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
Who Defends the Defenders? UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders MICHEL FORST
“My mandate focuses on the protection of those trying to protect the planet. Protection of defenders is my main topic. When I'm speaking to states or companies, it's always related to cases of defend…
00:12:44 |
Sun 19 Jan 2025
AI & The Limits to Growth w/ Co-President of The Club of Rome PAUL SHRIVASTAVA
“I think AI is sort of inevitable in some ways. It is not very intelligent right now; it is probably closer to artificial stupidity, but it's a question of time before it becomes smarter and smarter.…
00:15:08 |
Tue 14 Jan 2025
The Club of Rome & The Limits to Growth w/ Co-President PAUL SHRIVASTAVA
Less than two weeks into the new year and the world’s wealthiest 1% have already used their fair share of the global carbon budget allocated for 2025. 2024 was hottest year on record. How can we chan…
00:44:15 |
Sat 11 Jan 2025
Elon Musk, Putin's Russia, Murdoch's Fox News: How Billionaires Shape Our World with DARRYL CUNNINGHAM
What influence do billionaires have on politics, journalism, and the technology that shapes our lives? What drives people to seek absolute power, and how can we hold them accountable?
Darryl Cunnin…
00:42:02 |
Fri 13 Dec 2024
AI, Technology, Art & Culture - Artists, Philosophers, Economists & Scientists discuss the Future
How can we shape technology’s impact on society? How do social media algorithms influence our democratic processes and personal well-being? Can AI truly emulate human creativity? And how will its pur…
00:11:06 |
Sun 01 Dec 2024
Photographer & Musician JULIAN LENNON on AI, Art, Empathy & Creativity (Copy)
“I think a lot of joy comes from helping others. One of the things that I've been really focusing on is finding that balance in life, what’s real and what’s true and what makes you happy. How can you…
00:19:21 |
Fri 08 Nov 2024
AI, Technological Progress & the Growth Dilemma w/ Economist DANIEL SUSSKIND - Highlights
“The running theme in all of my work has been technology. The first book that I co-authored with my dad was published in 2015. The second book I wrote was A World Without Work: Technology, Automation…
00:13:06 |
Fri 04 Oct 2024
AI, Cognitive Bias & the Future of Journalism w/ Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist NICHOLAS KRISTOF
“There have been some alarming experiments that show AI arguments are better at persuading people than humans are at persuading people. I think that's partly because humans tend to make the arguments…
00:16:26 |
Mon 26 Aug 2024
AI, Populism & Consumer Society with Historian FRANK TRENTMANN
“The bridge between Out of the Darkness and my previous work, which looked at the transformation of consumer culture in the world, is morality. One thing that became clear in writing Empire of Things…
00:15:50 |
Thu 15 Aug 2024
Is AI capable of creating a protest song that disrupts oppression & inspires social change? - JAKE FERGUSON, ANTHONY JOSEPH & JERMAIN JACKMAN
“There's something raw about The Architecture of Oppression, both part one and part two. There's a raw realness and authenticity in those songs that AI can't create. There's a lived experience that A…
00:14:58 |
Tue 06 Aug 2024
DIANE VON FÜRSTENBERG: Woman in Charge & How AI Will Change Storytelling w/ Oscar-winning Director SHARMEEN OBAID-CHINOY
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is an Oscar and Emmy award-winning Canadian-Pakistani filmmaker whose work highlights extraordinary women and their stories. She earned her first Academy Award in 2012 for her d…
00:10:29 |
Fri 05 Jul 2024
What can music teach us that science can’t? - MAX COOPER - Musician, Fmr. Computational Biologist
How is being an artist different than a machine that is programmed to perform a set of actions? How can we stop thinking about artworks as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for exper…
00:50:10 |
Thu 18 Apr 2024
Consciousness, AI & Creativity with DUSTIN O’HALLORAN - Emmy Award-winning Composer
What will happen when Artificial General Intelligence arrives? What is the nature of consciousness? How are music and creativity pathways for reconnecting us to our humanity and the natural world?
Du…
00:51:02 |
Fri 29 Mar 2024
How will AI change the film and television industry? - ALAN POUL - ALAN POUL - Emmy & Golden Globe-winning Producer/Director
"There will come a time when AI will have consumed and devoured all the works of all the great filmmakers. And you'll be able to say, I want you to cut this scene as if it was in an Antonioni film. O…
00:12:55 |
Thu 15 Feb 2024
How is AI Changing Education, Work & the Way We Learn? - MICHAEL S. ROTH, President of Wesleyan University
What is the purpose of education? How are we educating students for the future? What is the importance of the humanities in this age of AI and the rapidly changing workplace?
Michael S. Roth is Presi…
00:08:12 |
Fri 10 Nov 2023
BRIAN DAVID JOHNSON - Author of The Future You: How to Create the Life You Always Wanted - Futurist in Residence, ASU’s Center for Science & the Imagination
Brian David Johnson is Futurist in Residence at Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination, a professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, and the Director …
00:47:16 |
Fri 03 Nov 2023
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