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Eye On A.I.

Craig S. Smithwww.eye-on.ai
Eye on A.I. is a biweekly podcast, hosted by longtime New York Times correspondent Craig S. Smith. In each episode, Craig will talk to people making a difference in artificial intelligence. The podcast aims to put incremental advances into a broader context and consider the global implications of the developing technology. AI is about to change your world, so pay attention.
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Episodes

#313 Evan Reiser: How Abnormal AI Protects Humans with Behavioral AI

In this episode of Eye on AI, we sit down with Evan Reiser, co-founder and CEO of Abnormal AI, to unpack how AI has fundamentally changed the cybersecurity landscape. We explore why social engineering remains the most costly form of cybercrime, how generative AI has lowered the barrier for sophisticated attacks, and why humans have become the primary attack surface in modern security. Evan explains why traditional, signature-based defenses fall short, how behavioral AI detects threats that have ...

Jan 16, 202650 min

#312 Jonathan Wall: AI Agents Are Reshaping the Future of Compute Infrastructure

In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith speaks with Jonathan Wall, founder and CEO of Runloop AI, about why AI agents require an entirely new approach to compute infrastructure. Jonathan explains why agents behave very differently from traditional servers, why giving agents their own isolated computers unlocks new capabilities, and how agent-native infrastructure is emerging as a critical layer of the AI stack. The conversation also covers scaling agents in production, building trust through b...

Jan 11, 202652 min

#311 Anurag Dhingra: Inside Cisco's Vision for AI-Powered Enterprise Systems

In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Anurag Dhingra, Senior Vice President and General Manager at Cisco, to explore where AI is actually creating value inside the enterprise. Rather than focusing on flashy demos or speculative futures, this conversation goes deep into the invisible layer powering modern AI: infrastructure. Anurag breaks down how AI is being embedded into enterprise networking, security, observability, and collaboration systems to solve real operational proble...

Jan 07, 202647 min

#310 Stefano Ermon: Why Diffusion Language Models Will Define the Next Generation of LLMs

This episode is sponsored by AGNTCY. Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents. Visit https://agntcy.org/ and add your support. Most large language models today generate text one token at a time. That design choice creates a hard limit on speed, cost, and scalability. In this episode of Eye on AI, Stefano Ermon breaks down diffusion language models and why a parallel, inference-first approach could define the next generation of LLMs. We explore how diffusion models differ from autor...

Jan 04, 202652 min

#309 Jamie Metzl: Why Gene Editing Needs Governance Or We Lose Control

This episode is sponsored by AGNTCY. Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents. Visit https://agntcy.org/ and add your support. Why are AI, biotechnology, and gene editing converging right now, and what does that mean for the future of humanity? In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith sits down with futurist and author Jamie Metzl to explore the superconvergence of artificial intelligence, genomics, and exponential technologies that are reshaping life on Earth. We examine the...

Dec 24, 20251 hr 10 minEp. 309

#308 Christopher Bergey: How Arm Enables AI to Run Directly on Devices

Try OCI for free at http://oracle.com/eyeonai This episode is sponsored by Oracle. OCI is the next-generation cloud designed for every workload – where you can run any application, including any AI projects, faster and more securely for less. On average, OCI costs 50% less for compute, 70% less for storage, and 80% less for networking. Join Modal, Skydance Animation, and today's innovative AI tech companies who upgraded to OCI…and saved. Why is AI moving from the cloud to our devices, and what m...

Dec 19, 202552 minEp. 308

#307 Steven Brightfield: How Neuromorphic Computing Cuts Inference Power by 10x

This episode is sponsored by AGNTCY. Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents. Visit https://agntcy.org/ and add your support. Why is AI so powerful in the cloud but still so limited inside everyday devices, and what would it take to run intelligent systems locally without draining battery or sacrificing privacy? In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith speaks with Steve Brightfield, Chief Marketing Officer at BrainChip, about neuromorphic computing and why brain inspired arc...

Dec 16, 20251 hrEp. 307

#306 Jeffrey Ladish: What Shutdown-Avoiding AI Agents Mean for Future Safety

This episode is sponsored by AGNTCY. Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents. Visit https://agntcy.org/ and add your support. Why do some AI agents attempt to bypass shutdown, and what does this behavior reveal about the future of AI safety? In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith speaks with Jeffrey Ladish of Palisade Research to examine what recent shutdown experiments with agentic LLMs tell us about control, alignment, and the real world limits of current guardrails. We ...

Dec 07, 202559 minEp. 306

#305 Rakshit Ghura: How Lenovo Is Turning AI Agents Into Digital Coworkers

Why are enterprises struggling to turn AI hype into real workplace transformation, and how is Lenovo using agentic AI to actually close that gap? In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith talks with Rakshit Ghura about how his team is reinventing the modern workplace with an omnichannel AI architecture powered by a fleet of specialized agents. We explore how Lenovo has evolved from a hardware company into a global solutions provider, and how its Care of One platform uses persona based desig...

Dec 03, 202546 min

#304 Matt Zeiler: Why Government And Enterprises Choose Clarifai For AI Ops

Try OCI for free at http://oracle.com/eyeonai This episode is sponsored by Oracle. OCI is the next-generation cloud designed for every workload – where you can run any application, including any AI projects, faster and more securely for less. On average, OCI costs 50% less for compute, 70% less for storage, and 80% less for networking. Join Modal, Skydance Animation, and today's innovative AI tech companies who upgraded to OCI…and saved. Why is AI inference becoming the new battleground for spee...

Nov 28, 202555 minEp. 304

#303 Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence, World Models & the Future of AI

This episode is sponsored by AGNTCY. Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents. Visit https://agntcy.org/ and add your support. How will AI evolve once it can understand and reason about the 3D world, not just text on a screen? In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith speaks with Fei Fei Li about the rise of spatial intelligence and the world models that could transform how machines perceive, imagine, and interact with reality. We explore how spatial intelligence goes beyond l...

Nov 23, 20251 hr 1 minEp. 303

#302 Karl Friston: How the Free Energy Principle Could Rewrite AI

This episode is sponsored by AGNTCY. Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents. Visit https://agntcy.org/ and add your support. How could Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle become a blueprint for the future of AI? In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith sits down with Karl Friston, the neuroscientist behind the Free Energy Principle and advisor to Verses AI, to explore how active inference and brain inspired generative models might move us beyond transformer based systems. ...

Nov 19, 20251 hr 3 minEp. 302

#301 Hemant Banavar & Ryan Ennis: The AI Safety System Driving Toward Zero Harm

How are AI and telematics changing safety for fleets in the real world, and what does it take to get from basic recordings to true accident prevention? In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith speaks with Hemant Banavar, Chief Product Officer at Motive, and Ryan Ennis, CIO at FusionSite Services, to explore how AI powered cameras and telematics are transforming safety, productivity, and profitability across the physical economy, from trucking and construction to field services. We look at ...

Nov 16, 202549 min

#300 Fred Laluyaux: How Decision Intelligence & AI Agents Are Redefining Enterprise Operations

How are Decision Intelligence and AI agents reshaping enterprise operations today? In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith sits down with Fred Laluyaux, CEO of Aera Technology, to unpack how organizations move from dashboards and ad hoc workflows to a system that senses, decides, and acts. AI is not just about chatbots. At the heart of this transformation is decision intelligence: connecting data, analytics, AI, and automation to optimize decisions across the enterprise. Fred explains why...

Nov 13, 202557 minEp. 300

#299 Jacob Buckman: Why the Future of AI Won't Be Built on Transformers

This episode is sponsored by AGNTCY. Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents. Visit https://agntcy.org/ and add your support. Why do today's LLMs forget key details over long context, and what would it take to give them real memory that scales? In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith explores Manifest AI's Power Retention architecture and how it rethinks memory, context, and learning for modern models. We look at why transformers struggle with long inputs, how state space a...

Nov 09, 202557 min

#298 Ryan Kolln: How Appen Trains the World's Most Powerful AI Models

This episode is sponsored by AGNTCY. Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents. Visit https://agntcy.org/ and add your support. How do the world's most powerful AI models get trained and trusted at scale, and what does that really take from data to deployment? In this episode, Appen CEO Ryan Kolln joins Eye on AI to unpack how rigorous human evaluation, culturally aware data, and model-based judges come together to raise real-world performance. In this episode of Eye on AI, host Cra...

Nov 06, 202551 minEp. 298

#297 Jeff Lunsford: How Agentic AI Will Redefine Every Digital Interaction

Why will agentic AI redefine every digital interaction, and what foundation do enterprises need to make it safe, trusted, and real time? In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith sits down with Jeff Lunsford to unpack how a neutral customer data platform like Tealium becomes the control plane for agentic systems. We cover how to collect and unify first party data responsibly, enforce consent and identity across channels, and feed the right context to models so agents can act with confidence...

Oct 30, 202548 minEp. 297

#296 Yeop Lee: How Coxwave is Redefining AI Evaluation

This episode is sponsored by AGNTCY. Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents. Visit https://agntcy.org/ and add your support. How is Coxwave Redefining AI Evaluation? In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith is joined by Yeop Lee, Head of Product at Coxwave. Together they explore how teams move beyond accuracy-only metrics to outcome focused evaluation with Coxwave's Align. We look at how Align measures satisfaction, trust, and task completion across chat, email, and voice, ...

Oct 26, 202543 minEp. 296

#295 Fergal Reid: Why Your Bots Fail and How Agents Fix Your Customer Support

This episode is sponsored by AGNTCY. Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents. Visit https://agntcy.org/ and add your support. Why do so many chatbots fail in the real world, and how can AI agents actually fix customer support? In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith explores how teams move beyond scripted bots to production-grade AI agents that resolve real issues across chat, email, and voice. We look at what makes agents reliable at scale, how to configure them safely, an...

Oct 19, 202544 min

#294 Bhaskar Roy: How Workato Is Building the Rise of the Agentic Enterprise

Try OCI for free at http://oracle.com/eyeonai This episode is sponsored by Oracle. OCI is the next-generation cloud designed for every workload – where you can run any application, including any AI projects, faster and more securely for less. On average, OCI costs 50% less for compute, 70% less for storage, and 80% less for networking. Join Modal, Skydance Animation, and today's innovative AI tech companies who upgraded to OCI…and saved. How are enterprises moving from AI experiments to a true a...

Oct 16, 202557 min

#293 Greg Shewmaker: How Enterprises Can Implement and Scale with Agentic AI

This episode is sponsored by AGNTCY. Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents. Visit https://agntcy.org/ and add your support. How can enterprises truly scale with agentic AI? In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith speaks with Greg Shewmaker, CEO of r.Potential, about how organizations can successfully implement agentic AI systems that enhance human performance instead of replacing it. Greg explains why the future of work depends on a new partnership between people and inte...

Oct 13, 202543 minEp. 293

#292 Peeyush Ranjan: How Nurix Is Redefining Voice AI for the Enterprise

Discover how Neurix is building the next generation of voice AI that sounds and reacts like a human in this conversation with Peeyush, former Google technologist and co-founder of Miracle Labs. Peeyush shares how Neurix is solving the toughest challenges in conversational AI — from eliminating latency to creating natural, real-time dialogue that mirrors human interaction. He explains why voice is the hardest frontier in AI, how Neurix's proprietary models manage conversation flow, and what it ta...

Oct 09, 202545 min

#291 Naveen Jain: How AI Predicts Cancer, Diabetes & Chronic Illness

This episode is sponsored by AGNTCY. Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents. Visit https://agntcy.org/ and add your support. Can AI and RNA testing make illness optional? In this episode, Eye on AI host Craig S. Smith sits down with Naveen Jain, founder and CEO of Viome, to explore how RNA sequencing and artificial intelligence are transforming our understanding of chronic disease. Jain shares how a personal tragedy led him to launch Viome, a company on a mission to digitize the ...

Oct 06, 202553 min

#290 Joel Hron: How Thomson Reuters is Approaching The Next Era of AI

This episode is sponsored by AGNTCY. Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents. Visit https://agntcy.org/ and add your support. Joel Hron, Chief Technology Officer at Thomson Reuters, joins Eye on AI to unpack the future of agentic systems and what it takes to build them responsibly at enterprise scale. We dive into the shift from prompt-based AI to true agentic workflows capable of planning, reasoning, and executing complex tasks. Joel breaks down how Thomson Reuters is deploying g...

Sep 29, 20251 hr

#289 Eiso Kant: How Reinforcement Learning and Coding Could Unlock Human-Level AI

How do we get from today's AI copilots to true human-level intelligence? In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Eiso Kant, Co-Founder of Poolside, to explore why reinforcement learning + software development might be the fastest path to human-level AI. Eiso shares Poolside's mission to build AI that doesn't just autocomplete code — but learns like a real developer. You'll hear how Poolside uses reinforcement learning from code execution (RLCF), why software development is the p...

Sep 24, 202554 min

#288 Florian Douetteau: How Enterprises Can Scale and Adopt Agentic AI

Discover how enterprises can successfully adopt and scale agentic AI to create real business impact in this conversation with Florian Douetteau, CEO and co-founder of Dataiku. Florian shares why democratizing AI across the enterprise is essential, how to prevent agent sprawl, and what it takes to build a governance framework that keeps your data secure while enabling innovation. Learn about Dataiku's enterprise AI blueprint, its partnership with NVIDIA, and how global companies are using agentic...

Sep 21, 202555 min

#287 Sahil Bansal: Why Developers Are Switching to CodeRabbit's AI Code Reviews

Try OCI for free at http://oracle.com/eyeonai This episode is sponsored by Oracle. OCI is the next-generation cloud designed for every workload – where you can run any application, including any AI projects, faster and more securely for less. On average, OCI costs 50% less for compute, 70% less for storage, and 80% less for networking. Join Modal, Skydance Animation, and today's innovative AI tech companies who upgraded to OCI…and saved. AI-generated code is exploding, but reviewing it all has b...

Sep 17, 202548 min

#286 Ram Venkatesh: How to Build, Operate & Scale Enterprise AI Agents (Sema4.ai)

Discover how Sema4.ai is redefining enterprise AI with a platform built to help businesses build, operate, and scale SAFE AI agents. In this conversation, CTO and co-founder Ram Venkatesh explains why simply generating insights isn't enough and why enterprises need AI that can act on those insights reliably, securely, and at scale. If you want to understand the future of agentic AI and how to safely scale AI across your organization, this episode is a must-watch. Stay Updated:Craig Smith on X: h...

Sep 14, 202547 min

#285 Raj Koneru: How Kore.ai is Building No Code Enterprise-Grade Agentic AI

Enterprise AI Agents for Work, Service and Process: www.kore.ai Kore.ai founder and CEO Raj Koneru breaks down how enterprises are moving beyond chatbots into agentic AI that actually ships. We get into the no-code tooling behind multi-agent workflows, agentic RAG, guardrails that keep outputs in scope, and why a control layer for governance is now essential. Raj shares real scale numbers, the three Kore.ai product lanes for customer and employee experience, and how partnerships with Microsoft a...

Sep 10, 202552 min

#284 Pat Utz: Inside Abstract, The AI That Decodes Laws and Regulations

What if AI could decode government in real time? In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Pat Utz, CEO and Co-Founder of Abstract, the AI startup building "regulatory superintelligence" to track and analyze laws, bills, and regulations across 145,000+ government entities. Pat explains how Abstract evolved from university research into a venture-backed company helping law firms, enterprises, and policymakers cut through the noise of Congress, state legislatures, and regulatory age...

Sep 07, 202548 min
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