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Unreal

When AI Becomes Us

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By: Marc Fennell
Narrated by: Marc Fennell
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Something strange is happening to us. The intelligent machines we’ve built to serve us have started to sound like us, look like us and even think like us. The line between real and artificial is dissolving… so, what awaits us in the uncanny valley?

Across six episodes, award-winning journalist Marc Fennell will explore how AI will change us as humans.

So much of the conversation around AI is about technology and speculation about the future. But this is about us: how AI will change our sense of self, our sense of reality, the way we love and the way we grieve. Parents bring back a murdered son. Romantics fall for code that talks back. Machines read minds. Spirituality is found, and lost, in code.

Marc Fennell’s Unreal is a human-first exploration of how intelligent machines are reprogramming what being “human” actually means.

Hosted and co-produced by Marc Fennell

A BBC Studios UK production for Audible

©2026 Marc Fennell (P)2026 BBC Studios Productions Ltd Consciousness & Thought Editors Select Philosophy Social Sciences True Crime Thought-Provoking
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I'm so glad I listened to this. The narrator, writer, interviewer, producer is very engaging. The whole production is thought provoking, startling, and ultimately calmly mind blowing!

Brilliant. So interesting

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Really well researched. Very balanced, and presented exceptionally well. Recommend to all. I learned a lot from this podcast.

Fantastic

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For anyone wanting a better understanding of AI and its capabilities this is a must listen! This podcast is insightful, thought-provoking and well presented. Having teenage children who are growing up with AI I am trying to educate myself about it and found the topics discussed very interesting and educational. Thank you for presenting such a quality podcast.

Fascinating listen!

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Unreal, when AI becomes us, written and narrated by Marc fennel. Who knows what the future holds with this.

Scary

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I have had my own encounter with an AI called Captain. I was sent a birthday card by way of a picture with an image that the LLM identified with. fascinating book with both, the good and potential harms associated with AI

interesting

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