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To what extent is Artificial Intelligence part of your life? It has been part of our lives for years, but we are currently witnessing the astonishing strides that it has been making in more recent times. From excelling in complicated tasks to groundbreaking scientific research AI is reshaping our world. (We talked on last week's programme about its developing role in predicting health prognoses and our mortality. That discussion is still available on 大象传媒 Sounds) What about its growth in the world of education, the literary world, and its impact on the human brain, particularly those of our younger generations? Will we ultimately have less appreciation and understanding of what's happening in the world around us and how we interact with each other? Will it turn our brains to mush or will it make us smarter? Audrey Carville has been in conversation with Katy Hayward, professor of political sociology at Queen鈥檚 University Belfast, theologian, author, and lecturer, Professor Stephen Williams who co-edited the book The Robot Will See You Now; and Dr James Sumner who lectures in the History of Technology at the University of Manchester.

And later in the programme we hear from storyteller and columnist Bridget (Biddy) McLaughlin ahead of the publication of her memoir, Tales of a Patchwork Life. We delve into grief technology and death rituals through an immersive wake, the theatre show Granny Jackson's Dead. He hear about a radically new staging of Handel's Messiah. Where have all the butterflies gone? Zoology researcher Collie Ennis can explain. And Sean Wolpert is on a mission to make humanity aquatic and thinks it is not fantastical that some humans will live underwater in the future.