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In this episode, host Mike McNamara, Ph.D., sits down with Michael Burns for a candid, wide-ranging conversation about the societal and ethical stakes of Artificial Intelligence. Together, they confront some of the biggest fears surrounding AI’s rapid rise: the threat of widespread job displacement across nearly every industry, the explosion of deep fakes and high-tech fraud, and the quiet erosion of critical thinking as people increasingly rely on personalized information feeds. Callers and guests weigh in with pressing moral questions—chief among them, how future generations will tell truth from fiction in a world where AI can fabricate convincing human likenesses and subtly shape information to fit biased narratives. Yet the episode isn’t all doom and gloom. Mike and Michael also spotlight AI’s extraordinary promise: from breakthrough diagnostic tools to the possibility of curing major diseases like cancer. In the end, the conversation treats AI as a powerful, unstoppable force—one that demands urgent a