The Powerful EnoughPodcast

A companion series to Powerful Enough: How Star Wars Prepared Us for AI. Each episode takes one thread from the book and pulls on it — what a galaxy far, far away already taught us about building machines more capable than wise.

Cover of Powerful Enough: How Star Wars Prepared Us for AI by S. James Champion

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1. AI has an Anakin Skywalker problem

46 min · September 2026

Anakin Skywalker was the most gifted pilot in the galaxy, and nobody taught him what to do with it. Capability arrived years ahead of judgment, and everything that followed came out of that gap. This first episode lays out the analogy at the center of the book: we are building systems of enormous capability and thin wisdom, and standing at the same fork the Jedi walked up to and misread.

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Powerful Enough reads Star Wars as a warning map for artificial intelligence — written by S. James Champion and published by Remu Press.

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