AI & The Future of Humanity: Artificial Intelligence, Technology, VR, Algorithm, Automation, ChatBPT, Robotics, Augmented Reality, Big Data, IoT, Social Media, CGI, Generative-AI, Innovation, Nanotechnology, Science, Quantum Computing: The Creative Process Interviews
What are the dangers, risks, and opportunities of AI? What role can we play in designing the future we want to live in? With the rise of automation, what is the future of work? We talk to experts about the roles government, organizations, and individuals can play to make sure powerful technologies truly make the world a better place–for everyone.
Conversations with futurists, philosophers, AI experts, scientists, humanists, activists, technologists, policymakers, engineers, science fiction authors, lawyers, designers, artists, among others.
The interviews are hosted by founder and creative educator Mia Funk with the participation of students, universities, and collaborators from around the world.
- Update frequency
- every 15 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 36
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Healing, Connection & Creativity in the Age of AI - ETGAR KERET on Why We Need Stories in Times of Crisis - Highlights
“I feel that when you don't tell your story, it's as if you have a limited existence. We can always have some kind of choice, but I'm saying that the story we choose may be the most crucial choice th…
00:19:13 |
Wed 10 Sep 2025
AI & Finding Humanity Through Storytelling with Author & Filmmaker ETGAR KERET
“When I write my stories, I don't want to solve things in life. I just want to persuade myself that there is a way out. Maybe I am in a cell, maybe I'm trapped. Maybe I won't make it, but if I can im…
01:08:23 |
Wed 10 Sep 2025
AI, UFOs, Perception & Reality with Artist, Geographer, Author TREVOR PAGLEN - Highlights
“If we look at the entire history of the human experience, if you saw some text or you heard some spoken language, you could 100 percent reliably infer that there was a human who created that. Our ex…
00:14:14 |
Sun 03 Aug 2025
How AI is Shaping Perception, How Deception is Sculpting Our Reality with Artist TREVOR PAGLEN
“There's a word for this brain rot, right? I think that's very real. There are studies coming out now that are showing that the more and more of our cognitive labor we offload to AI systems, the less…
00:55:26 |
Sat 02 Aug 2025
Life As No One Knows It - Exploring AIR Aspen with NICOLA LEES - Highlights
“For us, I think it really is about trust and commitments, and I don't think that has necessarily changed over the years. As we work on that, obviously, we are very much invested in how we can engage…
00:09:04 |
Fri 25 Jul 2025
Writing, AI & The Future of Humanity w/ VIET THANH NGUYEN
“As a writer, I do believe that art and literature in and of themselves are important. I'm going to keep on writing novels, and one of the most important reasons why is because, as you mentioned, lan…
00:15:29 |
Wed 23 Jul 2025
The First Artist-Led Global Summit & The Future of Museums - NICOLA LEES, Director, Aspen Art Museum
“It's a complicated time to think about how we can slow down, be still, and bring a brilliant group of people together to do something that feels purposeful and can be productive. It's a moment where…
00:46:04 |
Fri 18 Jul 2025
‘Genius’ Entrepreneurs, Technofacists & Phobic Misogynists with BECCA LEWIS
“I think I've always been interested in the far-right end of technology, or I should say for several years that’s what I’ve been studying. However, I kept feeling that gender was understudied in thes…
Fri 11 Jul 2025
AI, Universities & Student Surveillance in the Digital Age - LINDSAY WEINBERG & ROBERT OVETZ
In this episode of the Speaking Out of Place podcast, Professor David Palumbo-Liu talks with Lindsay Weinberg and Robert Ovetz about the use of Artificial Intelligence in higher education. Under the …
00:50:59 |
Tue 24 Jun 2025
THE DREAM HOTEL with LAILA LALAMI
What happens when the state, with the pretext of protecting public safety, can detain indefinitely certain individuals whose dreams seem to indicate they may be capable of committing a crime? Set in…
00:41:38 |
Sun 22 Jun 2025
Examining Monuments, Memory & The History of White Supremacy IRVIN WEATHERSBY JR. - Highlights
“I'm hopeful for revolution. I'm optimistic. I want radical change. I think there's such a disinterest in education in America that it is sickening. I think we are repeating history. We are going thr…
00:12:18 |
Thu 19 Jun 2025
From Spy Thrillers to Police Dramas w/ Writer, Creator, Showrunner ALEXI HAWLEY
“There used to be a time when leading men were okay with falling down as a character. Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones is a prime example of that. Even going back to the fifties, they understood that f…
00:13:08 |
Wed 28 May 2025
JARON LANIER on Tech, Music, Creativity & Who Owns the Future - Highlights
“What I meant when I said there is no AI is that I don't think we serve ourselves well when we put our own technology up as if it were a new God that we created. I think we confuse ourselves too easi…
00:13:29 |
Sat 05 Apr 2025
AI, Virtual Reality & Dawn of the New Everything w/ JARON LANIER, VR Pioneer, Musician, Author
“AI is obviously the dominant topic in tech lately, and I think occasionally there's AI that's nonsense, and occasionally there's AI that's great. I love finding new proteins for medicine and so on. …
00:49:13 |
Fri 04 Apr 2025
How Can AI-moderated Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy? JAMES FISHKIN - Highlights
“The three ills of democracy that I propose to address with this method, which we've perfected over the last several decades. Democracy is supposed to make some connection with the "will of the peopl…
00:14:02 |
Sat 29 Mar 2025
How Can AI be Part of Bringing Deliberative Democracy to the Masses? w/ JAMES S. FISHKIN
“Deliberative democracy is itself, when properly done, a kind of democracy that can speak to the interests of a community. And we need that all over the world.”
James S. Fishkin holds the Janet M. …
00:49:08 |
Thu 20 Mar 2025
The Imagination Emporium with Fmr. VP of Innovation & Creativity at Disney DUNCAN WARDLE
How can we free our minds to cultivate curiosity, innovation, and creativity in our daily lives? In this age of AI, where creative tasks are increasingly being performed for us, what is intelligence?…
00:28:19 |
Mon 17 Mar 2025
The Hidden Humans Behind Artificial Intelligence & the Sociopathology of Elon Musk
In this episode on Speaking Out of Place podcast Professor David Palumbo-Liutalks with Sarah T. Roberts about the hidden humans behind Artificial Intelligence, which is reliant on executives and busi…
00:59:27 |
Wed 12 Mar 2025
Art, Technology & Society with Author T.C. BOYLE
“What I have done in my career is just try to assess who we are, what we are, why we are here, and how come we, as animals, are able to walk around and wear pants and dresses and talk on the internet…
00:11:35 |
Thu 13 Feb 2025
PAY ATTENTION: A Call to Regulate the Attention Market & Prevent Algorithmic Emotional Governance
AI competes for our attention because our attention has been commodified. As our entire lives revolve more and more around the attention economy, what can we do to restore our autonomy, reclaim our p…
01:00:38 |
Mon 03 Feb 2025
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