Going Human

AI wants two jobs that used to belong to other people: reading your body and caring for it. Smart mirrors now scan your face, score fifteen-plus "concerns," and sell you the cure for the flaw they just invented. Robot tables sell you a massage with the person removed and call it the upgrade.Moss drops the Stone on personal-care AI, then sits down with Shannon Walsh, Redken colorist and holistic stylist behind Salon Halloo, who has spent 36 years doing by hand the relationship-built care these companies are trying to fake. Then the Fuckery: the booking bot that frees the human (fuck yes), the nudifier apps that turn body-reading all the way to evil (fuck no), and a touch-free robot massage that could go either way (fuck maybe). Tsunami: let a human care for your body with their hands this week.One ask: follow and subscribe wherever you're listening, then come to GoingHumanPod.com to vote on this week's fuck-maybe (the robot massage) and drop a comment. Your vote sets next week's verdict. One drop does nothing. A million of us is a tsunami.Going Human. Because robots can't.Content warning: frank language and a segment on AI-generated abuse imagery.

This is the imperfect beginning of a podcast that begs to ask why the AI craze is not concerning itself with the human condition, and how we can possibly calibrate our use of it in ways that keeps our humanity in check. Guest objectives will be more about the stories that describe how we make our analog lives our center and use AI to embellish it.We're not solving problems with AI, we understanidng it's impacts and signals, and as a community will we guard against the ills that doom us if we don't. Inquiry, curiosity, humor, profanity, and irreverence. This first episode is our introduction and imparts the format and heart behind our goals as humans who are with other humans.