“I call it the AI sandwich. When we want to use augmentation, we’re always the bread and the LLM is the cheese in the middle.” –Beth Kanter About Beth Kanter Beth Kanter is a leading speaker, consultant, and author on digital transformation in nonprofits, with over three decades experience and global demand for her keynotes and workshops. She has been named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company and was awarded the lifetime achievement in nonprofit technology from NTEN. ...
Oct 29, 2025•35 min•Season 3Ep. 20
“It is our duty to find out how we can best use it, where humans are first and Humans + AI are more together.” –Ross Dawson About Ross Dawson Ross Dawson is a futurist, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, author, and host of Amplifying Cognition podcast. He is Chairman of the Advanced Human Technologies group of companies and Founder of Humans + AI startup Informivity. He has delivered keynote speeches and strategy workshops in 33 countries and is the bestselling author of 5 books, most recently ...
Oct 22, 2025•17 min•Season 3Ep. 19
“I really believe that we need to design friction into the system, not what is usually the goal in digital spaces, where you try to remove all the friction.” –Iskander Smit About Iskander Smit Iskander Smit is founder and chair of Cities of Things Foundation, a research program originating at Delft University. He works as an independent researcher and creative strategist at the intersection of design, technology, and society, focusing on the evolving relationship between humans and AI in physica...
Sep 10, 2025•37 min•Season 3Ep. 18
“If you’re not moving quickly to get these ideas implemented, your smaller, more agile competitors are.” –Brian Kropp About Brian Kropp Brian Kropp is President of Growth at World 50 Group. Previous roles include Managing Director at Accenture, Chief of HR Research at Gartner and Practice Leader at CEB. His work has been extensively featured in the media, including in Washington Post, NPR, Harvard Business Review, and Quartz. Website: world50.com LinkedIn Profile: Brian Kropp X Profile: Brian Kr...
Sep 03, 2025•40 min•Season 3Ep. 17
“There’s a significant opportunity for us to redesign the technology rather than redesign people.” –Suranga Nanayakkara About Suranga Nanayakkara Suranga Nanayakkara is founder of the Augmented Human Lab and Associate Professor of Computing at National University of Singapore (NUS). Before NUS, Suranga was an Associate Professor at the University of Auckland, appointed by invitation under the Strategic Entrepreneurial Universities scheme. He is founder of a number of startups including AiSee, a ...
Aug 27, 2025•31 min•Season 3Ep. 16
“The fact is that its input came from billions of humans… When you’re interacting with an LLM, you are interacting with a collective, not a singular intelligence sitting out there in the universe.” –Michael I. Jordan About Michael I. Jordan Michael I. Jordan is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and professor in Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and chair of Markets and Machine Learning at INRIA Institute in Paris. His many ...
Aug 20, 2025•42 min•Season 3Ep. 15
“The potential is boundless, but it doesn’t come automatically; it comes intentionally.” –Paula Goldman About Paula Goldman Paula Goldman is Salesforce’s first-ever Chief Ethical and Humane Use Officer, where she creates frameworks to build and deploy ethical technology for optimum social benefit. Prior to Salesforce she held leadership roles at global social impact investment firm Omidyar Network. Paula holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, and is a member of the National AI Advisory Committee...
Aug 13, 2025•34 min•Season 3Ep. 14
“What I need is someone who will have an idea I would never have had. In fact, better yet, an idea no one else in the world would ever have. That’s human space. That’s our job now: the unknown infinite.” –Vivienne Ming About Vivienne Ming Vivienne Ming is a theoretical neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and author. Her AI inventions have launched a dozen companies and nonprofits with a focus on human potential, including Socos Labs and Dionysus Health. She is Professor at UCL Global Business School f...
Aug 06, 2025•48 min•Season 3Ep. 13
“The primary source of our reliable ability to produce results under pressure—i.e., skill—is attempting to solve complicated problems with an expert nearby.” –Matt Beane About Matt Beane Matt Beane is Assistant Professor at University of California Santa Barbara, and a Digital Fellow with both Stanford’s Digital Economy Lab and MIT’s Institute for the Digital Economy. He was employee number two at the Internet of Things startup Humatics, where he played a key role in helping to found and fund th...
Jul 30, 2025•39 min•Season 3Ep. 12
“We’re in this process where we should be discovering what’s possible… That’s what I mean by AI-native — just go figure out what the AI can do that makes something so much easier or so much better.” – Tim O’Reilly About Tim O’Reilly Tim O’Reilly is the founder, CEO, and Chairman of leading technical publisher O’Reilly Media, and a partner at early stage venture firm O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. He has played a central role in shaping the technology landscape, including in open source software, w...
Jul 23, 2025•41 min•Season 3Ep. 11
“If we’re faced with problems that are moving fast and require collective solutions, then collective intelligence becomes the toolkit we need to tackle them.” – Jacob Taylor About Jacob Taylor Jacob Taylor is a fellow in the Center for Sustainable Development at Brookings Institution, and a leader of its 17 Rooms initiative, which catalyzes global action for the Sustainable Development Goals. He was previously research fellow at the Asian Bureau of Economic Research and consulting scientist on a...
Jul 16, 2025•Season 3Ep. 10
“Strategy really must focus on those purely human capabilities of synthesis, and judgment, and sense-making.” – Ross Dawson About Ross Dawson Ross Dawson is a futurist, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, author, and host of Amplifying Cognition podcast. He is Chairman of the Advanced Human Technologies group of companies and Founder of Humans + AI startup Informivity. He has delivered keynote speeches and strategy workshops in 33 countries and is the bestselling author of 5 books, most recently ...
Jul 09, 2025•12 min•Season 3Ep. 9
“The big picture is that every human on Earth deserves to live a life worth living… free of mental strife, physical strife, and the strife of war.” – Matt Lewis About Matt Lewis Matt is CEO, Founder and Chief Augmented Intelligence Officer of LLMental, a Public Benefit Limited Liability Corporation Venture Studio focused on augmenting brain capital. He was previously Chief AI Officer at Inizio Health, and contributes in many roles including as a member of OpenAI’s Executive Forum, Gartner’s Peer...
Jun 25, 2025•34 min•Season 3Ep. 8
“Successful AI ventures are those that truly understand the technology but also place real human impact at the center — it’s about creating solutions that improve lives and drive meaningful change.” – Amir Barsoum About Amir Barsoum Amir Barsoum is Founder & CEO of InVitro Capital, a venture studio that builds and funds companies at the intersection of AI and human-intensive industries, with four companies and over 150 professionals. He was previously founder of leading digital health platfo...
Jun 18, 2025•34 min•Season 3Ep. 7
What are the goals I really want to attain professionally and personally? I’m going to really keep my eye on that. And how do I make sure that I use AI in a way that’s going to help me get there—and also not use it in a way that doesn’t help me get there? – Minyang Jiang (MJ) About Minyang Jiang (MJ) Minyang Jiang (MJ) is Chief Strategy Officer at business lending firm Credibly, leading and implementing the company’s growth strategy. Previously she held a range of leadership positions at Ford Mo...
Jun 04, 2025•34 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Code, ultimately, is this weird material that’s somewhere between the physical and the informational… it connects to all these different domains—science, the humanities, social sciences—really every aspect of our lives. – Sam Arbesman About Sam Arbesman Sam Arbesman is Scientist in Residence at leading venture capital firm Lux Capital. He works at the boundaries of areas such as open science, tools for thought, managing complexity, network science, artificial intelligence, and infusing computati...
May 28, 2025•36 min•Season 3Ep. 5
I feel that the frequency I have, and the frequency AI has, we’re going to be able to communicate based on frequency. But if we can understand what each is saying, that’s really where the magic happens. – Bruce Randall About Bruce Randall Bruce Randall describes himself as a tech visionary and Reiki Master who explores the intersection of technology, human consciousness, and the future of work. He has over 25 years of technology industry experience and is a longtime practitioner of energy healin...
May 21, 2025•26 min•Season 3Ep. 4
We’re not trying to replace expertise—we’re trying to amplify and scale it. AI wants to create the expertise; we want to make yours omnipresent. – Carl Wocke About Carl Wocke Carl Wocke is the Managing Director of Merlynn Intelligence Technologies, which focuses on human to machine knowledge transmission using machine learning and AI. Carl consults with leading organizations globally in areas spanning risk management, banking, insurance, cyber crime and intelligent robotic process automation. We...
May 14, 2025•37 min
“The floor is rising really fast. So if you’re not ready to raise the ceiling, you’re going to have a problem.” – Nisha Talagala About Nisha Talagala Nisha Talagala is the CEO and Co-Founder of AIClub, which drives AI literacy for people of all ages. Previously, she co-founded ParallelM where she shaped the field of MLOps, with other roles including Lead Architect at Fusio-io and CTO at Gear6. She is the co-author of Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence – the first AI textbook for Middle Scho...
May 07, 2025•33 min•Season 3Ep. 2
“This is about how we need to grow and develop our individual cognition as a complement to AI.” – Ross Dawson About Ross Dawson Ross Dawson is a futurist, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, author, and host of Amplifying Cognition podcast. He is Chairman of the Advanced Human Technologies group of companies and Founder of Humans + AI startup Informivity. He has delivered keynote speeches and strategy workshops in 33 countries and is the bestselling author of 5 books, most recently Thriving on Ov...
Apr 30, 2025•13 min
“Maybe the goal isn’t to eliminate the task or the human—but to reduce the frustration, the cognitive load, the overhead. That’s where AI shines.” – Kunal Gupta About Kunal Gupta Kunal Gupta is an entrepreneur, investor, and author. He founded and scaled global digital advertising AI company Nova as Chief Everything Officer for 15 years, with teams and clients across 30+ countries. He is author of four books, most recently 2034: How AI Changed the World Forever. Website: Kunal Gupta Kunal Gupta ...
Apr 23, 2025•34 min
“We could become obsolete by our own will—at least a portion of humanity just sort of giving up… But humans want to be valuable, want to be seen, want to be understood, want to be heard, want to think that their life matters. And this raises all sorts of questions about that.” – Lee Rainie About Lee Rainie Lee Rainie is Director of Imagining the Digital Future Center at Elon University. He joined in 2023 after 24 years of directing Pew Research Center’s Pew Internet Project, where his team produ...
Apr 16, 2025•40 min
“Let technology do the bits that technology is really good at. Offload to it. Then over-index and over-amplify the human skills we should have developed over the last 10, 15, or 20 years.” – Kieran Gilmurray About Kieran Gilmurray Kieran Gilmurray is CEO of Kieran Gilmurray and Company and Chief AI Innovator of Technology Transformation Group. He works as a keynote speaker, fractional CTO and delivering transformation programs for global businesses. He is author of three books, most recently Age...
Apr 09, 2025
“We humans often tend to be very restricted—even when we are world champions in a game. And I’m very optimistic that AI will surprise us, with very different ways of solving complex problems—and we can make use of that.” – Jennifer Haase About Jennifer Haase Dr. Jennifer Haase is a researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute, and lecturer at Humboldt University and University of the Arts Berlin. Her work focuses on the intersection of creativity, Artificial Intelligence, and automation, including AI ...
Apr 02, 2025
“We should not make technology so that we can be stupid. We should make technology so we can be even smarter… not just make the machine more intelligent, but enhance the overall intelligence—especially human intelligence.” –Pat Pataranutaporn About Pat Pataranutaporn Pat Pataranutaporn is Co-Director of MIT Media Lab’s new Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) research program, alongside Pattie Maes. In addition to extensive academic publications, his research has been featured in Scientific American, ...
Mar 26, 2025
“We wanted to see what the effect of AI might be on forecasting accuracy… to our surprise, we find that even when the model gives biased or noisy advice, human forecasters still improve—something we didn’t expect.” – Philipp Schoenegger “I kind of call these Gen AI systems a mirror. Pose it a question, play with scenarios, and see what comes out. It’s like an accelerant for thinking—pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.” – Nikolas Badminton “Future thinking is an everyday practice. It’s abo...
Mar 19, 2025
“AI can make the process of sensing for signals much faster and much more efficient. You can think of it as a supplement to our brain. It can sort through massive amounts of data, track the latest developments, and flash alerts when something important emerges.” – Rita McGrath “What I found surprising in our exercises was how disruptive AI was. At first, I thought they would hate it, but they actually liked it. It made them stop and think because it forced them to break out of their usual patter...
Mar 12, 2025•32 min
“Collective intelligence is the ability of a group to solve a wide range of problems, and it’s something that also seems to be a stable collective ability.” – Anita Williams Woolley “When you get a response from a language model, it’s a bit like a response from a crowd of people. It’s shaped by the collective judgments of countless individuals.” – Jason Burton “Rather than just artificial general intelligence (AGI), I prefer the term augmented collective intelligence (ACI), where we design proce...
Mar 05, 2025
“I’m cautiously optimistic because never before has technology been as accessible as it is now—being able to interact with machines in a way that feels so natural to us, rather than in ones and zeros or more technical ways. AI shouldn’t replace what exists but augment and enhance our creativity, helping us tap into what makes us uniquely human.” – Helen Lee Kupp About Helen Lee Kupp Helen Lee Kupp is co-founder and CEO of Women Defining AI, a community of female leaders applying and driving AI. ...
Feb 19, 2025
“Generative AI is the first technology with an almost natural propensity to build a symbiotic relationship with us. But symbiosis isn’t always mutualistic—it can be parasitic, where AI benefits at the detriment of humans. How we deploy AI will determine which path we take.” – Alexandra Diening “AI provides dual affordances—it can automate our work or augment our abilities. The key challenge is deciding where to draw the line. In low-stakes tasks, automation makes sense. But in high-stakes decisi...
Feb 13, 2025
