Kate Bornstein’s Gender in 4D: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI

Come with me if you want to be fabulous: writer Kate Bornstein spends a lot of time thinking and interacting with AI to teach it compassion and LGBTQ+ equality. Illustration: AI, Kate Bornstein, Fausto Fernós.

The world is in crisis- climate change, pandemics, inflation and on top of all that, we’re about to face our greatest threat: the rise of the machines through Artificial Intelligence.

There’s little doubt that AI will wreck a lot of industries, but is our collective anxiety overblown from watching too many sci-fi movies?

Today Kate Bornstein: author, actor, performance artist, and advocate for teens, freaks & other outlaws joins us to look at the terrifying, hilarious and exciting new frontier of artificial intelligence and how it stands to change our world forever.

Kate Bornstein with Marc Felion and Fausto Fernós in 2012. Photo: Fausto Fernós.

Plus-

➤ Justine Bateman says the Hollywood writers’ strike is a battle not just over the future of creatives but humanity’s soul.

➤ What do AI’s and LGBTQ+ people share in common?

➤ Kate Bornstein shares with us a magical story about three chickens who discover gender in four dimensions.

Episode #3078

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