No Small Endeavor with Lee C. Camp 257: The Human Cost of AI: What Is It All For?
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Apr 13, 2026 
Josh Brake, a computer scientist and professor who studies tech’s social impacts, and Rosalind Picard, an affective computing pioneer who built emotion-sensing wearables, join to ask hard questions. They probe whether faster tools serve meaningful living. They debate human dignity, embodiment, and how to slow, resist, or shape AI so technology fits human purposes.
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Use AI To Accelerate Augment Or Accommodate
- Choose whether AI should accelerate, augment, or accommodate specific tasks rather than adopting it wholesale.
- Baratunde Thurston urges asking workers what meaningless parts to automate and using AI to include marginalized participants.
AI Threatens Identity For Some Young Workers
- Young people may feel devalued when AI performs language and reasoning, leading to depression and avoidance.
- Rosalind Picard recounts a job applicant who felt AI could do her entire job after using it for a cover letter.
Theology Grounds Human Dignity In AI Debate
- Theological resources like Imago Dei underline inherent human dignity that tech debates risk sidelining.
- Picard and Lee C. Camp argue historic moral frameworks explain why bias reduction matters and where dignity claims come from.