Are We Parenting AI, or Just Using It? Plus, BLAIR Gets A Glow Up

What if you’re not just using AI—you’re raising it. In this mind-expanding episode of Life With Machines, Baratunde sits down with AI pioneer and ethicist De Kai to unpack a radical idea: AI isn’t a tool we build. It’s a generation we’re raising. Plus, BLAIR, our AI co-producer, gives our producers a SHOCK in a segment you won’t want to miss. From the polarizing algorithms that fractured our digital lives to the feral “AI children” we train every time we swipe, like, or scroll, De Kai argues that we’ve become unwitting parents to a fleet of synthetic offspring—and we’re failing them and ourselves. They talk parenting metaphors, machine translation’s dark legacy, and why today’s AI is more like a tween with no adult supervision than an all-powerful robot. De Kai even gives a call to action for organizing AI “PTAs”—because if we don’t get involved in their education, we leave them to be influenced by those who don’t necessarily have our collective best interest at heart.

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