(Not) Reading in the Time of Robots with Celine Nguyen and Leif Weatherby

(Not) Reading in the Time of Robots with Celine Nguyen and Leif Weatherby

Author: Time To Say Goodbye December 17, 2025 Duration: 1:45:31

Hello!

Today, we have an episode about how nobody can read anymore, AI, humans, and why we’re so afraid of the robots with Celine Nguyen, the great author of the Personal Canon substack, and repeat guest Leif Weatherby, who came by to talk about his book Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism.

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