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This is a CBC podcast. What makes an idea worth your time? An idea that makes you pause and reflect, check your assumptions, maybe even change your mind. I'm Nala Ayed, and this is Ideas, a place for people who like to think. We value curiosity and deep conversation, and we work hard to bring you the ideas that shape and reshape our world.

Where do we go with democracy? Is democracy today like not fulfilling the promise of equality? And the anxiety for equality is leading people towards what we may call authoritarian solutions. In a very literal sense, the data of the dead is being used to produce not only models, but also chatbots that may be pretending to be other people.

So I think we give a lot of lip service to this idea of empathy. But really the empathy is either a to like gain points, like look at me, I'm such a sympathetic person, I'm I'm so wonderful, or it is to understand the other person so then you can then later dismantle them. Or The podcast has proud roots in CBC Radio, an award-winning team, and a 60-year history of exploring the ideas that make us who we are. We're home to fascinating interviews and public lectures and conversations with some of the most consequential thinkers of our time.

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