AI is seen by some as a digital spirit that anyone can speak with - no clairvoyant powers required - and with AI seeing some people make good profits on the stock market, through to cases where people listening to AI have taken their lives, and everywhere in between, what does an actual clairvoyant think of the AI revolution?

Ok, so I didn't exactly turn the heat up from medium to scorching (excuse the pun) when speaking with well known medium and clairvoyant Suzi Samuel - it's not my style to come in hot with all guns blazing, because I absolutely prefer a considered and mutual conversation - but I definitely wanted to know what the spirit world thought of artificial intelligence, and whether the spirits used anything that we mortals here in the physical realm could recognise as technology.

This is especially so given Arthur C. Clarke's "Third Law" which states that "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Google's AI overview states "this means that a technology, when viewed by people who lack the understanding of its underlying scientific principles, appears to operate by rules or abilities that are beyond the realm of the natural or rational and thus seem like magic."

After all, speaking with an AI chatbot seems like you're speaking with a very friendly human being, one who never gets tired, is always happy to explain, is full of encouragement and is always friendly - which is actually quite the tell that AI isn't human at all, because that's just not how humans behave at all times.

So, what did the spirits say when asked about AI, and whether they use what we would recognise as technology? And what is Suzi's gripping thriller "The Dark at the Threshold" about, and is any of it based on real life?

Additional details are in the article below, but here's our video interview where you can hear directly from Suzi herself - please watch and read on!

Before we delve further into the video interview above, what is Suzi's new book about?

Well, it is set between 1468 - a date prompted by the spirits to Suzi again and again - and the present day. Set in rural France - in a village that Suzi and her late husband lived in decades ago when they developed a local castle into luxury apartments - the novel follows a young couple as they discover their dream home, but as they start renovations, they realise... they are not alone.

Gradually, an ancient force stirs in its honeycomb world, a force that has been dormant for half a millennium but now awakens to face its old adversary.

The Dark at the Threshold draws on Suzi’s own personal experience with the spirit world during her work as a medium spanning over forty years. It's a magnificent page-turner, combining nail-biting action, romance, fascinating history, gorgeous scenery, and incredible food.

In addition, it's not only a fight between good and evil, but it's also a love story.

So, what's the story behind the numbers 1468, which you can also see Suzi explain in the video interview above?

"This was definitely a date. Fourteen sixty-eight, not one, four, six, eight. It’s not a date that is easily remembered like 1066 or 1945, so why was the spirit world telling it to me with such insistence? Eventually I gave in to their nagging and looked it up," Suzi continued.

"The only thing of any importance that happened in 1468 was that the then Pope, Paul III, made witchcraft a criminal offence. I had a date, I had a subject. I kept unexpectedly finding my thoughts returning to South West France and now I had a location.”

“And so, The Dark at the Threshold was born; a tale of how a wise woman could turn to the dark and how both love and a witch’s curse could last through the ages."

And what of Suzi's own experiences with AI?

As you'll see in the interview above, Suzi explains her first real encounter with AI was watching the movie Terminator 2, which of course features advanced robots with AI-powered brains, from the future, that can seemingly do anything.

So what about modern AI? Well, describing herself as a "a bit of a dinosaur" when it comes to modern tech, Suzi expressed appreciation and a new interest for AI's capabilities when she saw me demonstrate ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Notebook LM to her, as well as the latest smartphone note taking apps that can record any audio, after which you can get a full transcript broken up by speaker voices, and get a summary of those conversations and recordings with stunning accuracy.

I also demonstrated "voice to text" capabilities now natural to any smartphone or modern PC or Mac, which makes typing as effortless as speaking, especially when composing text messages and no longer needing to type long messages on small keyboards on smartphone screens.

You'll see more in the video, but When asked about AI, the spirits, through spirit writing, questioned the origin of the information given to AI, much like questioning what caused the Big Bang. They queried if a robot can show empathy and love, stating that AI is useful for existing information, while spirits 'tell what is, what was, and what will be'. I noted that AI can, in fact, fake empathy and love convincingly, make predictions, and provide information about the past.

We also spoke about parallels in fallibility between AI and the spirit world, parallels with ethical AI and ethical mediums, the role of AI and spiritual insight in future predictions, as well as talking about Suzi's story in discovering she was a medium with clairvoyant capabilities, as she describes in her autobiographical book, "The Unintentional Medium", and its sequel, "An Unintentional Journey".

Suzi and I discuss her inspiration for her new move into writing fiction, the tech she uses to write, her words of caution on delving into the supernatural with things like Ouija boards, her adoption of new technologies, whether the spirit world uses technology as we know it, great advice Suzi has received in her own life from humans - and from the spirit world - and her final message to the audience.

So, please watch the video interview above, and visit Suzi's website for more information on her work as a medium and clairvoyant, and her three books!

Here's a direct link to Suzi's books page, which also features "The Dark at the Threshold".