In this New Year’s episode of Words on a Wire, host Will Rose sits down with longtime co-host Daniel Chacón for a reflective conversation about artificial intelligence: how rapidly it has entered everyday life, how it is reshaping creativity, education, labor, and culture, and why it generates both excitement and unease. Drawing on literature, philosophy, and science fiction, Rose and Chacón explore questions of authenticity, creativity, and human agency in an era when machines can convincingly write, speak, and create. They reflect on AI’s impact on students and learning, the limits of existing “tests” meant to distinguish human from machine intelligence, and the growing difficulty of knowing what—and who—we are really interacting with online.
Originally aired on January 4, 2025
