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Humans On The Loop

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Humans On The Loop is a society podcast hosted by Michael Garfield. It has 264 episodes, with the latest published March 2026.

Let's dream better! Join paleontologist-futurist Michael Garfield for bold, far-ranging explorations into the nature of agency in the age of automation, wisdom and innovation, responsibility and power, and the care and feeding of the new superpowers conferred to us by magical technologies. Weekly dialogues at the edge of the knowable, learning to navigate Global Weirding and exponential AI with the curiosity and play required of us. Building on twenty years of independent research plus firsthand experience of the tech, arts, and science worlds, Humans On The Loop is a show to transform you and help us make better use of our greatest natural resource: our attention. michaelgarfield.substack.com

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Neuroscience in Hyperspace with Andrew Gallimore

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(Re)Building Trustworthy Institutions with Nathan Kinch

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AI Doesn't Have To Be This Way feat. Alex Komoroske

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Fostering "Prodigies of Uncertainty" with Layman Pascal

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Becoming Hyperhuman with Carl Hayden Smith

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Co-Intelligence & Planetary Perspectives with Rimma Boshernitsan of DIALOGUE

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Co-Evolving with Magical Technologies feat. Sam Arbesman

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Holistic Technology for Growing a World in Love with Larry Muhlstein

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Taryn Southern on Surfing the Exponential Tech Tsunami

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Chaim Gingold on Building SimCity & Simulation as Discourse

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Culture, Consciousness, and the Second Renaissance with Rufus Pollock

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Lessons from a Metamodern AI Shaman with George Pór

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Design for Provably Safe AI with Evan Miyazono

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Religions of the Future & The New Monstrous with Rina Nicolae

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Self-Actualization in the Global Brain with Cadell Last of Philosophy Portal

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The Architecture of The Next Creative Economy with Michael Dean

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The Art & Technology of Conversation with Robert Poynton

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Scale Theory: Contemplating Everything-At-Onceness with Joshua DiCaglio

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Jim O'Shaughnessy on Creativity, Crisis, and Trust as The Fabric of Society

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Aishwarya Khanduja on Living Inquiry & Fostering Imagination

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Matt Segall on Culture as The Lifeblood of The Machine Economy

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Andrew McLuhan on Needling The Somnambulists about How We've Never Been Autonomous

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J.F. Martel on Machines vs. Fractals, Black Box Personhood, and Navigating The AI Fairy Tale

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Adah Parris on Neurodivergent Cyborg Shamans & Elemental Tech Ethics

25

Howard Rheingold on Lucid Life Online & Attention As A 21st Century Literacy

26

Jessica Clark on Making New Realities with New Media

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New Selves of Neural Media & AI as 'The Poison Path' with K Allado-McDowell

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Futures Indistinguishable from Magic with Robin Sloan

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Transcending (and Including) Partisan Debate with Stephanie Lepp

30

Mycopunk Community Coordination with Christina Bowen of Socialroots

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The Inner Life of a Responsible Tech Practitioner with Benjamin Olsen

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Reclaiming Attention from 'The Ravenous Maw of The Screen' with Richard Doyle

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📚🧙🏼‍♂️🦾 232 - Myth & Magic in Technological Metamodernism

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⏳🎨🔮 231 - Eric Wargo & J.F. Martel on Art as Precognition, Biblically-Accurate A.I., and How to Navigate Ruptures in Space-Time

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🐦‍⬛🐙🖤 230 - Jamie Curcio on Living in Mythpunk, Eldritch Complexity, and Finding The Bright Side of Dark Ages

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👾🖼️🏯 229 - Sara Phinn Huntley on Making A Field Guide to DMT Entities

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🧬🕰️⚗️ 228 - William Sarill on Intuition in Science & The Physics of Philip K. Dick

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🎙️🖇️🕸️ 227 - MG + Tim Adalin of Voicecraft: Network Philosophy, Caring Organizations, & Wiser Innovation

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📚🧐🦾 226 - Stephen Reid on Technological Metamodernism

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🤰🏽🧐🕸️ 225 - Alyssa Allegretti on Sacred Domesticity and Hard Times in The Liminal Web

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🔍👁️🔮 224 - Helané Wahbeh of IONS on Arguments against Materialism and for New Theories of Consciousness

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🔥🌎💒 223 - Timothy Morton on A New Christian Ecology & Systems Thinking Blasphemy

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👾🍄🧮 222 - Andrés Goméz Emilsson on Psychedelic Computer Science & The Mathematics of Consciousness

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📯💗🌌 221 - Tom Morgan on Answering The Call of Destiny & Love As An Attractor

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🤖🌳📈 220 - Austin Wade Smith on Convivial Ecological Institutions and Open Source Commons for Sensemaking

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🙏🏽⛩🤖 219 - Joshua Schrei on Embodied Ethics in The Age of A.I.

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🎋🔬🕸️ 218 - Neil Theise on Complexity & Nonduality

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💻💶🌏 217 - Gregory Landua & Speaker John Ash on Regenerative Accelerationism & How To Heal A Broken Internet

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🐦‍⬛🦖🕵🏼‍♀️ 216 - Jingmai O'Connor on Dead Birds & Living Paleontologists

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🫂👩🏼‍💻🔍 215 - Social Science & Collective Intelligence with Brigham Adams of Goodly Labs

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