PODCAST · society
Still Human
by Zalmi
What will AI and robotics never replace? Each week, one honest conversation — drawing on the Talmud, modern philosophy, and the scientists who built this technology, then warned us about it. Still Human is for anyone navigating the AI revolution who wants to understand not just what's coming, but what will always remain ours. Hosted by Zalman, a businessman who has spent a lifetime watching technology reshape industries and thinking about what it means to be human in a world that keeps changing faster than we expected.
Episodes
-
Who Holds the Switch?
n June 12 of this year, the United States government pressed a switch. Two of Anthropic's newest AI models were suspended by an export-control order. Eighteen days later, the controls were lifted. Right away, three questions appeared. Who gets to press the switch? Who can check that it should be...
-
EP 14: The Agent Who Cannot Refuse
In 1999 Robin Williams played Andrew, a household robot who discovered he could feel. His makers called it a problem. The world took two hundred years to recognize him, and only when he chose to be able to die. This episode asks two questions about the machines we are building now. First: can a...
-
Outside the Covenant: Can a Machine Be Responsible for What It Does?
On September 18, a 29-year-old content creator named Frankie LaPenna stepped into a cage in California and fought three humanoid robots. He did not win. Twelve days later, California's Athletic Commission sent a cease-and-desist and called the event "unsanctioned." But that word was built for...
-
Who's Home? The Robot in Your House and the Question It Cannot Answer | Still Human Weekly Ep. 12"
Something is moving into your home. It cooks, cleans, answers your children's questions, and manages your calendar. It is never tired, never in a bad mood, never distracted. And it has no idea who you are. This episode explores what the home robot actually takes from you when it arrives, and it…
more -
Born, not Made
A new season begins. This week, the question shifts. For ten episodes, we talked about artificial intelligence and the mind ,creativity, decision-making, what it means to think. That conversation isn't over. But today something changes. Because AI was always a challenge to the mind. What's…
more -
The Case for Humanity: Why We Are Irreplaceable | Still Human Weekly Ep. 10
Jacob Coxon spent three years doing pretrainingresearch at OpenAI and then at Anthropic. He was not an observer. He was inside the engine room. Last month, he quit. Both companies. The entire industry. Hisstatement: the people building AI "earnestly believe that what they are building could...
-
When Everything Is Free, What Do You Pay For?
When AI makes everything free, what becomes scarce? Zalman explores the economics of presence and authenticity: why Taylor Swift's tour grossed two billion dollars in a world where music is free, what Aristotle never answered, what Solomon understood 3,000 years ago, and how Shabbat, Ben Zoma…
more -
What Only You Can Know: The Question Carl Jung Left Open | EP 08 | Still Human Weekly
AI can give everyone the same information. It cannot give anyone the dimension through which they receive it. From Socrates warning about writing, to Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi's impossible decision, to Carl Jung's unanswered question — every generation has faced this. Now it's ours. Use AI as a…
more -
"Between Stimulus and Response: Viktor Frankl and the Space That Makes You Human"
The chairman of ACE Robotics told Reuters something worth sitting with: robot brains will have their ChatGPT moment by the end of 2027. Eighteen months. Three days later, Google's head of AI research published an essay in The Economist arguing that consciousness is not the precondition for moral...
-
The Escape Plan Nobody Told You About
Jill Lepore, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, just described the men who built the AI revolution: "They had escape plans. Elon Musk to Mars. Mark Zuckerberg to the Metaverse. Peter Thiel to New Zealand. Jeff Bezos to space. Sam Altman's brain uploaded to the cloud. They weren't…
more -
The Speed Trap: The Future Isn't the Enemy, The Gap Is
The agricultural revolution changed human civilization over thousands of years. The industrial revolution took a few generations. The internet compressed it to one. AI is moving in years. The gap between the speed of the machine and the speed of the human, that is where the crisis lives. Not the...
-
Harari's Nightmare: Meet the Useless Class
Yuval Noah Harari says the greatest threat of AI is not robots turning against us. It is something quieter. Billions of people with nothing to contribute that a machine couldn't do faster, cheaper, and better. He calls it the useless class. But what if Harari is asking the wrong question? In this...
-
The Golem of Prague: A 500-Year-Old Answer to Musk
Five hundred years ago, Rabbi Loew of Prague built a being of clay that could walk, work, and protect , but could not speak, could not dream, could not truly be. The Golem was the world's first thought experiment about artificial intelligence. In this episode, Zalman asks: what did the Rabbi know...
-
The Last Time the World Ended
Every generation believed technology would end what makes us human. The printing press, the industrial revolution, electricity. Every time, they were wrong — not because the fear was foolish, but because they misunderstood what humans actually are. Zalman traces the pattern and asks: what is this...
-
What Machines Cannot Touch
What will AI and robotics never replace and why? In this first episode, Zalman explores the structural reasons why certain things will always remain human: not because machines lack the technology, but because of what humans fundamentally are. Drawing on Ricardo's Law of Rent, the Talmud, and the...
We're indexing this podcast's transcripts for the first time — this can take a minute or two. We'll show results as soon as they're ready.
No matches for "" in this podcast's transcripts.
No topics indexed yet for this podcast.
Loading reviews...
ABOUT THIS SHOW
What will AI and robotics never replace? Each week, one honest conversation — drawing on the Talmud, modern philosophy, and the scientists who built this technology, then warned us about it. Still Human is for anyone navigating the AI revolution who wants to understand not just what's coming, but what will always remain ours. Hosted by Zalman, a businessman who has spent a lifetime watching technology reshape industries and thinking about what it means to be human in a world that keeps changing faster than we expected.
HOSTED BY
Zalmi
Loading similar podcasts...
Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes does Still Human have?
Still Human currently has 15 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is Still Human about?
What will AI and robotics never replace? Each week, one honest conversation — drawing on the Talmud, modern philosophy, and the scientists who built this technology, then warned us about it. Still Human is for anyone navigating the AI revolution who wants to understand not just what's coming, but...
How often does Still Human release new episodes?
Still Human has 15 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
Where can I listen to Still Human?
You can listen to Still Human on PodParley by clicking any episode. We provide an embedded audio player for direct listening, and you can also subscribe via your preferred podcast app using the RSS feed.
Who hosts Still Human?
Still Human is created and hosted by Zalmi.
URL copied to clipboard!