Episodes 266
Avg. Duration 1h 18m
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Apple Rating 4.9 (242)
Since May 2016
Latest Episode May 2026

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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.

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S2E35 Games & Metrics: Agency as Art & Artifice with C. Thi Nguyen

May 26, 2026 1h 35m

✨ Become a founding member to access my online courses, including Jurassic Worlding and How To Live In The Future✨ Browse and buy all of the books we discuss on the show at Bookshop.org✨ Stream and…

S2E34 Collective Futurecrafting: Play, Trauma, and The Duty of Care with Mathew Mytka

Apr 27, 2026 1h 23m

✨ Like/Subscribe/Comment where you listen! YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts✨ Become a member for our reading group, community calls, and years of members-only recordings — including the excellent…

S2E33 Neuroscience in Hyperspace with Andrew Gallimore

Mar 25, 2026 1h 34m

In this episode we join pioneering psychedelic neuroscientist Andrew Gallimore (Website | X | Instagram | Substack) to probe the bewildering high-dimensional horizons of DMT research and their…

S2E32 (Re)Building Trustworthy Institutions with Nathan Kinch

Mar 11, 2026 1h 25m

Today’s very overdue conversation is with AI ethicist and organizational trust expert Nathan Kinch of Trustworthy By Design (Website | LinkedIn), asking questions like: How do institutions made of…

S2E31 AI Doesn't Have To Be This Way feat. Alex Komoroske

Feb 10, 2026 1h 21m

This week go deep with Alex Komoroske, CEO and co-founder of Common Tools, about his vision for a more saner, more intentional tech paradigm in which the historical contingencies that gave us the…

Fostering "Prodigies of Uncertainty" with Layman Pascal

Jan 27, 2026 1h 28m

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Becoming Hyperhuman with Carl Hayden Smith

Jan 13, 2026 1h 18m

This week we come at technology sideways with help from hyperspace explorer Carl Hayden Smith, Associate Professor of Media at the University of East London (Talks & Papers), Founder of The…

S27E2 Co-Intelligence & Planetary Perspectives with Rimma Boshernitsan of DIALOGUE

Nov 10, 2025 1h 5m

Membership | Donations | Spotify | YouTube | Apple Podcasts | Discord | FB GroupThis week (actually, April) I speak with Rimma Boshernitsan (Website | LinkedIn), a speaker, interviewer, facilitator,…

S2E26 Co-Evolving with Magical Technologies feat. Sam Arbesman

Oct 02, 2025 1h 24m

Membership | Donations | Spotify | YouTube | Apple Podcasts✨ About This EpisodeThis week I talk to Sam Arbesman, scientist-in-residence at Lux Capital, Research Fellow at the Long Now Foundation, and…

S2E25 Holistic Technology for Growing a World in Love with Larry Muhlstein

Sep 22, 2025 2h 14m

Membership | Donations | Spotify | YouTube | Apple PodcastsThis week we hear from Larry Muhlstein, who worked on Responsible AI at Google and DeepMind before leaving to found the Holistic Technology…

S2E24 Taryn Southern on Surfing the Exponential Tech Tsunami

Sep 10, 2025 1h 13m

Membership | Donations | Spotify | YouTube | Apple PodcastsToday’s guest Taryn Southern is someone I consider a master surfer of technological change: a fellow elder millennial, artist, creative…

S2E23 Chaim Gingold on Building SimCity & Simulation as Discourse

Aug 20, 2025 1h 26m

Membership | Donations | Spotify | YouTube | Apple PodcastsWe live in simulated worlds of our own making, detecting patterns in the chaos and complexity of raw experience and boiling them down into…

S2E22 Culture, Consciousness, and the Second Renaissance with Rufus Pollock

Jul 10, 2025 1h 47m

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S2E21 Lessons from a Metamodern AI Shaman with George Pór

Jul 01, 2025 1h 5m

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S2E20 Design for Provably Safe AI with Evan Miyazono

Jun 24, 2025 1h 9m

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S19E2 Religions of the Future & The New Monstrous with Rina Nicolae

Jun 10, 2025 1h 24m

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S2E18 Self-Actualization in the Global Brain with Cadell Last of Philosophy Portal

May 23, 2025 1h 11m

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S2E17 The Architecture of The Next Creative Economy with Michael Dean

May 03, 2025 1h 24m

This week’s guest is the singular Michael Dean, who graduated from architecture school and played in a band before spending years in tech working on virtual reality, only to metamorphose into one of…

S2E16 The Art & Technology of Conversation with Robert Poynton

Apr 23, 2025 1h 26m

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

Apr 05, 2025 1h 54m

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