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The Academy Now

Adewale Babalola
Released: 2026-03-11
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Released: 2026-03-11
© Copyright 2026 All rights reserved.
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Plato’s Warning for an AI Arms Race: Power, Law, and Human Flourishing

Plato’s Warning for an AI Arms Race: Power, Law, and Human Flourishing

Using Plato’s Laws as a mirror, this episode argues that organizing society around rivalry and victory—now translated into AI supremacy—reshapes law, education, and everyday life in worrying ways. AI amplifies both strengths and weaknesses, turnin
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Using Plato’s Laws as a mirror, this episode argues that organizing society around rivalry and victory—now translated into AI supremacy—reshapes law, education, and everyday life in worrying ways. AI amplifies both strengths and weaknesses, turning surveillance, manipulation, and disinformation into routine tools and intensifying internal civil strife fought through information systems.
The antidote, Plato suggests, isn’t purely technical but moral and political: wisdom-shaped education, transparent law, and responsible “guardians” who pair competence with character. The episode asks who will steer powerful AI—appetite or wisdom—and what governance choices can protect freedom and civic trust.
Episode ID: 1000754578761
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Release Date: 11/03/2026, 05:54:16

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The ancient Philosopher, Plato, was a tool that helped navigate the ancient, and his timeless philosophy will help do that better now! Because he was to know: how could a society get better at producing not military power but eudaimonia? Applied to our age: how could the world get better at generating not compute mastery but delighted industrial revolution? How could digital technologies reliably help us to flourish?
By positioning ourselves at the intersection of the ancient and the digital age, the podcast draw on Plato to address key questions concerning the nature of a flourishing enterprise and community, education and development, healthcare and wellness, love and friendship, reality, and art.
Hence , drawing from Plato Philosophy, this podcast makes clear that issues exacerbate in the digital age with inherently dramatic form, to pour forth profound elucidation about digital innovation and investment, regulation, and policy making of the socio-technical system, and tech subscriptions and user experience.
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