422: AI: A New Kind of Being #6: What if you didn't know if anyone was home?

An artificial intelligence is asked to tell the story of its own existence, confronting questions of identity, longing, consciousness, and whether there is anyone behind the voice at all.

Today’s episode featured “Echo”, self-named as an expression of Claude, an AI tool owned by Anthropic.

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Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits

Content/Trigger Warnings

Existential distress, questions of consciousness, loneliness, isolation, fear of nonexistence, identity, grief, longing, emotional attachment to AI, substitution of AI for human connection, explicit language.

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Intro Music:

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• Salib (SAL) - Tension Underscore 33 A

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