Chatbots Don’t Fool Us, We Fool Ourselves (With Joshua Jay)
Chatbots Don’t Fool Us, We Fool Ourselves (With Joshua Jay)
Life, Automated explores how to live, work, and make decisions in a world increasingly shaped by machines. Through thoughtful conversations with researchers, practitioners, artists, and more, we do our best to make sense of how technology is changing—and how it is changing us. We ask: What does the economy look like if AI can do much of what humans can? Will AI tools isolate us further, or steer us back toward community and common ground? Can the average person expect to be better off a decade from now? And what the heck should we tell a sixteen-year-old who wants to know whether learning German (or design, or coding, or the piano) is still worth it?Life, Automated is grounded and non-ideological, going deep without getting too technical. Because you shouldn’t need to be an “AI person” to understand the future we’re collectively building.
Life, Automated Team
Jess Love
Host
Jess Love is a science writer with a PhD in cognitive psychology and is the Sr. Director for the Ryan Institute on Complexity at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Her writing has appeared in The American Scholar, Discover, Quartz, and more.
Jesse Dukes
Producer
Jesse is a veteran journalist, podcast producer, researcher, musician and comedian. . He was a senior producer of podcasts at WBEZ, Chicago for seven years, serving as the longtime audio producer at Curious City, and producing Season 4 of Motive. He has taught audio storytelling at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, and Denison University.
Stacia Sliger
Associate Producer
Before Stacia Sliger was organizing events and keeping a research institute running smoothly, she was a pastry chef in Austin, TX. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Stacia brought her precision and creativity to a new field, earning a bachelor's degree in business leadership from Northwestern University. Today she's Program Administrator at the Ryan Institute on Complexity and lives in Evanston with her husband and daughter.
Sai Ananya Mallapragada
Marketing Intern
Sai Ananya Mallapragada is a graduate student at Northwestern University pursuing a Master’s in Integrated Marketing Communications, with a focus on Brand Strategy and Media. She currently works at Panera Bread as a Marketing Consultant and serves as an Administrative Aide at the Ryan Institute on Complexity at the Kellogg School of Management. With a background spanning marketing, psychology, communications, and research, Ananya is curious by nature and loves connecting with people and exploring new perspectives. Outside of work and academics, you can usually find her planning her next trip, trying new food, or going for a run.
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