Our relationships change us. So what about the ones we develop with chatbots? How are the machines we speak to reshaping our minds? The Guardian’s chart-topping podcast Black Box is coming back for a second series, exploring the collision between AI and us. To mark its return, journalist and host of Black Box: The Chatbots, Michael Safi, joins Guardian science editor Ian Sample and Science Weekly co-host Madeleine Finlay for a live recording of the Guardian’s Science Weekly podcast.
Most of us have used an AI chatbot by now, but have you ever wondered what they’re actually doing to our minds and how they might be changing our sense of reality?

Stories are emerging of people claiming to have brought their chatbots to life, making groundbreaking scientific discoveries with them, or gaining knowledge no one else has.

But these digital delusions are only the most extreme edge of something much bigger. AI is quietly reshaping what and how we think. So what are chatbots doing to our minds? And how do we future-proof our thinking for the age of AI?

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