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The Psychology PodcastAuthor: Scott Barry Kaufman
For eleven years and 478 episodes, Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman hosted The Psychology Podcast, one of the most listened-to psychology shows in the world, with more than 30 million downloads. Human Potential Lab is what that show has become. The questions have moved. What is a mind? What makes something conscious? What happens to being human when the things we build start to look like minds themselves? Too much of the work is happening out of public view. In this new show, Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman sits down with the scientists, philosophers and technologists working at the frontier the people whose work is actively deciding what we could become as a species.Scott Barry Kaufman is a cognitive scientist and the founder of the Center for Human Potential. He holds a Ph.D. from Yale and an M.Phil. from Cambridge, has taught at Columbia, NYU and the University of Pennsylvania, and is the author or editor of twelve books, including Transcend, Ungifted, Wired to Create and Rise Above. New episodes every other week from October 28, 2026. Language: en Genres: Science, Social Sciences Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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The Person You Become | L.A. Paul
Wednesday, 28 October, 2026
L.A. Paul joins Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman to explore transformative experiences, the nature of personal change, and why some of life's most important decisions cannot be fully understood until we experience them. They discuss how trauma can lead to growth without making the original suffering worthwhile, why subjective experience matters, and how our values and sense of self can change through major life events.The conversation also examines gradual moral transformation, mental corruption and empathy, cognitive decline, and the limits of imagining our future selves. Paul connects her framework of transformative experience to artificial intelligence, arguing for precaution amid rapid technological change and questioning whether AI alignment can remain reliable when both human values and artificial systems are capable of changing in unpredictable ways.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
