On Wisdom
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67: The Wisdom Turing Test - Part Two (with Steve Rathje)
November 16th, 2025 | 49 mins 58 secs
ai sycophancy, alan turing, artificial intelligence, benedict cumberbatch, emotions, happiness, listener poll, meaning, philosophy, psychology, psychology of technology, purpose, reasoning, social media, social science, steve rathje, the chinese room, turing test, well being, wisdom, wisdom turing test
What can insights from the psychology of technology teach us about wisdom in the age of AI? In this special follow-up episode, Igor and Charles are joined by Steve Rathje to explore how classic ideas like the Turing Test hold up now that AI can talk compellingly about human wisdom. Steve unpacks what today’s generative models are actually capable of, Igor is intrigued by how quickly the line between human and machine reasoning seems to be blurring, and Charles realises that telling human insight from machine insight isn’t nearly as straightforward as he'd hoped. The trio also reveal the results of our listener poll — who sounded the wisest, and was the audience able to spot the AI? Welcome to Episode 67.