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Living A Life In Full

Living A Life In Full

Jamie Metzl on the Paradox of Using AI to Build a More Human Future

Sep 1, 2026 · 1h 45m

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About this episode

In this episode, I sit down with futurist, author, and policy expert Jamie Metzl, PhD, JD, to explore one of the defining questions of our time: how can we use artificial intelligence to build a future that is not less human, but more so? Our conversation moves beyond simplistic visions of AI as either salvation or catastrophe and instead asks what these technologies reveal about our values, judgment, and moral seriousness. Jamie is the author of The AI Ten Commandments: A New Moral Code for Humanity and a leading voice on the intersection of AI, genetics, biotechnology, and geopolitics—argues that AI should be understood not as artificial human intelligence, but as a powerful alternate…