ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Here’s the first of our Rogerian dialogues between two people who passionately disagree! Dr. Jennifer Steele, a professor of Education, Public Administration, and Policy, sees great potential in Large Language Models to reveal and assist enormous potential for productivity and creativity, even in giving humans an advantage and making real art ever more valuable. Dr. Ben Utter, an English professor, sees the dire possibilities for “AI” to stifle and replace creativity, interfere with cognitive development and critical thinking, and remove the hard work of self-disciple. Both share a concern about jobs. Have a listen and let me know: With whom do you agree more? Did either of them open your eyes to option you’d overlooked? Did you pick up on any skills you could use for conversing with ideological opponents?
