Artificial Happiness: Fulfilment in the Age of AI

Duncan CJ
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In a world run by algorithms, how do we stay human? This is Artificial Happiness — where we explore engineered fulfilment, real meaning, and the invisible wiring that shapes our lives. Each week, I speak with those building our future—and the thinkers unpacking what it means to truly thrive.

  1. Jun 8

    #161 – The Researcher Solving AI’s Biggest Hidden Problem | Andrew Trask

    What if the cure for a disease already exists inside the data, but nobody is allowed to look at it? Medical records across thousands of hospitals. Genetic data spread across dozens of countries. Research that...

    56 min

  2. May 29

    #160 – We’re in the Sweet Spot. For Now. | Nathan Labenz

    A concrete and positive vision for the future is the scarcest resource in AI right now. Billions of dollars are being poured into capabilities. The number of people working on a credible vision for what...

    1h 10m

  3. May 21

    #159 – Knowledge Doesn’t Travel in Books. It Travels in Brains. | César Hidalgo

    In 1789, a 21-year-old pretended to be a farmer, boarded a ship to New York, and launched the American Industrial Revolution. Not with blueprints or manuals, but with six years of procedural knowledge locked inside...

    52 min

  4. May 6

    #158 – The Man Who Curates the World’s Best Ideas | Eric Jorgenson

    There is a question that has separated Nobel Prize winners from scientists who wasted their careers, despite equal talent and equal resources. The question is simple. The answer is uncomfortable. And it applies to every...

    49 min

  5. Apr 13

    #157 – The Safest AI Is The Smartest AI | Pedro Domingos

    The people warning you that AI is too smart have it exactly backwards. The real danger right now is that AI is too stupid, and you have already handed it the keys. Pedro Domingos is...

    1 hr

  6. Mar 31

    #156 – Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things | Dan Ariely

    You probably have someone in your life who, seven years ago, you’d have said sees the world the way you do. Now you look at them and something has fundamentally shifted. The question is: what...

    54 min

  7. Mar 25

    #155 – The Attention Crisis That Could End Human Progress | Maria Konnikova

    What if the biggest threat to your company isn’t competition, a down round, or a bad hire but the slow erosion of your ability to think clearly? Maria Konnikova is a psychologist, three-time New York...

    40 min

  8. Mar 19

    #154 – Why Objectives Are the Enemy of Greatness | Kenneth Stanley

    What if the surest way to fail at something ambitious is to have a clear plan to achieve it? What if a robot that doesn’t know it’s trying to walk learns faster than one explicitly...

    1h 10m
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In a world run by algorithms, how do we stay human? This is Artificial Happiness — where we explore engineered fulfilment, real meaning, and the invisible wiring that shapes our lives. Each week, I speak with those building our future—and the thinkers unpacking what it means to truly thrive.

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