1KHO 714: Do We Have Free Will in an Algorithmic World? | Kartik Hosanagar, A Human's Guide to Machine Intelligence

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Get our free Top Ten 1000 Hours Outside Podcast Books from 2025⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Kartik Hosanagar has been tracking AI long before “ChatGPT” became a household word, and in this conversation with Ginny Yurich, he helps parents see what’s already shaping their homes (and possibly children). AI can affect what we watch, what we buy, what we believe, who we date, and our career paths. Drawing from his book A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence, Kartik explains how machines stopped simply following “recipe-like” instructions and began learning like children do—surprising us, improvising, and sometimes operating as black boxes we can’t fully interpret. You’ll hear the jaw-dropping story of the early chatbots that felt like real friends, why recommendation engines narrow our options without us noticing, and what it looks like to reclaim agency by adding “friction” back into family life. This episode is both a wake-up call and a steadying roadmap for staying human in an algorithmic world. Get a copy of the Book: A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence Check out Kartik’s Substack Creative Intelligence: https://hosanagar.substack.com A huge thank you to our sponsors! Check them ALL out below: BetterHelp: Visit www.BetterHelp.com/1000HOURS today to get 10% off your first month. Quince - Visit www.quince.com/outside and get free shipping and 365 day returns Hungry Root - Go to www.hungryroot.com/1000HOURS and use code 1000HOURS to get 40% off your first box and a free item of your choice for life. IXL Learning - Head to www.ixl.com/1000hours to get an exclusive 20% savings on your membership Wayfair - Go to www.wayfair.com and shop all things home Cure Hydration- head to www.curehydration.com/outside to find a retailer near you Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, oh, it's a beautiful world.
0:05.0	Ain't nothing on a screen that's ever gonna beat this view.
0:10.0	Oh, oh, it's a beautiful world.
0:16.0	And I just wanna share it with, I just wanna share it it with you This beautiful world
0:23.6	Such a beautiful world
0:31.6	When was the last time you had space to feel?
0:36.6	With the National Trust you had space to feel?
0:38.3	With the National Trust, you might just find life standing still under towering trees.
0:44.3	Maybe you'll find connection among the stories of the past,
0:49.3	or a moment to disconnect from it all on a mountainside.
0:53.3	Whatever you're feeling, wherever you are, with the National Trust, you can make space to feel.
1:04.0	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Ginny Urge and the founder of 1000 Hours Outside.
1:09.0	And I have a guest today that I'm so
1:10.9	excited to talk about. He wrote a book called How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives and How We Can Stay Well, okay, this is the subtitle. The book is called A Human's Guide to Machine Intelligence. The subtitle is how algorithms are shaping our lives and how we can stay in control. The author, Karduk, Hosoniger, is here.
1:28.1	Welcome, Kartik. Thanks so much for having me, Jenny. Excited to be here. This is a fantastic topic.
1:34.6	And what is so intriguing to me about your book, which came out in 2019, which means you wrote it
1:40.2	before then, and you're talking in this book about AI chat bots that were in China in
1:45.1	2014 is that this is not new and I think a lot of parents especially since chat GPT came out
1:53.4	are kind of like oh I'm dabbling in this new technology but it's not new and you're explaining
1:59.3	this in your book I mean this is going back it's really going back to the 19, I think, 60s or, you know, they're talking about it way back then, artificial intelligence. But a lot of these technologies have been around at this point for a while. You teach your course. It's called enabling technologies, what's going on in tech. You're still writing about this on your substack and I'll put the link in the show notes.
2:18.3	It's hosanager.substack.com.
2:20.3	It's called Creative Intelligence.
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