Our killer robots and runaway AI things that we have to fear in the future will find out from Nick Redfern on this edition of the Paranormal Podcast.

This is the Paranormal Podcast with Jim Harrel.

Welcome to the Paranormal Podcast. I am Jim Harrel and so glad to be with you once again.

And today we're going to talk about something that is not totally paranormal, but it does get into the question of consciousness.

Are computers conscious? Are they sentient? What about AI? What role is AI play?

And is it scarier than any ghost story, any haunted house, any UFO encounter, what we're about to encounter with what Nick Redfern calls runaway science.

True stories of raging robots and high tech horrors and with AI and chat GPT.

I can't think of a better time to have this conversation. Nick Redfern of course is one of our favorite all-time guests.

And the author of numerous books on the Paranormal and the unexplained, including visible link presses the alien book, Area 51, Assassinations, the Bigfoot book, Covered Rups and Secrets Monsters of the Deep Secret History and Time Travel.

He's been on more than 70 TV shows. He is on all of the top radio shows coast to coast AM.

And really he's everywhere. If you've been following this any time at all, you're familiar with Nick's work. And if you're not familiar with it, it's time you get familiar with it.

And that's what we'll try to do today in regard to this new book, Runaway Science. Nick, welcome back to the program.

Hey Jim, how's she going?

Good, good, good. Just as we were talking a little bit before, I'm very interested in this topic.

And I think it's very, very timely of everything going on. So I will ask you this, why did you decide to do this topic?

Because I mean, I know you do a little bit in this kind of room, but you're known for a lot of paranormal stuff, a lot of UFO stuff.

Why this topic?

Well, more than anything Jim, it was because I've done a lot of paranormal stuff. And I thought, you know, but I'd try something else.

You know, like a complete, well, it's like a completely different subject. But certainly, you know, there's nothing about the Loch Ness monster and big fortune, things like that.

Or the Black Eye Children and the Slenderman, you know, that's not in the book.

So I thought, well, let's do something a bit different, but I haven't done, and maybe the reader hasn't read either.

So that's basically how it works. And the book's called, which even I thought it was a little bit weird, because the publisher came up with runaway science, true stories of raging robots and high tech horrors.

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