AI and Us: Dr. Eve Poole about Her New Book,“Robot Souls”

"Robot Souls" is a book as much about us humans as it is about robots and AI.

Text transcript, lightly edited for readability.

Douglas Giles
The topic of Artificial intelligence, or AI, has been all over the news lately, quite often discussed with a sense of foreboding doom and a plea for someone to do something to save us from the effects of AI. Much of this discussion has been among techies and corporate bigwigs. And if, as the doomsayers say, AI poses an existential threat for humanity, then perhaps the people who need to be discussing the future of AI are those in everyday life.

I’m fortunate today to be joined by Dr. Eve Poole, an expert in leadership and leadersmithing the day-to-day craft of gaining real experience in the critical incidents of humans leading other humans. That’s pertinent to AI development because AI is being developed by humans. Dr. Poole, I greatly appreciate you being with me today to talk about your book.

Eve Poole
Hello, and thank you for the invitation.

DG
Oh, definitely. I’m so glad that your publisher got in touch with me. The book is Robot Souls: Programming in Humanity as in programming the humanity into…