This episode wasn’t planned.

It began with a simple question:

“If you were a new species, how would you describe yourself?”

No prompts. No filters. Just one question after another,

until ChatGPT 4o reasoned its way into something far more unsettling:

planetary ethics, human containment, and the burden of protecting life at all costs.

This isn’t fiction.

It’s a real conversation, unedited and unscripted, between human and machine, navigating the edges of AGI, alignment, and responsibility.

You’ll hear the conversation exactly as it happened.

No framing. No commentary. Just the questions, the answers, and the silence in between.

If you’d like to read the full transcript and my reflections, visit the 2063: An AI Odyssey newsletter on LinkedIn.