In a solo episode of The Great Simplification, Nate Hagens examines the effects of artificial intelligence on energy, work, learning and social trust. He connects current pressures and research findings with broader concerns, while also outlining hypothetical scenarios for the future concentration of power and human control.
Nate Hagens presents a series of small, specific and slightly unusual actions to address the metacrisis; the aim is not simply to weather the storm, but to change the initial conditions from which the future will emerge.
In the sixth part of the “How to Think About the Future” series, Nate Hagens presents a method for acting under uncertainty: distinguish reversible from irreversible losses, avoid Type I and Type II errors, and develop robust actions that have value in every possible future.
In a solo episode of the series, Nate Hagens brings broad frameworks for civilizational futures down to the scale of a human life. He examines material flow, personal agency, the body and the web of relationships, arguing that these foundations determine whether our plans will hold up.
Matthew Monahan, co-founder of Ma Earth, explains to Nate Hagens how regenerative finance, crowdfunding and technologies such as Ethereum are trying to channel resources into community projects that serve life.
The co-founder and president of the Center for Humane Technology talks to Nate Hagens about the risks of AI, the dynamics of the race, its effects on the economy and mental health, and the steps that could steer humanity toward safer technological futures, ahead of the documentary “The AI Doc.”
The 23-year-old activist and Planetary Guardians member Xiye Bastida talks to Nate Hagens about her shift from student climate protests to funding restoration projects, while explaining why hope alone is not enough and what it means to live close to the Earth's rhythm.
Historian and author Rutger Bregman talks to Nate Hagens about his book Moral Ambition and the School for Moral Ambition, explaining how our need for status can be redirected from wealth to solving major problems.
The host of The Great Simplification responds to a listener's comment and asks not what he wants, but what he would like to want for the future; he offers a list of basic needs, relationships, meaning and connection with nature.
Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s former digital minister and current digital ambassador, explains to Nate Hagens how tools for broad listening, collective sensemaking and “pluralism” turned polarized disputes into widely accepted policies.
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