Brace yourself. It's going to be loud. It's going to be loud. I'm loud when I get excited. And I'm excited to be back.

Hello, welcome to episode number 32 of the Joe DeVoe show. I'm your host, Joanna DeVoe, but you can call me Joe,

and I am here to uplift and support my fellow creatives, lovable weirdos, and makers of magic.

It's also been a while since I've been here. How have you all been?

I have been good if you would like to hear what I've been up to

these past couple of months and what I have planned for the future of the podcast going forward,

stick around till the end, and I will get into all of that. But first, I am going to attempt to read a long form piece that I recently

published on Medium called Will Machines Replace Us, a natural remedy for the next existential threat

of our time. Computer technology is useful. It can help us save time, operate more efficiently, and expand

our creative toolbox. Humans using machines as an enhancement or extension of ourselves

is nothing new. But outside of science fiction, machines using humans is.

Some believe this weird role reversal may soon become an existential threat.

By all accounts, the future we're headed toward is one in which we won't be able to tell

the difference between

humans and machines online.

That last word marks an important distinction.

The AI takeover may have already begun, but not in every domain, most notably the entire

natural world, which means we still have the opportunity

to build a strong reality-based foundation for ourselves, our families, and our communities.

We can do that by investing more time spent in nature together.

I would also argue for the virtues of meditation and human

creativity in response to the unrelenting digital evolution shaping our future. But here,

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