The AI Lyceum

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! What happens when an AI agent makes more decisions than a human can realistically check? Dr Reid Blackman joins Samraj Matharu on The AI Lyceum™ to explore why AI governance needs more than human approval and a list of ethical principles. Reid is an AI ethicist, philosopher and author of The Et...

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! What does AI reveal about how original we really are? In episode 38 of The AI Lyceum™, Samraj Matharu is joined by Dr Nana Ariel, Scholar of Rhetoric and AI Literacy and former Fulbright visiting scholar at Harvard. Together, they explore what our conversations with artificial intelligence reve...

Does every business need AI agents, or could a simpler workflow do the job better? In this episode of The AI Lyceum™, Samraj Matharu speaks with Dr Quentin Reul about AI agents, knowledge graphs and what it takes to turn enterprise AI experiments into useful business outcomes. Quentin explains why predictable tasks may not need autonomous agents, while deep research can benefit from systems that e...

What happens to human judgement when a chatbot can think, write and advise us at any moment? In episode 36 of The AI Lyceum™, Samraj Matharu speaks with Professor Sven Nyholm, Professor of the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence at LMU Munich and author of The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction. They discuss why people often prefer chatbots that agree with them, even whe...

AI is making it faster and cheaper to build, test and launch new ideas—but it is not replacing judgement, resilience or humanity. Dipika Sawhney leads SMB growth for Google across EMEA, helping hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized businesses gain practical value from AI-powered technology. Before joining Google, she spent more than five years at Amazon, held a senior strategy role at Sa...

What happens when AI stops being a tool and begins to resemble a mind—and what might humanity owe it? In Episode 34 of The AI Lyceum™, Samraj Matharu speaks with Anna Mikeda, an AI psychology engineer and researcher helping to establish the emerging field of robopsychology. Beginning with Isaac Asimov’s vision of robot psychology, they examine how artificial minds might develop motivations, make d...

In this episode of The AI Lyceum®, Samraj Matharu speaks with Professor Wayne Holmes, Professor of Critical Studies of AI and Education at UCL Knowledge Lab and UNESCO Chair in the Ethics of AI and Education. Wayne offers a direct challenge to the hype around generative AI. He argues that many AI tools are being adopted in schools, universities, workplaces, and public life without enough independe...

‘In the age where machines are becoming more intelligent, maybe that’s one of the most human questions left: what are we actually serving?’ In this episode of The AI Lyceum®, Samraj Matharu speaks with Sacha Ghiglione, Executive Director of Davos Tech Summit 2026, about physical AI, humanoid robots, Robot City, work, purpose and the future of intelligent machines in the real world. From Brazilian...

‘AI provides the view from nowhere. And I don’t mean it in a good way. I don’t mean the view from nowhere as an objective view. I mean it as AI doesn’t have experiences. It literally doesn’t have a point of view. But if you talk to another human being, it gives you a point of view on your situation. So you see that another human being, that is like you, could perceive things differently. So it pro...

‘You are perceived as you price’ - Ian Whittaker Advertising is entering a new economic era. AI is changing what gets automated, what gets valued, and how agencies prove their worth. In this episode of The AI Lyceum®, Samraj Matharu speaks with Ian Whittaker, a media and advertising analyst who has spent more than 25 years looking at the industry through a financial markets lens. Ian argues that a...

'STEM is reducible to math and math is verifiable. So anything verifiable is automatable.' In this episode of The AI Lyceum®, Samraj Matharu speaks with James Wang, Product Marketing Director at Cerebras, about the AI supply chain, inference, agents and what remains human when intelligence becomes infrastructure. James previously spent nearly a decade at NVIDIA before joining Cerebras, where he fo...

‘ The web is one big fat ad .' That was Alessandra DiLorenzo’s quote of the podcast, and it gets right to the point. In this episode of The AI Lyceum®, Samraj Matharu speaks with Alessandra DiLorenzo, former CEO of lastminute.com media and former leader at eBay and Vodafone, following her recent TEDx Royal Tunbridge Wells talk at the March 8, 2026 event themed ‘Momentum’. Her TEDx speaker profile...

' AI just feels like another frontier of exclusion ' – Sidrah Hassan In this episode of The AI Lyceum®, Samraj Matharu speaks with Sidrah Hassan, AI Governance and AI Ethics Specialist, about inclusive AI, AI ethics, AI governance, algorithmic bias, trust in AI, transparency, human oversight, and responsible AI in practice. Sidrah is an AI Governance and Ethics Manager at Kainos, an AI Ethics and...

‘ Failure is not something to be ashamed of. I want my students to know why they were wrong ' AI is changing education, work, and judgment faster than most institutions can keep up. In Episode #26 of The AI Lyceum®, I speak with Tina Austin, an AI educator, bioethics and computational biology lecturer, AI ethics adviser, and OpenAI presenter, about what it means to teach, think, and stay human in...

' The problem is that more people want to be creating videos, but they can’t ' AI video is moving from novelty to utility, and Wondercraft is betting the real opportunity is not just generating content, but making video genuinely usable for business. In Episode 25 of The AI Lyceum®, we sat down with Dimitris Nikolaou, Co-Founder and CEO of Wondercraft, to explore how he went from Imperial and Pala...

This episode is sponsored by Advertising Protocols™ — a free and open directory for the entire advertising ecosystem, built to help people explore the protocols, standards, tools, and infrastructure shaping the future of media and ad tech. 🌐 https://advertisingprotocols.com ' Bot is the old world. Agent is the new world ' – Shailley Singh What happens when AI agents start buying and selling media...

' When you see that image of yourself on the screen, suddenly it feels much more possible ' - Sunil Jindal, Co-Founder, Magic AI What if your mirror could train you using a future version of you as the trainer? In this episode of The AI Lyceum, Samraj Matharu sits down with Sunil Jindal, Co-Founder of Magic AI - the award-winning consumer tech company behind the AI-powered smart mirror named one o...

'We should improve our critical thinking' — Chiara Gallese As AI systems move from experimentation to infrastructure, governance becomes the real test. In Episode 22 of The AI Lyceum, Samraj speaks with Dr Chiara Gallese — Philosophy PhD, Adjunct Professor of Digital Ethics at Collegio Internazionale Ca’ Foscari, Researcher at Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT), and Academic...

AI ethics, trust & safety explained — Savneet Singh (AI Ethicist) on building trustworthy AI systems, safety frameworks & responsible AI deployment. The AI Lyceum #21 'The machine is there to support you — not to replace your judgment. You are the one in control' — Savneet Singh As AI becomes more human-like, trust becomes harder to define — and more critical to get right. In this episode,...

Why AI’s biggest blind spot is culture, not code — Dr Nina Begus (UC Berkeley) on cultural bias in AI, language models & cross-cultural AI development. The AI Lyceum #20 🎓 20% Off | Oxford AI Executive Programmes https://oxsbs.link/ailyceum " Humanities scholars need to be at the table where AI is being built — ethics must be embedded from the start, not added as a band-aid afterward " — Dr....

AI is not an oracle — it is a question machine. In this episode, Samraj Matharu speaks with Cassandra Sibilin , Philosophy Lecturer at CUNY (City University of New York) and a leading practitioner in AI-assisted education. Cassandra works at the intersection of philosophy, pedagogy, and emerging AI tools, helping educators and students move beyond fear, hype, and automation toward deeper thinking....

“The things we can say are limited by the things we can think.” In this episode, Samraj Matharu speaks with Peter Danenberg , Senior Software Engineer specialising in rapid LLM prototyping at Google DeepMind , based in Palo Alto, California. Peter works at the frontier where large language models move from research to real-world systems. Together, they explore what it really means to think with AI...

“Law does not stop innovation — but poor regulation can quietly distort it.” In this episode, Samraj speaks with Stephen Dnes , media lawyer, partner at Dnes & Felver, and lecturer in law at Royal Holloway, University of London, about one of the most important questions facing AI today: How should law assign responsibility when AI systems act, decide, and transact autonomously? Stephen brings...

🎓 20% Off | Oxford AI Ethics Executive Programme https://oxsbs.link/ailyceum “AI raises the ceiling and raises the floor. It is not the end of marketing. It is the beginning of better marketing.” — Jim Lecinski In this episode, Samraj speaks with Jim Lecinski, Clinical Professor of Marketing at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and former Google VP. He created ZMOT (Zero Mome...

🎓 20% Off | Oxford AI Ethics Executive Programme - https://oxsbs.link/ailyceum 🍫 The answer is yes — he is related to 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 Cadbury. “Conversation is the most natural interface there is.” — Charles Cadbury Charles Cadbury — CEO, Say It Now and Amazon Alexa Cup winner — explores why Voice AI is becoming the new interface for search. From early Alexa development to powering actionable audio ads for...