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...

Natalie Buda Smith on AI in libraries, human at the center, deeper storytelling, and language recreation (HAI Ep47)

by shan | Jun 17, 2026 | Podcast

“There is a lot of information, more that’s accessible than ever before, and you can access it quicker than ever before, process it quicker than ever before.” –Natalie Buda Smith About Natalie Buda Smith Natalie Buda Smith is Director of Digital...

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...

Hala Nelson on human machine coexistence, ontology first, AI driven digital twins, and bidirectional connections to reality (HAI Ep45)

by shan | Jun 3, 2026 | Podcast

“Our whole systems and institutions and processes and jobs were built around the fact that these three things were only human, and machines were there to help us accelerate, but not replace those functions.” –Hala Nelson About Hala Nelson Hala Nelson is...

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...