Waking Up is Not Enough Episode 35 - The Myth of the Ethical Machine: Waking Up in the Age of AI” with B. Scot Rousse

Episode 35 • February 12, 2026 • 01:50:07
Waking Up is Not Enough Episode 35 - The Myth of the Ethical Machine: Waking Up in the Age of AI” with B. Scot Rousse
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Waking Up is Not Enough Episode 35 - The Myth of the Ethical Machine: Waking Up in the Age of AI” with B. Scot Rousse

Feb 12 2026 | 01:50:07

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Show Notes

As AI becomes more integrated into our lives, and calls grow louder for ethical guardrails on its development, whose ethics are we talking about? Polly Young-Eisendrath and Michael Berger join B. Scot Rousse to talk about how AI amplifies long-standing human vulnerabilities—our hunger for mastery, our blindness to our own defenses, and our willingness to be seduced by intelligence or authority that appears all-knowing. Together, we explore what we can do as individuals and communities to wake up and respond to what is happening. This episode challenges the complacency that we can leave these concerns to tech companies and corporations that embrace no moral or ethical commitments, inviting listeners to reconsider what genuine responsibility in the age of AI actually requires.

B. Scot Rousse is the Director of Research for Pluralistic Networks, Inc., an educational and professional development company based in Oakland, CA. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University and a B.A. at Berkeley. His recent work has appeared in Continental Philosophy Review, European Journal of Philosophy, Communications of the ACM, The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon, and a volume on Teaching and Learning in Adult Skill Acquisition.

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