Dr. William Hurlbut : What does it mean to be human in the age of AI and gene editing? (Continued)
The Eric Metaxas Show
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🗓️ 26 July 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Eric continues his conversation with Stanford bioethicist Dr. William Hurlbut in a Socrates in the City conversation on science, morality, and human dignity.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Eric Metaxa show. |
| 0:12.2 | They say it's a thin line between love and hate, but we're working every day to thicken that line, or at least make it a double or triple line. |
| 0:20.7 | Now here's your line jumping host, Eric Mattaxie. |
| 0:27.6 | Hey there, folks. This is Hour 2 Friday, and so we'll be playing the second half of my |
| 0:34.6 | fascinating conversation with William Hurlbutt, whom I earlier said looks and sounds |
| 0:43.7 | dramatically like Harrison Ford. Don't be fooled. It's not Harrison Ford. Dr. William Hurlbut |
| 0:49.5 | is a brilliant bioethicist. He was my guest at Socrates City years ago, and I had him again recently, |
| 0:55.6 | so we're playing part two of that for you in just a moment. I also want to say, if you're unfamiliar |
| 1:03.8 | with Socrates in the city, go to our YouTube page. We have like millions and millions of views. It's just if you're just looking for |
| 1:13.9 | really substantive content, I have interviewed just some of the most fascinating, brilliant, |
| 1:22.3 | interesting, thoughtful, incisive, wise people. And if you go to Socrates and the city.com, you can find all |
| 1:32.1 | kinds of stuff there. Socrates in the city.com. You can sign up for Socrates plus. It's $5 a month |
| 1:38.9 | and you get all kinds of other stuff. But I want to encourage you to do that. You can buy most of my books autographed via |
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| 1:53.7 | in the city.com. There's all kinds of stuff there, all kinds of swag. But you've got to go to Socrates and City.com, some really cool stuff. So we're going to |
| 2:03.9 | play part two of my conversation in just a second. But right now, I want to play my conversation with |
| 2:10.3 | Paul Jacobs of Food for the Poor. We're asking for your help. Families have been devastated. |
| 2:17.3 | You know the story. We're asking for your help. |
| 2:20.0 | So Paul Jacobs will be my guest right now. And then after that, we get the part two of Socrates in the city. |
| 2:26.0 | Stay tuned. You know we've been doing a campaign with food for the poor. This is an emergency, |
| 2:32.5 | so much so that I thought maybe we can get our friend Paul Jacobs on to help explain what is going on. |
| 2:39.2 | Paul, welcome back. |
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