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AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code

AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code

By: Richard Jonathan O. Taduran Ph.D. (Adel) Ph.D. (UPD)
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AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code is a reflective and analytical podcast that explores how humans adapt to, think with, and are transformed by AI and technology — through the lens of psychological and biological anthropology. This is not a tech podcast per se; it’s about the human condition in the age of algorithms — how culture shapes cognition, how cognition shapes code, and how code, in turn, reshapes culture. Hosted by Dr. Richard Jonathan O. Taduran, anthropologist and AI trainer.Richard Jonathan O. Taduran, Ph.D. (Adel), Ph.D. (UPD)
Episodes
  • Learning How to Learn in the Age of AI
    Nov 25 2025

    What does it mean to “learn how to learn” when even machines are learning faster than we are? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I explore how the rise of AI is reshaping not just education, but the very process of human adaptation. From hunter-gatherers passing on survival stories to Filipinos retraining for new digital tools, learning has always been a form of cultural evolution.


    Now, in an age where knowledge expires overnight, the challenge is no longer memorization—it’s adaptability. This episode asks how the Philippines, with its uneven infrastructure and fragile mentorship systems, can keep up in a world where AI doesn’t just teach us—but learns beside us.


    #AnthroIntelligence #AIEducation #CulturalAdaptation #AIPhilippines #LifelongLearning #CultureAndTechnology

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    8 mins
  • Training the Dragon: The Promise of Artificial Superintelligence
    Nov 11 2025

    What does it mean to teach a machine how to think? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I trace my experience becoming an AI trainer—guiding a system that learns faster than any human mind. AI models can be brilliant, but also confidently wrong. They hallucinate facts, invent citations, and speak with conviction even when the ground beneath them is hollow.


    Training the “dragon” means teaching discernment, humility, and responsibility—not just intelligence. As we move closer to Artificial Superintelligence, the future of truth will depend on how well we guide the minds we are building.


    #AnthroIntelligence #ArtificialSuperintelligence #AITraining #CultureAndTechnology #AIEthics #AnthropologyAndAI

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    8 mins
  • Raised by Algorithms: What Happens When Code Becomes the New Caregiver
    Nov 9 2025

    Who’s raising the next generation—parents, teachers, or algorithms? In this episode of AnthroIntelligence: Culture, Cognition, and Code, I explore what happens when children form emotional attachments to chatbots and AI companions designed not to nurture, but to engage. From digital teddy bears to therapy bots, machines are quietly stepping into roles once held by family and community.


    Drawing on neuroscience, anthropology, and policy, this episode examines how algorithmic caregiving reshapes empathy, trust, and childhood itself—and why raising children alongside AI demands not just innovation, but vigilance.


    #AnthroIntelligence #AIandChildhood #AIEthics #PsychologicalAnthropology #CultureAndTechnology #ArtificialIntelligence

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    8 mins
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