Oral History Podcast
Emotional Intelligence – Documented and Preserved
<p>Emotional Intelligence – Documented and Preserved</p><p>The Oral History Podcast, addresses Baby Boomers as the last fully analog generation. It discusses how limited privacy and face-to-face conflict in the pre-digital era helped build authentic emotional intelligence. Oral historian Kenneth Greenberg of Princeton, New Jersey, a member of the Oral History Association, warns that today’s frictionless digital relationships and advanced AI encourage “artificial intimacy,” echoing the 1960s ELIZA experiment where people confided in a simple chatbot. The episode argues that without documenting life stories, algorithms will generalize and replace real mid-20th-century experiences with synthetic summaries lacking humanity. Greenber...
