Seeing the Path

Lachi and the Search for AI's Best, Without Its Worst Lachi is blind. She's also a Grammy-nominated recording artist, a Grammy trustee, and the voice behind Diseducation — a song built on the idea that the world needs a new way of thinking about disability. Her latest album, Magnificent, features more than 70 human collaborators at a moment when many in the music industry worry about how AI might be coming to replace them. Cal sits down with her to work through the question at the center of this podcast: How do we get the best out of AI without taking on the worst? For Lachi, AI can open vistas that are closed to the disabled. For a musician, it can also take away a livelihood and steal IP. Lachi and Cal talk about accessibility, authorship, the environmental cost of the data centers powering the future, and what happens when we let AI do the thinking our minds were built to do. It's a conversation about what we all need to do to recognize our best path forward.