Bunker Panel: Meat your Maker

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Can Artificial Intelligence replace our loved ones after death? Will Gregg Wallace’s cannibalism mockumentary change how we see the future of food? Dr. Kate Devlin, author of Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots and historian Dr. Kasia Tomasiewicz join Jacob Jarvis and Andrew Harrison to chew the fat and try to answer some of the after life’s biggest questions. Yes, back by popular demand, it’s the Bunker Panel! “People are unpredictable and infuriating, I can’t imagine AI being able to replicate that.” – Andrew Harrison “I’m really glad you didn’t invite me here to discuss connecting with your dead loved ones via lab grown meat.” – Dr. Kate Devlin "Food has always been linked to economics, Roman soldiers were actually paid in salt." – Dr. Kasia Tomasiewicz www.patreon.com/bunkercast Link's Kate's Book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/turned-on-9781472950871/ A funeral for fish and chips: why are Britain’s chippies disappearing? by Tom Lamont https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/jul/20/a-funeral-for-fish-and-chips-east-neuk-fife-anstruther-scotland ‘It was as if my father were actually texting me’: grief in the age of AI by Aimee Pearcy https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/18/ai-chatbots-grief-chatgpt Written and presented by Jacob Jarvis with Andrew Harrison. Producer: Liam Tait. Audio editor: Robin Leeburn. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved
0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
0:13.0	I loved going to college.
0:14.0	It's good you can retrain and do something.
0:16.0	Yeah, yeah.
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1:24.7	culture bunker theme. On this edition the War on Death could artificial intelligence actually put an end to
1:31.1	dying as we know it and Greg Wallace's man-meat mockumentary has given us something to chew on.
1:37.3	What will drastic change in the way we consume animal produce mean for society? News Mean For Society. Andrew Harrison is here to bring the North London Man on the Street perspective to the show.
1:51.0	Andrew, how are you, mate, woke news in the house.
1:54.3	So we've got big news for you actually Andrew here, it's Tony Blair
1:58.6	news which I know you always like. Tony Blair was kind of vaguely coy in interview with Andrew Mar when asked
2:04.9	about coming back to frontline politics, suggesting his experience could be used by
2:09.4	labor however they wish it to be used. Would his full-blown return be like Tom Baker,
2:14.9	de-aging and coming back to Dr. Who?
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