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Lena: Hey everyone, welcome to another personalized episode from BeFreed-I'm Lena, and today we're diving into something that's been on a lot of minds lately: how to harness AI to work for us instead of the other way around.
Eli: And I'm Eli! You know, Lena, this is such a timely question because everywhere we look, there are headlines about AI taking over jobs, making decisions for us, even manipulating our behavior. But what if we flipped that script entirely?
Lena: Exactly! Instead of being passive consumers of AI technology, what would it look like to actively shape these systems to serve human flourishing? That's what we're exploring today.