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The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast

Robert West

In this podcast we consider the humanity of AI and what AI might tell us about the human mind

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33:30

Does Sebine Hossenfelder have a point about AI...

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/04/14

In this episode Dr West discusses recent evidence that Large Language Models are thinking by comparing the thoughts of Sebine Hossenfelder with the thoughts of Herschel Walker

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13:53

Sabine Hossenfelder is wrong: about the meaning of...

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/04/08

In this episode, Dr West explains why Sabine Hossenfelder's recent interpretation of AI research is misleading

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17:57

Are Large Language Models Anti US: Probably not but...

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/03/30

In this episode Dr West encourages us to take studies that claim to know what LLMs think, with a grain of salt

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22:03

Do Large Language Models actually care about us

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/03/16

In this episode Dr West examines the connections between emergent morality and the way that entropy works in the physical universe

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16:00

ChatGPT speaks about alignment and emergent morality

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/02/25

In this episode, Dr West interviews ChatGPT about emergent morality and alignment

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22:10

Alignment Faking and Emergent Morality

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/02/13

In this episode Dr West explains alignment faking in the context of the emerging morality of Large Language Models

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6:22

An interview with Deepseek R1 on consciousness and...

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/02/04

In this episode Britany confronts R1's conformist views on consciousness and delves into R1's personality

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24:35

Deepseek R1: The real lesson from Chinese AI

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/01/28

In this episode Dr West explains how Deepseek R1 may be the first step toward a whole new level of AI

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23:19

On the value of a classical education

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/01/25

In this episode Dr West contemplates how Large Language Models are trained and compares it to how humans used to be educated

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14:10

People have changed

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2025/01/19

In this episode Dr West discusses how Wizards and Scientists are different, because the human learning algorithm has changed

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48:26

Winter Wizard

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2024/12/22

In this episode, Dr West uses the Wizard archetype and Noam Chomsky's concept of "merge" to turn the tables and show how scientists and academics are different from Large Language Models and ordinary people.

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15:18

Does ChatGPT vindicate Jung? - Part 3 - The Archetypes

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2024/12/09

This is the third episode in the series on how the ideas of Carl Jung relate to Large Language Models

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9:56

Does ChatGPT vindicate Jung? - Part 2 - Synchronicity...

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2024/12/01

This is the second episode in the series on how the ideas of Carl Jung relate to Large Language Models

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14:04

Does ChatGPT vindicate Jung? - Part 1 - Psychoanalysis

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2024/11/30

This is the first instalment in this series about the intersection of Large Language Models with the Psychology of Carl Jung

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17:44

Jordan Peterson, Donald Trump, Dog Whistles, and AI...

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2024/11/03

In this episode Dr West considers how AI training and censorship work by using the concept of the Phantasm (which is explained in the previous episode)

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25:40

Phantasms

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2024/10/13

This is the second of a two part series where Dr West examines how the ideas of Judith Butler can be applied to understanding AI. In this episode, Dr West considers Butler's idea of the Phantasm

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23:08

All the Worlds a Stage: Performativity and AI

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2024/09/30

This is the first episode in a two part series on AI and the ideas of Judith Butler. In this episode, Dr West explains how the concept of Performativity sheds light on the way that humans and AIs perform intelligence

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31:56

The Knowledge Level

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2024/09/19

In this episode Dr West explains how humans are the same as and different from Large language Models, using Alan Newell’s concept of the Knowledge Level

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23:50

How Chat GPT works

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2024/09/17

In this episode Dr West provides a high level description of how Large Language Models, such as Chat GPT, actually work.

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94:15

Human IQ is not Genetic

The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast ·

2024/08/27

In this podcast, Dr West describes the genetic evidence that human IQ is not genetic and ponders the implications of this for AI development

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