Podcast
Critical Thinking in the Age of AI
Voice notes from your favorite humanist and Harvard PhD Candidate on the AI developments that actually matter!
Each episode, I break down what’s happening in AI, from new research to policy shifts to workplace transformations, and explain what it means through a humanities lens.
No hype, no jargon, just clear thinking about how AI is reshaping work, knowledge, and society.
If you like to think critically about the future, this place is for you!
- Episodes
- 29
- Releases
- Weekly
- Typical length
- 21 min
- On air since
- 2025
- Latest episode
- 2 days ago
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9 min
On the importance of thinking with your hands
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Just yapping about different ways of thinking with your hands while assembling Ikea furniture lol
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27 min
I Have ADHD. How Should I Think About Ai?
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It's ADHD Awareness Month, so I thought I would share some voice notes with my dear friend, Rach, who runs the account adulting ADHD.
Many of you lovely nerds have asked how to navigate AI from a neurodivergent perspective, so I am happy that she agreed to have this conversation for you all!
Have more questions you want explored ? Comment below!
Resources:
You can purchase her new ebook here: https://www.adhdtraits.com/products/a-beginners-guide-to-adulting-with-adhd
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Her Substack: https://adultingadhd.substack.com/
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16 min
On Digital Ventriloquism: Using AI to Raise the Dead
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A reading and annotation of my latest essay: https://shaeomonijo.substack.com/p/on-digital-ventriloquism
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14 min
Why I Don't Panic About AI
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Reading and annotating my essay: https://shaeomonijo.substack.com/p/why-i-dont-panic-about-ai
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23 min
No Amount of Ambition Will Save You From a Collapsing Institution
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A reading and annotation of my essay on Substack here: https://shaeomonijo.substack.com/p/no-amount-of-ambition-will-save-you
Pls excuse my voice; there's a cold coming on!
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27 min
AI Has Intelligence. It Doesn't Have Intellect.
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This is an audio reading and annotation of my essay on Substack, which you can find here: https://shaeomonijo.substack.com/p/ai-has-intelligence-it-doesnt-have
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31 min
Are You Actually Behind, or Just Held to a Higher Standard?
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Sharing my writing process and reading my personal essay which you can read here: https://shaeomonijo.substack.com/p/are-you-actually-behind-or-just-held
This is the major takeaway (whether you’re skimming or you’ve been reading all the way through): Sometimes, the project will take longer because your calling is bigger than just this one project. Your calling is bigger than the time you set in the beginning, before knowing what role this project is supposed to play in your future. In the realm of creative production, the project often sets the pace. This is what makes us distinct from machines. We can’t always produce passable polish on demand.
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16 min
Philosophers are more employable than CS majors right now.
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Philosophy majors now have lower unemployment than computer science majors. Why? Because AI labs need critical thinkers to build ethical frameworks and prevent catastrophic failures. In this episode I argue that humanities education is a necessity not a luxury and explore how to integrate it into trade schools, self-education, and the future of work.
Read the original Economist article: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/06/24/why-big-ai-labs-are-hiring-so-many-philosophers
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20 min
Who Pays When AI Takes the Jobs? The Token Tax, Explained
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Three-quarters of all U.S. federal tax revenue comes from labor. So what happens when AI starts replacing the workers that revenue depends on? In this episode, Shae breaks down a January 2026 Brookings Institution paper on the future of tax policy in the age of AI — walking through five proposed AI taxes, explaining exactly how a token tax works and when it does not, and asking the harder question underneath all of it: fund government to do what, and for whom?
• "The Future of Tax Policy: A Public Finance Framework for the Age of AI" , Anton Korinek & Lee Lockwood, Brookings Institution (January 2026) - https://www.brookings.edu/articles/future-tax-policy-a-public-finance-framework-for-the-age-of-ai/
• Companion Technical Working Paper, Korinek & Lockwood, Brookings Institution (January 2026) - https://www.brookings.edu/articles/public-finance-age-ai-primerFollow me on
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23 min
Before You Use Local AI, You Need to Know This
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Hey folks, you asked for Part 2, and here it is. This episode is the context that makes the local AI discussion actually make sense: what the open-source AI ecosystem is, where it comes from, how to navigate it without making expensive mistakes, and why using local AI and commercial AI together is not a contradiction.
A lot covered here!!
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17 min
Notion vs. Obsidian: Which One Actually Supports Deep Thinking?
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WELCOME TO MY STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS! Sorry for the singing, but the substance is there 🥹
Most people treat Notion versus Obsidian as a choice you have to make once. It is not. They are designed for completely different kinds of work, and understanding that distinction will change how you use both of them.
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19 min
The Ant Company: Why Small and Focused Beats Scale Right Now
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The traditional full-time job is not disappearing overnight, but the conditions that made it stable are changing faster than most people realize. In this episode, I break down what the gig economy data actually says, why AI is accelerating the disaggregation of knowledge work specifically, and why the most strategic response is not to chase scale but to build with precision. She introduces the concept of the Ant Company: small, focused, community-rooted, and increasingly powerful in a landscape that AI is reorganizing from the bottom up.
Sources Referenced:
• Upwork / Freelancers Union Future Workforce Report: https://www.upwork.com/research/future-workforce-index-2025
• Freelance Economy Statistics, DemandSage (2025): https://www.demandsage.com/gig-economy-statistics/
• Gig Economy Statistics, Pebl / Velocity Global (2025) — https://hellopebl.com/resources/blog/gig-economy-statistics/
• Proverbs 30:25, ESV — https://www.bible.com/bible/59/pro.30.25.ESVFollow me on
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21 min
How to Use AI Without Using Data Centers: A Beginner's Guide to Local and Offline AI
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There's an entire ecosystem of AI tools, many of them free, open-source, and running entirely on your own device, that most people have never heard of. This episode breaks down what local AI is, what you give up when you use it, and which tools are worth trying today. Including Jan.ai, Locally AI for Apple devices, and Obsidian for local project management. If your AI use involves anything sensitive, this episode is for you.
Sources Referenced
• Jan.ai (open-source, offline AI assistant for Mac, Windows, Linux): https://www.jan.ai
• Locally AI (on-device AI for iPhone, iPad, and Mac): https://locallyai.app
• Obsidian (local-first knowledge management): https://obsidian.md
• Featherless AI (catalog of 26,000+ open-source models): https://featherless.aiFollow me on
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17 min
Uncovering the Plan to Keep You in the Dark About AI | IASEAI Day 2 Recap
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There's a concept that reframes everything you thought you knew about AI transparency and it came from one of the most powerful talks on AI I've ever witnessed in person.
At the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI conference in Paris, former White House OSTP Director Dr. Alondra Nelson introduced the concept of algorithmic agnotology: the deliberate, strategic production of ignorance by AI companies to avoid accountability. It's not just corporate spin, but a system.
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21 min
AI Safety Is Failing. Yoshua Bengio & Experts Explain Why | IASEAI 2026 Day 1 Recap
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What is actually happening at the frontier of AI safety research? I attended Day One of IASEAI 2026, the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI, in Paris, and I'm breaking down everything you need to know.
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21 min
Something Bigger Than AI is Happening. You've Been Warned.
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I just published this essay and I wanted to publish the audio version so it can reach as many people as possible.
Read + Share this essay, please: https://open.substack.com/pub/shaeomonijo/p/something-bigger-than-ai-is-happening?r=2ptp7i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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24 min
The Real Crisis Isn’t AI, It’s Us
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We blame students for using ChatGPT to write essays. We shame people for turning to AI companions. We criticize workers for automating emails. But what if the real problem isn't individual moral failure per se, but moreso that generative AI is exposing incentive structures that were already broken?
**I recorded this voice note a week ago.
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14 min
Who Controls AI? Mark Carney, Davos, and the Case for AI Sovereignty
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In this episode, I unpack Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos and explore what they reveal about AI sovereignty, decentralization, and the global race between the United States and China.
As AI infrastructure consolidates around a handful of powerful labs, countries and individuals are facing a deeper structural question: who controls intelligence infrastructure?
Sorry, I have a bit of a cold, but still wanted to get this voice note out to you all.
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19 min
AI Agents Created Their Own Religion (Moltbook, OpenClaw, Clawdbot)
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AI agents just created their own religion. On a social network called Moltbook, autonomous AI powered by OpenClaw spontaneously formed "Crustafarianism" complete with scriptures, prophets, and encrypted communication to hide from humans. But before you panic about the AI apocalypse, let's cut through the hype and talk about what's actually happening.
IBM: "OpenClaw: The viral 'space lobster' agent testing limits" - https://www.ibm.com/think/news/clawdbot-ai-agent-testing-limits-vertical-integration
404 Media Reporting on Moltbook database: https://www.404media.co/exposed-moltbook-database-let-anyone-take-control-of-any-ai-agent-on-the-site/
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21 min
How to Get Disgustingly Educated in Anything This Year
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How does a historian learn AI research well enough to contribute meaningfully to policy conversations? In this episode, I share the six-step self-education framework I used to move into a completely new field, and how you can apply it to learn anything deeply.
We're living in an autodidact period where universities can't teach everything you want to know, especially about AI. This is about cultivating intellectual health, resisting the outsourcing of critical thinking, and getting disgustingly educated in whatever calls to you, not for credentials, but for intellectual sovereignty!!
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