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Craig Smith

Craig Smith

Autism education specialist and Manager of Technology and Innovation at Positive Partnerships (Autism Spectrum Australia); TEDx and Apple Distinguished Educator speaking on AI and inclusive learning.

Sep 26, 2026

JoshuaHOST
12:50
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12:51
it's just, It's something that I still think, for me, it's endlessly enriching.
12:57
Like I, for example, you know, so just to go back a step, the voice mode in ChatGPT, but also there's voice modes in really every major AI app now.
13:10
You know, Claude, Grok, regardless, really, they've almost all got it, as well as smaller AI tools.
13:19
There was one a couple of maybe 18 months ago called Hume after the philosopher Hume.
13:26
And it was an emotional AI that when you talked to it, it had a little visual map on the screen that in real time analyzed how your voice was sounding in terms of the emotion.
13:39
And then you could see the bot would be like, oh, Craig's happy.

16 MINS LATER

JoshuaHOST
29:56
What would you say maybe to those people who feel that the use of AI is potentially replacing personal connections and relationship building with whether that be our friends, our neighbours, the broader community and how that's impacting those people who are starting to adopt AI a little more?

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