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Welcome to Season 2 of RealmIQ: Sessions where we talked with Michael Garfield. Artist, musician, AI Enthusiast, Philosopher, connector and fellow podcaster.

Main Topics Discussed

1. Michael Garfield's Background and Work:
   • Garfield's experience with the Santa Fe Institute and complex systems science.
   • His involvement with Google Glass as a beta tester and its impact on his worldview.
   • Current projects including books, AI non-profit work, and smart glasses.
2. Impact of AI on Society:
   • The implications of AI and wearable tech on personal and social interactions.
   • Historical context of technological evolution and its cyclical nature.
   • Challenges of information overload and trust in science and technology.
3. Future of AI and Society:
   • The role of AI in amplifying human decision-making rather than replacing it.
   • The potential of new job roles like Chief Philosophical Officer.
   • The importance of creative and philosophical thinking in navigating AI's future.
4. Regulation and Imagination:
   • The need for better regulation across different levels of society.
   • The role of imagination and creativity in shaping a positive future with AI.
   • Comparison of AI regulation to the regulation of social media and cryptocurrency.
5. Educational and Ethical Considerations:
   • The importance of education and evangelism in responsible AI use.
   • Upcoming courses on embodied ethics in the age of AI.
   • The balance between capacity enhancement and thoughtful decision-making.

Quotes from the Speakers

1. Michael Garfield:
   • "I just got off five years of doing science communication for the Santa Fe Institute, thinking about the general principles underlying the dynamics of adaptive and evolving systems."
   • "Wearing a computer on your face changes the way that you think, and it changes the way that you interact with the world around you."
   • "We are collectively struggling as a species right now to adapt to an enormous spike in the production of new information made available to us through our various successes in science and technology."
   • "We are going to get more and more comfortable with fundamental uncertainty and find better ways to weave processes that we don't understand like human or machine intuition."
2. Curt Doty:
   • "The promise of web three was a DAO, digital autonomous organization, which is really, you can be your own country with your own economy and your own relationships in this new world."
   • "The real question is, but is all that efficiency driving us? And it's a completely different mindset when you're using the tools not to be efficient, but actually improve learning."
   • "We have to focus on imagination. Imagine scenarios, imagine worlds, imagine new economies and how you leverage this technology to solve the problems of today and create a new world tomorrow.

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