George Zarkadakis
Author and researcher with a PhD in AI who wrote In Our Own Image; provides historical perspective on artificial intelligence and its cultural roots.
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Apr 9, 2026 • 51min
Will AI destroy us... or save us?
Stephanie Dick, historian of computing, traces how early machines shaped AI ideas. Francis Collins, physician-geneticist who led the Human Genome Project, reflects on DNA and what makes humans human. George Zarkadakis, AI author and researcher, maps AI’s cultural and historical roots. They discuss AI’s industrial and Cold War origins, neural nets and genomes, and why culture and meaning resist pure computation.
