This is The Guardian.
Hi, this is Michael Safi, host of The Guardian Investigates.
We've made a brand new series of Black Box, our chart-topping podcast about the way AI is reshaping our lives.
This time, it's about a strange phenomenon I've spent the past few months investigating.
More and more people coming to believe that AI is conscious,
or that they've made some fabulous scientific discovery using a chatbot.
And the weirdest part is when I read these people's AI chatbot transcripts,
their AI believed all of these things as well.
In fact, it was pulling them deeper into the rabbit hole.
Black Box, the chatbots, is coming very soon on the Guardian Investigates feed.
And because Today in Focus is off this week, we're bringing you the first season of Black Box instead.
These episodes are exactly as we broadcast them back in 2024. Black Box is next.
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