Taryn Southern on Surfing the Exponential Tech Tsunami
From Humans On The Loop by Michael Garfield
September 10, 2025 · 1h 13m · Season 2 · Episode 24
About this episode
Taryn Southern discusses her experiences and insights on navigating technological change and its implications.
Membership | Donations | Spotify | YouTube | Apple Podcasts Today’s guest Taryn Southern is someone I consider a master surfer of technological change: a fellow elder millennial, artist, creative technologist, strategist, and dancer in the liminal zones of high chop. She’s better than I am at finding the pocket, has made a name for herself for riding some serious bombs, and seems to know precisely when to bail. Starting as an actor, Internet famous for being an early YouTube influencer and her album I Am AI , the first LP composed and produced with an LLM, she caught air at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2019 with the premier of her documentary I Am Human (co-directed with Elena Gaby), an intimate look at the lives of three people with implantable brain interfaces and the medical, ethical and societal implications. She’s also produced an award-winning musical VR series for Google using Tiltbrush and Blocks, worked as Chief Storyteller for Blackrock Neurotech, minted the first song token on the Ethereum blockchain, spoken and consulted all over the world, operated as an angel investor, and survived breast cancer. In other words, she’s just the person to teach you how to hang ten…
People in this episode
Host: Michael Garfield
Guest: Taryn Southern
Topics covered
- technology
- art
- music
- ethics
- health
- innovation
Keywords
- Taryn Southern
- technology
- music
- ethics
- brain interfaces
- innovation
- YouTube
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Google, Blackrock Neurotech, Ethereum
Books & works: I Am AI, I Am Human
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