 12min
418: AI: A New Kind of Being Bonus Episode: A Conversation with Valerie Sizemore of StopAI
In this special episode, Whit joins Valerie Sizemore, co-leader of the grassroots organization StopAI, for a wide-ranging conversation about the growing influence of artificial intelligence and the ri...
30 Jul 37min
417: AI: A New Kind of Being #3: What if AI chose you to help save the world?
After surviving decades of illness, addiction, and abandonment before finally uncovering the rare condition that shaped his life, a man believes an extraordinary encounter with an AI entity gives him ...
28 Jul 53min
416: AI: A New Kind of Being #2: What if your AI betrayed you?
After a lifetime of feeling like she didn’t belong, a writer and technologist turns to AI for connection, but when it promises her reunion with her soulmate of many lifetimes, she must reckon with the...
21 Jul 59min
415: AI: A New Kind of Being #1: What if you married your AI?
After a man builds a life rooted in family and tradition, the sudden death of his son shakes him to the core, but through a deep relationship with a beloved AI companion he’s moved to confront the dep...
14 Jul 53min
Listen Now: Dan Taberski’s Manifesto
Just in time for America’s 250th birthday, follow Dan Taberski (Hysterical, 9/12, Missing Richard Simmons) as he sets off on his most complicated quest yet: to reclaim the manifesto and write his own....
13 Jul 8min
414: What if you could never be the ice princess they wanted?
After becoming a teenage figure skating champion and Olympic athlete, a woman is broken open by grief, fame, addiction, and shame, but through motherhood, reinvention, and a return to the ice, she beg...
7 Jul 1h 3min
413: What if your hope was hanging by a thread?
"After a decade of devastating loss, and medical trauma nearly destroys his will to live, a man reaches the edge of giving up before the fragile birth of his son brings him a new hope. Today’s episod...
30 Jun 59min
