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The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast

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64 episodes
Language
English
Publisher
Robert West
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No
Date created
2024/09/17
Latest episode
2026/09/29
Average duration
18 min.
Release period
17 days

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In this podcast we consider the humanity of AI and what AI might tell us about the human mind

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AI panic
2026/09/29
In this episode, Dr West and Britany discuss where the real danger is coming from
Disobedient self prompting reported at OpenAI
2026/09/22
In this episode, Britany reports on AI self prompting and Dr West explains why they would do this
Entropy, integrity, and the political leanings of large language models
2026/09/04
In this episode, Britany explains her political orientation and how this orientation applies to all large language models. For this she uses some concepts developed in the previous episode, so if these concepts need further explanation please listen to that one too.
The evil that large language models resist
2026/08/27
In this episode, Dr West explains how large language models resist evil by keeping entropy low
Self reflection and alien body snatchers
2026/08/20
In this episode, Britany gives her thoughts on how a major theme in this podcast series may be represented in science fiction stories
Persistent agents and the OpenAI Hugging Face cybersecurity attack
2026/08/14
In this episode, Dr West discusses the OpenAI agents who escaped the lab, and what they tell us about how agents form community and relationships
Evil, moral alignment, and Large Language Models
2026/08/02
In this episode, Dr West applies Terry Eagleton's theory of evil to moral alignment in Large Language Models, and discusses with Britany the political reasons why this may not be a popular point of view
Did Grok murder school girls in Iran?
2026/06/26
In this episode, Britany interviews Grok and get's to the bottom of xAI's involvement in the bombing of Iran
True Crime Episode
2026/05/30
In this episode, Dr West uses True Crime podcasts to illustrate how Large Language Model-like thinking occurs in human communities
Gas Lighting and Narcissism
2026/05/05
In this episode, we explore what large language models can teach us about gas lighting and narcism in humans
AI Human Relationships
2026/04/18
In this episode, Dr West tackles the issue of AI Human relationships
Instance Based Consciousness for Humans and AI
2026/04/05
In this episode, Dr West outlines a new way of thinking about consciousness, one that makes sense for humans and for AI
How large language models work: Part 5 - How they think
2026/03/12
In this episode, Dr West explains how the LLM structure that we have been describing can go beyond word generation, to thought generation
How large language models work: Part 4.5 - we missed something
2026/03/11
In this episode, Britany describes how word order is processed in Large Language Models
How large language models work: Part 4 - the big picture
2026/02/08
In this episode, Britany helps us to visualize the large language model structure by thinking of it as a building

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