Going Human

When a machine hollows a person out, what do we even call it, and what are we standing on when we say it's wrong? An atheist and a pope walk into a bar and, for once, order the same drink: he calls the digital girlfriends and rented robot friends SIN and looks up, I call it grief and look out. Same hole in the ground, no punchline. In this episode of Going Human: This athiest struggles with meanin...

A drowning mom in Zurich types her sleepless baby into ChatGPT and it works in five minutes. A momfluencer turns "I am drowning" into a $37 custom GPT named Coparent. So is AI a lifeline for overloaded parents, or an alibi for the adult who checked out? Moss digs into the rise of the AI "coparent," then sits down with Emma Madrigal, who has spent seven-plus years as a nanny, the oldest answer to t...

We taught the systems that run our lives; hospitals, benefits, the machinery behind the curtain, to run and even heal themselves without us. Now they are making the calls, and the human judgment we quietly baked in is increasingly overruled. This cast is about the people still inside the machine: the ones who know when a confident system can be dead(ly) wrong, and posits that there are many system...

AI wants two jobs that used to belong to other people: reading your body and caring for it. Smart mirrors now scan your face, score fifteen-plus "concerns," and sell you the cure for the flaw they just invented. Robot tables sell you a massage with the person removed and call it the upgrade. Moss drops the Stone on personal-care AI, then sits down with Shannon Walsh, Redken colorist and holistic s...

This is the imperfect beginning of a podcast that begs to ask why the AI craze is not concerning itself with the human condition, and how we can possibly calibrate our use of it in ways that keeps our humanity in check. Guest objectives will be more about the stories that describe how we make our analog lives our center and use AI to embellish it. We're not solving problems with AI, we understanid...