Ni’coel and Minh Do explore moral imagination as a core sapient capacity, one that expands the option set before optimization. The episode frames moral imagination as discernment plus analogical reasoning functioning as a pre-decision engine within Human Decision Intelligence. Moral imagination enables people to anticipate harm, identify outcomes worth scaling, and resist the drift toward automated thinking. Ni’coel points out how contemporary systems reward speed over reflection, measurable metrics over meaning, and selection over invention, leaving society to efficiently optimize the wrong things. The episode argues that cultivating moral imagination is no longer optional: it’s one of the essential antidotes to mental and emotional atrophy in an accelerating machine-driven era.

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🔸Cohost: Minh Do is an entrepreneur, filmmaker, and speaker. He is the co-founder of Machine Cinema, a collective focused on AI and emerging tech in film and art, and Fantastic Day, where he is cofounder and head of AI, working with musicians, brands, and filmmakers to produce AI content. Minh is also a producer at Fairground.tv, an AI FAST channel with the goal of producing a 24/7 slate of AI content to distribute globally.

Drawing from his diverse background as a former VC, journalist, musician, and teacher. Minh is curious about how AI will transform entertainment and how AI will challenge our understanding of consciousness, and in particular, where does Zen Buddhism and AI intersect.

Minh is in Creator Partner Programs for Google Labs, Sora, ChatGPT 4o Image, Pika, Luma Dream Machine, Quander, and more allowing him to play, teach, and showcase with the cutting edge of AI image and video generation.