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Podcast Profile: The Human Podcast

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62 episodes
2022 to 2026
Median: 47 minutes
Collection: SciPhi-Adjacent

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Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):

This podcast is built around long-form, filmed conversations that use individual life stories as a route into bigger ideas about what it means to be human. Across the episodes, the host interviews a wide range of guests—researchers, philosophers, technologists, journalists, creators, athletes, charity founders, and people with unusual careers—drawing out both their personal background and the questions their work raises.

A major throughline is technology, especially artificial intelligence. Conversations often focus on how AI systems work, what “alignment” and governance mean, and how AI might reshape society, science, and everyday life. Several discussions explore high-stakes questions such as existential risk, policy and movement-building around AI, and moral issues like whether advanced AI could merit ethical consideration. The show also covers AI’s cultural and personal implications, including relationships with chatbots, the “digital afterlife” idea of recreating deceased loved ones, and attempts to design technology that changes user behavior (for example, simpler phones meant to reduce distraction).

Another prominent theme is mind and behavior: psychology, neuroscience, psychiatry, and cognition. Guests discuss topics such as memory and training techniques, spatial navigation and how the brain represents space, autism research and public understanding of neurodiversity, consumer influence and advertising ethics, and why people believe in paranormal claims. These episodes often link scientific work to practical questions about manipulation, well-being, attention, and rational decision-making.

The podcast also regularly ventures into philosophy and intellectual history—covering figures and concepts like infinity, consciousness, free will, and how philosophical inquiry informs daily life. Alongside academia and tech, listeners also hear from people known for distinctive feats or roles—endurance athletes, puzzle and game-record holders, entertainers and magicians, media personalities, and music-industry insiders—connecting ambition, obsession, motivation, and service (including charity work) to an ongoing closing question about what constitutes a good life.