IM 845: Pregnant With 83 Digital Assistants - Are AIs Really Alien Minds?

Intelligent Machines (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Ai, Twit, Artificial Intelligence, Technology

4.2 • 895 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 169 minutes

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Summary

Can radical optimism about AI truly shape our future, or are we stuck in a cycle of doom-and-hype? This episode features an unfiltered debate with Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly on why most fears about artificial intelligence might be missing the bigger picture.

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau

Guest: Kevin Kelly

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0:00.0	It's time for Intelligent Machines.
0:02.0	Jeff Jarvis is here, Paris Martino,
0:03.8	and a very special guest.
0:05.4	We're thrilled to have Kevin Kelly,
0:08.0	who is a legend in the business,
0:10.0	one of the founding editors of Wired.
0:12.0	He's still there as their senior Maverick,
0:14.0	the author of many books,
0:15.0	and a man with a very unusual
0:18.0	and I think very accurate take on AI in the future.
0:21.6	Stay tuned.
0:22.3	Kevin Kelly next on Intelligent Machines.
0:27.3	Podcasts you love.
0:29.0	From people you trust.
0:31.5	This is Twit.
0:35.8	This is Intelligent Machines with Paris Martino and Jeff Jarvis, episode 845, recorded Wednesday, November 12th, 2025, pregnant with 83 digital assistance.
0:48.4	It's time for intelligent machines, the show we cover artificial intelligence, robotics, and all the smart jimony crickets surrounding us day in, day out.
0:58.1	Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, before we get to our great guest this week, I give you Paris.
1:02.7	I'm so excited about our guest.
1:04.3	That is Jeff Jarvis, who cannot contain his excitement.
1:08.0	He is the emeritus professor of journalistic innovation at the
1:11.5	Craig Newmark graduate school of journalism with the city you know now at
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