Hey, this is Evan.
Hi.
This is Stephanie.
Nice to meet you, Stephanie.
As you probably know, I'll be recording our conversation for a podcast.
Is that all right with you?
Yeah, go ahead.
From the beginning of this experiment, I've been exploring my personal feelings about AI and voice clones and voice agents, and sometimes just exploring my feelings, period.
But as a journalist, I'm used to gathering a wider range of views too.
I'd gotten some sense of the ambient anxiety around AI from therapists and startup founders and people I worked with.
But what about the general public?
So, a couple months ago, I put out a request for anyone to call me at a listed phone number to answer a few questions for me about how they felt about AI.
The number forwarded to one of my VAPI numbers, so of course it would be my AI voice agent asking the questions.
Hi.
Well, I'm glad we could connect.
So, Stephanie, have you had much personal interaction with AI?
You know, I'm on Twitter, so I'm assuming that I see things on Twitter that are generated.
I'm 57, so I have one foot in the modern technology and then one foot back in the past where there were four channels or whatnot.
So.
But I'm.