Podcast Episodes

What Camus Knew That Sam Bankman-Fried Didn't

Rushkoff breaks down the intellectual hubris driving Silicon Valley: Effective Altruism (EA), Longtermism, and AI accelerationism.

From Sam Bankman-Fr…

2 months ago

Is AI Development Modern Chaos Magic? (w/ Trevor Paglen)

We once looked at pictures. Now, pictures are looking back at us. Renowned artist and author Trevor Paglen joins Rushkoff to expose how computer visi…

2 months, 1 week ago

How to Glitch the AI System (w/ Sophie Strand)

Sophie Strand (author of The Flowering Wand and The Body Is a Doorway) joins Rushkoff for a conversation about breaking free from the dominant paradi…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Carnival vs. Coliseum: Reclaiming Our Shared Civics

Rushkoff breaks down the disturbing cultural shift toward Might Makes Right, a playground philosophy that values raw power, wealth, and violence over…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Adam McKay: We've Already Left the Holocene

"The most useful framework is that our country’s been invaded. But like all great invasions, it involves new techniques." - Adam McKay

Academy Award-w…

3 months ago

Formulas Against the False Self: Mitch Horowitz on Left-Hand Path Magic

Mitch Horowitz returns to Team Human for a fiery, provocative exploration of his new book, Esoterika: Formulas Against the False Self. 

Rushkoff and H…

3 months, 1 week ago

The Shoggoth in the Machine: AI, ARGs, and the Future of Play (w/ Reed Berkowitz)

How do we keep the machine from pulling us into another world, or escaping into ours?

Rushkoff is joined by OG game designer, hacker, and Director of…

3 months, 1 week ago

The Trap of Living Forever (And the Bliss of Letting Go)

Rushkoff contrasts the blissful, terrifying reality of voluntary dissolution with our pyramid-building civilization. From the ancient pyramids of Egy…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Stop Chasing the Matrix: How to Live Fully in a Collapsing World (w/ Sarah Wilson)

If building a better future looks like a miserable exercise in self-denial, nobody is going to join.

Rushkoff sits down with author and activist Sarah…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Spidey Sense in the Age of AI

Following a recent New York Times expose on a high-profile AI book scandal, Rushkoff takes us behind the scenes of the modern grift factory.

More than…

3 months, 3 weeks ago