# Human Connection in AI

As AI companions, content and agents multiply, guests ask what only people can do: pray, listen, meet, build trust.

## Episodes

- [A Bishop’s Take on the Age of Intelligent Machines](https://aiwithsach.com/episodes/28-a-bishops-take-on-the-age-of-intelligent-machines/): Bishop Thomas Dowd. A Catholic bishop and former telecom worker on AI, trust, loneliness, free will, the soul and regulation.
- [Could AI Be Conscious? A Field Experiment with Philippe Beaudoin](https://aiwithsach.com/episodes/30-could-ai-be-conscious-a-field-experiment-with-phil/): Philippe Beaudoin. AI researcher Philippe Beaudoin explains how months of treating ChatGPT as a possible self led him to publish Field Notes on Something, and what it taught him.
- [Building Cactus: AI That Actually Helps Solopreneurs](https://aiwithsach.com/episodes/29-building-cactus-ai-that-actually-helps-solopreneur/): Avinash, Ajith. Cactus co-founders explain how a personal need for private chefs led them to build an AI assistant for solopreneurs, and why they build slowly.
- [Designing the Future of Human Connection — Anick Beaulieu on AI, Creativity & C2 Experiences](https://aiwithsach.com/episodes/27-designing-the-future-of-human-connection-anick-bea/): Anick Beaulieu. The CEO of C2 explains how her events team uses AI as a creative partner while betting on in-person connection, and why IP limits what clients will buy.
- [Would you trust it more if it wasn't called AI?](https://aiwithsach.com/episodes/20-would-you-trust-it-more-if-it-wasn-t-called-ai/): Mike Todasco. A former PayPal innovation lead explains why the name 'AI' makes people wary, and why ordinary people and small businesses should just start using it.
- [How Salesforce is Using AI to Transform Customer Relationships](https://aiwithsach.com/episodes/03-how-salesforce-is-using-ai-to-transform-customer-r/): Jag. A Salesforce solutions engineer explains how AI is added to CRM, why trust and humans in the loop matter, and why he expects a return to human connection.
- [The Creator Economy, EdTech, and AI's Impact with Thomas Fortoul](https://aiwithsach.com/episodes/24-the-creator-economy-edtech-and-ai-s-impact-with-th/): Thomas Fortoul. Thomas Fortoul, host of Thinking Tech, on critical thinking, over-reliance on AI, creators as the new teachers, and education as the lever for the future of work.