This chapter brings together three practitioners who approach human-centered ML from creative, design, and research perspectives. Artist Memo Akten reflects on a decade of building generative systems that preserve what he terms "meaningful human control" and on how creative AI practice is shifting from generation toward curation. Designer Josh Lovejoy, who co-founded People+AI Research (PAIR) at Google and Microsoft’s Ethics and Society team, frames accountability as a design property: the question is not what the system needs in order to be accountable, but what users need in order to take accountability themselves. He also examines the misaligned incentives driving current AI development, and the costs of designing for seamlessness at the expense of user agency. HCI researcher Wendy Mackay argues for replacing the "human in the loop" paradigm with what she calls the "computer in the loop," placing the algorithm in service of the user rather than treating users as inputs to better algorithms. Together, these conversations span artistic practice, design methodology, research funding, and the long-term social consequences of ML and AI.