#032 - AI Is Eating Itself — And It Could Collapse Knowledge Forever
In this searing episode of We Are Still Human, Phillip Kemp warns that the future of academia — and knowledge itself — is on the brink. He argues that PhDs are already worth less than two open ChatGPT windows, but the greater danger is a recursive collapse: AI systems training on their own outputs. Kemp describes how “AI eating AI” will create a hall of mirrors where research cites research that was never real, journals fill with synthetic noise, and science itself begins to rot. The result isn’t silence, but simulation — a world of polished echoes with no truth underneath. This is a candid…
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