What A.I knows about you

KERA's Think

KERA

Society & Culture, 071003, Kera, Think, Krysboyd

4.8 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Is it possible that conversations with A.I. can be as effective as talking to a friend or therapist? Author Vauhini Vara joins host Krys Boyd to discuss her experience asking A.I. for critiques and insights into her deepest feelings – and we’ll consider the portrait A.I. creates of us based on what we share with it. Her book is ”Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age.”

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0:00.0	In 2020, a group of young woman found themselves in an AI-fueled nightmare.
0:06.9	Someone was posting photos.
0:09.2	It was just me naked.
0:10.6	Well, not me, but me with someone else's body parts.
0:14.3	This is Levitown, a new podcast from IHeart Podcasts, Bloomberg and Collidercope,
0:19.3	about the rise of deep fate pornography and the battle to stop it.
0:23.2	Listen to Levitown on Bloomberg's Big Take podcast. Find it on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Amazon's rollout of a new smarter version of its AI assistant Echo line of products is underway.
0:46.8	The update hasn't hit my devices yet, but as a person who makes a living having deep conversations,
0:51.8	I am curious about the promise that Alexa Plus can chat in
0:55.9	natural sounding language about pretty much anything. And it does make me wonder, if we can
1:01.6	someday talk to artificial intelligence like we might talk to a human being, could it lead us to
1:06.8	the kinds of insights that can come from communicating with a friend or a teacher or even a therapist.
1:12.5	From KERA in Dallas, this is Think. I'm Chris Boyd.
1:16.9	Wahini Vara is an author, reporter, and editor. Her new book is a collection of essays that
1:21.7	considers how much she has already revealed about herself online, from shopping lists to search histories,
1:28.4	and an account of her experiments using chatbots
1:31.1	to critique her writing ideas and help craft a narrative
1:34.0	about a profound loss in her personal life.
1:37.0	The book is called searches, selfhood in the digital age.
1:40.2	Wahini, welcome back to think.
1:42.6	Thanks for having me, Chris. You first gained access to the internet when you were in middle school in the early 90s.
1:49.6	And is it fair to say you were instantly entranced?
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