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# AI Storytelling: What Remains Properly Human (Mythic Mind, ep. 180)
- URL: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/ai-storytelling-what-remains-properly-human-mythic-mind-ep-180/
- Published: 2026-07-09T13:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T03:54:47.000Z
- Author: Andrew Snyder

Mythic MindEpisode 180

# AI Storytelling: What Remains Properly Human (Mythic Mind, ep. 180)

Dr. Andrew Snyder in conversation with Josh Daws and Michael Kane

9 July 2026

[Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jTkmfAQ9SI&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)

## In this episode

AI arguments often run tribal: every machine-made frame is “slop,” or every model is just a new paintbrush. This Mythic Mind conversation slows down between those poles with a technologist and a novelist.

Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) is joined by Josh Daws (former Disney software engineer; VP of Technology at The Blaze) and novelist Michael Kane (After Moses) to ask what AI-generated media can and cannot bear as storytelling, and what remains properly human when prediction scales into myth-shaped output.

Topics include creativity and collaboration with tools, the temptation of knee-jerk culture-war takes, and how authors and audiences might keep soul in an age of autocomplete.

### People

**Dr. Andrew Snyder**Host

**Josh Daws**Guest, former Disney software engineer; VP of Technology at The Blaze

**Michael Kane**Guest, novelist (After Moses)

### Key themes

- Creativity and collaboration with tools
- The temptation of knee-jerk culture-war takes
- How authors and audiences might keep soul in an age of autocomplete

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