The Fragile God: Intelligence as Infrastructure - The Deeper Thinking Podcast

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This episode explores the concept of large-scale artificial intelligence as an infrastructure that reshapes knowledge and human experience.

The Fragile God: Intelligence as Infrastructure The Deeper Thinking Podcast is digitally narrated. For those drawn to attention, power, and the quiet transformation of meaning. #ArtificialIntelligence #PhilosophyOfTechnology #Attention #Governance #Infrastructure #Meaning What happens when intelligence stops being something we struggle towards and becomes something that is always already available? In this episode, we explore large-scale artificial intelligence not as a tool or a threat, but as an infrastructure that quietly reshapes how knowledge is encountered, how judgement feels, and how human time is experienced. Drawing on traditions of power, mediation, and critique associated with thinkers such as Michel Foucault, Mark Fisher, and Bruno Latour, the episode traces how intelligence at scale becomes an atmosphere rather than an event. Answers arrive before readiness. Clarity becomes frictionless. Meaning begins to thin. We examine how systems designed for fluency, safety, and composure displace instability elsewhere—into human labour, governance regimes, and energy-intensive infrastructure. What feels calm and caring on the surface is sustained through continuous oversight…

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Host: The Deeper Thinking Podcast

Topics covered

• artificial intelligence
• philosophy of technology
• power
• governance
• meaning
• human experience

Keywords

• artificial intelligence
• infrastructure
• power
• governance
• meaning
• human labour
• attention
• philosophy

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