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...

Paula Goldman on trust patterns, intentional orchestration, enhancing human connection, and humans at the helm (AC 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 (AC 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...