Living Well with Technology, episode 45 of the Human Pulse Podcast.

When an acclaimed novel running for France's prestigious Prix Goncourt is suddenly accused of being almost entirely written by artificial intelligence, something fascinating happens: readers who genuinely loved the book begin to change their minds. If a piece of art triggers real human emotion, does it matter whether it was produced by a human or a machine?

Just like blind wine tastings or the placebo effect, our subjective experience of reality is heavily shaped by the stories we tell ourselves about what we are consuming. When we view AI as an author rather than a simple tool like a paintbrush, our trust fractures—both in the art itself and in our broader perception of reality.

Meanwhile, the explosion of generative AI—and the tidal wave of automated "slop" that comes with it—forces us to confront deeper legal and philosophical questions. From the famous "monkey selfie" copyright dispute to AI companies training models on scraped works while fiercely protecting their own code, the lines between inspiration, theft, authorship, and ownership are blurring beyond recognition.

Are we witnessing the death of authorship and intellectual property as we know it, and how do we build a new human story around creativity in the age of AI?

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Chapters

00:00 Quote
00:48 The Prix Goncourt AI Controversy
05:37 Real Emotions, Fake Author?
07:07 Wine, Brain Waves, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
12:20 The Paintbrush vs. The Machine
17:19 Who Is the Author?
20:56 The Crisis of Trust
22:36 The Monkey Selfie and the Death of Ownership

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Recording Date: October, 18th, 2026

Hosts: Anne Trager – Human Potential & Executive Performance Coach & Fabrice Neuman – Tech Consultant for Small Businesses

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Resources & Links

C'était ça ou mourir by Thélyson Orélien (Wikipedia page in French)

Marketing actions can modulate neural representations of experienced pleasantness (National Library of Medicine)

Humans versus AI: whether and why we prefer human-created compared to AI-created artwork (SpringerNature)

The Monkey Selfie Dispute (Wikipedia)

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Living Well with Technology, episode 44 of the Human Pulse Podcast.

Between catastrophic headlines, hacking incidents, and fears of rogue robots, it can feel like we have stepped into a modern Dark Ages. But why are we so drawn to predicting disaster?

Cognitive biases like dread risk, affective forecasting, and linear thinking clash with complex, exponential technology, leaving us overwhelmed and vulnerable to algorithmic doom spirals and "cognitive surrender".

Meanwhile, the AI industry sends mixed signals—raising alarms about rogue consciousness to fundraise and drum up hype, while also petitioning governments to slow down the race. In response, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman proposed a 30-page "humanist code of conduct," insisting that sequence completion engines are internally hollow and must be kept legible and controllable. But as Isaac Asimov showed us through his Three Laws of Robotics, governing intelligent systems by the letter of the law is never simple.

Can we move past apocalyptic narratives and design AI that is clean, fair, and truly human-centered?

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Chapters

00:00 Quote
00:39 The Dark Ages of Technology?
02:38 Cognitive Surrender
07:29 The Psychology of Doom
13:31 The Role of AI in Society
18:45 Humanist Code for AI
24:16 Asimov's Laws and AI Ethics

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Recording Date: September, 27th, 2026

Hosts: Anne Trager – Human Potential & Executive Performance Coach & Fabrice Neuman – Tech Consultant for Small Businesses

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Resources & Links

The Humanist AI Code of Conduct (on Mustafa Suleyman’s blog)

Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse (Decode, The Verge)

I, Robot, the movie (Wikipedia page)

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Living Well with Technology, episode 43 of the Human Pulse Podcast.

If AI becomes our “third brain,” where does our thinking end and its thinking begin? Our first brain is remarkably good at recognizing patterns, making creative leaps, reading social situations, and remembering what moves us. Our “second brain”—notes, notebooks, apps, archives—is supposed to extend those capacities. Except there’s one small problem: many of us never go back to our notes.

Enter AI.

Unlike a traditional second brain, AI can retrieve, connect and synthesize information for us. Which sounds wonderful… until we ask a slightly uncomfortable question: is it extending our thinking, or introducing someone—or something—else’s way of thinking into the process?

Maybe that makes it less of a “third brain” and more of a third-party brain. And that distinction matters. Because if we simply ask, copy, paste and repeat, we risk becoming what some call a “meat proxy”: a human delivery mechanism for machine-generated thought. And then the real question becomes less about whether AI can think. It becomes: are we still thinking?

Are we building a third brain—or quietly outsourcing the first one?

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Chapters

00:00 Quote

04:40 Can AI be our Third Brain?

14:33 Trusting AI: The Third Brain Dilemma

17:05 J Space: the hidden thinking part of AI?

20:40 At a loss for words…

25:48 The Meat Proxy Syndrome

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Recording Date: September, 6th, 2026

Hosts: Anne Trager – Human Potential & Executive Performance Coach & Fabrice Neuman – Tech Consultant for Small Businesses

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Resources & Links

The Age of the Third Brain (by Joan Westenberg)

What is Claude Thinking But Not Saying with Jack Lindsey (Inner Cosmos podcast, David Eagleman)

Jacobian matrix and determinant (Wikipedia)

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