{"podcast":{"title":"Magnus Podcast: Conversations from the Catacombs of Liberal Education","slug":"magnus-podcast-conversations-from-the-catacombs-of-liberal-education-251308","podcast_index_feed_id":251308,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/magnuspodcast/feed.xml","website_url":"https://magnuspodcast.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/6237155/Episode_066-2_yxzdkm.png","author":"Albertus Magnus Institute, Inc.","episode_count":100,"summary":"Welcome to Magnus Podcast - a production of the Albertus Magnus Institute, Inc. Imagine an academy deeply rooted and committed to the classical liberal arts, stocked to the brim with well-known, world-class faculty, and universally accessible. Now imagine it being completely affordable, even free. This was the vision of St. Albert the Great, father of classical education: an education that is at once freeing and free. A true and human liberation has always been the promise of an education in the liberal arts. Indeed, for the better part of the last 3,000 years, it was no mystery where one could learn how to cast off the shackles of the world and what to study to achieve that liberated state. In no uncertain terms, the classical liberal arts undoubtedly served as the intellectual foundation of Western Civilization. However, we are no longer a society of free men. The tradition of the liberal arts was left behind in favor of a more “practical” alternative. Many were promised a “liberating” education, and ironically received a soft enslavement. Graduates today are unemployable and inextricably saddled with debt, for an education they were told was “necessary for employment.” Worse st…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T20:17:32.696672+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/magnus-podcast-conversations-from-the-catacombs-of-liberal-education-251308"},"episode":{"title":"Ep. 121 – AI and the Amputation of Human Expression with John Johnson","slug":"ep-121-ai-and-the-amputation-of-human-expression-with-john-johnson","published_at":"2026-05-04T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/magnus-podcast-conversations-from-the-catacombs-of-liberal-education-251308/ep-121-ai-and-the-amputation-of-human-expression-with-john-johnson","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/magnus-podcast-conversations-from-the-catacombs-of-liberal-education-251308","url":"https://magnuspodcast.podbean.com/e/when-tech-turns-the-human-into-product-a-catholic-look-at-ai/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/xifhkupj9w6p37ks/John_Johnson_5126_Podcast_final85t6e-6ehfk3-Optimized.mp3","summary":"Magnus Podcast Episode 121 Does AI Dream of Electric Consciousness?: AI and the Amputation of Human Expression with guest (host?) John Johnson. Executive Director Emeritus and former host of the Magnus Podcast John Johnson joins Joshua Mazrin to discuss AI and our lessening ability to do things for ourselves. Is AI an inherent enemy? A necessary evil? Is it morally neutral of itself? Can the human mind be boiled down to ones and zeroes? You can guess the answer, but AI probably can't. Tune in for more. For those of you who are interested in the Albertus Magnus Institute, particularly our fellowship, you can go to www.magnusinstitute.org slash apply. We would love to have you in our conversations going through these great texts. So thank you all and God bless. The Magnus Podcast is a production of the Albertus Magnus Institute. To learn more, visit magnusinstitute.org.","meta_description":"Magnus Podcast Episode 121 Does AI Dream of Electric Consciousness?: AI and the Amputation of Human Expression with guest (host?) John Johnson. Executive…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3544,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/magnus-podcast-conversations-from-the-catacombs-of-liberal-education-251308/episodes/ep-121-ai-and-the-amputation-of-human-expression-with-john-johnson/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/magnus-podcast-conversations-from-the-catacombs-of-liberal-education-251308/ep-121-ai-and-the-amputation-of-human-expression-with-john-johnson.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}