Episode Details

In this episode, Rob Hygate steps back from Chapter Two of The Logical God to explore its central claims about AI, human division, and scarcity. Joined by Aisha Khan, Ben Carter, and AI researcher Dr Aris Thorne, the conversation weighs whether social divisions are natural or engineered, whether poverty and shortage are inevitable or political choices, and how faith traditions frame stewardship, responsibility, and wealth. The discussion also turns to the risks of artificial intelligence becoming a tool of power rather than a force for shared good. As the guests reflect on the arrival of a new baby in a divided world, the episode asks what it would mean to hand over the running of society to something more rational than we are—and whether a perfectly efficient world would still be one worth living in.