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Susan Schneider is Director of the Center for the Future of AI, Mind, and Society at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), and the author of Artificial You: AI and the Future of Mind. She is the former NASA–Baruch Blumberg Chair in Astrobiology and Technological Innovation at NASA, has held the Distinguished Scholar Chair at the Library of Congress, and was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Her work has been covered by the BBC, PBS, the New York Times, Forbes, and the Washington Post.

Susan Schneider is Director of the Center for the Future of AI, Mind, and Society at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), and the author of Artificial You: AI and the Future of Mind. She is the former NASA–Baruch Blumberg Chair in Astrobiology and Technological Innovation at NASA, has held the Distinguished Scholar Chair at the Library of Congress, and was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Her work has been covered by the BBC, PBS, the New York Times, Forbes, and the Washington Post.

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