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The pair consider whether machines can mediate intelligence and whether reality is more participatory than it appears.
Episode 196: Waqas Ahmed — Polymathy, AI & the Future of Human Creativity
Author of The Polymath and founder of The DaVinci Network, Waqas Ahmed returns to The Human Experience to explore a question at the center of the AI era: what remains uniquely human when machines can generate answers across almost every field?
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Kingsley L. Dennis, Ph.D. on AI, The Threshold, and Reclaiming the Human Soul
Ten years after his first HXP appearance, sociologist and author Dr. Kingsley L. Dennis returns to examine humanity’s technological threshold. He and Xavier explore AI dependence and companionship, the attention economy, transhumanism, technological immortality, and the struggle for the human soul.
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