Artificial Insights: Conversations About AI

Most people talk about "data privacy" like it’s a legal checkbox. For Josh Müller, it’s part of faithful stewardship. In this bonus episode, Josh and Daniel pick up on a single idea from their main conversation: data management as Kingdom stewardship. Josh shares how his once “off-the-cloud-at-all-costs” mindset softened as AI made it possible to do genuinely good things with data. The hard part n...

What if a six-month production bottleneck became a 16-minute job? Josh Müller, director at tech nonprofit Waha , tells Daniel how forced alignment and smart automation turned a tedious audio-editing gauntlet into a repeatable pipeline that ships Bible study content across dozens of languages. The result is more time for actual disciple-making and less time in Audacity. They dig into privacy-first...

When is the right time to start a company in AI? Adeel Zaman argues it comes down to breakthroughs. In this bonus clip, Adeel explains why "why now" matters more than ever in AI. Without a recent step forward, most ideas have already been tried and blocked by the same old limits. He points to Jeff Bezos in 1995, who spotted the internet’s growth curve and built Amazon around books, an application...

What happens when AI doesn’t just live in text and screens, but begins to reason and act in the physical world? Adeel Zaman, CTO and Co-Founder of DOZR, has spent his career moving from deep learning research to startups, scaling companies and tackling cold-start problems with machine learning. Now, backed by the HF0 residency, his focus is on "Embodied Intelligence" and how foundation models can...

Most people aren’t natural tinkerers. That simple fact shapes how AI adoption actually plays out inside companies. It’s not enough to drop a new tool into the workflow. Deadlines and old habits keep teams from trying new approaches. In this bonus episode, Daniel and Aydin Mirzaee, CEO of Fellow, talk about why adoption stalls when people stick to the “old way,” how organizations can carve out spac...

Adopting AI inside an organization is rarely smooth. Most people are not natural tinkerers, and it takes more than enthusiasm to change how teams prepare, run, and follow up on meetings. For Aydin Mirzaee, CEO and co-founder of Fellow, the turning point was realizing that AI could take the work only the most organized people were willing to do and make it accessible to everyone. He calls this an A...

Welcome to Artificial Insights where we talk to leaders and thinkers in AI about how to do AI right. On this podcast, we sit down every other Friday with people who build things with, and write things about, AI, and talk to them about what they do and why they do it. We've been doing this for just over a year now, and a core pattern has emerged: Why you build with AI matters as much as how you bui...

From ethics to student builders, this past summer season of Artificial Insights dug into how AI shapes what it means to be human and how the next generation is already learning to use it. Guests shared warnings about convenience, reflections on human worth, and hands-on lessons from shipping early projects. In this recap episode, Daniel looks back at highlights from every conversation: 1️⃣ Sheldon...

What happens when students are told not to use AI, but also told they’ll need it for their careers? For Aasha Khan, a Grade 12 student at Cameron Heights and founder of Youth Tech Labs, that tension defined her first encounters with AI. At school, the message was clear: avoid AI or risk suspension. At home, her father, a Chief AI Officer, encouraged her to explore the technology. The mixed signals...

The next generation of builders isn’t just asking what AI can do, but what it should do. For Johns Hopkins student Aleks Santari, the most striking change AI brings is the commoditisation of intelligence. When capabilities once reserved for experts become widely available, it reshapes education, work, and even how people see themselves. Aleks is exploring that reality firsthand through three proje...

How do you bridge worlds as different as quantum research and AI product building? For Dvir Zagury-Grynbaum, the answer lies in curiosity. Still an undergraduate in physics at the University of Waterloo, Dvir has already worked at the Perimeter Institute, led AI design teams, and built tools that personalize decision making. His project thersona.com learns from its users to help with everything fr...

What happens when the technology you rely on gets better every day while your own capacity remains the same? For Dr. K, theologian, bioethicist, and former U.S. intelligence officer, this is a deeply human question. With two decades in applied ethics, 14 books, and a career spanning hospital ethics, ministry, and service in the intelligence community, she brings a rare perspective on AI’s impact o...

What happens when the work you’ve built your identity around can be done faster, and sometimes better, by AI? For Dr. Christopher Watkin, philosopher, theologian, and associate professor at Monash University, AI’s greatest impact may be the questions it forces us to ask: What is work for? Where do we find value when productivity is no longer scarce? And what does this moment reveal about what it m...

Before ChatGPT, Sheldon Fernandez knew what it was to wrestle with a sentence until it worked. As an AI ethics speaker, former AI CEO, and theologian, he’s seen what’s gained, and what’s lost, when the work of critical thinking is just a click away. Now, as his children grow up in a world where AI can answer every question and affirm every feeling, he’s asking what that means for how we learn, rel...

This is Artificial Insights, where we talk to leaders and thinkers in AI about what it means to do AI right. Welcome to Season 3. This season is a special “summer break” for the month of August. We’re moving from our usual focus on AI products to explore AI ethics. We’ll be examining the questions of purpose, trust, and responsibility that shape, whether consciously or not, every decision about AI...

AI is everywhere but not every implementation works. In this Season 2 recap of Artificial Insights, Daniel revisits the most powerful moments from conversations with eleven leaders building AI in the real world. These guests have seen what happens when AI is rushed, misused, or built without purpose, as well as what it takes to create AI that lasts. Across three themes, their voices reveal pattern...

AI is reshaping work in ways that are more complex than the headlines suggest. Nicolas Tobis has seen both sides: some roles shrink, others expand, and entirely new ones appear. At one education company, AI cut the content team by 80% while output soared to 35 times its previous level. In this bonus episode, Daniel and Nico dig into what these shifts mean for workers and companies alike. They talk...

AI is now being used to teach and measure something most people think of as deeply human: empathy. In healthcare, where conversations can be as critical as treatments, Nicolas Tobis, VP of Data and AI at Relias, and his team have been building AI training simulations for nurses and doctors. These tools let clinicians practice difficult conversations with AI-powered virtual patients and get feedbac...

Some people try to engineer perfect prompts. Others just talk and get better results. Jonathan Green has seen how a conversational, almost playful approach to AI changes the results you get. The people he calls master prompters name their AI, treat it like a collaborator, and, often without realizing it, unlock responses others struggle to reach. In this bonus episode, Jonathan shares why these ha...

“The best AI users are always women, and they’re always super high creative types.” Jonathan Green has seen what many AI builders overlook: the most effective AI users aren’t technical experts: they’re creative communicators who treat AI like a teammate. They name their agents, talk to them conversationally, and rarely get frustrated when something doesn’t work. After being fired from his universi...

Investors often ask Carlos Almeida the same question: if your AI is built on someone else’s model, what’s your moat? For him, the answer starts with building what the model can’t: controls that keep AI aligned with a company’s goals, interfaces that let humans guide its decisions, and ways to manage and expand its usable data. In this conversation, Daniel and Carlos explore the risks of relying on...

AI customer support can improve service without replacing people, and Carlos Almeida believes that starting with automation is the wrong approach. At Optave, the company he co-founded, the focus is on AI copilots that help enterprise customer support agents work more effectively, with automation only when the conditions are right. That means mapping every step of a support journey, building AI qua...

AI hype cycles come and go, but the difference with this AI wave is how widely it touches every corner of business and work. Mike Kirkup has seen big shifts before, from the rise of smartphones at BlackBerry to the explosion of web apps, but he says AI feels different because “everybody’s working on it,” even if not everyone realises it yet. That ubiquity creates both urgency and overwhelm: whole...

AI is changing the way lenders and brokers process deals, and it’s not by replacing people, but by rethinking how the work gets done. Mike Kirkup didn’t set out to build a product for the finance industry. As CTO at EnPowered, he spent too much time on the repetitive work of gathering and verifying loan documents. Solving that problem led to building what would become Arlo, an AI-powered loan proc...

Electricity didn’t just replace coal, it also created television, film, and entire industries no one predicted. What surprising roles might AI play in our lives? In this bonus episode, Daniel and Chyngyz Dzhumanazarov explore the future of human–AI connection. They talk about AI as coach, companion, and collaborator, and even share a provocative hot take: in the next decade, human–AI marriages mig...