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Humans in the Loop, hosted by Seb Agertoft, is a podcast for thoughtful technologists asking the hard questions at the intersection of technology and society.
Guests include founders, investors, researchers, artists, policymakers and even a Zen Master, covering topics like the AI bubble debate, tech sovereignty, the Chinese tech industry, radicalisation and conspiracy theories, AGI, quantum computing, technology and democracy, the future of work, and much more.
Seb is a coach to tech company founders and leadership teams. You can find out more about his work at www.theuncommonfounder.com
Guests include founders, investors, researchers, artists, policymakers and even a Zen Master, covering topics like the AI bubble debate, tech sovereignty, the Chinese tech industry, radicalisation and conspiracy theories, AGI, quantum computing, technology and democracy, the future of work, and much more.
Seb is a coach to tech company founders and leadership teams. You can find out more about his work at www.theuncommonfounder.com
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Average audio length:
56 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
23 episodes
since Aug. 5, 2025
episodic
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So much of the debate around AI is on the level of vibes or mystic predictions.
I wanted to come back to a grounded view of what AI is actually good at today. No doom, no hype.
I've long admired Rohit's work and his excellent Substack - Strange Loop Canon - much of which details his extensive exp…
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Scott Aaronson is a Computer Scientist, Complexity Theorist and leading authority on Quantum Computing.
As he says himself, he's spent twenty years trying to dispel some of the commonly held myths about it.
As a non-scientist, I've spent some time trying to wrap my head around quantum mechanics a…
Sir Dieter Helm is the UK's leading energy economist and Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Oxford.
He is also the first Knight of the Realm on Humans in the Loop.
As a proud Brit and European, I care deeply about British and European prosperity. Technology is not the only driver …
Claire Stapleton spent 12 years at Google from 2007 - 2019. She joined as a fresh grad at a time of peak optimism and idealism in Silicon Valley, and soon became somewhat of a 'Bard' - responsible for shaping the story and sharing the folklore around Google with employees and later the outside worl…
Benedict Evans is a tech analyst and former partner at A16z.
His newsletter with rational takes on tech goes out to over 175k people.
In amongst the noise around AI and the tech industry more broadly, Benedict has built a reputation for high quality, level headed analysis.
I sat down with Benedict …
Few people understand language quite like today's guest. Emily M. Bender is a Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Washington.
She's also the person who coined the term 'Stochastic Parrots' in the now infamous paper that saw Google fire its Ethical AI lead; and the co-author…
I sat down with Paul Kedrosky - investor, researcher and one of the smartest voices out there on the economics of AI and the risks of a bubble.
Here are a few of the questions we talked about:
What is a bubble?
Is AI a bubble?
How does it compare to past bubbles?
What would cause the bubble to bu…
How do ideas, however crazy they might seem, spread?
Who's a true believer vs. a grifter following the money?
Can you talk about Epstein and QAnon without losing your rational mind?
How can investigative journalism move with the times?
These are just some of the questions I sat down to discuss …
Many of us have a sense that even well-meaning companies and institutions lose their way, sometimes becoming downright evil.Eric Ries is a legend when it comes to building tech companies and his new book is written from the perspective of someone whose been 'on the frontlines in the battle for the …
How to lift an entire country out of poverty?
Does philanthropy make a difference?
What if wealthy tech founders gave away their money?
Will AI make poor countries even poorer?
How does technology help a country to develop?
Those are some of the questions discussed into today's episode of Humans i…
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