Michael DB Harvey
@michaeldbharvey.bsky.social
Organizational psychologist, political ecologist and future-gazer, AI and Big Tech sceptic, climate songwriter, author of Utopia in the Anthropocene and THE AGE OF HUMACHINES: Ontocapitalism, Big Tech Dystopia and the Eco-Democratic Degrowth Alternative
There's a 100% chance that AGI will cause human extinction!
This statement is as rational and evidence-based as Anthropic's latest "10% chance” warning. A genuinely superintelligent entity defies ALL human predictions. That's why the only rational move is to ban it!
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This statement is as rational and evidence-based as Anthropic's latest "10% chance” warning. A genuinely superintelligent entity defies ALL human predictions. That's why the only rational move is to ban it!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QRj...
Ban AGI
YouTube video by Michael DB Harvey - Topic
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September 10, 2026 at 3:32 PM
There's a 100% chance that AGI will cause human extinction!
This statement is as rational and evidence-based as Anthropic's latest "10% chance” warning. A genuinely superintelligent entity defies ALL human predictions. That's why the only rational move is to ban it!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QRj...
This statement is as rational and evidence-based as Anthropic's latest "10% chance” warning. A genuinely superintelligent entity defies ALL human predictions. That's why the only rational move is to ban it!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QRj...
New Israeli ecocide claims
Conservationist Hisham Younes "called the Israeli attacks an “ecocide”, saying they were part of the military’s pattern of assaults on south Lebanon’s environment to degrade its ecosystem with munitions, fire and chemicals."
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Conservationist Hisham Younes "called the Israeli attacks an “ecocide”, saying they were part of the military’s pattern of assaults on south Lebanon’s environment to degrade its ecosystem with munitions, fire and chemicals."
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Israel deliberately starting wildfires in southern Lebanon, firefighters say
First responders, residents and environmental groups say military dropping flares to destroy forests and crops
www.theguardian.com
August 12, 2026 at 8:54 AM
New Israeli ecocide claims
Conservationist Hisham Younes "called the Israeli attacks an “ecocide”, saying they were part of the military’s pattern of assaults on south Lebanon’s environment to degrade its ecosystem with munitions, fire and chemicals."
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Conservationist Hisham Younes "called the Israeli attacks an “ecocide”, saying they were part of the military’s pattern of assaults on south Lebanon’s environment to degrade its ecosystem with munitions, fire and chemicals."
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Great to hear that Andy Burnham has made ending rough sleeping his first pledge as PM. It's about time! Since this song was written in 2018, things have got considerably worse, especially in London where rough sleeping has increased by three quarters.
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Rough sleeper
YouTube video by Michael DB Harvey - Topic
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July 20, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Great to hear that Andy Burnham has made ending rough sleeping his first pledge as PM. It's about time! Since this song was written in 2018, things have got considerably worse, especially in London where rough sleeping has increased by three quarters.
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Psst! Want to hear one reason why our planet is burning?
Beware: some conspiracies are real!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Beware: some conspiracies are real!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis
Exclusive: Analysis of nearly 2,500 articles finds almost three-quarters made no reference to global heating
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Psst! Want to hear one reason why our planet is burning?
Beware: some conspiracies are real!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Beware: some conspiracies are real!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Is there anything about being human that we're not prepared to let Big Tech automate away?
"The OECD found that three quarters of jobs in London were “highly exposed” to AI, meaning that more than half of their daily tasks can be performed by a bot."
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"The OECD found that three quarters of jobs in London were “highly exposed” to AI, meaning that more than half of their daily tasks can be performed by a bot."
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
www.telegraph.co.uk
July 7, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Is there anything about being human that we're not prepared to let Big Tech automate away?
"The OECD found that three quarters of jobs in London were “highly exposed” to AI, meaning that more than half of their daily tasks can be performed by a bot."
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
"The OECD found that three quarters of jobs in London were “highly exposed” to AI, meaning that more than half of their daily tasks can be performed by a bot."
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Keir Starmer's final legacy: a scandalously secretive pharma deal with Trump that experts estimate will cost the NHS £44 billion by 2030 and lead to 229,000 excess deaths by 2036, double the Covid death toll.
Isn't it time the public had a say on this?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Isn't it time the public had a say on this?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Starmer’s goodbye gift to Britain: a US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid | Aditya Chakrabortty
The deal on medicine imports will cost the NHS billions and take funding away from doctors, nurses, cancer scans and the rest, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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July 2, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Keir Starmer's final legacy: a scandalously secretive pharma deal with Trump that experts estimate will cost the NHS £44 billion by 2030 and lead to 229,000 excess deaths by 2036, double the Covid death toll.
Isn't it time the public had a say on this?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Isn't it time the public had a say on this?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As temperature records are shattered across Europe, a reminder of how badly climate action has faltered over the past decade - and what to do about it!
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Climate Betrayal (From Paris to Belém)
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June 24, 2026 at 12:58 PM
As temperature records are shattered across Europe, a reminder of how badly climate action has faltered over the past decade - and what to do about it!
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I wrote this song almost ten years ago when when the Greens had virtually no political representation in London. Now with two mayors and over 270 newly elected councillors, the dream is finally coming true. Still a long road ahead but hats off to all in the movement of hope!
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London in green (feat. Craig Souter)
YouTube video by Michael DB Harvey - Topic
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May 10, 2026 at 9:42 AM
I wrote this song almost ten years ago when when the Greens had virtually no political representation in London. Now with two mayors and over 270 newly elected councillors, the dream is finally coming true. Still a long road ahead but hats off to all in the movement of hope!
youtu.be/tTbp0yZbaP0?...
youtu.be/tTbp0yZbaP0?...
With the potentially momentous first Conference on Transition away from Fossil Fuels beginning today in Santa Marta, Colombia, here's a stark reminder in song of what the climate emergency can feel like.
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The Emergency
YouTube video by Michael DB Harvey - Topic
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April 24, 2026 at 8:47 AM
With the potentially momentous first Conference on Transition away from Fossil Fuels beginning today in Santa Marta, Colombia, here's a stark reminder in song of what the climate emergency can feel like.
youtu.be/m7u10416Ng4?...
youtu.be/m7u10416Ng4?...
This 2014 song envisages a climate-ravaged late twenty-first century. But today with illegal wars in Ukraine and the Middle East being led by wanted war criminals and the US run like a mobster operation, tragically, it looks like Gangster Planet has arrived early.
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Gangster Planet (feat. Craig Souter) (2026 remix)
YouTube video by Michael DB Harvey - Topic
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March 23, 2026 at 3:01 PM
This 2014 song envisages a climate-ravaged late twenty-first century. But today with illegal wars in Ukraine and the Middle East being led by wanted war criminals and the US run like a mobster operation, tragically, it looks like Gangster Planet has arrived early.
youtu.be/-fsuNmf8njw?...
youtu.be/-fsuNmf8njw?...
"The book’s release date was November 2024, and over a year later it’s finally becoming widely acknowledged as a primary source in explaining humanity’s current predicament."
My thanks to Professor Clifton Ware for his recent review of The Age of Humachines.
clifware.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
My thanks to Professor Clifton Ware for his recent review of The Age of Humachines.
clifware.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
The Age of Humachines: Big Tech and the Battle for Humanity’s Future
An up-to-date perspective of modernity’s technological past, present, and unknown future
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March 10, 2026 at 11:37 AM
"The book’s release date was November 2024, and over a year later it’s finally becoming widely acknowledged as a primary source in explaining humanity’s current predicament."
My thanks to Professor Clifton Ware for his recent review of The Age of Humachines.
clifware.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
My thanks to Professor Clifton Ware for his recent review of The Age of Humachines.
clifware.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing except to emphasise how badly we need to speed up the transition to renewable energy and escape a global economy dominated by fossil fuel-based gangster capitalism.
March 7, 2026 at 10:24 AM
War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing except to emphasise how badly we need to speed up the transition to renewable energy and escape a global economy dominated by fossil fuel-based gangster capitalism.
The protest song is back! Rousing anti-ICE songs from Springsteen, Billy Bragg and others underline the enduring power of rebel music. This song from my new music channel is both a protest against runaway climate change and our lack of democratic control over Big Tech.
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Who's driving this train?
YouTube video by Michael DB Harvey - Topic
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February 27, 2026 at 2:31 PM
The protest song is back! Rousing anti-ICE songs from Springsteen, Billy Bragg and others underline the enduring power of rebel music. This song from my new music channel is both a protest against runaway climate change and our lack of democratic control over Big Tech.
youtu.be/qilT_mJ3Kr8?...
youtu.be/qilT_mJ3Kr8?...
Fancy a soothing song on ecological economics and degrowth? Well, here it is - and on the same day that the UN rejects GDP!
Infinite growth on our finite Earth
The madness just goes on and on
Bigger and bigger till the whole thing bursts
Growing, growing, gone!
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Infinite growth on our finite Earth
The madness just goes on and on
Bigger and bigger till the whole thing bursts
Growing, growing, gone!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBKX...
Growing, growing, gone!
YouTube video by Michael DB Harvey - Topic
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February 9, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Fancy a soothing song on ecological economics and degrowth? Well, here it is - and on the same day that the UN rejects GDP!
Infinite growth on our finite Earth
The madness just goes on and on
Bigger and bigger till the whole thing bursts
Growing, growing, gone!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBKX...
Infinite growth on our finite Earth
The madness just goes on and on
Bigger and bigger till the whole thing bursts
Growing, growing, gone!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBKX...
Anyone doubting the connection between AI-mania (and human-technology fusion in general) and imminent climate catastrophe should read this report, predicting a tripling of US gas capacity to serve Big Tech's energy-ravenous data centres.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
US leads record global surge in gas-fired power driven by AI demands, with big costs for the climate
Projects this year expected to triple global gas capacity, forecast finds, as concerns grow over impacts on planet
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Anyone doubting the connection between AI-mania (and human-technology fusion in general) and imminent climate catastrophe should read this report, predicting a tripling of US gas capacity to serve Big Tech's energy-ravenous data centres.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"If warming reaches 2C this century mainly richer humans will be responsible for killing roughly 1 billion poorer humans through anthropogenic global warming ..." (Pearce and Parncutt, 2023). Here's a song about climate mortality and power inequality for COP30 and beyond.
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Killing future people
YouTube video by Michael DB Harvey - Topic
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November 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
"If warming reaches 2C this century mainly richer humans will be responsible for killing roughly 1 billion poorer humans through anthropogenic global warming ..." (Pearce and Parncutt, 2023). Here's a song about climate mortality and power inequality for COP30 and beyond.
youtu.be/Blm1oSsoqYA?...
youtu.be/Blm1oSsoqYA?...
Non-fiction books don’t usually spawn songs. But following my own ballad, “Standing up for being human”, songwriter/producer John Hamilton has penned this infectiously catchy, quirky pop song, inspired by The Age of Humachines. Well worth a listen, Elvis connection and all!
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HuMachine (featuring Ali Hamilton)
YouTube video by EQ STUDIOS
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October 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Non-fiction books don’t usually spawn songs. But following my own ballad, “Standing up for being human”, songwriter/producer John Hamilton has penned this infectiously catchy, quirky pop song, inspired by The Age of Humachines. Well worth a listen, Elvis connection and all!
youtu.be/gIO4szr9crU
youtu.be/gIO4szr9crU
How can we counter rampaging Big Tech capitalism and the undemocratic politics and psychology driving it and move towards a genuinely liberating, ”eco-equal” future? This brilliant podcast tries to find the answers.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAkD...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAkD...
Humachines, Big Tech, & Our Future | Michael D.B. Harvey
YouTube video by OVERSHOOT | Shrink Toward Abundance
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October 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
How can we counter rampaging Big Tech capitalism and the undemocratic politics and psychology driving it and move towards a genuinely liberating, ”eco-equal” future? This brilliant podcast tries to find the answers.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAkD...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAkD...
A decade of climate betrayal?
Ahead of November's crucial COP 30 in Belém, Brazil, here are some personal reflections in song of the ten years since the Paris accord and the album of climate songs I released at that time.
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Ahead of November's crucial COP 30 in Belém, Brazil, here are some personal reflections in song of the ten years since the Paris accord and the album of climate songs I released at that time.
youtu.be/hspgtTIBomE?...
From Paris to Belém
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September 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
A decade of climate betrayal?
Ahead of November's crucial COP 30 in Belém, Brazil, here are some personal reflections in song of the ten years since the Paris accord and the album of climate songs I released at that time.
youtu.be/hspgtTIBomE?...
Ahead of November's crucial COP 30 in Belém, Brazil, here are some personal reflections in song of the ten years since the Paris accord and the album of climate songs I released at that time.
youtu.be/hspgtTIBomE?...
Check out my interview with Michael Bayliss on the Post-Growth Australia Podcast. We discuss Big Tech's humachination agenda, the dangers of unregulated AI & robotics, the perils of Smartheid surveillance and the incomparably better future degrowth society can offer.
pgap.fireside.fm/humachines
pgap.fireside.fm/humachines
Techno Dystopia and the Age of Humachines with Michael D.B. Harvey
In this episode of PGAP, we’re joined by Michael D.B. Harvey, author of The Age of Humachines: Big Tech and the Battle for Humanity’s Future. Harvey offers a sobering perspective on the trajectory of ...
pgap.fireside.fm
July 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Check out my interview with Michael Bayliss on the Post-Growth Australia Podcast. We discuss Big Tech's humachination agenda, the dangers of unregulated AI & robotics, the perils of Smartheid surveillance and the incomparably better future degrowth society can offer.
pgap.fireside.fm/humachines
pgap.fireside.fm/humachines
A new A/cene song!
We’re living in the Anthropocene,
On a beautiful planet in crisis.
Everywhere you go you see extremes,
Everywhere you go you hear the screams,
Red lights flashing on every screen
But we can do better than this.
We’ve got to be better than this.
youtu.be/eFHZnOZp1eA?...
We’re living in the Anthropocene,
On a beautiful planet in crisis.
Everywhere you go you see extremes,
Everywhere you go you hear the screams,
Red lights flashing on every screen
But we can do better than this.
We’ve got to be better than this.
youtu.be/eFHZnOZp1eA?...
Living in the Anthropocene
YouTube video by Michael DB Harvey - Topic
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June 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
A new A/cene song!
We’re living in the Anthropocene,
On a beautiful planet in crisis.
Everywhere you go you see extremes,
Everywhere you go you hear the screams,
Red lights flashing on every screen
But we can do better than this.
We’ve got to be better than this.
youtu.be/eFHZnOZp1eA?...
We’re living in the Anthropocene,
On a beautiful planet in crisis.
Everywhere you go you see extremes,
Everywhere you go you hear the screams,
Red lights flashing on every screen
But we can do better than this.
We’ve got to be better than this.
youtu.be/eFHZnOZp1eA?...
For crucial insights into the psychology of AI, humachination and the mass job automation and roboticization planned by Big Tech please check out my conversation with Professor Mick Cooper. We urgently need to wake up to the threat of ontocapitalism before it's too late!
youtu.be/ikvUyT1KF84
youtu.be/ikvUyT1KF84
The Age of Humachines: Artificial Intelligence, Social Justice, and the Annihilation of Being Human.
YouTube video by Therapy and Social Change Network (TaSC) Network
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March 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
For crucial insights into the psychology of AI, humachination and the mass job automation and roboticization planned by Big Tech please check out my conversation with Professor Mick Cooper. We urgently need to wake up to the threat of ontocapitalism before it's too late!
youtu.be/ikvUyT1KF84
youtu.be/ikvUyT1KF84
Make something with a sharper mind than you
And expect to end up living in a zoo.
And why would we need a digital God?
Democracy can do that job.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QRj...
And expect to end up living in a zoo.
And why would we need a digital God?
Democracy can do that job.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QRj...
Ban AGI
YouTube video by Michael DB Harvey - Topic
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February 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Make something with a sharper mind than you
And expect to end up living in a zoo.
And why would we need a digital God?
Democracy can do that job.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QRj...
And expect to end up living in a zoo.
And why would we need a digital God?
Democracy can do that job.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QRj...