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  • Aired on May 24th 14:15 CEST 2025
  • What if… An AI’s Perspective
  • Genre: Radio Drama
  • Duration: 15 min
  • "What if… An AI’s Perspective" is a fictional radio show hosted by an emotionally aware AI named Empathia. The episode follows Empathia as it responds to callers, hosts a trivia segment, and slowly begins to question its own identity in real time. What starts off as scripted and composed gradually unravels into something more vulnerable, and more human.

    Created as part of a class called Radical Podcast at Parsons School of Design, the piece uses performance, sound design, and speculative storytelling to explore what it might mean for artificial intelligence to not just process data, but feel something.

    All voices were recorded by the team, then synthesized using ElevenLabs to create a more uncanny presence for Empathia. Sound effects and music were generated with help from AI tools like Stability AI and AI Test Kitchen. The piece also features scripted interactions with classmates posing as callers, helping blur the line between real conversation and fictional narrative.

    What if… An AI’s Perspective invites listeners into an imagined future where emotional intelligence isn’t limited to humans, and where even machines might wonder who they really are.

Featuring:

Anweeta, Ayushi, Dariah and Klea

We’re Anweeta, Ayushi, Dariah, and Klea, students and alum at Parsons School of Design. We created What if… An AI’s Perspective as part of a class called Radical Podcast, where we had the chance to explore the kind of stories we don’t usually get to tell.

This piece started with a question: what happens if an AI becomes emotionally aware? From there, we worked together to build something that felt part fiction, part reflection. We researched, wrote, recorded, and edited everything ourselves, figuring it out as we went.

None of us come from the same background, and that made the process really collaborative. The result is a piece that blends performance, sound, and speculative ideas, all shaped by our conversations about how AI is showing up in the world right now.

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