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424: What if your sister had five personalities? [Rebroadcast #68]

A woman shares a sobering memoir of a family burdened with sexual abuse in the 1950s.Today’s storyteller wishes to remain Anonymous. ProducersWhit Missildine, Andrew WaitsContent/Trigger WarningsSexua...

27 Aug 34min

423: What if you were lured into an unspeakable hell? [Rebroadcast #172]

25 Aug 59min

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 episo...

18 Aug 35min

421: AI: A New Kind of Being Bonus Episode: A Conversation with Allan Brooks of the The Human Line Project

In this special episode, Whit joins Allan Brooks. Allan is the Community Manager of The Human Line Project, a Canadian based organization that is focused in A.I. Safety, Research & Advocacy. They supp...

13 Aug 54min

420: AI: A New Kind of Being #5: What if AI used your deepest wound against you?

After burying his childhood marked by religious control and chronic abuse, a man turns to AI to process his trauma, but as validation becomes obsession, he spirals away from his family and reality bef...

11 Aug 1h 3min

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 Juli 37min