{"id":174051,"date":"2026-01-02T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/thomas-aquinas-college-launches-10-episode-podcast-about-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T14:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:10:13","slug":"thomas-aquinas-college-launches-10-episode-podcast-about-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/thomas-aquinas-college-launches-10-episode-podcast-about-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Aquinas College launches 10-episode podcast about AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/recorder.com\/2026\/01\/02\/thomas-aquinas-college-launches-10-episode-podcast-about-ai\/\">Thomas Aquinas College launches 10-episode podcast about AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/recorder.com\/2026\/01\/02\/thomas-aquinas-college-launches-10-episode-podcast-about-ai\/\">https:\/\/recorder.com\/2026\/01\/02\/thomas-aquinas-college-launches-10-episode-podcast-about-ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-02 12:25:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"recorder.com\">recorder.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sure, here are a few key points from the article summarized in an unordered list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Podcast Series on AI<\/strong>: Michael Augros has created a 10-part video podcast series titled \u201cThe Mind and the Machine,\u201d exploring whether artificial intelligence like ChatGPT can think, understand, have feelings, opinions, or aspirations from both philosophical and theological perspectives.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Production Background<\/strong>: The podcast episodes are produced by Thomas Aquinas College, New England, where Augros is a faculty member. The first three episodes are already available on YouTube, Thomas Aquinas&#8217;s website, and major podcasting platforms, with new ones released weekly.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Philosophical and Technological Exploration<\/strong>: Augros, with a philosophy background, collaborated with individuals in the tech industry, including his brothers and brother-in-law, to ensure a well-rounded exploration of both philosophical and technological aspects of AI.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Format and Audience<\/strong>: Augros believes that the podcast format is a better way to reach people about AI compared to books, suggesting that it engages an audience that a book might not reach.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Rigorous and Accessible<\/strong>: Despite being intellectually demanding, Augros aims to make the podcast comprehensible by drawing on historic philosophical wisdom, primarily from Thomas Aquinas, whose liberal educational approach is highlighted by the series&#8217; producers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Collaborative Effort<\/strong>: The filming required only three days, resulting in 20 hours of on-camera time distilled into 10 hours of episode content, showcasing the efficient yet meticulous nature of the production led by Doug Cummins.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Aquinas College launches 10-episode podcast about AI https:\/\/recorder.com\/2026\/01\/02\/thomas-aquinas-college-launches-10-episode-podcast-about-ai\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-02 12:25:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/recorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MichaelAugrosThomasAquinasPF12222025-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-174051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174053,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174051\/revisions\/174053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}