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...

Jennifer Haase on human-AI co-creativity, uncommon ideas, creative synergy, and humans outperforming (AC Ep83)

by shan | Apr 2, 2025 | Podcast

“We humans often tend to be very restricted—even when we are world champions in a game. And I’m very optimistic that AI will surprise us, with very different ways of solving complex problems—and we can make use of that.” – Jennifer Haase About...

Charlene Li on generative AI strategy, AI book editors, prompt libraries, and wisdom hacking (AC Ep37)

by shan | Mar 27, 2024 | Podcast

“My hope is that in the future, we are so focused on acquiring knowledge in our schools and our educational system, my hope is that we will also be focused on acquiring wisdom, if we know how to measure it and how to develop it.” – Charlene Li About Charlene Li...

Philipp Schoenegger on AI-augmented predictions, improving human decisions, LLM wisdom of crowds, and how to be a superforecaster (AC Ep36)

by shan | Mar 20, 2024 | Podcast

“One of the main strengths of the current generation of large language models is the ability of their interactive nature to provide a highly competent model that people can interact with and query whatever they want.” – Philipp Schoenegger About Philipp Schoenegger...

Marek Kowalkiewicz on the economy of algorithms, armies of chatbots, LLMs for scenarios, and becoming minion masters (AC Ep34)

by shan | Mar 6, 2024 | Podcast

“We humans need to be the ones who work with algorithms to make sure that they don’t take the wrong path, don’t deteriorate, don’t misunderstand our intentions, and don’t create outcomes that we don’t want.” – Marek Kowalkiewicz About...