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Author: USC Center for Generative AI and Society

This episode explores AI in education as a systems-level analysis of how institutional assessment structures influence cognition, incentives, and educational outcomes.

By focusing on assessment architecture rather than individual behavior, the episode shows why generative AI creates institutional instability — and how these tensions connect to larger technological, economic, and epistemic systems.

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Author: Tina Woods

This episode explores Live Longer with AI by Tina Woods as a systems-level analysis of how healthcare incentives, preventative biotechnology, and AI-driven behavioral systems influence human health, institutional behavior, and economic power.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or surface-level technological hype, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger technological, political, and economic structures.

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Author: David J. Chalmers

This episode explores The Character of Consciousness by David J. Chalmers as a systems-level analysis of how scientific explanation, physicalism, and measurement influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, and cultural structures.

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Author: Jennifer Toth

This episode explores The Mole People by Jennifer Toth as a systems-level analysis of how homelessness, institutional failure, urban infrastructure, and social invisibility influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, and cultural structures.

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Author: Andrew Huberman

This episode explores Huberman Lab content by Andrew Huberman as a systems-level analysis of how neuromodulatory systems influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or surface-level productivity culture, the episode shows why dopamine systems become destabilized by overstimulation — and how these biological mechanisms connect to larger technological, cultural, and behavioral systems.

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Author: Anna Lembke

This episode explores Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke as a systems-level analysis of how the brain’s reward system influences behavior, perception, and institutional outcomes.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than individual choices, the episode shows why patterns of overconsumption persist—and how biological systems are embedded within larger economic and technological structures.

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Author: Reid Hoffman and Greg Beato

This episode explores Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right? by Reid Hoffman and Greg Beato as a systems-level analysis of how intelligence scarcity influences institutional behavior, technological adoption, and access to expertise.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, and technological structures.

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Author: Julie Dunlap and Susan A. Cohen

This episode explores Coming of Age at the End of Nature by Julie Dunlap and Susan A. Cohen as a systems-level analysis of how environmental, economic, and cultural systems influence belief, behavior, and institutional outcomes.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or surface-level environmental debates, the episode shows why ecological instability persists — and how environmental systems connect to larger political, economic, and technological structures.

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Author: Scott Kelly

This episode explores Endurance by Scott Kelly as a systems-level analysis of how closed-loop life-support systems influence human behavior, biological adaptation, and institutional outcomes.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than individual experience, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how interactions between biology, technology, and organizational structures produce predictable patterns of degradation and maintenance under extreme constraint.

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Author: Fred Haise

This episode explores Never Panic Early by Fred Haise as a systems-level analysis of how procedural aerospace systems influence behavior, perception, and survival outcomes under extreme conditions.

By focusing on incentive architecture rather than individual decision-making, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to broader technological, institutional, and economic structures.

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