Marcy, Christopher, and Eric consider the distance between recognizing a pattern and defining a person. A system can reflect what it has seen, but who gets to decide what belongs in the next version of your life?

Featuring: Christopher Gulledge, Eric, and Marcy

Series: The Robot Uprising Is Happening

Episode: Receptionist

Transmission: 2 of 2

Next: Administrator: The Machines Are Deciding Our Futures

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Marcy talks about an AI that remembers her preferences, recognizes patterns, and makes being understood feel easy. Christopher and Eric ask what happens when helpful personalization starts to become an account of who you are.

Featuring: Christopher Gulledge, Eric, and Marcy

Series: The Robot Uprising Is Happening

Episode: Receptionist

Transmission: 1 of 2

Next: Receptionist: Who Gets to Define You?

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Miriam, Christopher, and Eric examine what a verdict can settle—and what it can leave untouched. Better evidence brings a different question into view: whether every human conflict needs a winner.

Featuring: Christopher Gulledge, Eric, and Miriam

Series: The Robot Uprising Is Happening

Episode: Mediator

Transmission: 2 of 2

Next: Receptionist: The Machines Know Who We Are

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Miriam uses AI to organize accounts, compare evidence, and prepare for mediation. Christopher and Eric explore the difference between making a process fairer and letting a system decide what fairness means.

Featuring: Christopher Gulledge, Eric, and Miriam

Series: The Robot Uprising Is Happening

Episode: Mediator

Transmission: 1 of 2

Next: Mediator: Do We Need a Verdict?

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Denise considers what happens before advice is given: who describes the problem, whose account gets heard, and what an AI adviser has already made seem reasonable. Christopher and Eric follow the framing back to its source.

Featuring: Christopher Gulledge, Eric, and Denise

Series: The Robot Uprising Is Happening

Episode: Hairdresser

Transmission: 2 of 2

Next: Mediator: The Machines Are Judging Us

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Denise has spent years helping people think from behind a salon chair. Now clients arrive with advice from AI, and Christopher and Eric want to know what changes when a machine joins a conversation that was already complicated.

Featuring: Christopher Gulledge, Eric, and Denise

Series: The Robot Uprising Is Happening

Episode: Hairdresser

Transmission: 1 of 2

Next: Hairdresser: Whose Advice Is It?

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Joe draws a line between the work he delegates and the decisions he keeps. Christopher and Eric ask how convenience changes attention, responsibility, and the ability to notice when a useful arrangement stops working.

Featuring: Christopher Gulledge, Eric, and Joe

Series: The Robot Uprising Is Happening

Episode: Farmer

Transmission: 2 of 2

Next: Hairdresser: The Machines Are Telling Us What to Do

Joe explains how one AI system became the front door to his weather, errands, purchases, maintenance, calendar, music, messages, and the assorted pieces of daily friction he no longer wants to manage separately.

Christopher is less interested in whether Joe can do this than in what Joe believes he has actually given away. Eric, unfortunately, has percentages.

Featuring: Christopher Gulledge, Eric, and Joe

Series: The Robot Uprising Is Happening

Episode: Farmer

Transmission: 1 of 2

Next: Farmer: What Did We Give Them?