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‘There’s a Value in What We Produce Because We Feel – and an AI Chatbot Can’t Feel’
Byline Times’ Editor in Chief meets Kate Devlin, Professor of AI and Society at King’s College London, to explore how relationships with AI companions aren’t particularly new, why she believes the under-16s social media ban is flawed, and why human creativity can’t be matched
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Half Man: ‘We’re Beginning to Get a Better, Much More Nuanced Understanding… Vulnerability is a Part of Masculinity Now’
Byline Times’ Editor in Chief speaks to Duncan Craig, founder of We Are Survivors – a charity supporting survivors of male sexual abuse – about why the ‘toxic masculinity’ narrative has been problematic, and the eye-opening exploration of complex male relationships in Richard Gadd’s new six-part series ‘Half Man’
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‘We Can See Beyond the Surface and Understand that this Character, this Person, is Much More Complicated… Theatre Can Give You That’
Byline Times’ Editor in Chief meets Josephine Burton – creator and director of a new play ‘Our Public House’ by Dash Arts which examines political alienation in Britain today – and two real-life speech-makers taking to the stage each night
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‘I Hadn’t Anticipated Developing Empathy for Them, But You Can See How the Conspirituality Belief System Also Serves as a Set of Coping Mechanisms’
Byline Times’ Editor in Chief speaks to director Liz Smith and writer Noelle Cook about their journey into the world of ‘conspirituality’ for a new documentary shedding light on the women attracted to MAGA, their ‘soul contracts’, and existence in the ‘5D’ world
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‘Orwell Knew the Moment You Discover that the Other is Also You, a Whole Range of Bullshit Just Drops’
Byline Times’ Editor in Chief meets the award-winning Haitian film-maker and director Raoul Peck to explore his new documentary, ‘Orwell: 2+2=5’, which investigates the prescience of the English writer’s warnings of authoritarianism through his own words
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Shami Chakrabarti: ‘Humans have Multiple Identities – When You Try to Take that Away and Make Identity Binary and Singular, You are Really Dehumanising Someone’
Byline Times’ Editor in Chief meets the Labour peer, lawyer, and human rights activist to explore why her new podcast focuses on having human conversations with those of shared values but differing politics
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Andy Burnham: ‘These Dangerous, Alienating Times Call for Radical Change of Our Politics’
Byline Times’ Editor in Chief meets Labour’s Greater Manchester Mayor to discuss imposter syndrome and proportional representation, the ‘incestuous’ Westminster media-political class – and how to connect politics with people in the everyday
