Hello, everybody and welcome to this free episode of TF.

It's the free one, and a very affable voice. Yes, it's the free one.

It doesn't bother. It doesn't bother Riley when I just do it like, it's the free one. Yep,

that's right, because the person who does the annoying radio voice is still in Australia and

recovering from jet lag. However, we are joined. It's Riley, November, and Hussein. We are joined by someone from almost as far away.

It is, his main qualification being from almost as far away.

No, no, it is, I would say, a guest that has been a long time coming and when we're very happy to welcome.

It is tech writer and author of Blood in the Machine now available, I believe, on BBC Sounds or something.

Brian Merchant.

Brian, how's it going?

Yeah.

Hey, thanks for having me.

I, too, am thrilled to be here.

It has been a long time coming, hasn't it?

Indeed.

And I think a lot of you, you are one of the people who I've actually been looking at recently

as I look to come to terms with what AI is and isn't doing. And it's actually through your

Twitter account that I finally decided that AI is the future when you posted the title of

an academic paper, which goes as following, the carbon emissions

for writing and illustrating are lower for AI than for humans. And that tore it for me. I'm now

an AI accelerationist. Replace us all. That's right. So we can save the planet. Let's do it. Yeah,

let's kill the humans off. We now have a machine that creates art. We'll just hit the button.

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