Dr Jack Black is an Associate Professor of Culture, Media, and Sport at Sheffield Hallam University (UK), where he's affiliated with the Centre for Culture, Media, and Society and is Research Lead for the Anti-Racism Research Group. He is an interdisciplinary researcher primarily focused on Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis, media, and cultural studies, authoring numerous books, including The Psychosis of Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy (published with Routledge) and co-authored the edited collections of Sport and Psychoanalysis. Dr Black has also written about the relationship between AI and humans, which was the central subject of this discussion. In this episode, we discuss the relationship between AI, language and subjectivity through a psychoanalytic lens.
You can find more of Dr Black's work at https://www.jackblackphd.co.uk/ and https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/jack-black
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