Thinking With Machines
From WSJ Opinion: Free Expression by Gerard Baker, Editor at Large, The Wall Street Journal
December 4, 2025 · 36 min
About this episode
Gerry Baker discusses the implications of artificial intelligence with Vasant Dhar, focusing on its potential and the risks of over-reliance.
Artificial intelligence has gone from science fiction to an everyday reality in a few years. As the technology advances and transforms almost everything we do, the need to understand its potential - and how to harness it - grows by the day. On this episode of Free Expression, Gerry Baker speaks with New York University professor Vasant Dhar, author of a new book “Thinking With Machines: The Brave New World of AI”. They discuss the difference between using AI as an effective tool and becoming over reliant on it and ponder how it may more deeply entrench our economic and social divisions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
People in this episode
Host: Gerard Baker
Guest: Vasant Dhar
Topics covered
- artificial intelligence
- technology
- social divisions
- economic impact
- reliance on AI
Keywords
- artificial intelligence
- AI
- technology
- social divisions
- economic impact
- Vasant Dhar
- Gerry Baker
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: New York University
Books & works: Thinking With Machines: The Brave New World of AI
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