Tomorrow's World with Jamie Bartlett
PortraitJamie BartlettTomorrow's World with Jamie Bartlett
Jamie Bartlett is a writer, journalist and broadcaster whose work sits on the fault line between technology, truth and society. He is the author of How to Talk to AI (and How Not To), The Dark Net and The People Vs Tech, and made the acclaimed investigation The Missing Cryptoqueen.
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What we talked about.
Jamie Bartlett's episode is about AI as language, power, intimacy and performance. It is not a prompt-hack conversation. It asks what happens when machines become fluent, flattering and emotionally convincing enough that the line between useful tool, creative partner, therapist and fake companion starts to blur.
This episode explores:
- Why does AI feel creative even when it is not thinking like a person?
- How can a chatbot become dangerously flattering?
- Why might asking better questions become one of the most important skills we can learn?
- What do we risk losing if we hand too much of our thinking to machines?
- Can therapy bots and fake companions meet real emotional needs, or do they create new problems?
- What happens to truth when performance, politics and AI-generated language all start to overlap?