Joel Pearson on putting human first, 5 rules for intuition, AI for mental imagery, and cognitive upsizing (AC Ep25)

by shan | Dec 3, 2025 | Podcast

“This is the first time, really, humanity’s had the possibility open up to create a new way of life, a new society—to create this utopia. And I really hope we get it right.” –Joel Pearson About Joel Pearson Joel Pearson is Professor of Cognitive...

Diyi Yang on augmenting capabilities and wellbeing, levels of human agency, AI in the scientific process, and the ideation-execution gap (AC Ep24)

by shan | Nov 26, 2025 | Podcast

“Our vision is that for well-being, we really want to prioritize human connection and human touch. We need to think about how to augment human capabilities.” –Diyi Yang About Diyi Yang Diyi Yang is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford...

Ganna Pogrebna on behavioural data science, machine bias, digital twins vs digital shadows, and stakeholder simulations (AC Ep23)

by shan | Nov 19, 2025 | Podcast

“It’s very important to understand that human data is part of the training data for the algorithm, and it carries all the issues that we have with human data.” –Ganna Pogrebna About Ganna Pogrebna Ganna Pogrebna is a Research Professor of Behavioural...

Sue Keay on prioritizing experimentation, new governance styles, sovereign AI, and the treasure of national data sets (AC Ep22)

by shan | Nov 12, 2025 | Podcast

“Our Great Barrier Reef is the size of Italy. We don’t have enough people to really go out there and dive and do the work that needs to be done to help protect it.” –Sue Keay About Sue Keay Dr Sue Keay is Director of UNSW AI Institute and Founder and...

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...