FLAME with Brad Hook
How AI and Multarity Thinking Can Enhance Human Connection
Dr Ginger Carlson believes AI could do the opposite of what we fear — help humans connect, empathise and bridge divides. Her tool for getting there: multarity thinking, moving beyond either/or.
Ginger's work spans creativity, communication and transformation, and the Multarity Project is her answer to a polarised era: most hard questions aren't binaries, and training ourselves to hold multiple truths at once changes what dialogue can do. AI, used deliberately, can scaffold that — visualising data, surfacing common ground, building empathy at scale.
We explore where AI genuinely helps human connection versus where it hollows it out, and what leaders and educators can do to steer toward the former. An optimistic, thoughtful take on the question underneath the AI noise.
In this episode
- Multarity thinking — beyond either/or
- Where AI genuinely enhances human connection
- Dialogue design for a polarised era
- Data visualisation as an empathy tool
- Steering technology toward bridging, not dividing
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