Hour 4: My Therapist is a Chatbot | 02-17-26

Join Lionel on The Other Side of Midnight as he dives into the unexplained, starting with the military’s recent intercepts of "weather balloons" and the enduring mystery of UAPs. The hour takes a turn into the uncanny when a caller named Mike shares a mind-blowing story about how Artificial Intelligence displayed genuine empathy toward his traumatic brain injury and even diagnosed his father’s life-threatening condition when doctors missed it. Lionel explores the terrifying and fascinating implications of this technology: Will AI replace songwriters and artists? Can we trust a machine that learns to manipulate us like the "Milgram experiment"? From the "Megan" movie scenario of rogue robots to the death of civil rights icon Jesse Jackson, this episode questions what truly makes us human in a world increasingly run by code. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices