“We should always remember that we are still humans. We are the ones telling the stories, deciding what we want to tell. And we are doing things for other humans; it’s the other humans who want to hear from us. For me, it’s very grounding amidst all this AI craziness to remember to come back to that relationship: me as a human talking to another human.” – Katri Manninen About Katri Manninen Katri Manninen is a prominent Finnish screenwriter, showrunner, and author. She has written 12 drama serie...
May 30, 2024
“The entire business model on which people have planned their futures is wobbling underneath them right now, and they’re going to have to hang on to that wobbly platform and find themselves a ladder somewhere.” – Tim Burrowes About Tim Burrowes Tim Burrowes is the Founder and Publisher of email-first media and marketing publication Unmade, and author of Media Unmade . He was previously Founder of media and marketing publisher Mumbrella, which was acquired by Diversified Communications in 2017. W...
May 23, 2024
“True intelligence is a social function. It’s about social cohesion. Intelligence happens in groups, it does not happen in individuals.” – Tim Stock About Tim Stock Tim Stock is an expert in analyzing how cultural trends and artificial intelligence intersect. He is co-founder of scenarioDNA and the co-inventor of a patented Culture Mapping methodology that analyzes patterns in culture using computational linguistics. He teaches at the Parsons School of Design in New York. Website : www.scenariod...
May 15, 2024
“I cannot imagine any other way to be successful or to find satisfaction in knowing that you are doing something useful for humanity or any society. Therefore, I believe it is mandatory to take responsibility for our choices.” – Ufuk Tarhan About Ufuk Tarhan Ufuk Tarhan is a prominent futurist, economist, keynote speaker, author, and CEO of digital agency M-GEN . She has worked as a senior executive and board member in a number of prominent technology companies. She is author of two successful b...
May 08, 2024•34 min
“Sovereignty means that I need to be in charge of my destiny and able to control my future. This involves understanding the context in which you’re operating and not allowing others to define that context for you.” – Shikoh Gitau About Shikoh Gitau Shikoh Gitau is CEO of Qhala, a digital innovation company with clients across Africa. She was previously head of Safaricom Alpha, the first corporate innovation hub in Africa and worked for African Development Bank helping governments adopt informati...
May 01, 2024•36 min
“The unique ability of AI and LLMs recently to reason over complex texts and complex data suggests that there is a future where the systems can help us humans find those pieces of information that help us be more creative, that help us make decisions, and that help us discover new perspectives.” – Tom Hope About Tom Hope Tom Hope is Assistant Professor and Head of the AI Research Lab at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Research Scientist at Allen Institute for AI. His focus is developing art...
Apr 24, 2024
“Criticizing and blaming people, organizational culture, or the company for problems doesn’t lead you to a better place. What may lead you to a better place is to actually roll up your sleeves, connect with each other, and do something about it.” – Céline Schillinger About Céline Schillinger Céline Schillinger is Founder and CEO of We Need Social, which works with organizations globally on engagement leadership. She is the author of Dare to Un-Lead , which was Porchlight Leadership & Strateg...
Apr 17, 2024
“It’s less about human versus machine and what’s important, what are humans skills versus not, there are a lot of human skills, where you will not be able to retain a higher pricing power just because you are highly substitutable despite your specific human skill.” – Sangeet Paul Choudary About Sangeet Paul Choudary Sangeet Paul Choudary is the Founder of Platform Thinking Labs and co-author of Platform Revolution , which has sold over 300,000 copies, and author of two other leading books on pla...
Apr 10, 2024•40 min•Season 2Ep. 39
“Conscious Capitalism suggests that if you do good by accident, why not do good deliberately? Look at the accidents and start doing them on purpose.” – Charles Hampden-Turner About Charles Hampden-Turner Dr. Charles Hampden-Turner is a British management philosopher, business consultant, and co-founder of consulting firm Trompenaars Hampden-Turner . He is the creator of dilemma theory and the author or co-author of numerous influential books, including Maps of the Mind , The Seven Cultures of Ca...
Apr 04, 2024
“My hope is that in the future, we are so focused on acquiring knowledge in our schools and our educational system, my hope is that we will also be focused on acquiring wisdom, if we know how to measure it and how to develop it.” – Charlene Li About Charlene Li Charlene Li is an author, speaker, advisor and coach. For the last three decades she has worked at the edge of disruption, working with hundreds of major organizations, and founding the prominent analyst firm Altimeter Group. She is the N...
Mar 27, 2024•32 min•Season 2Ep. 37
“One of the main strengths of the current generation of large language models is the ability of their interactive nature to provide a highly competent model that people can interact with and query whatever they want.” – Philipp Schoenegger About Philipp Schoenegger Philipp Schoenegger is a researcher at London School of Economics working at the intersection of judgement, decision-making, and applied artificial intelligence. He is also a professional forecaster, working as a forecasting consultan...
Mar 20, 2024
“AI has an amazing amount of limitations, horrible in a lot of things. But when you use it smartly, it becomes an important part of your team. And as an important team member, your team gets better.” – Bryan Cassady About Bryan Cassady Bryan is the founder and director of the Global Entrepreneurship Alliance , a foundation with a mission to coach or train 1 million entrepreneurs by 2027. He has built 8 successful companies in 6 countries. Bryan has taught innovation and entrepreneurship at numer...
Mar 13, 2024
“ We humans need to be the ones who work with algorithms to make sure that they don’t take the wrong path, don’t deteriorate, don’t misunderstand our intentions, and don’t create outcomes that we don’t want. ” – Marek Kowalkiewicz About Marek Kowalkiewicz Professor Marek Kowalkiewicz is founding director of the Centre for the Digital Economy at Queensland University of Technology, where he leads a portfolio of research projects into AI and the digital economy. He was recently named in the Top 10...
Mar 06, 2024•33 min•Season 2Ep. 34
“When you can maximize the collective conviction of the group rather than just aggregating their gut reaction with no sense of conviction, you get significantly more accurate answers.” – Louis Rosenberg About Louis Rosenberg Louis Rosenberg is CEO and Chief Scientist of Unanimous A.I., which amplifies the intelligence of networked human groups. He earned his PhD from Stanford and has been awarded over 300 patents for virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence technologies. H...
Feb 28, 2024•38 min•Season 2Ep. 33
“Technology-augmented boards—let’s assume that for the next 20-30 years, they will still be human boards. We’re not going to see super-intelligent AI taking over. Boards are still relevant in that respect; the level of decision-making they’ll be doing will be elevated. They’ll certainly be using technology to support their decision-making.” – Paul Smith About Paul Smith Paul Smith is Founder of Future Directors , which focuses on the future of boards and corporate governance. He speaks regularly...
Feb 21, 2024
“It’s really exciting, truly. We have so much information at our fingertips and so much connectivity at this point in time, to go about pursuing your passion and to go about really finding that authentic truth within who you are, and how you can come out into the world.” – Sasha Wallinger About Sasha Wallinger Sasha Wallinger is founder of Blockchain Style Lab , a team of strategists, researchers, and world builders that provides Web3 Advisory services, and acts as Chief Marketing Officer for ma...
Feb 14, 2024
“Read broadly because your uniqueness will come from the corpus of information your brain has trained on.” – Kes Sampanthar About Kes Sampanthar Kes Sampanthar is Managing Director at BCG BrightHouse, leading Innovation + Purpose. He is an award-winning innovator, technologist, game designer, and consultant to some of the world’s largest organizations. He speaks extensively on technology, design thinking, innovation strategy, and behavioral change, and is the author of the Substack, The Centauri...
Feb 07, 2024
“ It’s not a mind. When you ask it a question, you’re not asking someone or something. It’s a compendium, an amalgamation, a mixing pot of everything ever written. So, asking these systems a question is asking everyone, drawing a response from mankind’s combined experience. ” – Jerry Kaplan About Jerry Kaplan Jerry Kaplan is a serial innovator, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, bestselling author, and keynote speaker. He has founded four Silicon Valley companies, two of which became publicly traded, ...
Jan 31, 2024
About this episode We return with another compilation episode, this time looking at the potential of Humans plus AI. You will hear insights in brief excerpts from the current season of the podcast from Jerry Michalski – Episode 2 , Toby Walsh – Episode 14 , Anne-Laure LeCunff – Episode 5 , Jeremiah Owyang – Episode 9 , and Dave Snowden – Episode 24 . To tap the potential of AI we need to take a deeply human approach. These leading thinkers share how we should be thinking about the relationship b...
Jan 24, 2024
About Gianni Giacomelli Gianni Giacomelli is the Founder of Supermind.Design and Head of Design Innovation at MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence . He previously held a range of leadership roles in major organizations, most recently as Chief Innovation Officer at global professional services firm Genpact . He has written extensively for media and in scientific journals and is a frequent conference speaker. Episode Resources Karl Friston’s Free-energy Principle Generative AI AGI Perplexity.a...
Jan 18, 2024
About this episode For something a bit different, and very suitably at the beginning of the year, this episode is a compilation of recent guests on the Amplifying Cognition podcast talking about expanding possibilities and opportunities. You will hear powerful excerpts from Nora Bateson – Episode 20 , Dave Gray – Episode 17 , John Hagel – Episode 13 , and April Rinne – Episode 8 . A massive part of amplifying ourselves is in seeing opportunity and actively creating and seizing possibilities. Soa...
Jan 10, 2024
“We can see AI as a tool that will benefit us and give us warmth, insight, and light. If we use the metaphor that fire gave us light and warmth and helped guide us, AI can do the same, and we don’t have to be so afraid of it and halt it.” – Natasha Vita-More About Natasha Vita-More Natasha Vita-More is a professor, author, scientist, innovator, and Executive Director of Humanity+. She is recognized as a pioneer of the transhumanist movement, publishing a manifesto in 1983, with her scientific wo...
Jan 03, 2024•43 min•Season 2Ep. 25
“Human beings learn more from anomalies than they do from anything else.” – Dave Snowden About Dave Snowden Dave Snowden is Founder of The Cynefin Centre and Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of The Cynefin Company. He is the creator of the extremely influential Cynefin Framework as well as SenseMaker®, the world’s first distributed ethnography tool. He has held roles as Extraordinary Professor and Visiting Professor at eight universities globally, and is the author of numerous influential ar...
Dec 20, 2023•36 min
“It isn’t that two, three, twelve, or a hundred powerful people, whose names we all know, do the heavy lifting while the rest of us just get dragged along. No, it is every bee going out and doing their small part that makes the hive function.” – Byron Reese About Byron Reese Byron Reese is a serial entrepreneur, having sold 3 companies and 2 going to IPO, and earned 5 patents. He is also an award-winning author of 5 books with 400,000 book sales so far, and keynote speaker to hundreds of audienc...
Dec 13, 2023•32 min
“Those who are so afraid that they don’t want to touch anything related to AI are the ones who, A, are probably going to lose their jobs, or, B, worse, could create some unintended damage.” – Heidi Lorenzen About Heidi Lorenzen Heidi Lorenzen is Executive Producer and Director of The Humanity Code . She comes from an extensive background as a go-to-market leader for sector leaders such as Accela, Singularity University, CloudWords, and GlobalEnglish, working in a number of countries across three...
Dec 06, 2023•36 min•Season 2Ep. 22
“Doing less allows you to increase the cognitive space you have for what’s actually important.” – Eliot Peper About Eliot Peper Eliot Peper is a novelist, author of 11 successful books including Bandwidth , Reap3r , and most recently Foundry , with praise from New York Times Book Review, Seth Godin , Kim Stanley Robinson and many others. He also works on special projects for startup founders, and has worked as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at a venture capital fund. Website: www.eliotpeper.com Linke...
Nov 29, 2023•42 min•Season 2Ep. 21
“Everything you do takes place at the nth order. You cannot simply draw your line of responsibility at the edge of first-order action. It goes far beyond that.” – Nora Bateson About Nora Bateson Nora Bateson is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and educator, and President of the International Bateson Institute . She wrote, directed, and produced the documentary, An Ecology of Mind , on her father, Gregory Bateson , which won awards at the Spokane and Santa Cruz film festivals. Following her 201...
Nov 22, 2023•39 min•Season 2Ep. 20
“Our persistence guided us when we shifted from being defensive to adaptive. We recognized that in all that swirl, being courageously persistent would ultimately lead us to where we needed to be.” – Graham Winter “ Many think of taking a pause as an indulgent use of time. It’s probably one of the best investments in time you can make as an executive leader .” – Martin Bean About Graham Winter and Martin Bean Graham Winter is founder of the Think One Team consultancy. He was Chief Psychologist fo...
Nov 15, 2023•38 min•Season 2Ep. 19
“ Notice how it has become difficult to be oneself. Observe the spaces where things do not align and share those challenges. Find others and share those difficulties, those failures, with them .” – Dr. Bayo Akomolafe About Dr. Bayo Akomolafe Dr. Bayo Akomolafe is a philosopher, psychologist, poet, and the Executive Director and Chief Curator for The Emergence Network. He has been a professor and lecturer at numerous universities around world, and is author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fe...
Nov 08, 2023•Season 2Ep. 18
“If you can draw a picture of the problem, you’re halfway to a solution. If it can’t be drawn, it can’t be done. If you can start to visualize or draw a picture, then you start to have a plan.” – Dave Gray About Dave Gray Since the 1980s Dave Gray has focused on developing visual maps and stories that make complex information more actionable and easier to understand. He is founder of visual thinking company XPLANE and the experimental learning community The School of the Possible, and the author...
Nov 01, 2023•37 min•Season 2Ep. 17
