Why does AI feel authoritative—even when we know it’s just a machine? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I turn to anthropology to explain a quiet but dangerous confusion at the heart of our AI moment. Artificial intelligence works on tokens—units of prediction without belief—but humans increasingly treat its outputs as totems: sources of meaning, trust, and authority.

From students seeking life advice at 2 a.m. to institutions deferring judgment to algorithms, this episode explores how fluency becomes mistaken for wisdom, and prediction for truth. The real risk of AI is not intelligence run amok—but our willingness to surrender interpretation, responsibility, and belief.

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Is AI really “end-to-end”—or is that just a comforting illusion? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I unpack a simple but overlooked truth: every AI workflow still begins and ends with a human being. From defining the task and setting boundaries to interpreting consequences and carrying accountability, humans remain the anchors of every so-called automated system.

AI may accelerate the middle—the pattern-finding, the drafting, the prediction—but meaning, purpose, and judgment never leave human hands. The real risk isn’t that machines will turn into Skynet. It’s that we forget how deeply these systems still depend on us.

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What does it mean to “learn how to learn” when even machines are learning faster than we are? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I explore how the rise of AI is reshaping not just education, but the very process of human adaptation. From hunter-gatherers passing on survival stories to Filipinos retraining for new digital tools, learning has always been a form of cultural evolution.

Now, in an age where knowledge expires overnight, the challenge is no longer memorization—it’s adaptability. This episode asks how the Philippines, with its uneven infrastructure and fragile mentorship systems, can keep up in a world where AI doesn’t just teach us—but learns beside us.

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