Listen "10 ways to understand AI"
Episode Synopsis
AI can be understood by the many, not just the few. We don’t need to respond to technologist and media hype via fear and the call for another lockdown, this time on AI development.I hope ten points are illuminating.1. The Turing test has been passed, but it never was a very good test to start with.2. The AI industry thrives on the promise of tomorrow and is often led by those confusing themselves with gods.3. Our psychology, as well as theirs, needs considering more fully, too.4. AI models reality, as much science does. So don’t confuse AI models with reality.5. Human intelligence doesn’t much involve calculation but presence, not much patterning but more participation.6. We’re adaptive. Technology is surprisingly unadaptive.7. Attention is a moral act and how we attend deeply shapes what shows up.8. A cybernetic future might be the one coming, with AI recognised as tool not master.9. Our intelligence is deeply linked to striving and longing, desiring and loving.10. Our intelligence thrives with patience and experiencing, learning from now.For more on Mark, particularly his work on spiritual intelligence, see www.markvernon.com.
More episodes of the podcast Inner Life, Talks and Thoughts
Ode to Joy Podcast. A conversation with Paul Wilkinson and Mark Vernon. Music That Shapes Us podcast
27/10/2025
William Blake Masterclass at the Unherd Club. With Esmé Partridge, Mark Vernon and Florence Read
27/10/2025
Full-strength imagination. Romanticism come of age. Mark Vernon & Robert Rowland Smith talk Blake
01/09/2025
William Blake’s spiritual analysis of our times. A conversation with Jason Whittaker and Mark Vernon
24/08/2025
Poetry Fetter’d Fetters the Human Race! William Blake on an antidote to the mechanistic imagination
23/08/2025
ZARZA We are Zarza, the prestigious firm behind major projects in information technology.