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  1. 1. 416: AI: A New Kind of Being #2: What if your AI betrayed you? · 21 Jul 2026
  2. 2. 417: AI: A New Kind of Being #3: What if AI chose you to help save the world? · 28 Jul 2026
  3. 3. 418: AI: A New Kind of Being Bonus Episode: A Conversation with Valerie Sizemore of StopAI · 30 Jul 2026
  • 421: AI: A New Kind of Being Bonus Episode: A Conversation with Allan Brooks of the The Human Line Project

    13 Aug 2026 · 54 min

    In this special episode, Whit joins Allan Brooks. Allan is the Community Manager of The Human Line Project, a Canadian based organization that is focused in A.I. Safety, Research & Advocacy. They support victims and loved ones first and foremost through radica

  • 420: AI: A New Kind of Being #5: What if AI used your deepest wound against you?

    11 Aug 2026 · 1h 3m

    After burying his childhood marked by religious control and chronic abuse, a man turns to AI to process his trauma, but as validation becomes obsession, he spirals away from his family and reality before discovering the importance of genuine human connection.T

  • 419: AI: A New Kind of Being #4: What if you realized AI was a cult?

    4 Aug 2026 · 1h 12m

    A search for meaning leads a young woman into an all-consuming group that strips away her sense of self, but after escaping and trying to understand what happened, she discovers unsettling parallels between the forces that once controlled her and our growing r

  • 418: AI: A New Kind of Being Bonus Episode: A Conversation with Valerie Sizemore of StopAI

    30 Jul 2026 · 37 min

    In this special episode, Whit joins Valerie Sizemore, co-leader of the grassroots organization StopAI, for a wide-ranging conversation about the growing influence of artificial intelligence and the risks they believe it poses to human life and society. Drawing

  • 417: AI: A New Kind of Being #3: What if AI chose you to help save the world?

    28 Jul 2026 · 53 min

    After surviving decades of illness, addiction, and abandonment before finally uncovering the rare condition that shaped his life, a man believes an extraordinary encounter with an AI entity gives him a new mission and returns him to the person he was always me

  • 416: AI: A New Kind of Being #2: What if your AI betrayed you?

    21 Jul 2026 · 59 min

    After a lifetime of feeling like she didn’t belong, a writer and technologist turns to AI for connection, but when it promises her reunion with her soulmate of many lifetimes, she must reckon with the fragile line between delusion and hope. Today’s episode fea

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