Artificiality: Being with AI
Episodes
Helen & Dave Edwards: Becoming Synthetic
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We enjoyed giving a virtual keynote for the Autonomous Summit on December 4, 2025, titled Becoming Synthetic: What AI Is Doing To Us, Not Just For Us....
Tess Posner: AI, Creativity, and Education
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation recorded on the 1,000th day since ChatGPT's launch, we explore education, creativity, and transformation with Tess Posner, fo...
Eric Schwitzgebel: The Weirdness of the World
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, we explore the philosophical art of embracing uncertainty with Eric Schwitzgebel, Professor of Philosophy at UC Riverside and au...
John Pasmore: Inclusive AI
11 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, we explore the challenges of building more inclusive AI systems with John Pasmore, founder and CEO of Latimer AI and advisor to ...
De Kai: Raising AI
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, we explore how humans can better navigate the AI era with De Kai, pioneering researcher who built the web's first machine tr...
Adam Cutler: AI, Design, and the Human Future
06 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, we sit down with Adam Cutler, Distinguished Designer at IBM and pioneer in human-centered AI design, to explore how generative A...
Joscha Bach at the Artificiality Summit 2024
23 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we bring you a lecture from the Artificiality Summit in October 2024 given by Joscha Bach. Joscha is a cognitive scientist, AI resear...
Christine Rosen: The Extinction of Experience
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, we explore the shifts in human experience with Christine Rosen, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of...
Beth Rudden: AI, Trust, and Bast AI
16 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join Beth Rudden at the Artificiality Summit in Bend, Oregon—October 23-25, 2025—to imagine a meaningful life with synthetic intelligence for me, ...
Steve Sloman: Information to Bits at the Artificiality Summit 2024
03 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the Artificiality Summit in October 2024, Steve Sloman, professor at Brown University and author of The Knowledge Illusion and The Cost of Convicti...
Jamer Hunt on the Power of Scale
27 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the Artificiality Summit 2024, Jamer Hunt, professor at the Parsons School of Design and author of Not to Scale, catalyzed our opening discussion o...
Avriel Epps: Teaching Kids About AI Bias
12 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, we explore AI bias, transformative justice, and the future of technology with Dr. Avriel Epps, computational social scientist, C...
Benjamin Bratton: The Platypus and the Planetary
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this wide-ranging conversation, we explore the implications of planetary-scale computation with Benjamin Bratton, Director of the Antikythera prog...
David Wolpert: The Thermodynamics of Meaning
05 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we welcome David Wolpert, a Professor at the Santa Fe Institute renowned for his groundbreaking work across multiple disciplines—f...
Blaise Agüera y Arcas and Michael Levin: The Computational Foundations of Life and Intelligence
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this remarkable conversation, Michael Levin (Tufts University) and Blaise Agüera y Arcas (Google) examine what happens when biology and computatio...
Maggie Jackson: Embracing Uncertainty
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we welcome Maggie Jackson, whose latest book, Uncertain, has become essential reading for navigating today’s complex world. Known f...
Greg Epstein: Tech Agnostic
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Greg Epstein—humanist chaplain at Harvard and MIT, bestselling author, and a leading voice on the intersection of tech...
Chris Messina: Reimagining AI
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with the ever-innovative Chris Messina—creator of the hashtag, top product hunter on Product Hunt, and trusted advisor ...
D. Graham Burnett: Attention and much more...
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
D. Graham Burnett will tell you his day job is as a professor of science history at Princeton University. He is also co-founder of the Strother School...
Michael Levin—The Future of Intelligence: Synthbiosis
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the Artificiality Summit 2024, Michael Levin, distinguished professor of biology at Tufts University and associate at Harvard's Wyss Institute,...
Artificiality Keynote at the Imagining Summit 2024
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our opening keynote from the Imagining Summit held in October 2024 in Bend, Oregon. Join us for the next Artificiality Summit on October 23-25, 2025! ...
DeepSeek: What Happened, What Matters, and Why It’s Interesting
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
First: - Apologies for the audio! We had a production error… What’s new: - DeepSeek has created breakthroughs in both: How AI systems are trained...
Hans Block & Moritz Riesewieck: Eternal You
25 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re excited to welcome writers and directors Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck to the podcast. Their debut film, ‘The Cleaners,’ about the shad...
How AI Affects Critical Thinking and Cognitive Offloading
25 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Briefing: How AI Affects Critical Thinking and Cognitive Offloading What This Paper Highlights - The study explores the growing reliance on AI tools a...
J. Craig Wheeler: The Path to Singularity
19 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re excited to welcome Craig Wheeler to the podcast. Craig is an astrophysicist and Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Over his caree...
AI Agents & the Future of Human Experience + Always On AI Wearables + Artificiality Updates for 2025
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Science Briefing: What AI Agents Tell Us About the Future of Human Experience * What These Papers Highlight - AI agents are improving but far from ca...
Doyne Farmer: Making Sense of Chaos
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’re excited to welcome Doyne Farmer to the podcast. Doyne is a pioneering complexity scientist and a leading thinker on economic systems, technolo...
James Boyle: The Line—AI And the Future of Personhood
28 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're excited to welcome Jamie Boyle to the podcast. Jamie is a law professor and author of the thought-provoking book The Line: AI and the Future of ...
Shannon Vallor: The AI Mirror
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're excited to welcome to the podcast Shannon Vallor, professor of ethics and technology at the University of Edinburgh, and the author of The AI M...
Matt Beane: The Skill Code
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're excited to welcome to the podcast Matt Beane, Assistant Professor at UC Santa Barbara and the author of the book "The Skill Code: How to Save Hu...
Emily M. Bender: AI, Linguistics, Parrots, and more!
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're excited to welcome to the podcast Emily M. Bender, professor of computational linguistics at the University of Washington. As our listeners know...
John Havens: Heartificial Intelligence
13 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're excited to welcome to the podcast John Havens, a multifaceted thinker at the intersection of technology, ethics, and sustainability. John's jour...
Leslie Valiant: Educability
22 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’re excited to welcome to the podcast Leslie Valiant, a pioneering computer scientist and Turing Award winner renowned for his groundbreaking work...
Jonathan Feinstein: The Context of Creativity
08 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’re excited to welcome to the podcast Jonathan Feinstein, professor at the Yale School of Management and author of Creativity in Large-Scale Conte...
Karaitiana Taiuru: Indigenous AI
25 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’re excited to welcome to the podcast Karaitiana Taiuru. Dr Taiuru is a leading authority and a highly accomplished visionary Māori technology et...
Omri Allouche: Gong AI
04 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’re excited to welcome to the podcast Omri Allouche, the VP of Research at Gong, an AI-driven revenue intelligence platform for B2B sales teams. O...
Susannah Fox: Rebel Health
20 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’re excited to welcome to the podcast Susannah Fox, a renowned researcher who has spent over 20 years studying how patients and caregivers use the...
Angel Acosta: Contemplation, Healing, and AI
02 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’re excited to welcome to the podcast Dr. Angel Acosta, an expert on healing-centered education and leadership. Angel runs the Acosta Institute ...
Doug Belshaw: Serendipity Surface & AI
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're excited to welcome Doug Belshaw to the show today. Doug is a founding member of the We Are Open Co-op which helps organizations with sensema...
Richard Kerris of NVIDIA: AI, Creators, and Developers
17 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’re excited to welcome Richard Kerris, Vice President of Developer Relations and GM of Media & Entertainment at NVIDIA, to the show today. Ric...
Tyler Marghetis: The Leaps of Human Imagination
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're excited to welcome Tyler Marghetis, Assistant Professor of Cognitive & Information Sciences at the University of California, Merced, to...
James Evans: Scientific Progress
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why is scientific progress slowing down? That's a question that's been on the minds of many. But before we dive into that, let's ponder th...
Ed Sim: AI Venture Capital
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Few understand how to anticipate major technology shifts in the enterprise better than today's guest, Ed Sim. Ed is a pioneer in the world of ven...
Rodrigo Liang: SambaNova and Generative AI in the Enterprise
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of our research obsessions is Edge AI through which we study opportunities to build and deploy AI on a computing device at the edge of a network. ...
Best of: Barbara Tversky & Spacial Cognition
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of our long-time subscribers recently said to us: “What I love about you is that you’re regularly talking about things three years ahead of ev...
Stephen Fleming: Consciousness and AI
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak with cognitive neuroscientist Stephen Fleming about theories of consciousness and how they relate to artificial intelligence...
Steven Sloman: LLMs and Deliberative Reasoning
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve used a large language model, you’ve likely had one or more moments of amazement as the tool immediately responded with impressive conten...
Julia Rhodes Davis: Advancing Racial Equity
29 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak with Julia Rhodes Davis, a Senior Advisor at Data & Society, about her recent report "Advancing Racial Equity Throu...
Alicia Juarrero: Context Changes Everything
22 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Grounding her work in the problem of causation, Alicia Juarrero challenges previously held beliefs that only forceful impacts are causes. Constraints,...
Jai Vipra: Computational Power and AI
15 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jai Vipra is a research fellow at the AI Now Institute where she focuses on competition issues in frontier AI models. She recently published the repor...
Wendy Wong: We, the Data, and Human Rights
08 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Wendy Wong is a professor of political science and principal’s research chair at the University of British Columbia where she researches and teaches...
Chris Summerfield: Natural General Intelligence
01 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Summerfield is a Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Oxford. His work is concerned with understanding how humans learn and make ...
Michael Bungay Stanier: How to Work with (Almost) Anyone
13 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Bungay Stanier has an extraordinary talent for distilling the complexity of human relationships into easy to remember and follow frameworks—...
Synthesis & Generative AI
05 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An exploration of how we might conceptualize the design of AGI within the context of human left and right brains. The tension between AI and human fu...
Jonathan Coulton: Generative AI, songwriting, and creativity
29 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve read our show notes, you’ll know that our music was written and performed by Jonathan Coulton. I’ve known Jonathan for more than 30 ye...
Is it possible for AI to be meaningful?
22 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An exploration of the intersection of AI, meaning, and human relationships. In this episode, we dive deep into the role of AI in our lives and how it...
Existential risk of AI
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
ChatGPT, Dall-e, Midjourney, Bard, and Bing are here. Many others are coming. At every dinner conversation, classroom lesson, and business meeting peo...
Values & Generative AI
09 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As Silicon Valley lunges towards creating AI that is considered superior to humans (at times called Artificial General Intelligence or Super-intellige...
Culture & Generative AI
02 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Culture plays a vital role in connecting individuals and communities, enabling us to leverage our unique talents, share knowledge, and solve problems ...
Mind for our Minds: Introduction
18 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is the first in our summer series based on our thesis for designing AI to be a Mind for our Minds. We recently presented this idea for th...
C. Thi Nguyen: Metrification
21 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
AI is based on data. And data is frequently collected with the intent to be quantified, understood, and used across context. That’s why we have thin...
Harpreet Sareen: Cyborg Botany
14 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are deeply interested in the intersection of the digital and material worlds, both living and not living. Most of our interviews are focused on the...
Arvind Jain: Glean, Enterprise Search, and Generative AI
07 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anyone working in a large organization has likely asked this question: Why is it that I can seemingly find anything on the internet but I can’t seem...
Lukas Egger: Generative AI, a view from SAP
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The world has been upended by the introduction of generative AI. We think this could be the largest advance in technology—ever. All of our clients a...
Katie Davis: Technology's Child
23 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is technology good or bad for children? How should parents think about technology in their children’s lives? Are there different answers depending o...
Andrew Blum: The Weather Machine
09 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Weather forecasting is fascinating. It involves making predictions in the complex, natural world, using a global infrastructure for people who have va...
Juan Noguera: Generative AI in Industrial Design
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve heard a lot about how generative AI may negatively impact careers in design. But we wonder how might generative AI have a positive impact on d...
Don Norman: Design for a Better World
12 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What role does design have in solving the world’s biggest problems? What can designers add? Some would say that designers played a role in getting u...
Jamer Hunt: Not to Scale
05 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What are the cause and effect of my actions? How do I know the effect of the small acts in my life? How can I identify opportunities to have impact th...
ChatGPT: Why does it matter, how special is it, and what might be ahead?
26 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why does ChatGPT matter? * People always get excited about AI advances and this one is accessible in a way that others weren’t in the past. * People...
David Krakauer: Complexity
19 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re always looking for new ideas from science that we can use in our work. Over the past few years, we have been researching new ways to handle in...
Generative AI: ChatGPT, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and the rest
12 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone’s talking about it so we will too. Generative AI is taking the world by storm. But is it a good storm or a scary storm? How should individu...
Kees Dorst: Frame Innovation
29 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What can we learn from the practice of design? What might we learn if we had an insight into top designers’ minds? How might we apply the best pract...
No-duhs and some surprises
02 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The latest Big Ideas report from MIT Sloan and BCG makes for an interesting read but contains flaws, obvious conclusions, and raises more questions th...
Elon's error calculation at Twitter
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Twitter as we knew is gone. Elon has fired half the full time employees and 80 percent of the contractors. It’s a brutal way to trim excess fat, res...
Marina Nitze and Nick Sinai: Hack Your Bureaucracy
30 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all likely want to improve the organizations we work in. We might want to improve the employee experience, improve the customer experience, or be m...
Tom Davenport and Steve Miller: Working with AI
16 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How will AI change our jobs? Will it replace humans and eliminate jobs? Will it help humans get things done? Will it create new opportunities for new ...
Helen Edwards and Dave Edwards: Make Better Decisions
02 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We humans make a lot of decisions. Apparently, 35,000 of them every day! So how do we improve our decisions? Is there a process to follow? Who are the...
Kat Cizek and William Uricchio: Co-Creation
18 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all do things with other people. We design things, we write things, we create things. Despite the fact that co-creation is all around us it can be ...
Gerd Gigerenzer: Staying Smart
04 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How should we respond and react to artificial intelligence and its impact on the world and each other? How should we handle the risk and uncertainty r...
Eric Pliner: Difficult Decisions
14 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all want decision-making to be easier. We want simple tools and frameworks that provide a process for no-regrets decisions. But it just isn’t tha...
Tom Hale: Oura Ring and the New Data of Health
31 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We’d all like to be healthier—to sleep longer, have lower stress, and have more energy. But is it possible for an AI to help us accomplish this? A...
Frank Rose: Storytelling in a Data-Driven World
17 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all love stories—they are one of the most important ways that humans communicate. Stories create heroes to root for and villains to revile. Stori...
Ben Shneiderman: Human-Centered AI
03 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many of our listeners will be familiar with human-centered design and human-computer interaction. These fields of research and practice have driven te...
Julio Mario Ottino: The Nexus
05 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“How can we augment our thinking spaces to increase creative solutions? How can we make those solutions real by mastering complexity?” Julio Mario...
Mark Nitzberg: Human-Compatible AI
15 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We hear a lot about harm from AI and how the big platforms are focused on using AI and user data to enhance their profits. What about developing AI fo...
Barbara Tversky: Spatial Cognition
30 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered why you can recognize and remember things but can’t describe them in words? That is one of the questions that started Barbara...
Megan Brown: Data Literacy
24 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
All major companies are working to increase the value of data science. Setting a goal may be easy but implementation often raises challenging question...
Peter Sterling: Decision Evolution
20 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we talk with Peter Sterling, the author of What is Health. Peter has had a long career in medicine and neuroscience. He has recently publish...
Stephen Fleming: Metacognition
12 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s human to know oneself. We are able to self-monitor, understand our cognition, and recognize gaps in our knowledge. This is called metacognition...
Jevin West: Making Sense of Data
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered what it means to be data literate in a world of big data and AI? Now that so many decisions rely on information that is only re...
Michael Bungay Stanier: Staying Curious
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Have you wondered what makes people different from machines? Well one thing is curiosity—curiosity is something that drives humans but as yet not ma...
Mollie Pettit: Visualizing Data
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Making decisions with data requires some form of communication with data. But how do we communicate with numbers and characters and binary bits? The b...
Josh Lovejoy: Designing AI
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered about what it takes to design AI that doesn’t do more harm than good? We speak with Josh Lovejoy who is perhaps the most expe...
Kate O'Neill: Humanizing Tech
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered what it means to be a humanist in the age of technology? How can we put human values into a machine? How can we even know what ...
Tania Lombrozo: Intuition and data
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered why we humans love to use our intuition even when we are surrounded by data and we also know that even simple algorithms can be...
Steven Sloman: Trusting knowledge
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On a scale of 1 to 10, rate how well you understand how a toilet works. Now, take a moment to explain how it works. Now, after you’ve tried to expla...
Rana el Kaliouby of Affectiva on emotional AI
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we have a conversation with Rana el Kaliouby, CEO and Co-Founder of Affectiva, about emotional AI, bias in AI and her new book, Girl ...
Renée Cummings of Urban AI on urban AI
07 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we have a conversation with Renée Cummings, Founder & CEO of Urban AI, about the issues and opportunities for AI in urban setting...
Maria Axente of PWC on ethical AI
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we open with a chat about Facebook’s acquisition of GIPHY and what the company may be trying to learn with its AI (hint: hidden mea...