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

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What Buddhist Epistemology Teaches Us about The Future of AI

For Part Two in our Continual Learning mini-series, Dr. Nadav Amir of The University of Ottowa joins me and guest co-host Dr. Adam Safron of Tufts University for a trialo

Aug 17
1 h 49 min

Continual Learning: World Models in Natural & Artificial Intelligence with Adam Safron

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 dist

Jul 30
1 h 17 min

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

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

Jun 25
1 h 03 min

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

✨ 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 Bo

Jun 16
1 h 27 min

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

✨ 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 sho

May 26
1 h 35 min

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

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

Apr 27
1 h 23 min

Neuroscience in Hyperspace with Andrew Gallimore

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

Mar 25
1 h 34 min

(Re)Building Trustworthy Institutions with Nathan Kinch

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

Mar 11
1 h 25 min

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

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 conti

Feb 10
1 h 21 min

Fostering "Prodigies of Uncertainty" with Layman Pascal

The world is getting weirder every day… We need weirdness specialists. Maybe the best guy for the job is my friend, the brilliant “metashaman” (and possible octopus) Laym

Jan 27
1 h 28 min

Becoming Hyperhuman with Carl Hayden Smith

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 & Pape

Jan 13
1 h 18 min

Co-Intelligence & Planetary Perspectives with Rimma Boshernitsan of DIALOGUE

Nov 10 2025
1 h 05 min

Co-Evolving with Magical Technologies feat. Sam Arbesman

Membership | Donations | Spotify | YouTube | Apple Podcasts ✨ About This Episode This week I talk to Sam Arbesman, scientist-in-residence at Lux Capital, Research Fello

Oct 2 2025
1 h 24 min

Holistic Technology for Growing a World in Love with Larry Muhlstein

Membership | Donations | Spotify | YouTube | Apple Podcasts This week we hear from Larry Muhlstein, who worked on Responsible AI at Google and DeepMind before leaving to

Sep 22 2025
2 h 14 min

Taryn Southern on Surfing the Exponential Tech Tsunami

Membership | Donations | Spotify | YouTube | Apple Podcasts Today’s guest Taryn Southern is someone I consider a master surfer of technological change: a fellow elder mi

Sep 10 2025
1 h 13 min

Chaim Gingold on Building SimCity & Simulation as Discourse

Membership | Donations | Spotify | YouTube | Apple Podcasts We live in simulated worlds of our own making, detecting patterns in the chaos and complexity of raw experien

Aug 20 2025
1 h 26 min

Culture, Consciousness, and the Second Renaissance with Rufus Pollock

Jul 10 2025
1 h 47 min

Lessons from a Metamodern AI Shaman with George Pór

Membership | Donations | Spotify | YouTube | Apple Podcasts This week we speak with George Pór, mentee of Doug Englebart, Founder of Future HOW, Enlivening Edge, and Cam

Jul 1 2025
1 h 05 min

Design for Provably Safe AI with Evan Miyazono

Membership | Donations | Spotify | YouTube | Apple Podcasts This week’s guest is my friend Evan Miyazono, CEO and Director of Atlas Computing — a tech non-profit committ

Jun 24 2025
1 h 09 min

Religions of the Future & The New Monstrous with Rina Nicolae

Membership | Donations | Spotify | YouTube | Apple Podcasts What the hell is going on with culture right now? The Web is running evolution in fast-forward, remixing the

Jun 10 2025
1 h 24 min

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Keep your dictionary handy as these talks go deep. Always enjoy the perspectives and topics covered which I consider to be at the forefront our human experience and understandings of where we are and where we are going.

Bhend3000 · Nov 2024

An eclectic thinker if there ever was one. Michael is comfortable discussing everything from AI to dinosaurs to psychedelics to the evolution of the eye —plus jazz, aliens, and creativity among other things. I can’t say I always understand everything he says, but I always come away with a few new thoughts and a helluvalotta books/movies/music to dive into.

Ilikewaterbottles · Aug 2023

I love this pod, the host, and all the guests! Helps to snap me out of my day to day humdrum existence, and introduces me to concepts that I never would’ve considered. Grateful that it’s in the world!

Bitsyboorud · Aug 2023

In a time when most media seems to be compressing the English language, and human thought, into the lowest common denominator. Michael Garfield and his Guests are expanding the cultural landscape with fractal flames of ideas that push us to new horizons and beyond. Each episode is like a portal into a possible future that I couldn’t have imagined and that renews my hope in humanity. Michael’s skill as an interviewer and desire to collaborate and share ideas is a strong reminder that we need each other more than ever in these changing times. While the internet seems to be pushing so many in disparate directions, Future Fossils is an axis around which paths gravitate, converge, and evolve. Thank you Michael for all you do. I’m so glad I exist on this planet at the same time as you.

knowlight · Feb 2023

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