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Curtis Chang interviews Nicholas Carr about the impact of AI and technology on human identity and dignity.

What does it mean to stay fully human in the age of AI? Host Curtis Chang sits down with Pulitzer Prize finalist and acclaimed technology critic Nicholas Carr to explore how AI, social media, and digital life are reshaping human attention, identity, education, and spiritual formation. Carr warns that technologies promising efficiency often erode the embodied presence, deep thinking, struggle, and meaningful friction that make us fully human. Together, Curtis and Nicholas uncover surprising common ground in the urgent work of preserving human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence. 00:37 - Introduction to Nicholas Carr and His work 03:52 - What Is Technology's Social Impact 04:03 - Disembodied Communication and Negative Emotions 05:27 - What It Means to Be Truly Human 11:32 - Information vs. Formation 14:38 - Why Is AI So Unsettling? 18:54 - Stop Rushing the Adoption of AI in Education 22:02 - AI and the Erosion of the Self 25:08 - An Institutional Response to AI 27:36 - Forming the Next Generation 31:10 - Countercultural Imperatives for Leaders Register for our America 250 episode recording with Russell Moore and David French Sign up for the Anxiety Opportunity Course Use…

People in this episode

Host: Curtis Chang

Guest: Nicholas Carr

Topics covered

• AI and humanity
• social media impact
• human identity
• education
• spiritual formation
• technology criticism

Keywords

• AI
• technology
• human dignity
• social media
• education
• identity
• spirituality

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Is Google Making Us Stupid?, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, The Anxious Generation

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