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Reading Our Times

When will AI evolve a soul? In conversation with Eve Poole

Apr 30, 2024
38:48
Nick Spencer speaks with Interim CEO Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, Eve Poole

AI is taking over the planet - or at least the news agenda! For hardly a day goes by without some AI story in the headlines. Should we believe what we read? Or is it all hype?

In particular, should we believe what we are promised - or threatened - about AI become super-intelligent, sentient, conscious, human?

In this week's episode, Nick Spencer speaks to Eve Poole about her book Robot Souls: Programming in Humanity

Buy a copy of Robot Souls here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robot-Souls-Programming-Eve-Poole/dp/1032426624


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