About this episode
Sam Harris speaks with Susan Cain about writing, creativity, and the implications of AI on human culture.
Sam Harris speaks with Susan Cain about writing, creativity, and what AI means for human culture. They discuss the future of books and reading, the tells AI inherits from good writers, why the advent of AI may spark a revival of the humanities, following your bliss, the ethics of curing sadness, the therapeutic potential of psychedelics, and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe .
People in this episode
Host: Sam Harris
Guest: Susan Cain
Topics covered
- writing
- creativity
- AI
- human culture
- ethics
- psychedelics
- humanities
Keywords
- AI
- writing
- creativity
- humanities
- psychedelics
- ethics
- books
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