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A Printing Press for the Spoken Word
Episode 01 · October 11, 2026
Ask a chatbot for a philosopher’s words and it may hand back sentences he “could have said”. That gap between paraphrase and quotation is where this first episode ends up. It starts from the week’s AI fatalism and from a call, heard at a Venice conference, to use AI “to augment human intelligence”, which Paul Salazar places at the core of Syntopic. Chad Nantais answers with the origin story: one inherited spoken-word archive in late 2023, a name borrowed from Mortimer Adler, and two problems that had to be solved, cost and trust.