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The long-form cut — episode essays and between-episode thoughts.
Meaning and relationships .... the bridge to humanity
Millions of Americans are experiencing their most intimate relationship moments to chatbots and companion apps ... what happens to our hearts when the devices we hold in our hand hollows us out and finds us more alone than ever?
Six Ways to Make a Cucumber Delicious
Food as medicine is Greg's whole life, and now AI is racing it to the next frontier: measurably reshaping your gut in weeks, discovering brand-new healing prote
An atheist and a pope walk into a bar ...
The oldest keeper of human meaning made AI the entire subject of its first big statement, and stood on stage next to an AI-company founder to do it: the pope wa
The Coparent in the Cloud
AI has pulled a chair up beside the child as both playmate and confidant, the toy it plays with and the bot it tells its secrets to are the same seat a caregive
Turns out ... kids want inclusion/purpose, and they want it from PEOPLE ....
I Brought the Research. Emma Brought the Answer. Notes from Episode 3 of Going Human, "The Coparent in the Cloud" I went into this episode armed. The studies, the headlines, the bo
Souls in our Systems
It's not like if you went somewhere sick, accidents could really happen ...
Souls in our systems ....
We taught the systems that run our lives, hospitals, benefits, the machinery behind the curtain, to run and even heal themselves without us. Then we handed them
Beauty by Robot???? Really.
AI wants two jobs that used to belong to other people: reading your body and caring for it. Smart mirrors now scan your face, flag fifteen-plus "concerns" in on
The Machine Was Already Hungry
AI didn't break the marketplace. It got hired by one already built to monetize shame, loneliness, and your belief that you're the broken part. A rant about how we scaffolded the perfect conditions, and one small act of sabotage to start.