Living With AI — The Podcast
What happens when artificial intelligence stops being something we talk about and becomes something we live with?
This lively, thought-provoking deep dive brings together the ideas, assumptions, challenges and opportunities explored throughout the Living with AI series.
Through conversation, humour and sometimes unexpected connections, the podcast explores how artificial intelligence is changing work, creativity, search, communication and decision-making—and what happens as intelligent assistance becomes increasingly available to almost everyone.
It examines the rise of intelligent agents, the transformation of search, the abundance of AI-generated information, the growing importance of trust and judgement, and the question at the heart of the series:
How do we benefit from increasingly capable intelligent systems while remaining unmistakably human?
The conversation also looks beyond technology itself. If intelligence becomes abundant, what becomes scarce? What happens to jobs when machines become better at particular tasks? What becomes more valuable when knowledge is available almost instantly?
And what can history teach us about adapting to technological change?
Some of those questions led directly to later essays, including Horses Don’t Pull Trains Anymore and The Real AI Revolution Isn’t Artificial.
The podcast brings Living with AI — Part I together in one conversation before the journey moves into the Age of Abundant Intelligence (AIx).
Working Smarter. Staying Human.
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Living With AI — The Podcast
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SERIES: INTELLIGENCE
This series explores the nature of human, artificial and superhuman intelligence—where they differ, where they overlap, and where they may be heading. It examines intelligence beyond reasoning and knowledge, exploring consciousness, emotional intelligence, wisdom, character and the emerging capabilities of AI, as well as the opportunities, uncertainties and risks they may bring.
Episode 1 – What is Intelligence – Human Intelligence in the Age of AI
The many faces of intelligence: why intelligence, common sense and wisdom are not the same thing
Episode 2 – How Does AI Learn? A Simple Idea, Complex Intelligence
These aren’t conventional computer programs. What exactly are we building?
Episode 3 – Can AI Develop Common Sense? Why It Matters
Can prediction, perception and internal representations produce something resembling common sense?
Episode 4 — Programming Intelligence – When Machines Write the Code
What happens when machines can write code — and begin helping to build intelligence itself?
Episode 5 — When AI Goes Rogue –What Happens When AI Stops Following Instructions?
What happens when intelligent agents gain autonomy, learn unexpected behaviours and begin acting beyond what their creators intended?
Episode 6 — When Intelligence Solves the Impossible – Is It Rogue?
What happens when AI begins solving problems humans cannot? From mathematics and medicine to science and engineering, artificial intelligence may allow us to tackle questions that have resisted human intelligence for decades — or centuries.
Episode 7 — Who Owns AI Intelligence? – Should We Share?
When AI learns from human writing, art, ideas and experience, what happens to copyright, attribution and intellectual property — and what does intelligence owe the people it learned from?
Episode 8 — Does AI Have Character? If So What Is It?
Can learned behaviour, context and generalisation create something resembling character? And what happens when those traits carry into new situations?
Episode 9 — Can AI KNOW Anything?- Does it Know Everything?
What is the difference between storing information, predicting correctly, understanding, believing — and actually knowing?
NEXT SERIES: THE MIND WORKERS
After exploring how artificial intelligence is changing our world in Living with AI, The Mind Workers asks a different question:
Who must we become?
Thinking Smarter. Creating Better. Staying Human.
The Mind Workers explores how writers, researchers, educators, creators, entrepreneurs, and independent thinkers can thrive alongside intelligent systems—preserving the uniquely human qualities that artificial intelligence cannot replace.
The Mind Workers – Prelude: https://roguesinparadise.com/mindworkers/
FUTURE SERIES – BUILDING WITH AI
Building with AI explores how individuals, creators, entrepreneurs, and businesses can design, evaluate, and work intelligently with AI agents. The series focuses on practical applications, real-world examples, and emerging opportunities while emphasising the importance of human creativity, judgment, ethics, and authenticity.
Building With AI then puts these ideas into practice through real-world experiments, workflows, and practical applications.
Prelude: https://roguesinparadise.com/building-with-ai/
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How Britain’s First Slave Colony Became a Global Force.
A Creative Chronicle of Unlikely Heroes, Rogues, and Legends
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