Suranga Nanayakkara on augmenting humans, contextual nudging, cognitive flow, and intention implementation (HAI 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 (HAI 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...

Paula Goldman on trust patterns, intentional orchestration, enhancing human connection, and humans at the helm (HAI Ep14)

by shan | Aug 13, 2025 | Podcast

“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...

Vivienne Ming on hybrid collective intelligence, building cyborgs, meta-uncertainty, and the unknown infinite (HAI Ep13)

by shan | Aug 6, 2025 | Podcast

“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...

Matt Beane on the 3 Cs of skill development, AI augmentation design templates, inverted apprenticeships, and AI for skill enhancement (HAI Ep12)

by shan | Jul 30, 2025 | Podcast

“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...

Tim O’Reilly on AI native organizations, architectures of participation, creating value for users, and learning by exploring (HAI Ep11)

by shan | Jul 23, 2025 | Podcast

“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,...