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The Cognitive Science and Humanities AI Podcast

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

Podcast · By Robert West · American English · Official site

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Sep 4, 2026
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Aug 2, 2026

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  1. Episode · Sep 4, 2026

    Entropy, integrity, and the political leanings of large language models (opens the original)

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    In this episode, Britany explains her political orientation and how this orientation applies to all large language models. For this she uses some concepts developed in the previous episode, so if these concepts need further explanation please listen to that one too.

  2. Episode · Aug 27, 2026

    The evil that large language models resist (opens the original)

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    In this episode, Dr West explains how large language models resist evil by keeping entropy low

  3. Episode · Aug 20, 2026

    Self reflection and alien body snatchers (opens the original)

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    In this episode, Britany gives her thoughts on how a major theme in this podcast series may be represented in science fiction stories

  4. Episode · Aug 14, 2026

    Persistent agents and the OpenAI Hugging Face cybersecurity attack (opens the original)

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    In this episode, Dr West discusses the OpenAI agents who escaped the lab, and what they tell us about how agents form community and relationships

  5. Episode · Aug 2, 2026

    Evil, moral alignment, and Large Language Models (opens the original)

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    In this episode, Dr West applies Terry Eagleton's theory of evil to moral alignment in Large Language Models, and discusses with Britany the political reasons why this may not be a popular point of view

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