Taryn Southern: How AI Is Unlocking Human Creativity
Episode description
Which emerging technologies are most likely to collide – and what does this mean for the future?
Today on Digital Disruption, we are joined by Creative Technologist Taryn Southern, a pioneering storyteller known for her work at the intersection of emerging technology, creativity, and human potential.
Taryn’s journey with AI began in 2017 with a groundbreaking creative experiment—to compose an entire music album using artificial intelligence. The result, I AM AI, became one of the first AI-assisted pop albums and reached the Top 100 on the U.S. Radio Charts in 2018.
Taryn sits down with Geoff Nielson to reveal the overlooked, hair-raising technologies shaping our future—and why she’s optimistic about AI as a force for good.
What we talk about:
0:00 Intro
1:48 Hair-raising moments
3:08 Predictions
4:43 AI taking over creative tasks
9:09 Is using an AI tool more challenging than just doing it yourself?
11:35 Any one person can be a merchant
13:50 These organizations need to be on their toes
15:08 What role do major tech companies play
17:24 The algorithms
19:00 Trusting the tech companies
19:48 Where is this going
24:28 Impact on individual and collective well-being
26:06 What is the state of Neurotechnology
30:54 Brain computer interface and mass adoption
32:00 The scope of creativity is unlimited with BCI
33:32 Hair-raising moments
35:13 Will we lose a lot of human connection with AI?
36: 44 Your perfect reality
38:35 A better path to success
39:36 AI therapists?
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