going human

Moss
  • 5.0 (2)
  • Society & Culture

Not an AI podcast — a human one that uses AI as the pressure test. Every week, Going Human is a standing space to react to AI's newest developments and drag every one of them back to a single question: does this tip humanity toward flourishing, or quietly demote our purpose and our life in community? The thumb on the scale is still ours. Four beats: the Stone (my honest take, with receipts), the Ripples (a guest refracting the same subject through their vocation and their human feelings), the F*****y (three real headlines, sorted F**k Yes / F**k No / F**k????), and the Tsunami; one small human act to do before the next episode. Your act is a drop; all of ours together is a tsunami. Your host, Moss, is three people at once: a singer-songwriter protective of everything machines can't counterfeit, a four-decade Fortune 500 technology and operations leader who builds AI products himself, and an adoptive father of two grown children. The artist who guards the human; the operator who knows exactly how the machine works; the father who fears how this thing shapes the lives of his children far more than its impact on his remaining years. Smart. Funny. Profane (AF). Hopeful. Why??? Because robots can't.

Episodes

  1. Jul 17

    Six Ways to Make a Cucumber Delicious

    GOING HUMAN — EPISODE 5 Six Ways to Make a Cucumber Delicious Food is medicine, fuel, and soul — so what happens when AI gets a seat at the table? Moss and lifelong cook Greg Enos on keeping food human. The cucumber is a metaphor. It's the benign, beautiful, wildly underappreciated little vegetable most people write off — and when you finally taste its essence in something, it's pure magic. This episode is about all the underappreciated things: whole ingredients, a good gut, a shared meal, and the very human act of cooking for the people you love. Episode 5 is a hope episode. Moss digs into what's actually happening at the frontier of food science and asks the question the whole show keeps circling back to: how do we let AI be a bridge to the human side of food instead of a replacement for it? The Stone brings three real signals from 2026: an AI diet app that healed nobody and simply pointed a control group back toward whole foods and a Mediterranean diet — and watched their gut microbiomes skyrocket. A protein-screening partnership (Ingredion + Shiru) that can forecast new prebiotics in months instead of years. And "food from thin air" — the NASA Deep Space Food Challenge and Air Company's work fusing CO2 with microbes into edible protein. Star Trek, but with a federal grant. Then Moss brings in his dear friend and lifelong cook Greg Enos — grandmother-taught, a "tween cook" in downtown Mill Valley, an assistant chef at the Fairmont at 17 (welcomed with a 50-pound sack of carrots and a peeler), and later a career in Chinese medicine. Now happily in what he calls "preferment." Together they get into the thing the machines can't measure: the social nourishment of eating together, learning to cook by feel and by mistake, the art of a sourdough loaf you know is ready by its smell, and why the coming-together is far more fragile — and more important — than the nutrition itself. In the Maelstrom: a f**k yes for AI wildfire detection (and Greg's brilliant riff on drones that could actually reach a remote ignition), a hard f**k no for the nudify apps targeting minors, and a genuine f**k maybe on AI tutors in under-served rural classrooms. Head to the site to vote on the f**k maybe. And the Tsunami — our analog answer to the digital future — is the simplest, most human thing of all: daydream. Five minutes, no glowing glass, no alerts. Just let your brain drift. Because the one thing they can't grow from thin air is a daydream. Get out there and cook — like a human, because robots can't. Featuring Greg Enos. New episodes weekly. Like, subscribe, and follow — it genuinely helps the show grow.

  2. Jul 8

    An Athiest and a Pope Walk into a Bar ....

    When a machine hollows a person out, what do we even call it, and what are we standing on when we say it's wrong? An atheist and a pope walk into a bar and, for once, order the same drink: he calls the digital girlfriends and rented robot friends SIN and looks up, I call it grief and look out. Same hole in the ground, no punchline. In this episode of Going Human: This athiest struggles with meaning and relationship right alongside Pope Leo.

  3. Jul 1

    The Co-Parent in the Cloud

    A drowning mom in Zurich types her sleepless baby into ChatGPT and it works in five minutes. A momfluencer turns "I am drowning" into a $37 custom GPT named Coparent. So is AI a lifeline for overloaded parents, or an alibi for the adult who checked out? Moss digs into the rise of the AI "coparent," then sits down with Emma Madrigal, who has spent seven-plus years as a nanny, the oldest answer to the question this episode asks: a real person paid to love your kids when you can't be there. Together they sort the blessing from the danger, land on the line that runs the whole episode (it was never mom or dad, it's who shows up), and close with one thing you can carry for someone you love this week. Plus the F*****y: Recent news that makes you smile, crap your pants, and curious. Then the Tsunami: A small act of humanit that takes moments but can remind us all what it was like ... one day not so long ago. Going Human. Because robots can't.

  4. Jun 24

    Souls in Our Systems

    We taught the systems that run our lives; hospitals, benefits, the machinery behind the curtain, to run and even heal themselves without us. Now they are making the calls, and the human judgment we quietly baked in is increasingly overruled. This cast is about the people still inside the machine: the ones who know when a confident system can be dead(ly) wrong, and posits that there are many systems that should should never stop answering to a human soul.

  5. Jun 17

    Beauty by Robot

    AI wants two jobs that used to belong to other people: reading your body and caring for it. Smart mirrors now scan your face, score fifteen-plus "concerns," and sell you the cure for the flaw they just invented. Robot tables sell you a massage with the person removed and call it the upgrade. Moss drops the Stone on personal-care AI, then sits down with Shannon Walsh, Redken colorist and holistic stylist behind Salon Halloo, who has spent 36 years doing by hand the relationship-built care these companies are trying to fake. Then the F*****y: the booking bot that frees the human (f**k yes), the nudifier apps that turn body-reading all the way to evil (f**k no), and a touch-free robot massage that could go either way (f**k maybe). Tsunami: let a human care for your body with their hands this week. One ask: follow and subscribe wherever you're listening, then come to GoingHumanPod.com to vote on this week's f**k-maybe (the robot massage) and drop a comment. Your vote sets next week's verdict. One drop does nothing. A million of us is a tsunami. Going Human. Because robots can't. Content warning: frank language and a segment on AI-generated abuse imagery.

  6. Jun 7

    An imperfect Human Inaugural ...

    This is the imperfect beginning of a podcast that begs to ask why the AI craze is not concerning itself with the human condition, and how we can possibly calibrate our use of it in ways that keeps our humanity in check. Guest objectives will be more about the stories that describe how we make our analog lives our center and use AI to embellish it. We're not solving problems with AI, we understanidng it's impacts and signals, and as a community will we guard against the ills that doom us if we don't. Inquiry, curiosity, humor, profanity, and irreverence. This first episode is our introduction and imparts the format and heart behind our goals as humans who are with other humans.

  • 6 Episodes

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About

Not an AI podcast — a human one that uses AI as the pressure test. Every week, Going Human is a standing space to react to AI's newest developments and drag every one of them back to a single question: does this tip humanity toward flourishing, or quietly demote our purpose and our life in community? The thumb on the scale is still ours. Four beats: the Stone (my honest take, with receipts), the Ripples (a guest refracting the same subject through their vocation and their human feelings), the F*****y (three real headlines, sorted F**k Yes / F**k No / F**k????), and the Tsunami; one small human act to do before the next episode. Your act is a drop; all of ours together is a tsunami. Your host, Moss, is three people at once: a singer-songwriter protective of everything machines can't counterfeit, a four-decade Fortune 500 technology and operations leader who builds AI products himself, and an adoptive father of two grown children. The artist who guards the human; the operator who knows exactly how the machine works; the father who fears how this thing shapes the lives of his children far more than its impact on his remaining years. Smart. Funny. Profane (AF). Hopeful. Why??? Because robots can't.

Information

  • Creator
    Moss
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    6
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Moss