Recent developments in artificial intelligence have led to much worry, and much speculation, about humanity’s future—a great deal of which is muddled or tedious. Considerably clearer is this unusual conversation between the scholar of classical philosophy Jacob Howland and the podcaster Jonathan Pageau, which ranges from Plato’s Phaedrus and Greek myths to the book of Revelation and John Milton, while spending much time with passages in Genesis and Exodus. (Video, 68 minutes.)
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