Working Humans

As AI takes on more workplace roles, the case for AI-led management is becoming harder to ignore; economically, operationally, and culturally. Worker attitudes are shifting, Human managers are burning out, and the financial cost of top-level leadership is rising while their tenure shrinks. AI-Human hybrid organizations, with autonomous agents at every level, may arrive sooner than expected, driven...

Most people reach for AI when they’re writing or editing, which means they’re only using it for a fraction of the work. But AI is just as valuable at the beginning of a process as the end, helping teams generate ideas, challenge assumptions, and pressure-test thinking before a single word is written. This article shows how leaders can bring AI into the full workflow, including a set of prompts to...

AI is a fact in the life of every worker, and increasingly, every student. Is AI the new calculator, once banned from the classroom, now an essential school supply? The rise of AI in our world gives us educators the remarkable opportunity to make sweeping changes to how students are taught. If we assume AI, we can spend our energies developing modules that put learners in the types of strategies t...

Until now, AI has generally needed Humans to supervise it and make it run. But OpenClaw has changed how we see and use AI. It’s an open-source platform for creating autonomous agents that work autonomously, operating their own computer; they can manage email, messages, research, scheduling and chew through workflows you set up for it. These agents operate independently in the background, improve t...

What’s “data”, and why is it so important to our business processes? Data is the record of Human behavior (customers, employees, suppliers, stakeholders) and provides the foundation for leadership decisions, balancing our intuition. But data only becomes useful to AI systems when it is actively curated for accuracy, consistency, completeness and relevance. It means changing the way we see data, ho...

A personal story about a recent moment when I truly felt the power of AI in my corner, and the AI-Human dialogue that spun up around it. The story is tech-heavy, occasionally profane, and features Claude as the world's most patient and slightly unhinged tech support buddy. But by the end you'll not only understand what SSL certificates actually are, you'll know exactly how to take back...

As our world becomes ever more complicated and our way of life more fragile, we need advanced, Human storytelling skills to survive as a tribe, and to inspire, to align and to remind us of who we are. Our human ability to be the signal amidst the noise of our current media landscape of pseudo- and hyper-connected social media. Thank you for listening to Working Humans ! Don't forget to rate, r...

Today, we have AI: Artificial Intelligence. But what if the next phase in this fast-moving space will be AE, Artificial Emotion, and then AC: Artificial Consciousness? As we hurtle into our future, it’s time to question whether the next releases will truly “know” themselves or merely imitate it convincingly. AI already shows awareness of self, agency and self-reflection. We will never know “what i...

Traditional, Human-only sales teams often miss opportunities due to our own bias and background, keeping us in a "cultural comfort zone”. Our sales intuition and personal familiarity served us in the past, but the world moves too quickly for success in today’s markets. By leveraging AI to see the things we cannot, leaders can move from fearful guesswork to confident Human connection.  READ TH...

Get ready for the Return of GDPR, the AI Edition: as Large and Small Language Models grow more intelligent, autonomous, and invasive, the original law from 2018 is no longer enough to protect Humans in a world where data and behavior is inferred, data is synthetic, and personas are generated. Here’s what might be coming this year for a new version of this law and what businesses can do now to prep...

The Phases of AI Integration Most companies don’t “go AI” overnight. They inch forward, painfully, one process or team at a time. What does the technical journey look like, and what practical use cases open with each phase? Join us on a road trip, from denial to a disciplined, AI-Powered organization. Understand when to build governance, operationalize prompts, and where Agents and multi-Agent sys...

80% of the global workforce do not work at a desk: they are drivers, loaders, builders, retail workers and service employees. But this group receives less than 1% of annual productivity software investment. Despite their critical roles and harsh conditions, they face major challenges: limited tech, poor communication, unpredictable schedules, and low levels of engagement. AI-Powered tools, mobile...

AI leadership in the AI Age means exploring the tension between Human wisdom and (Artificial) Intelligence. With nearly unlimited information within the portal of our devices, we are hungry for meaning. While AI offers immense power and efficiency, true leadership requires us to cultivate our empathy, connection and intuition t guide us forward. AI leaders need to approach AI not as a productivity...

What happens when you download and install your own model? In a few steps, you can run a Small Language Model (SLM) directly on your laptop instead of in some far-off data center. It’s faster, cheaper, and keeps your data exactly where it belongs: with you. The future of AI is local, efficient, and personal. Get unchained. With many thanks to Nicolò Turri. READ the full article: https://www.workin...

A divide is growing between leaders and employees in the AI Age. While professionals at every level of the organization are quietly upskilling, experimenting, and integrating AI into their daily work, many leaders remain stuck in last decade’s mindset; reactive, hesitant, and hands-off. With EU “duty to train” regulations around the corner and widespread market disruption underway, we examine “AI...

The big AI players – Gemini, ChatGPT, DeepSeek - get the spotlight, but Small Language Models (SLMs) are attracting the attention of AI leaders in the workplace. Lightweight and secure, they run on your internal data, speak your company’s language, and stay fully in your domain and control. For less money and compute, SLMs deliver speed, privacy, and precision for tasks like HR, legal, or IT suppo...

AI and the Customer Experience While companies are automating customer service with AI bots to increase efficiency and cut costs, customers are reacting by switching brands. In the AI Age, the company that offers the best Human-first customer service will succeed. Humans are still the ones doing the buying, and Humans crave connection, empathy, creativity, and relationships. Five ways to build Hum...

‘Which AI models should I use? Should I get a subscription to one, or more?’ The answer is: model surfing. Rather than committing to a premium subscription for a single large player, we look at the strategic use of multiple free accounts across different platforms, maximizing free token allowances and compare functionalities before making any financial commitment. AI subscription services for non-...

A new approach to software development where anyone can use AI to generate working code just by prompting specs and goals in natural language. Vibe Coding is a laid-back yet powerful way to create small, personal tech solutions quickly, without needing to read or write code. While it offers incredible speed and accessibility, Vibe Coding only “mostly works.” A guide to what it is, how to prompt fo...

What’s an AI swarm, how they work, what they’re good for and how to set them up in your organization? It’s the next step in our AI transformation. It means working with groups of AI agents to complete tasks across different platforms, relying on the collective intelligence of the group rather than the individual models in your own daily stack. 

AI leadership means guiding all employees through change—supporting early adopters hungry to innovate, while engaging resistors who fear being left behind. Success depends on direct, human-centered leadership: one-on-one conversations, trust-building, and practical support, not just training programs or re-orgs. Don’t have time to read? Just listen. Working Humans is a bi-monthly podcast focusing...

Throughout history, artists have borrowed and built on existing ideas, aesthetics and events and created new works of art. Never in a vacuum; writers, musicians have always been inspired and influenced by one another, each one adding to the collective Human culture at large. Now AI is here, the ultimate appropriator, generating unique content by remixing vast datasets. With AI-created works increa...

Joined today by speaker, facilitator, podcaster and creative thinking expert David Chislett. Encourages us to Rebel, Reject, Create! That’s his podcast, where he explores how creativity can make this world a better place. His many books include “Unblock Writers’ Block” and poetry collections “B-Sides”, “With All of You” and more. If the only constant in life is change, how we deal with change is c...

In the AI-Powered workflow, your “stack” is the selection of AI you use together to meet all your varied needs. There’s no time to road test every single one of these and still carry on with your full-time job. And, most of them carry a monthly subscription. What tools do you need, and what can you live without? READ the article: https://www.working-humans.com/ai/stack/  

The robots are here! We examine the rapid advancements in humanoid robots and their AI-powered brains. Figure 02, Atlas and Optimus as well as the exploding Chinese market. Why now? And what does all this have to do with AI? A lot; and it’s not slowing down. The societal impacts of embodied AI, the future of work and the ethical considerations as we share our homes, factories and offices with a ne...