Mickey McManus on co-thinking, beautiful complexity, pro-social design, and evolutionary social science (HAI Ep51)

by shan | Jul 22, 2026 | Podcast

“No mind is an island, and I think it’s better to think of us as our minds escaped our body, or at least our body alone, a long time ago.” –Mickey McManus About Mickey McManus Mickey McManus is an Executive Coach and Senior Advisor at Boston...

Scott Wolfson on cognitive fitness, System 3 thinking, mastery skill games, and Strategic Imagination Machines (HAI Ep46)

by shan | Jun 10, 2026 | Podcast

“Our mission at CentaurianAI is to help as many people as possible not get replaced by AI, and we call that becoming unbottable.” –Scott Wolfson About Scott Wolfson Scott Wolfson is Co-Founder and Chief Culture Officer of CentaurianAI. Previous roles...

Ross Dawson on cognitive friction, beyond Human-in-the-loop, and AI-augmented strategy (HAI Ep44)

by shan | May 27, 2026 | Podcast

“The value is created in the friction, in the engagement between humans and AI—the pushing back by the humans, the pushing back by the machines.” –Ross Dawson About Ross Dawson Ross Dawson is a futurist, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, author, and host...

Cornelia C. Walther on AI for Inspired Action, return on values, prosocial AI, and the hybrid tipping zone (HAI Ep35)

by shan | Mar 12, 2026 | Podcast

“You and I, we’re part of this last analog generation. We had the opportunity to grow up in a time and age where our brains had to evolve against friction.” –Cornelia C. Walther About Cornelia C. Walther Cornelia C. Walther is Senior Fellow at...