This episode's guest is Eileen Hunt, a professor of political theory at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Artificial Life after Frankenstein.

Eileen and I discuss a number of topics related to AI and Frankenstein, including:

• Mary Shelley's upbringing as the daughter of two radical thinkers
• The political and literary influences on the novel
• The role of parenting in the novel
• The similarities between

The intro and outro music is from Domenico Gabrielli's ricercar, performed on solo cello by Debbie Davis