Welcome to Emergence Magazine's podcast.

I'm Emmanuel Vaughn Lee, host of this show, an executive editor of Emergence Magazine,

located on the unseated ancestral lands of the Coast Mewalk people in present-day Marin County.

Each week, we feature interviews, stories, poetry, and author-narrated essays, exploring the threads

connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality.

AI is front and center of our technological zeitgeist at the moment. With it almost becoming

too hard to keep track of all the ways, it's quickly infiltrating our lives.

From our search engines and apps to the changing ways we work, teach, and create.

With the arrival of ChatGBT, GBT, opinion is divided on whether AI will continue to reproduce the logical intelligence we value most on ourselves,

or if it will break free from

our control and usher in our demise.

As we entangle ourselves with this technology, are there ways we can use it to transform

our intelligence rather than simply replicating it?

Instead of eventually superseding our creativity, could AI actually open us to our potential?

In this week's essay, writer and adaptive leadership trainer Donna Kerrout hoax fun of the ways

chatGBT mirrors our own limited ways of thinking.

Rather than mining chatGBT for solutions to our problems, she asks, how could

it prompt us to ask the right questions? Drawing on her work helping communities navigate

conflict and complexity, she pushes us to resist regurgitating what we already know in situations

that demand new ways of being. As we try to address the ecological, social, and spiritual challenges

mounting around the world, could ChatGPT's empty spools

help us let go of our certainties?

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