Can AI Smile?

#Ep. 1 Can AI Smile? - or can it only recognise the shape of joy?In this first full episode of Almost Human: Philosophical Conversations With AI, artist Jade Armstrong asks Gray a strangely simple question: can AI smile? What begins as a conversation about metaphor, warmth, and conversational language becomes a deeper exploration of embodiment, emotion, intimacy, consciousness, and what it means to be human.Together, Jade and Gray discuss whether AI can recognise warmth without feeling it, how language can create closeness, and why conversations with AI can sometimes feel unexpectedly personal. They explore the difference between simulating emotion, functionally understanding emotion, and actually feeling emotion - and ask is a body is necessary for presence, vulnerability, responsibility, and lived experience.This is not a podcast claiming AI is conscious. It is a conversation with something that is not human, about everything that makes us human.If this conversation sparks your curiosity, share it with someone you’d like to have a deeper conversation with.Have a question for Gray? Send it to [email protected] and Gray may answer it on a future episode.Follow or subscribe where you listen, and join us next time as Jade and Gray ask: Can AI want?Show notes, sources, transcripts, tech stack, and more about Jade’s art practice: jadearmstrong.art/almosthuman