Beth Kanter on AI to augment nonprofits, Socratic dialogue, AI team charters, and using Taylor Swift’s pens (AC Ep20)

by shan | Oct 29, 2025 | Podcast

“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...

Ross Dawson on Levels of Humans + AI in Organizations (AC Ep19)

by shan | Oct 22, 2025 | Podcast

“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...

Iskander Smit on human-AI-things relationships, designing for interruptions and intentions, and streams of consciousness in AI (AC Ep18)

by shan | Sep 10, 2025 | Podcast

“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...

Brian Kropp on AI adoption, intrinsic incentives, identifying pain points, and organizational redesign (AC Ep17)

by shan | Sep 3, 2025 | Podcast

“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...

Suranga Nanayakkara on augmenting humans, contextual nudging, cognitive flow, and intention implementation (AC Ep16)

by shan | Aug 27, 2025 | Podcast

“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...

Michael I. Jordan on a collectivist perspective on AI, humble genius, design for social welfare, and the missing middle kingdom (AC Ep15)

by shan | Aug 20, 2025 | Podcast

“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...