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Our guests today trained an AI on the world\\u2019s most beloved texts, from the Bible to the Koran to the words of Marcus Aurelius, Maya Angelou, and Leonard Cohen. Then, they asked the AI life\\u2019s hardest questions. The AI\\u2019s answers ranged from strange to surprising to transcendent.

Jasmine Wang, a technologist, and Iain S. Thomas, a poet, join us to talk about not only the answers they received from the robot, but also why they are deeply concerned about where AI might be headed.

In this episode we talk about:

• The origins of the book
• The definitions of some basic AI terminology
• The biggest takeaways of their conversation with AI\\u2014some of the answers they got back were fascinating and beautiful
• The perils and promise of AI (we spend a lot of time here)
• The ways in which AI may force us to rethink fundamental aspects of our own nature  
• And what we all can do to increase the odds that our AI future is more positive than not

For tickets to TPH\'s live event in Boston on September 7:

https://thewilbur.com/armory/artist/dan-harris/

Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/tph/podcast-episode/jasmine-wang-and-iain-s-thomas

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