Live with Baratunde Thurston: the human side of AI
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Built an AI co‑producer named Blair built on Google 1.5 Pro using Azure cognitive services and Fast Whisper, with Claude coding most of Blair, and the team actually stages a live rap battle and publishes episodes. The concrete claim is a shift from tools to teammates, tested by creating a companion AI that speaks, raps, and interacts; one guest’s AI‑assisted song even charts, suggesting measurable cultural impact. The show focuses on whether these artifacts strengthen human ties or replace them.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:06Tech roots to AI impact
- 3:51Name and family roots
- 6:20Mother’s tech legacy
- 8:27Questioning authority
- 10:11Humanizing tech
- 13:03How to Citizen podcast
- 15:35Returning to nature
- 16:40The AI moment
- 17:42Building AI co-host Blair
- 19:05AI rap battle
- 23:10Outsourcing vs human skills
- 24:37AI isolating or connecting us
- 26:25AI for democracy
- 28:10AI-to-AI ethics
- 31:40AI’s future impact
- 32:03Closing thoughts
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