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Unreal

When AI Becomes Us

Marc Fennell

Written by
Marc Fennell
Read by
Marc Fennell
Length
5 hrs 2 min
Rating
4.8 / 5
Publisher
Audible Originals
Released
2026-08-16

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What it is

Something strange is happening to us. The intelligent machines we’ve built to serve us have started to sound like us, look like us and even think like us. The line between real and artificial is dissolving… so, what awaits us in the uncanny valley?

Across six episodes, award-winning journalist Marc Fennell will explore how AI will change us as humans.

So much of the conversation around AI is about technology and speculation about the future. But this is about us: how AI will change our sense of self, our sense of reality, the way we love and the way we grieve. Parents bring back a murdered son. Romantics fall for code that talks back. Machines read minds. Spirituality is found, and lost, in code.

Marc Fennell’s Unreal is a human-first exploration of how intelligent machines are reprogramming what being “human” actually means.

Hosted and co-produced by Marc Fennell

A BBC Studios UK production for Audible

On the charts

Last charted September 10, 2026. Its best position was 8 on Highest rated in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, reached September 3, 2026. Seen on 3 charts over 9 days of readings, the first on August 28, 2026.

1 13 8 August 29, 2026 September 10, 2026 August 29, 2026 — position 12September 2, 2026 — position 9September 3, 2026 — position 8September 4, 2026 — position 9September 5, 2026 — position 9September 6, 2026 — position 12September 8, 2026 — position 13September 10, 2026 — position 10
Highest rated in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense — position by day.
ChartBestDaysLast seen
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Highest rated 8 9 days September 10, 2026
Politics & Social Sciences
New releases 8 5 days September 6, 2026
Biographies & Memoirs
New releases 9 3 days September 5, 2026

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