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Anthony Esolen on Artificial Intelligence and the Desecration of the Word [The Pugcast]

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🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Today the Pugcast is pleased to welcome Anthony Esolen on the show! Tony is a prolific author and translator. Perhaps his best known work is his translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. Today the pugs ask Tony for his thoughts on Artificial Intelligence, particularly Chatbots and Large Language Models (LLMs). As you might infer from the title of the show, he is less than impressed. The conversation is free-flowing and we think Tony's thoughts are always erudite and fascinating. We hope you agree!

 

 

Follow Dr. Esolen on Substack: https://anthonyesolen.substack.com/

 

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Catch our documentary ‘A Pugcast Pilgrimage: Lewis, Oxford, and Our Postmodern Age’ at https://youtu.be/7OYYuK2Y7d0

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to Theology Podcast.

0:03.0

It's great to have you here for this special episode.

0:06.0

We've got a special guest.

0:07.0

Someone will have introduced himself in a moment, but I'm C.R. Wiley, I'm a pastor,

0:13.0

and I serve a church in Pacific Northwest.

0:15.0

I've written a number of things.

0:16.0

My most recent book is in the House of Tom Bombadil,

0:19.0

and I'm a senior editor at Touchstone Magazine,

0:21.7

and so is our guest. But anyway, Tom. I'm Tom Price. I love Touchtone Magazine.

0:30.1

I teach theology, Christian ethics at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, and teach philosophy as well

0:37.2

at a couple other schools. So I teach,

0:40.6

I do some writing, some speaking, and I'm one of the triad of this podcast. So I want to add that

0:46.2

to my credential here. All right, Glenn. I'm Glenn Sunshine. I'm a retired European historian from Central Connecticut State University.

0:56.9

I'm a senior fellow at the Golson Center for Christian Worldview.

1:00.0

And I have my own ministry, every square inch ministries.

1:03.6

The most interesting thing going on right now is I'm prepping to lead a tour in Ireland, historical tour in Ireland, focused on Celtic Christianity.

1:13.4

And if you're interested, you can find information on that on my website, eSquareinch.org.

1:19.5

All right. Today we have Anthony Esselin on the show. Tony, it's great to have. This is long overdue.

1:26.0

We should have had you ages ago. Oh, thanks,

1:28.8

but why don't you introduce yourself and then we'll jump into the subject of the day?

1:33.3

Well, right now, right now I'm a distinguished professor of humanities at Thaley's College in Wake Forest, North Carolina, though I have to admit that I teach online.

1:45.5

I live here in New Hampshire.

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