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Bunker Panel: Meat your Maker
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Can Artificial Intelligence replace our loved ones after death? Will Gregg Wallace’s cannibalism mockumentary change how we see the future of food? Dr. Kate Devlin, author of Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots and historian Dr. Kasia Tomasiewicz join Jacob Jarvis and Andrew Harrison to chew the fat and try to answer some of the after life’s biggest questions. Yes, back by popular demand, it’s the Bunker Panel!
- “People are unpredictable and infuriating, I can’t imagine AI being able to replicate that.” – Andrew Harrison
- “I’m really glad you didn’t invite me here to discuss connecting with your dead loved ones via lab grown meat.” – Dr. Kate Devlin
- "Food has always been linked to economics, Roman soldiers were actually paid in salt." – Dr. Kasia Tomasiewicz
Link's
Kate's Book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/turned-on-9781472950871/
A funeral for fish and chips: why are Britain’s chippies disappearing? by Tom Lamont
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/jul/20/a-funeral-for-fish-and-chips-east-neuk-fife-anstruther-scotland
‘It was as if my father were actually texting me’: grief in the age of AI by Aimee Pearcy
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/18/ai-chatbots-grief-chatgpt
Written and presented by Jacob Jarvis with Andrew Harrison. Producer: Liam Tait. Audio editor: Robin Leeburn. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production.
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