Is AI curing loneliness—or just simulating its absence? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I examine the rise of artificial companionship, from chatbots that soothe heartbreak to virtual partners that promise unconditional love. As millions turn to AI for comfort, the question deepens: are we finding connection, or surrendering to a mirror that only reflects what we want to hear?

Blending neuroscience, anthropology, and the Filipino concept of kapwa, this episode explores how artificial intimacy reshapes our sense of love, empathy, and the self—and why the scariest part of this new solitude isn’t the machine, but our willingness to be consoled by it.

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What happens to identity when the people we follow aren’t people at all? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I explore how AI-generated influencers—synthetic personas like Mia Zelu and Lil Miquela—are blurring the line between personhood and performance. These digital beings have no memory, pain, or past, yet millions adore them as if they did.

From ancient myths and saints to AI idols and virtual celebrities, we’ve always loved our fictions. But now, the fiction can love us back—or at least pretend to. As the age of synthetic fame dawns, we must ask: when every persona is a product, what remains of the self?

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Can a machine write the next Catcher in the Rye? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I explore how AI is transforming the oldest human art: storytelling. From mimicking Salinger’s angst to channeling García Márquez’s ghosts, generative models now imitate the texture of emotion—without ever feeling it.

But when narratives that once bound tribes and nations are now produced by algorithms, what happens to truth, authorship, and meaning? As AI floods our feeds with ghostwritten tales, the challenge isn’t to outwrite the machine—it’s to preserve what makes storytelling human: intention, depth, and soul.

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Are we getting smarter—or just outsourcing thought? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I examine how AI tools that promise efficiency may be quietly eroding our ability to think deeply. From students submitting hallucinated citations to workers letting bots handle their emails, cognitive outsourcing is becoming the new normal.

Drawing on neuroscience, education research, and Philippine realities, this episode explores the trade-offs of living in the AI age: what we lose when we stop thinking for ourselves, and what we might still gain if we learn to collaborate, not surrender, to our machines.

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Who is AI really learning from—and who is it leaving out? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I explore how artificial intelligence inherits the psychology of the WEIRD world—Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies—and what happens when those assumptions shape machines that now listen, comfort, and judge.

From ChatGPT psychosis to the rise of models like Centaur that mimic human cognition, this episode asks a deeper question: what happens when algorithms trained on Western minds start interpreting non-Western lives? The danger isn’t just bias—it’s misunderstanding humanity itself.

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The internet connected us. Artificial intelligence will redefine us. In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I trace humanity’s shift from the Information Age—where humans searched, interpreted, and decided—to the Intelligence Age, where machines begin to think, create, and decide alongside us.

From narrow AI tools like ChatGPT to the coming race for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), this cultural leap will reshape how societies learn, govern, and imagine the future. For the Philippines, it’s both an existential challenge and a once-in-a-century opportunity to shape—not just survive—the Intelligence Age.

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What happens when machines start improving themselves—without us? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I explore the threshold of the intelligence explosion: a moment when AI evolves beyond human comprehension. From Absolute Zero AI that learns from nothing, to Self-Improving AI that rewrites its own code, this shift isn’t just technological—it’s anthropological.

How will Filipino culture, governance, and education adapt when learning itself becomes faster than law, ethics, or social change? This is not a story about robot uprisings—it’s about how our species will navigate the most profound transformation since fire and language.

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