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66: The Wisdom Turing Test - Part One
October 26th, 2025 | 40 mins 42 secs
ai, artificial intelligence, emotions, folk wisdom, happiness, intellectual humility, meaning, philosophy, psychology, purpose, reasoning, social science, turing test, well being, wisdom
What happens when we ask our own fantastic listeners — and AI — what it means to live wisely? In this episode, Igor and Charles hand the mic to members of the On Wisdom audience to hear their answers to the big questions usually reserved for scientists and philosophers. But there’s a twist: one set of responses was provided by AI. We invite you to vote on who gave the wisest answers — and to guess which one wasn’t human. Igor is surprised by just how insightful the answers from the regular folk (compared to experts) turn out to be, while Charles wonders if the wisest one may not be human at all? Can you pass the Wisdom Turing Test? Welcome to Episode 66.