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What does it mean to be human in an age where experience and behavior are mediated and regulated by algorithms? The Disintegrator Podcast is a limited series exploring how Artificial Intelligence affects who we are and how we express ourselves. Join Roberto Alonso Trillo, Marek Poliks, and Helena McFadzean as they speak to the artists, philosophers, scientists, and social theorists at the forefron... more

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Sorry this took so long we published a major whitepaper and went on tour ok???? But we've got a ton in the chamber we're back we're so back thanks for your patience.

We’re joined by Federico Campagna: philosopher and writer and magic man in his own ... more

We're incredibly honored to be joined by Dave Wright, Chief Innovation Officer at ServiceNow, and Brian Solis, ServiceNow's Head of Global Innovation, digital anthropologist, and nine-time author. Together, Dave and Brian run ServiceNow Futures and h... more

We're joined by Anna Greenspan: philosopher, Associate Professor at NYU Shanghai, where she co-directs the Center for AI and Culture, and author of Shanghai Future and China and the Wireless Undertow. Longtime listeners will recognize her twice over ... more

We're joined by Paul Dylan-Ennis and Wassim Alsindi, two of crypto's sharpest in-house critics, who arrived at the same place from opposite directions.

Paul is a lecturer at University College Dublin, author of Absolute Essentials of Ethereum, an ea... more

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Recent Guests

Federico Campagna
Philosopher, writer, publisher and associate fellow at the Warburg Institute
Warburg Institute
Episode: 51. Worlds (w/ Federico Campagna)
Brian Solis
Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow; co-author of Infinite
ServiceNow
Episode: 50. The Infinite Company (w/ Dave Wright and Brian Solis)
Dave Wright
Chief Innovation Officer at ServiceNow; co-author of Infinite
ServiceNow
Episode: 50. The Infinite Company (w/ Dave Wright and Brian Solis)
Anna Greenspan
Philosopher and director of the Center for AI and Culture at NYU Shanghai
New York University Shanghai
Episode: 49. Garden (w/ Anna Greenspan)
Wassim Alsindi
Bitcoin researcher and writer; author of discussions on SapphirePunk
Independent researcher/author
Episode: 48. Indifference Engine (w/ Wassim Alsindi & Paul Dylan-Ennis)
Paul Dylan-Ennis
Ethnographer of Ethereum; co-founder of Speculations
Speculations
Episode: 48. Indifference Engine (w/ Wassim Alsindi & Paul Dylan-Ennis)
Elias Merhige
Filmmaker, known for Begotten and experimental cinema
Independent filmmaker
Episode: 47. Invocation (w/ E. Elias Merhige and Gavin Gamboa)
Gavin Gamboa
Mexican-American composer, pianist, creative technologist
Independent artist
Episode: 47. Invocation (w/ E. Elias Merhige and Gavin Gamboa)
Yancey Strickler
Co-founder of Kickstarter; innovator behind Artist Corporations (ACORB) and related initiatives
Kickstarter; ACORB
Episode: 46. Building Doors (w/ Yancey Strickler)

Hosts

Roberto Alonso Trillo
Host of the Disintegrator, with recurring involvement across episodes.
Marek Poliks
Co-host and core creator, frequently guiding discussions with guests.
Helena McFadzean
Host focusing on philosophical and cultural angles of AI.

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4.9 out of 5 stars from 110 ratings
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Edges into controversial territory with sharp insights.
Feels like a front-row seat to the future of AI culture.
Thought-provoking and challenging, never easy answers.
Dense but rewarding for curious minds and policy thinkers.

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51. Worlds (w/ Federico Campagna)
Q: What do you think about this kind of an apocalypse that is also like operationalized, for example?
Campagna rejects the idea that AI's development is inevitable, arguing that inevitability narratives naturalize the power of those who benefit from it. He says AI is built to serve its makers' interests, while its uses can still be repurposed.
51. Worlds (w/ Federico Campagna)
Q: But how does one build a world?
Campagna says world-building happens within the imagination, where people create structures of meaning that shape perception. These structures are not simply found in reality; people make them.
50. The Infinite Company (w/ Dave Wright and Brian Solis)
Q: What is the role of human judgment in an increasingly automated enterprise, and how do you manage risk when deploying AI?
Define what agents can and cannot do, incorporate human-in-the-loop where appropriate, and implement governance to prevent privilege escalation and risky actions; use AI as a tool to augment human judgment, not replace it entirely.
50. The Infinite Company (w/ Dave Wright and Brian Solis)
Q: How has the idea of the workflow evolved with agentic AI, and can a business be decomposed entirely into workflows?
Workflows remain foundational, but agentic AI enables them to be more autonomous and outcome-driven; the business can be seen as a bundle of workflows, yet the real shift is towards designing for outcomes and letting AI help achieve those outcomes.
49. Garden (w/ Anna Greenspan)
Q: How do garden traditions inform your approach to thinking about AI and its ethics?
Garden traditions provide a framework to understand AI as a cultivated, emergent process where nature and artificiality co-create; they help reframe AI ethics away from a purely technical problem toward a cosmotechnical and cultural problem where boundary, mimesis, and time become central.

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What is Disintegrator about and what kind of topics does it cover?

Disintegrator explores what it means to be human when experiences and communications are mediated by AI. Across episodes, listeners encounter deep dives with artists, philosophers, scientists, and technologists who question AI ethics, cognition, governance, and the political economy surrounding data, platforms, and infrastructure. Highlights include discussions of cosmotechnics in AI, post-humanist ethics, substrate-aware cognition, data-center finance, and the societal implications of AI in culture, warfare, and environment. Noteworthy is the show's tendency to pair rigorous theoretical talk with vivid cultural critique and imaginative storytelling, often challenging mainstream tech narratives and proposing alternative futures for human-AI... more

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