Humans On The Loop: Wisdom for an Age of Magical Technologies

Michael Garfield

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Booking Overview

A transdisciplinary show that blends art, philosophy, and political economy to explore how new technologies (especially automation and AI) reshape agency, value, and social systems. Book guests who can speak to human-technology co-evolution with depth across science, creative practice, and governance.

Metrics

Episodes: 269

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 3.6k subscribers

Contact Information

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michael@michaelgarfield.net

michaelgarfield@substack.com

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Host

Michael Garfield - Artist and philosopher who leads the show, drawing on over twenty years of independent research and prior work in major scenius zones including The Santa Fe Institute, The Long Now Foundation, and ...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Academics in philosophy of technology/games/values; researchers/builders working at the intersection of technology, governance, and ethics; founders/accelerator leaders in artist-technology/product hybrids; people publishing original theory or practice about metrics, agency, automation, and human-technology co-evolution.
Required Achievements:  
Published books or academic works (e.g., philosophy of games/technology/value), Led or founded incubators/accelerators for artist-founders and tech/product design, Built research programs or produced frameworks for regenerative or bioregional digital design, Regular thought leadership via books, essays, and/or public writing

Recent Guest Discussions

William Morgan - Ai-native Avant-garde, Venture Models, Taste/discernment, Human-machine Relationships, Human-scale Experience Vs Optimization.

Andrea Farias - Rewilding Collective Attention; Bioregional Design For Life Online; Regenerative Principles For Technology And Economy; Local Governance And Digital Biomes.

C. Thi Nguyen - Agency As Art/artifice; Metrics And Value Capture; Games Vs Institutional Scoring; Meaning Control, Coordination At Scale; Implications Of AI For Values.

Recent Topics

Philosophy, Technology, Political Economy, Automation, Ethics

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Humans On The Loop: Wisdom for an Age of Magical Technologies
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Continual Learning: World Models in Natural & Artificial Intelligence with Adam Safron

July 30, 2026

What does it actually mean for a machine to “understand” the world? Are today’s auto-regressive LLMs truly reasoning, or is statistical text prediction fundamentally distinct from genuine deliberative agency and causal inference? And how do we move away from brittle, post-hoc safety patches toward intrinsic, system-level alignment?This week begins Continual Learning, a new mini-series co-hosted with my friend and colleague, cognitive scientist Dr. Adam Safron of the Allen Discovery Center at ...

Visionary Ventures & The AI-Native Avant-Garde with William Morgan of Restless Egg

June 25, 2026

Today’s guest is William Morgan, the co-founder of Restless Egg, a London-based incubator and accelerator designed specifically for a new class of “artist-founders” whose work synthesizes art, technology, and commercial product design.His thesis: The tech sector’s obsession with optimization can’t help us discover the genuinely novel forms of human experience that this intelligent substrate makes possible. If we want something truly better, we need to cultivate the taste and discernment to kn...

Rewilding Collective Attention: Bioregional Design for Life Online with Andrea Farias

June 16, 2026

✨ Become a founding member to access my online courses, including Jurassic Worlding and How To Live In The Future✨ Browse and buy the books we mention on the show at Bookshop.org✨ Stream and download my music at artist-owned (!) Subvert.fm✨ Learn about Atlas Research Group, my new team building sovereign infrastructure for social coherence and collective intelligenceIn the last episode, my conversation with C. Thi Nguyen explored “value capture”: his term for what happens when our scoring sys...

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