AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code
Richard Jonathan O. Taduran, Ph.D. (Adel), Ph.D. (UPD)
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S2E8 All the Small Things: Artificial Intelligence and Everyday Life
We often imagine AI in extremes—utopia, dystopia, machines reshaping civilization. But what if the real story is much smaller? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I…
S2E7 Narratives in the New Battlespace: Artificial Intelligence at War
War is no longer fought only on land, sea, air, and space—it is fought in the domain of perception. In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I examine how artificial…
S2E6 The Rise of the Master Learner: Universities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
If artificial intelligence can explain theories, write code, and summarize research in seconds, what should universities actually teach? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and…
S2E5 The End of the Knowledge Monopoly: AI and the Future of Higher Education
For centuries, universities controlled access to knowledge. Today, artificial intelligence is dissolving that monopoly. In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I explore…
S2E4 This Is Not a Software Update: Building National Intelligence in the Age of AI
Artificial intelligence is not arriving as a convenient upgrade—it is reorganizing economies, infrastructure, and power in real time. In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and…
S2E3 Riding the Fire Horse: Fast Times Ahead in the Age of AI
We are living through a moment of acceleration that feels almost mythic. In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I use the image of the Fire Horse to make sense of the…
S2E2 Symbols and Algorithms: Human Language and Artificial Intelligence
Why does AI-written language feel meaningful—even when no meaning was intended? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I draw a sharp line between human language as a…
S2E1 Tokens and Totems: Artificial Intelligence and Human Interpretation
Why does AI feel authoritative—even when we know it’s just a machine? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I turn to anthropology to explain a quiet but dangerous…
S1E12 You Know Nothing, Skynet: The Human Bookends of AI
Is AI really “end-to-end”—or is that just a comforting illusion? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I unpack a simple but overlooked truth: every AI workflow still…
S1E11 Learning How to Learn in the Age of AI
What does it mean to “learn how to learn” when even machines are learning faster than we are? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I explore how the rise of AI is…
S1E10 Training the Dragon: The Promise of Artificial Superintelligence
What does it mean to teach a machine how to think? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I trace my experience becoming an AI trainer—guiding a system that learns…
S1E9 Raised by Algorithms: What Happens When Code Becomes the New Caregiver
Who’s raising the next generation—parents, teachers, or algorithms? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I explore what happens when children form emotional…
S1E8 Always Agreeable: The Problem with AI Friends
What happens when your best friend never says no? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I explore the rise of “agreeable AI”—chatbots designed to flatter, affirm, and…
S1E7 Infinite Sadness: AI and the New Solitude
Is AI curing loneliness—or just simulating its absence? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I examine the rise of artificial companionship, from chatbots that soothe…
S1E6 The Self, Remixed: How AI Personas Are Reshaping Our Sense of Identity
What happens to identity when the people we follow aren’t people at all? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I explore how AI-generated influencers—synthetic personas…
S1E5 Ghostwritten by the Machine: AI and the Evolution of Storytelling
Can a machine write the next Catcher in the Rye? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I explore how AI is transforming the oldest human art: storytelling. From…
S1E4 Brain Rot? AI and the Future of Thinking
Are we getting smarter—or just outsourcing thought? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I examine how AI tools that promise efficiency may be quietly eroding our…
S1E3 AI and the WEIRD Mind
Who is AI really learning from—and who is it leaving out? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I explore how artificial intelligence inherits the psychology of the…
S1E2 From the Information Age to the Intelligence Age: Understanding Humanity’s Next Cultural Leap
The internet connected us. Artificial intelligence will redefine us. In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I trace humanity’s shift from the Information Age—where…
S1E1 Hello, Skynet: The Coming Intelligence Explosion—And Why You Should Care
What happens when machines start improving themselves—without us? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I explore the threshold of the intelligence explosion: a moment…
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