{"podcast":{"title":"Decoding the Gurus","slug":"decoding-the-gurus-1328110","podcast_index_feed_id":1328110,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/decoding-the-gurus/","website_url":"https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/ca36b15f-e9a3-44d0-b341-cb03f96046e3/aj9LitB3bvW15m3-LL0fusjp.jpg","author":"Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne","episode_count":247,"summary":"An exiled Northern Irish anthropologist and a hitchhiking Australian psychologist take a close look at the contemporary crop of 'secular gurus', iconoclasts, and other exiles from the mainstream, offering their own brands of unique takes and special insights. Leveraging two of the most diverse accents in modern podcasting, Chris and Matt dig deep into the claims, peek behind the psychological curtains, and try to figure out once and for all... What's it all About? Join us, as we try to puzzle our way through and talk some smart-sounding smack about the intellectual giants of our age, from Jordan Peterson to Robin DiAngelo. Are they revolutionary thinkers or just grifters with delusions of grandeur? Join us and let's find out!","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/decoding-the-gurus-1328110"},"episode":{"title":"The Moral Dilemmas of AI with Michael Inzlicht","slug":"the-moral-dilemmas-of-ai-with-michael-inzlicht","published_at":"2026-03-28T03:50:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/decoding-the-gurus-1328110/the-moral-dilemmas-of-ai-with-michael-inzlicht","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/decoding-the-gurus-1328110","url":"https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/the-moral-dilemmas-of-ai-with-michael-inzlicht","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6b01af4c-6feb-4eac-a23f-3a322d8bffde.mp3","summary":"Mickey is BACK with two new papers he has co-authored, a bunch of opinions, and a very unwelcome idea: maybe the problem with AI isn't that it doesn't work but that it works too well! The first paper, Against Frictionless AI, argues that AI assistance and its ability to take away the effort from thinking, writing, and smooth out social(like) interactions could be robbing those activities of the very thing that makes them worthwhile. The second paper is a more empirical investigation that presents a bunch of studies examining the topic of the (alleged) moralisation of AI. Some findings suggest that opposition to AI among some people isn't really about risks or trade-offs but rather about non-negotiable sacred moral values. Who knew? We also discuss effort justification, reproducible research, robosexual allyship, and just how much humanity remains within the cyborg Matthew Browne. And remember... It's just like our opinion, man! Links Decoding Academia 34: Empathetic AIs? (Patreon Series) Ovsyannikova, D., Oldemburgo de Mello, V., & Inzlicht, M. (2025). Third-party evaluators perceive AI as more compassionate than expert humans . Communications Psychology, 3, Article 4. Zohar, E., Bloom, P., & Inzlicht, M. (2026). Against frictionless AI . Communications Psychology, 4, Article 39. Oldemburgo de Mello, V., Côté, É., Ayad, R., Inbar, Y., Plaks, J., & Inzlicht, M. (2026). The moralization of artificial intelligence (Manuscript under review). Paul Bloom's Small Potatoes Substack - My friend thinks it's a good idea for us to spend most of our time with AI companions - Is it irresponsible for academics to refuse to use AI? Mickey's Speak Now Regret Later Substack - AI Alarmism Trades on Fear, Not Facts Mickey's provocative tweet on his recent paper DTG Previous In…","meta_description":"Mickey is BACK with two new papers he has co-authored, a bunch of opinions, and a very unwelcome idea: maybe the problem with AI isn't that it doesn't wor…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5888,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/decoding-the-gurus-1328110/episodes/the-moral-dilemmas-of-ai-with-michael-inzlicht/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/decoding-the-gurus-1328110/the-moral-dilemmas-of-ai-with-michael-inzlicht.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}