257: Unabridged Interview: Rosalind Picard

No Small Endeavor with Lee C. Camp

Lee Camp

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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This is our unabridged interview with Rosalind Picard. What if the technologies we build to serve us begin to quietly shape who we become? As part of our series The Human Cost of AI, Rosalind Picard offers a profound window into both the promise and the peril of artificial intelligence. A pioneer in affective computing, her work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, ethics, and the search for meaning raising urgent questions about human dignity, embodiment, and care. We’re sharing the full, unabridged conversation between Rosalind Picard and Lee recorded live at the Baylor Symposium on Faith & Culture: Technology and the Human Person in the Age of Al. ⁠⁠⁠⁠Show Notes, Resources, and Transcript⁠ for abridged episode 2 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, Lacey Camp here. You're listening to No Small Endeavor. This is our unabridged episode with Professor Roz Baccard.
0:09.4	Ross is a professor, computer scientist highly esteemed at MIT. And she also recently won something like the Nobel Prize in Computing.
0:18.4	And then she turned around and gave that very large i phrase it is like well cool
0:22.3	and a million a half dollars or a couple of million dollars something like that all away to do
0:26.3	further research on befitting human goods and i really enjoyed my conversation with ross if we
0:32.5	got to interview her in front of a live audience as the closing plenary event for a conference, the Institute for
0:38.7	Faith and Learning put on there at Baylor, asking lots of questions about being human in the age
0:44.6	of AI. It was a lovely gathering and a lovely time there at Baylor. And wonderful, so many great folks
0:52.3	got to see my friend, friends John and Sarah Barton, who have
0:55.9	recently moved to Waco and meet other and make new friends a lovely time. Here's Ross Picard,
1:02.6	live at the conference for the Institute and Faith and Learning at Baylor University. Enjoy.
1:08.9	With each passing day, the stakes around the tech we use keep getting
1:12.7	higher. Is lab-grown meat actually better for the world? Does cell phone bands in school really help
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2:06.7	Across the globe, researchers are finding that increased social media use is affecting
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