It’s 100 years since Sigmund Freud wrote The Ego and the Id, a ebook that reshaped the best way we take into consideration ourselves and the workings of our minds. David Baker explores the ego’s journey over the previous century – from the inflated egos of dictators and the music of Hollywood movies, to the mind-expanding love-ins of the hippy period and the greed is sweet ethos of neoliberalism. And, he asks, what can we make of claims that synthetic intelligence is growing an ego of its personal?
I appeared on this BBC Radio Four Archive Hour programme.
