Living Well with Technology, episode 46 of the Human Pulse Podcast.

Between automated phone trees that lead in circles and tech support chatbots that fail to understand nuance, trying to get help with technology can be an exercise in pure frustration. But as tech support increasingly shifts from human representatives to bots—and as AI agents promise to act on our behalf—are we really heading toward a more seamless future, or just deeper into an uncanny valley?

From the friction of delegating tasks like customer support and inbox triage to the looming privacy trade-offs of granting agents access to our personal email, calendars, and credit cards, convenience comes at a steep price.

Meanwhile, the tech industry continues to herald autonomous AI agents as the next massive technological shift. Yet real-world adoption numbers tell a very different story: from a few hundred food delivery orders to a staggering total of four Uber rides booked by agents in a whole quarter.

Are autonomous AI agents genuinely the future of everyday computing, or are we caught in an echo chamber of venture-backed hype waiting for the bubble to burst.

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Chapters

00:00 The Four Rides
00:33 Are Bots More or Less Helpful Than Humans?
03:25 Tech Support Nightmares: Bots vs. Humans
08:35 Voice Clones, Fast Listening, and Overcast
13:32 Meta's Muse and the Rise of AI Agents
17:40 The Privacy Dilemma: Inboxes, Cards, and Always-Listening Tech
23:22 The Adoption Reality Check: 4 Rides and a Few Hundred Burgers
28:02 An Echo Chamber Bubble?
28:30 Conclusion
29:29 Outtakes

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Recording Date: October, 18th, 2026

Hosts: Anne Trager – Human Potential & Executive Performance Coach & Fabrice Neuman – Tech Consultant for Small Businesses

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Resources & Links

Meta Muse: 7 Mind Blowing Use Cases (Paul J Lipsky, YouTube)

Big Tech lost big in the 2026 election (The Vergecast, Nov. 6th 2026)

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Living Well with Technology, episode 45 of the Human Pulse Podcast.

When an acclaimed novel running for France's prestigious Prix Goncourt is suddenly accused of being almost entirely written by artificial intelligence, something fascinating happens: readers who genuinely loved the book begin to change their minds. If a piece of art triggers real human emotion, does it matter whether it was produced by a human or a machine?

Just like blind wine tastings or the placebo effect, our subjective experience of reality is heavily shaped by the stories we tell ourselves about what we are consuming. When we view AI as an author rather than a simple tool like a paintbrush, our trust fractures—both in the art itself and in our broader perception of reality.

Meanwhile, the explosion of generative AI—and the tidal wave of automated "slop" that comes with it—forces us to confront deeper legal and philosophical questions. From the famous "monkey selfie" copyright dispute to AI companies training models on scraped works while fiercely protecting their own code, the lines between inspiration, theft, authorship, and ownership are blurring beyond recognition.

Are we witnessing the death of authorship and intellectual property as we know it, and how do we build a new human story around creativity in the age of AI?

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Chapters

00:00 Quote
00:48 The Prix Goncourt AI Controversy
05:37 Real Emotions, Fake Author?
07:07 Wine, Brain Waves, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
12:20 The Paintbrush vs. The Machine
17:19 Who Is the Author?
20:56 The Crisis of Trust
22:36 The Monkey Selfie and the Death of Ownership

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Recording Date: October, 18th, 2026

Hosts: Anne Trager – Human Potential & Executive Performance Coach & Fabrice Neuman – Tech Consultant for Small Businesses

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Resources & Links

C'était ça ou mourir by Thélyson Orélien (Wikipedia page in French)

Marketing actions can modulate neural representations of experienced pleasantness (National Library of Medicine)

Humans versus AI: whether and why we prefer human-created compared to AI-created artwork (SpringerNature)

The Monkey Selfie Dispute (Wikipedia)

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Living Well with Technology, episode 44 of the Human Pulse Podcast.

Between catastrophic headlines, hacking incidents, and fears of rogue robots, it can feel like we have stepped into a modern Dark Ages. But why are we so drawn to predicting disaster?

Cognitive biases like dread risk, affective forecasting, and linear thinking clash with complex, exponential technology, leaving us overwhelmed and vulnerable to algorithmic doom spirals and "cognitive surrender".

Meanwhile, the AI industry sends mixed signals—raising alarms about rogue consciousness to fundraise and drum up hype, while also petitioning governments to slow down the race. In response, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman proposed a 30-page "humanist code of conduct," insisting that sequence completion engines are internally hollow and must be kept legible and controllable. But as Isaac Asimov showed us through his Three Laws of Robotics, governing intelligent systems by the letter of the law is never simple.

Can we move past apocalyptic narratives and design AI that is clean, fair, and truly human-centered?

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Chapters

00:00 Quote
00:39 The Dark Ages of Technology?
02:38 Cognitive Surrender
07:29 The Psychology of Doom
13:31 The Role of AI in Society
18:45 Humanist Code for AI
24:16 Asimov's Laws and AI Ethics

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Recording Date: September, 27th, 2026

Hosts: Anne Trager – Human Potential & Executive Performance Coach & Fabrice Neuman – Tech Consultant for Small Businesses

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Anne Trager
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Fabrice Neuman
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Resources & Links

The Humanist AI Code of Conduct (on Mustafa Suleyman’s blog)

Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse (Decode, The Verge)

I, Robot, the movie (Wikipedia page)

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