Joel Pearson on putting human first, 5 rules for intuition, AI for mental imagery, and cognitive upsizing (HAI 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 (HAI 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 (HAI 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...

Ross Dawson on Levels of Humans + AI in Organizations (HAI 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 (HAI 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...