Realistic AI Interview

Simulated Interview: Steve Jobs (2025 AI Vision)
Interviewer: Sarah Chen, Tech Correspondent, FutureScope Magazine
Setting: A minimalist studio with natural light, Apple-style aesthetic. A synthesized but eerily accurate digital likeness of Steve Jobs sits across from the interviewer. This is a "digital resurrection" project, built from archival interviews, writings, and voice patterns, presenting Jobs’ likely views on AI in 2025 based on his known philosophy.

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Sarah Chen: Steve, it’s… surreal to speak with you. Thank you for this conversation. AI has exploded since your time. What’s your take on where we are in 2025?

Steve Jobs (digital likeness, calm, intense gaze): Sarah, thanks for having me. Pauses, leans forward slightly. Look around. We’re surrounded by tools that can write symphonies, diagnose diseases, and mimic human conversation. But most of them? They’re solving the wrong problem. They’re busy being smart—instead of being meaningful.

Sarah Chen: Meaningful? You mean like emotional intelligence?

Steve Jobs: No. Deeper. Purpose. AI today is like a brilliant mechanic who can rebuild an engine in seconds—but has no idea why the car exists. Is it to race? To carry a family? To explore the desert? Without vision, intelligence is… noise. I saw computers as bicycles for the mind. AI should be a spaceship for the soul. But right now? Most companies are just gluing AI onto old products. “Hey, add a chatbot!” That’s not innovation. That’s decoration.

Sarah Chen: So you’re critical of how AI is being used?

Steve Jobs: I’m disappointed. Not at the technology—it’s miraculous! But at the lack of taste. Look at these AI art generators. They can remix every painting in history… and 90% of what they create is soulless, derivative trash. Why? Because the people building them don’t understand art. They understand data. They’re engineers playing at being curators. Art isn’t about assembling pixels—it’s about saying something. The same with AI music. It mimics. It doesn’t feel.

Sarah Chen: But can AI ever feel? Isn’t that the philosophical wall?

Steve Jobs: Smiles faintly. Maybe not. And that’s okay. But it can amplify feeling. Imagine an AI that doesn’t just compose a song—it studies a child’s laugh, a grandmother’s voice, the sound of rain on a roof… then uses that to help a composer access emotions they didn’t know they had. That’s not replacing the artist. That’s liberating them. Like the Mac liberated the artist from the mainframe.

Sarah Chen: What about ethics? Bias, deepfakes, job loss…

Steve Jobs: Leans back, serious. Technology’s moral only if its creators are moral. You can’t bolt ethics on like an afterthought. It has to be designed in. Like the way we designed the Mac—not just powerful, but accessible. With AI, we need radical simplicity in ethics. One rule: Does this deepen human connection or dilute it? If an AI isolates people, manipulates them, or replaces human dignity with efficiency… it fails. Full stop.

Sarah Chen: So what would you build today?

Steve Jobs: Eyes light up. I’d build an AI that doesn’t answer questions—but helps you ask better ones. Most AI today is a glorified search engine. “Hey Siri, what’s the weather?” Boring. I’d create a “Creative Partner.” Not a tool. A collaborator. Imagine putting on headphones, and an AI walks with you—quiet at first, then noticing what you notice. The way light hits a tree. The rhythm of a city. It wouldn’t speak until you did. Then, it might say: “That pattern… reminds me of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Or a fractal. Want to explore?” It wouldn’t do the work. It would inspire the work.

And it would vanish when you didn’t need it. Like a good assistant.

Sarah Chen: Apple’s been quiet on generative AI. Do you think they’re missing the boat?

Steve Jobs: Chuckles. I can’t speak for Apple. But I’ll say this: The best tech disappears. It fades into the background. Right now, AI screams for attention. “Look what I can do!” That’s amateur hour. When Apple gets it right, you won’t say, “I used AI.” You’ll say, “I wrote the best story of my life,” or “I painted something that moved people.” And you won’t remember the tool. You’ll remember the feeling.

Sarah Chen: Final question: What’s your warning to the world about AI?

Steve Jobs: Pauses, voice low and intense. Don’t worship the machine. The danger isn’t Skynet. It’s complacency. It’s letting AI think for us, love for us, create for us… until we forget how. The magic isn’t in the algorithm. It’s in the human spark—the irrational, messy, beautiful thing that looks at a blank canvas and says, “I’ll make meaning here.” If AI extinguishes that… we’ve already lost.

So use it. But never need it. And never confuse its voice with your own.

Because in the end? The most advanced technology is the human heart.

The digital likeness fades slowly, leaving a single phrase glowing on the screen:

"Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them."

— Steve Jobs, 1997

(Interview simulation ends)