HELIOX: WHERE EVIDENCE MEETS EMPATHY 🇨🇦 # *How AI is slipping into the layer beneath your thoughts, and the design choices that keep your mind your own*
https://youtu.be/xOGvNNu7T04](https://youtu.be/xOGvNNu7T04)
Oct 20, 2026 • S8 E5 • 41:09
Your phone’s AI is no longer just a tool. It’s quietly becoming part of how you think. 🧠
What happens when AI moves from tool to collaborator to a layer of the self? In this evidence-based deep dive, we explore cognitive co-regulation, System Zero and the extended mind, starting with a paralyzed worm that still dreams of turning around.
You’ll hear about:
• How autocomplete and recommendation algorithms shape intent before you notice.
• A Canadian proposal for lighter, curved-geometry AI as a sustainable, safer alternative to energy-hungry transformers.
• Koestler’s bisociation, curiosity-driven AI and the comfort-growth paradox.
• Practical design principles: provenance, honest uncertainty and shared attention.
An impartial segment covers a grassroots legal petition. Heliox takes no political or ideological side.
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📻 Available for Broadcast on PRX [ https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/639027-cognitive-co-regulation](https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/639027-cognitive-co-regulation)
Worth sharing with: UCLH — University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Université de Montréal, CIFAR.
@Mila Quebec, @Vector Institute, CBC Radio: Spark, CBC Radio: The Current, Ideas on CBC Radio, CBC Vancouver, PRX.
And KUOW Public Radio.
Authors to tag: Giovanni Pezzulo, Paul Cisek, Trisevgeni Papakonstantinou, Alina Gutoreva, Fendi Tsim, Roberto Bottini.
## Yoshua Bengio, @Jeff Clune, @David Duvenaud, @Golnoosh Farnadi, @David Lie, @Deval Pandya, @Joelle Pineau, @Deborah Raji, @Elissa Strome, Adam Whitehead.
@Digital Research Alliance of Canada.
@Gail Murphy, @Diane Gutiw, @Michael Bowling, @Arvind Gupta.
@Olivier Blais, @Cari Covent, @Dan Debow, @Louis Têtu, @Coveo, @Michael Serbinis, Perimeter Institute, @Adam Keating, @CoLab, @Patrick Pichette, @novia Capital.
@Ajay Agrawal, @Creative Destruction Lab, @Sonia Sennik.
@Ben Bergen, @Council of Canadian Innovators.
@Mary Wells, University of Waterloo, @Joelle Pineau, @Cohere.
@Taylor Owen, @Center for Media, Technology and Democracy.
@Doyin Adeyemi.
@Natiea Vinson, @First Nations Technology Council.
@Alex Laplante, @Cash Management Technology Canada, @Mitacs, @David Naylor, @Sarah Ryan, @Canadian Union of Public Employees, @Garth Gibson, @VDURA, @Ian Rae, Aptum.
@Marc Etienne Ouimette, @everyoneOECD One AI Group of Experts, @Cambridge University Bennett School of Public Policy.
@Shelly Bruce, @entre for International Governance Innovation.
@James Neufeld, @samdesk, @Sam Ramadori, @LawZero.
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Podcast Episode · Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 · October 20 · 41m.