256: Unabridged Interview: Josh Brake

No Small Endeavor with Lee C. Camp

Lee Camp

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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This is our unabridged interview with Josh Brake. What if the tools shaping our future are also reshaping our humanity? As part of our series The Human Cost of AI, Josh Brake stands out as a uniquely thoughtful voice, bringing together engineering, philosophy, and theology to ask deeper questions about technology and human flourishing. We wanted to bring you the full, unabridged conversation that Josh and Lee had. This is a rich and honest exploration of what it means to live wisely, faithfully, and humanly in an age of artificial intelligence. ⁠⁠⁠⁠Show Notes, Resources, and Transcript⁠ for abridged episode 1 of The Human Cost of AI⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Join NSE+⁠⁠⁠⁠ — our subscriber-only community — for ad-free listening, member-only bonus content, and early access to live show tickets. Your membership helps make No Small Endeavor sustainable. No Small Endeavor: An award-winning podcast that asks what it means to live a good life. Through conversations with leading thinkers across theology, philosophy, psychology, politics, and the social sciences, we explore human flourishing, meaning and purpose, faith and culture, science and religion, virtue and character, religion and spirituality, community, and the practices that help shape a good life grounded in truth, beauty, and goodness. Follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠@nosmallendeavor⁠⁠⁠⁠ Host Lee C. Camp: Lee has worked as a professor of theology & ethics for more than 25 years, teaching and writing on topics of faith & politics, inter-religious dialog, and human flourishing at the intersection of theology, moral philosophy, and social sciences. Follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠@leeccamp ⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello friends, Lee Seacamp here. You're listening to No Small Endeavor. This is our unabridged
0:06.7	interview segment with Josh Brake. Josh is a professor of engineering at Harvey Mud out in
0:14.5	Southern California. I got to sit down with Josh at Baylor University. We were invited thanks to the Institute for Faith and Learning
0:22.3	at Baylor. We're invited out to do a lot of fascinating interviews, especially around tech
0:27.4	AI and moral philosophy kinds of things. And Josh is one of those people after my own heart.
0:33.0	He's an engineering professor, as I said, who also reads moral philosophy. And we just had a wonderful
0:38.2	conversation. I really enjoyed my time with Josh. And he raises so many important, fascinating
0:43.4	kinds of questions that we need to be paying a lot more attention to. Hope you enjoy. Here's Josh
0:49.2	break. Hey, friend, if you didn't know, I started a newsletter a while back that comes out every two weeks.
0:54.9	I have been delighted to hear from so many of you about positive response to the newsletter.
0:59.5	We call it the No Small Endeavor Notebook, where I riff on themes and topics related to our podcast,
1:06.3	giving you additional material for thinking and doing in your own quest to make sense of what it might
1:12.6	mean to live a good life.
1:14.1	Join us by going now to no small endeavor.com and sign up there.
1:18.4	Again, go to no small endeavor.com to sign up now for our free No Small Endeavor Notebook
1:24.6	newsletter.
1:25.4	Across the globe, researchers are finding that increased social
1:29.1	media use is affecting people's happiness. So, why do so many of us feel like we can't log
1:34.8	off, even when we want to? The Happiness Lab podcast is going straight to the source.
1:40.6	Host Dr. Laurie Santos sits down with the authors of the 2026 World Happiness Report to unpack this year's most significant and surprising findings.
1:50.0	From global trends in young people's well-being to the social pressures that keep the rest of us glued to our feeds, Dr. Santos breaks down the science in ways that could change how you use these platforms.
2:02.6	I'm a long-time fan of the work of Professor Laurie Santos, professor at Yale.
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