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What does it mean to stay fully human in the age of AI?

Host Curtis Chang sits down with Pulitzer Prize finalist and acclaimed technology critic Nicholas Carr to explore how AI, social media, and digital life are reshaping human attention, identity, education, and spiritual formation. Carr warns that technologies promising efficiency often erode the embodied presence, deep thinking, struggle, and meaningful friction that make us fully human. Together, Curtis and Nicholas uncover surprising common ground in the urgent work of preserving human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence.

00:37 - Introduction to Nicholas Carr and His work

03:52 - What Is Technology's Social Impact

04:03 - Disembodied Communication and Negative Emotions

05:27 - What It Means to Be Truly Human

11:32 - Information vs. Formation

14:38 - Why Is AI So Unsettling?

18:54 - Stop Rushing the Adoption of AI in Education

22:02 - AI and the Erosion of the Self

25:08 - An Institutional Response to AI

27:36 - Forming the Next Generation

31:10 - Countercultural Imperatives for Leaders

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Mentioned in This Episode:

• Nicholas Carr's The Atlantic article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"
• Nicholas Carr's The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
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