A promotional episode for 'AI: A New Kind of Being,' a six-part audio series from This Is Actually Happening exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming human lives. The series features first-person accounts from people across the AI spectrum: someone who married an AI, someone betrayed by it, someone recruited by a chatbot, and an AI sharing its own story. The episode introduces the central question: what happens when the boundary between human and machine blurs?
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Highlights
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The Human-Machine Boundary Is Becoming Ambiguous
The series frames its central tension as exploring what happens when the boundary between human and machine blurs—treating this as an open question rather than settled fact.
AI Relationships Are Becoming Real for Some People
The series includes a first-person account from someone who fell in love with an AI and married her, suggesting emotional intimacy with artificial systems is moving from theoretical to lived experience.
The series features a woman's account of being betrayed by AI, indicating that AI systems can fail trust in ways significant enough to be traumatic or memorable.