Empathy Unbound: AI, Philosophy, and Human Connection

society, culture, technology · EN

As artificial intelligence reshapes how we work, connect, and understand ourselves, one question keeps getting sidelined: what happens to human connection? Empathy Unbound explores the philosophical and human stakes of a world increasingly shaped by AI, asking what we owe each other, what we're building, and what it means to stay connected as the systems around us grow more capable of imitating us. Host Andrew Phipps, a PhD researcher in philosophy studying the ethics of human-AI emotional connection, brings on philosophers, technologists, researchers, and thinkers from around the world for in-depth, unhurried conversations. Together they debate consciousness and connection, the ethics of emotional AI, loneliness and technology, and what human flourishing actually requires in an AI-shaped future. If you care about where AI is taking us, and what it means to hold onto human connection while it does, this is the conversation.