What is emergent in our AI systems? That is, how will the complex adaptive system of evolving tech in communication with us at the level of language, change in surprising ways? What does it teach us about the nature of emergence?
Nick Baguley and I follow questions like that through ten episodes of The Emergent Podcast, now public on YouTube. We begin with emergence: how interactions among simple parts give rise to something the parts cannot do alone. From there, we get into language, human–AI symbiosis, alignment, creativity, ethics, relationships, and the move from vibe coding to agentic engineering. Dr. James Bigelow joins us for the neuroscience of consciousness.
As AI gives more of us the ability to build, our judgment about what to build deserves at least as much attention. What would we want these systems to help us become?
Which question would you like us to pursue further?