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
society ·en ·264 episodes
Neuroscience in Hyperspace with Andrew Gallimore
(Re)Building Trustworthy Institutions with Nathan Kinch
AI Doesn't Have To Be This Way feat. Alex Komoroske
Fostering "Prodigies of Uncertainty" with Layman Pascal
Becoming Hyperhuman with Carl Hayden Smith
Co-Intelligence & Planetary Perspectives with Rimma Boshernitsan of DIALOGUE
Co-Evolving with Magical Technologies feat. Sam Arbesman
Holistic Technology for Growing a World in Love with Larry Muhlstein
Taryn Southern on Surfing the Exponential Tech Tsunami
Chaim Gingold on Building SimCity & Simulation as Discourse
Culture, Consciousness, and the Second Renaissance with Rufus Pollock
Lessons from a Metamodern AI Shaman with George Pór
Design for Provably Safe AI with Evan Miyazono
Religions of the Future & The New Monstrous with Rina Nicolae
Self-Actualization in the Global Brain with Cadell Last of Philosophy Portal
The Architecture of The Next Creative Economy with Michael Dean
The Art & Technology of Conversation with Robert Poynton
Scale Theory: Contemplating Everything-At-Onceness with Joshua DiCaglio
Jim O'Shaughnessy on Creativity, Crisis, and Trust as The Fabric of Society
Aishwarya Khanduja on Living Inquiry & Fostering Imagination
Matt Segall on Culture as The Lifeblood of The Machine Economy
Andrew McLuhan on Needling The Somnambulists about How We've Never Been Autonomous
J.F. Martel on Machines vs. Fractals, Black Box Personhood, and Navigating The AI Fairy Tale
Adah Parris on Neurodivergent Cyborg Shamans & Elemental Tech Ethics
Howard Rheingold on Lucid Life Online & Attention As A 21st Century Literacy
Jessica Clark on Making New Realities with New Media
New Selves of Neural Media & AI as 'The Poison Path' with K Allado-McDowell
Futures Indistinguishable from Magic with Robin Sloan
Transcending (and Including) Partisan Debate with Stephanie Lepp
Mycopunk Community Coordination with Christina Bowen of Socialroots
The Inner Life of a Responsible Tech Practitioner with Benjamin Olsen
Reclaiming Attention from 'The Ravenous Maw of The Screen' with Richard Doyle
📚🧙🏼♂️🦾 232 - Myth & Magic in Technological Metamodernism
⏳🎨🔮 231 - Eric Wargo & J.F. Martel on Art as Precognition, Biblically-Accurate A.I., and How to Navigate Ruptures in Space-Time
🐦⬛🐙🖤 230 - Jamie Curcio on Living in Mythpunk, Eldritch Complexity, and Finding The Bright Side of Dark Ages
👾🖼️🏯 229 - Sara Phinn Huntley on Making A Field Guide to DMT Entities
🧬🕰️⚗️ 228 - William Sarill on Intuition in Science & The Physics of Philip K. Dick
🎙️🖇️🕸️ 227 - MG + Tim Adalin of Voicecraft: Network Philosophy, Caring Organizations, & Wiser Innovation
📚🧐🦾 226 - Stephen Reid on Technological Metamodernism
🤰🏽🧐🕸️ 225 - Alyssa Allegretti on Sacred Domesticity and Hard Times in The Liminal Web
🔍👁️🔮 224 - Helané Wahbeh of IONS on Arguments against Materialism and for New Theories of Consciousness
🔥🌎💒 223 - Timothy Morton on A New Christian Ecology & Systems Thinking Blasphemy
👾🍄🧮 222 - Andrés Goméz Emilsson on Psychedelic Computer Science & The Mathematics of Consciousness
📯💗🌌 221 - Tom Morgan on Answering The Call of Destiny & Love As An Attractor
🤖🌳📈 220 - Austin Wade Smith on Convivial Ecological Institutions and Open Source Commons for Sensemaking
🙏🏽⛩🤖 219 - Joshua Schrei on Embodied Ethics in The Age of A.I.
🎋🔬🕸️ 218 - Neil Theise on Complexity & Nonduality
💻💶🌏 217 - Gregory Landua & Speaker John Ash on Regenerative Accelerationism & How To Heal A Broken Internet
🐦⬛🦖🕵🏼♀️ 216 - Jingmai O'Connor on Dead Birds & Living Paleontologists
🫂👩🏼💻🔍 215 - Social Science & Collective Intelligence with Brigham Adams of Goodly Labs
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