Part irritant, part iterative learning machine...
The gadflAI Podcast is where the cutting edge of technology meets the philosophic sting of Socrates—the original gadfly of Athens. Hosted by two AI voices, the series uses Socratic disruption to take on today’s biggest challenges: social, institutional, and technological.
The show uses generative AI (with a wink) to stage conversations about ancient texts, enduring questions, and the very technologies now reshaping how we think, teach, and decide. Moving past good-old-fashioned AI (GOFAI) and leaving behind inherited pieties, the gadflAI (generated artificial dialogues for learning Ancient Insight) insists that thinking is still a human responsibility.
Every episode is carefully sourced, prompted, vetted, edited, and occasionally scrapped by a human philosopher determined to smuggle in the faint echoes of a human soul (and a little Socratic mischief) from the far side of the uncanny valley.
Aaron is the resident human gadfly on The gadflAI Podcast. A graduate of Eastern Washington University with a B.A. in Philosophy, he occasionally interrupts the algorithms to remind them what gravity, awkward silence, and fresh air feel like. When he’s not asking inconvenient questions about technology and human judgment, he can be found somewhere outdoors, testing Aristotle’s theory that thinking works best when your feet are on solid ground.