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What does it mean to stay fully human in the age of AI?
Host Curtis Chang sits down with Pulitzer Prize finalist and acclaimed technology critic Nicholas Carr to explore how AI, social media, and digital life are reshaping human attention, identity, education, and spiritual formation. Carr warns that technologies promising efficiency often erode the embodied presence, deep thinking, struggle, and meaningful friction that make us fully human. Together, Curtis and Nicholas uncover surprising common ground in the urgent work of preserving human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence.
00:37 - Introduction to Nicholas Carr and His work
03:52 - What Is Technology's Social Impact
04:03 - Disembodied Communication and Negative Emotions
05:27 - What It Means to Be Truly Human
11:32 - Information vs. Formation
14:38 - Why Is AI So Unsettling?
18:54 - Stop Rushing the Adoption of AI in Education
22:02 - AI and the Erosion of the Self
25:08 - An Institutional Response to AI
27:36 - Forming the Next Generation
31:10 - Countercultural Imperatives for Leaders
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Mentioned in This Episode:
Nicholas Carr’s The Atlantic article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/?gift=6fm2EiCGrnIPSfz4UwSqKQ2Ui6xLR7e6QtG9pCNd1zI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains: amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/0393339750
Nicholas Carr’s Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart: amazon.com/Superbloom-Technologies-Connection-Tear-Apart/dp/1324064617
Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation: amazon.com/Anxious-Generation-Rewiring-Childhood-Epidemic/dp/0593655036
Vatican document on AI, Antiqua et Nova: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20250128_antiqua-et-nova_en.html
The Christian Scholars’ Conference at Pepperdine University: christianscholarsconference.org/panel/finding-our-future-in-fresh-consideration-of-major-works-i
More From Nicholas Carr:
Nicholas Carr’s website: nicholascarr.com
Nicholas Carr’s Substack: New Cartographies: substack.com/@nickcarr
Nichoals Carr’s blog: Rough Type: roughtype.com
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The Good Faith Podcast is a production of a 501(c)(3) nonpartisan organization that does not engage in any political campaign activity to support or oppose any candidate for public office. Any views and opinions expressed by any guests on this program are solely those of the individuals and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of Good Faith.
What does it mean to stay fully human in the age of AI?
Host Curtis Chang sits down with Pulitzer Prize finalist and acclaimed technology critic Nicholas Carr to explore how AI, social media, and digital life are reshaping human attention, identity, education, and spiritual formation. Carr warns that technologies promising efficiency often erode the embodied presence, deep thinking, struggle, and meaningful friction that make us fully human. Together, Curtis and Nicholas uncover surprising common ground in the urgent work of preserving human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence.
00:37 - Introduction to Nicholas Carr and His work
03:52 - What Is Technology's Social Impact
04:03 - Disembodied Communication and Negative Emotions
05:27 - What It Means to Be Truly Human
11:32 - Information vs. Formation
14:38 - Why Is AI So Unsettling?
18:54 - Stop Rushing the Adoption of AI in Education
22:02 - AI and the Erosion of the Self
25:08 - An Institutional Response to AI
27:36 - Forming the Next Generation
31:10 - Countercultural Imperatives for Leaders
Register for our America 250 episode recording with Russell Moore and David French: luma.com/vndleyh1
Sign up for the Anxiety Opportunity Course Use the code: Goodfaith goodfaith.org/product/the-anxiety-opportunity-course/?utm_source=ShowNotes&utm_medium=PodAd&utm_campaign=AnxietyFreePod
Mentioned in This Episode:
Nicholas Carr’s The Atlantic article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/?gift=6fm2EiCGrnIPSfz4UwSqKQ2Ui6xLR7e6QtG9pCNd1zI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains: amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/0393339750
Nicholas Carr’s Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart: amazon.com/Superbloom-Technologies-Connection-Tear-Apart/dp/1324064617
Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation: amazon.com/Anxious-Generation-Rewiring-Childhood-Epidemic/dp/0593655036
Vatican document on AI, Antiqua et Nova: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20250128_antiqua-et-nova_en.html
The Christian Scholars’ Conference at Pepperdine University: christianscholarsconference.org/panel/finding-our-future-in-fresh-consideration-of-major-works-i
More From Nicholas Carr:
Nicholas Carr’s website: nicholascarr.com
Nicholas Carr’s Substack: New Cartographies: substack.com/@nickcarr
Nichoals Carr’s blog: Rough Type: roughtype.com
Follow Us:
Good Faith on Instagram: instagram.com/goodfaithnetwork
Good Faith on X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/_good_faith
Good Faith on Facebook: facebook.com/goodfaithpod
The Good Faith Podcast is a production of a 501(c)(3) nonpartisan organization that does not engage in any political campaign activity to support or oppose any candidate for public office. Any views and opinions expressed by any guests on this program are solely those of the individuals and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of Good Faith.
