Humans + AI

“We don’t just give creative thinking to the AI, but we actually use the AI to make space for our own creative thinking.” – Valentina Contini About Valentina Contini Valentina Contini is an innovation strategist for a global IT services firm, a technofuturist, and speaker. She has a background in engineering, innovation design, AI-powered foresight, and biohacking. Her previous work includes found...

"Not everyone can see with dragonfly eyes, but can we create tools that help enable people to see with dragonfly eyes?" – Anthea Roberts About Anthea Roberts Anthea Roberts is Professor at the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University (ANU) and a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. She is also the Founder, Director and CEO of Dragonfly Thinking. Her lat...

"To be a flexible leader is to make sense of the world in a way that allows you to intentionally ask, ‘How do I need to lead in this moment to get the best results for my team and the outcomes we need?’" – Kevin Eikenberry About Kevin Eikenberry Kevin Eikenberry is Chief Potential Officer of leadership and learning consulting company The Kevin Eikenberry Group . He is the bestselling author or co-...

"It's not just about the AI itself; it's about the way we deploy it. We need to focus on human-centric practices to ensure AI enhances human potential rather than harming it." – Alexandra Diening About Alexandra Diening Alexandra Diening is Co-founder & Executive Chair of Human-AI Symbiosis Alliance. She has held a range of senior executive roles including as Global Head of Research & Insi...

"What these tools allow you to do is very, very quickly go from an idea to sort of an 80% manifestation of it. It’s not just about the technology—it’s about understanding how, when, and why to use it to unlock collective intelligence." – Kyle Shannon "We’ve discovered you can externalize the voice in your head into something you can have a dialogue with, creating reflective moments that result in...

"To me, envisioning a future should involve elements anchored in nature, modern materials, and sustainable practices, challenging Western-centric constructs of ‘futuristic.’ Artisanal intelligence is about understanding material culture, combining traditional craft with modern techniques, and redefining what feels ‘modern.’" – Samar Younes About Samar Younes Samar Younes is a pluridisciplinary hyb...

"When you get a response from a language model, it’s a bit like a response from a crowd of people, shaped by the preferences of countless individuals." – Jason Burton About Jason Burton Jason Burton is an assistant professor at Copenhagen Business School and an Alexander von Humboldt Research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. His research applies computational methods to st...

"AI is more of an occasion for organizational redesign than it is a solution to that redesign. However, it’s a great amplifier—it will amplify your problems, and it will amplify good organizational design." – Kai Riemer About Kai Riemer Kai Riemer is Professor of Information Technology and Organisation, and Director of Sydney Executive Plus, at the University of Sydney Business School. He works wi...

"The craft of corporate development and training has always been very specialized in providing the right skills for workers, but that provision of support is being totally transformed by AI. It’s both an incredible opportunity and a challenge because AI is exposing whether we've been doing things right all along." – Marc Steven Ramos About Marc Steven Ramos Marc Ramos is a highly experienced Chief...

"Trust is a key ingredient when you look into Explainable AI; it's about how can we build trust towards these systems." – Alex Richter About Alex Richter Alexander Richter is Professor of Information Systems at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. where he has also been Inaugural Director of the Executive MBA and Associate Dean, where he specializes in the transformative impact of IT...

"Each of us is creative in our own way. We have the ability to create our own future, but we must first understand that we are creative." – Jack Uldrich About Jack Uldrich Jack Uldrich is a leading futurist, author, and speaker who helps organizations gain the critical foresight they need to create a successful future. His work is based on the principles of unlearning as a strategy to survive and...

"The beauty of generative AI is that it's incredibly elastic. With a strong NLU, you can orchestrate different services to do various tasks. Whether it's something simple like booking a vacation or scheduling a meeting, or something more complex like running a state-of-the-art deep learning model with an AI-powered agent, it becomes really interesting." – Lindsay Richman About Lindsay Richman Lind...

"We have unique capabilities, but it's crucial to understand that today's AI technologies, powered by deep learning, are fundamentally different. We need a new paradigm to figure out how we can work together." – Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi About Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi is Associate Professor at the School of Information and Library Science at University of North Carolina at...

"Machines are amazing, but they can't do certain things that only human beings can, like exhibit consciousness, ethics, or the ability to develop social bonds involving emotions, trust, loyalty, and empathy." – Andrew Likierman About Sir Andrew Likierman Sir Andrew Likierman is Professor and former Dean of the London Business School. Previous roles include Head of the UK Government Accountancy Ser...

"It's not just about foreseeing; it's also about feeling and sensing. It's about imagining the smells and sounds of the future. It's really about being an active player in your future, an active builder of the future." – Sylvia Gallusser About Sylvia Gallusser Sylvia Gallusser is Founder and CEO of Silicon Humanism, a futures thinking and strategic foresight consultancy. Previous roles include a v...

"We all have to acquire new information to stay relevant. But if we're piling new information onto outdated thinking, we need to become more comfortable with lifelong forgetting." – Erica Orange About Erica Orange Erica Orange is a futurist, speaker, and author, and Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of leading futurist consulting firm The Future Hunters. She has spoken at TEDx a...

"It's not about the amount we say; it's about making what we say really count. We can use some of these tools to write the long version, so that we can then quickly create the short version and really dial in." – Natalia Bielczyk About Natalia Bielczyk Natalia Bielczyk is Founder & CEO of Ontology of Value, an R&D, EdTech, and consulting agency. She holds a PhD in Computational Neuroscienc...

"It's not about the amount that we say. It's about making what we say really count. We can use some of these tools to write the long one, so that we can then go ahead and very quickly write the short version and really dial in." – Nikolas Badminton About Nikolas Badminton Nikolas Badminton is the Chief Futurist of the Futurist Think Tank. He is a world-renowned futurist speaker, award-winning auth...

"AI is not a collaborator. It's an Oracle, it's a tool, it's a thing. I have a query, give me the answer. It's not a thing where you sit down with the computer like, okay, let's think about this problem together." – Brian Magerko About Brian Magerko Dr. Magerko is a Professor of Digital Media, Director of Graduate Studies in Digital Media, and head of the Expressive Machinery Lab at Georgia Tech....

"It's really important that we're not ceding everything to AI and that we continue to add value ourselves in that collaboration." – Claire Mason About Claire Mason Claire Mason is Principal Research Scientist at Australia’s government research agency CSIRO , where she leads the Technology and Work team and the Skills project within the organization’s Collaborative Intelligence Future Science Platf...

"If you read 1,000 papers and build a powerful representation, humans can interrogate, mine, ask questions, and even get the system to generate new hypotheses." – Markus Buehler About Markus Buehler Markus Buehler is Jerry McAfee (1940) Professor in Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Principal Investigator of MIT’s Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics (LAMM)...

"So my overall interest in technology in general, not just AI, is how it supports human potential. And so for me, that's defined as people being healthy, happy, and really able to fulfill their purpose and potential." – Nichol Bradford About Nichol Bradford Nichol Bradford is Executive-in-Residence for AI + Human Enablement at The Society for Human Resource Management, focusing on human-AI collabo...

"To use AI for omni-beneficial output, we need to bring to it our best qualities, which are beyond intelligence; it is wisdom." – George Pór About George Pór George Pór has been researching, teaching, and consulting in the arts and sciences of emergent collective intelligence since 1987, when he was introduced to the ideas by his mentor Doug Engelbart. He is the founder of numerous organizations,...

In this episode, Ross Dawson talks with Daniel Erasmus about the critical role of AI in addressing climate change. They discuss how AI tools, such as climateGPT, provide valuable multi-perspective insights that assist policymakers, scientists, and organizations in making informed decisions. Daniel shares his background in foresight and the development of specialized AI models that run on green pow...

"AI is going to change humanity into possibly a new species; we could call it a new form of humanity, which is different from what we have today. " – Pedro Uria Recio About Pedro Uria Recio Pedro Uria-Recio is a highly experienced analytics and AI executive. He was until recently the Chief Analytics and AI Officer at True Corporation, Thailand’s leading telecom company, and is about to announce hi...