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Transcript: 'Being Human in the Age of Intelligent Machines'
'AI & I' with physicist and novelist Alan Lightman
Apr 3, 2025 · 31 min readUpdated May 31, 2026
The transcript of AI & I with Alan Lightman is below. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
Timestamps
- Introduction: 00:01:18
- Science can deepen your sense of the spiritual: 00:02:36
- The nature of consciousness: 00:11:31
- AI might appear to be conscious, but it isn’t: 00:13:11
- Why AI can be considered to be “natural”: 00:19:50
- AI shifts the focus of science from explanations to predictions: 00:30:40
- How modern neural networks simulate thinking: 00:33:48
- Lightman’s vision for how humans and machines will merge: 00:39:38
- Does AI know more about love than you?: 00:43:11
- How technology is accelerating the pace of our lives: 00:49:18
Transcript
Dan Shipper (00:01:18)
Dr. Lightman, welcome to the show.
Alan Lightman (00:01:22)
Thank you for having me on, Dan.
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