Artificial Intelligence Podcast: ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney and all other AI Tools

Your team is already afraid of AI — and "we're using ChatGPT" is usually the cover story. Jonathan Green talks with Paco Farias (Co-Founder at Glinx; formerly GE, Amazon, and Snap) about where AI resistance actually lives, why so many splashy rollouts are dead in six months, why token bills are about to rival payroll, and what "AI native" actually requires: a reboot of the...

Everyone now has the same AI. That should make markets smarter — Gary Brode says it does the opposite. Jonathan Green talks with Gary Brode (Managing Partner at Deep Knowledge Investing) about why AI is a terrible stock picker: it summarizes the herd, it cannot say "I don't know," it cannot disagree with the dominant narrative, and the places you actually make money are the moments...

The cloud isn't actually in the sky — it runs on electricity, and AI is straining the grid like nothing before it. Jonathan Green talks with Stephanie Cox (CEO of GridEQ) about the energy reality behind the AI boom: why hyperscale data centers are a brand-new kind of load, why the real bottleneck is planning and permitting rather than power, how energy storage bridges fast-moving AI and slow...

Joshua Wilson has done roughly 2,500 interviews and runs Oneiron Network, a podcast network built for dealmakers, capital markets and investment banking. He remembers when an hour of recording meant ten hours of work — and when that work quietly killed the only part that mattered, which was building relationships with people. So he handed the tedious half to AI early, and then drew a hard line aro...

T.J. Marlin spent most of his career investigating corporate crises — the kind that end up on the front page of the Wall Street Journal — and the pattern he found was not the one people expect. Across those global investigations, the overwhelming majority of the harm was not caused by external attackers. It was caused by helpful employees who did not know better, making assumptions nobody could se...

Most teams call an AI project done the moment it works. Qing Zhang, Managing Director at LDV Partners, sees the deals before the rest of us do — and she thinks the finish line is somewhere else entirely. Jonathan Green talks with her about why AI is quietly redefining security, identity and the perimeter all at once, what happens when one person is running thousands of agents that talk to each oth...

The reproducibility crisis in industrial science is estimated to waste thirty to fifty billion dollars a year, and John F. Conway says almost none of it is a technology problem. He is Chief Visioneer Officer at 20/15 Visioneers and has spent twenty-five years on scientific data — first building the models, then realising the world had a data problem so severe that the models could not save it. Jon...

Is AI about to replace your sales team? Jonathan Green sits down with Ellza Malok (Chief Psychologist & Researcher, Blue Monarch Group) on why AI is a great cost-cutting tool but a terrible trust-building one — and what that means for anyone who sells. They get into why trust and human relationships are about to become MORE valuable, how AI quietly removes accountability, why the buyer's...

Can AI and humanoid robots actually transform manufacturing? Jonathan Green sits down with Jens Mobius (Managing Partner, Infinity Partners) on why Gen AI has gone from a nice-to-have to a defensive imperative for mid-market manufacturers, the "spaceship dilemma" of when to adopt, the staggering economics of humanoid robots ($10/hour today toward $1/hour by 2035 vs. $18/hour manual labor...

Are data centers the future of AI — or just the next bubble? Jonathan Green talks with startup advisor and VC Jason Finkelstein about the infrastructure boom behind AI: why the data center buildout mirrors the dot-com era, where the real money in xAI is hiding, and why today's billion-dollar server farms may be obsolete before we finish building them. Key Takeaways: • The data center boom is...

We think of AI as living inside computers — but it's reshaping the very physical world of fashion and manufacturing. Jonathan Green talks with operations and supply-chain advisor Omnya Elshafey about how AI is changing fashion: why the industry still isn't fully automated, how to keep warehouses lean, and how small companies can run an entire supply chain through disruption they can&apos...

We think of AI as digital — but can it run a real, physical oil field? Jonathan Green talks with John Hooker of Statistics & Control about AI in high-stakes industrial operations: where automation genuinely helps, where you still need a human who knows the process, and what "half robot, half person" operations actually look like. Key Takeaways: • In high-security, high-production env...

Everyone was told to adopt AI, tried it, got burned — so why do enterprise AI rollouts keep failing? Jonathan Green talks with organizational strategist Rob Lion about the real reasons big AI initiatives miss: unrealistic expectations set by the hype, skipping change management, and the employee mindset of "make my job easier, but not so easy that I'm replaceable." Key Takeaways: •...

Can AI fix what's broken inside pharma — or is it too high-stakes and too guarded to let AI in? Jonathan Green talks with pharmaceutical expert Wendy Rockwell about the realities of bringing AI into one of the most regulated, security-conscious industries on earth: million-dollar legacy systems, painfully long buying cycles, and the trust problem when AI gives you two different answers to the...

Most business problems are misdiagnosed. Jonathan Green talks with operations and leadership consultant Jon Bassford about how to actually diagnose your organization — from management style to culture to broken systems — why the same idea gets ignored from the inside but embraced from an outside voice, and how to bring AI into a company without triggering fear or negativity. Key Takeaways: • Diagn...

Can AI help your business stand out — or does it just make everyone sound the same? Jonathan Green talks with Josh Lowman, founder of category-design studio Goldfront, about creating real categorical differentiation, going all-in on AI without gutting your team, and why human feeling is the one thing the machines can't fake. Key Takeaways: • Don't differentiate incrementally ("faste...

What does AI actually change in heavy industry? Jonathan Green talks with Rick Carlisle — a lifelong technologist who started coding in COBOL — about AI in IT and the oil fields: using AI to add layers of safety rather than replace them, catching patterns in alarm and monitoring data, and why the data-center boom is even reviving nuclear power. Key Takeaways: • Use AI to add layers of safety — don...

Is AI quietly erasing the hands-on knowledge that keeps our infrastructure running? Jonathan Green talks with Keith Schafer — part of multiple generations in critical power and engine infrastructure — about what happens when we over-trust AI, why "artificial intelligence" isn't truly intelligent, and how the expertise powering the coming wave of AI data centers is the very knowledge...

We think of AI as living in the cloud — but it runs on physical chips, factories, and supply chains that break in the real world. Jonathan Green talks with supply-chain expert Mohannad Gomaa about the logistics of AI: why modern supply chains are dangerously brittle, how AI helps spot trends and de-risk sourcing, and why resilience — not just efficiency — is the strategy that matters now. Key Take...

Is AI making the job market better or worse? Jonathan Green talks with executive job-search expert and Army veteran Dante Crowther about breaking through a market where hundreds apply for every role — why AI screening can filter out the best candidate, why human connection still wins, and how to bet on yourself when the algorithms are stacked against you. Key Takeaways: • The problem isn't to...

Is AI making us better networkers — or quietly killing the human skills that make networking work? Jonathan Green sits down with networking expert and author Larry Kaufman on using AI to deepen real relationships instead of replacing them: researching people before you meet them, remembering what they care about, and leading with generosity instead of a pitch. Key Takeaways: • AI is great for the...

Can AI build a brand — or just accelerate a broken one faster? Jonathan Green sits down with brand strategist Edward Farley (Newport LLC) on purpose-driven brand strategy in the age of AI: why your brand is far more than a logo, why AI is like NOS (it speeds you up in whatever direction you're already going — including off a cliff), and how to keep the human soul in your marketing while AI sc...

What happens to your team when AI shows up? Jonathan Green sits down with Andrés Tapia — leadership strategist, author, and longtime advisor to Fortune 500s — to unpack how leaders can bring AI into a company without triggering fear, sabotage, or burnout. They dig into why AI displaces tasks, not people, and the uniquely human strengths that get more valuable as the machines get smarter. Key Takea...

In this episode, Jonathan sits down with clinical psychologist and AI ethics expert Dr. Sonja Batten to explore a critical question: Is AI as safe as we think it is—especially when it comes to our mental health, our kids, and vulnerable populations like veterans? Dr. Batten brings decades of experience in mental health, military/veteran care, and systems-level policy to unpack how AI is already in...

Welcome to the Artificial Intelligence Podcast with Jonathan Green! In this episode, we look beyond Silicon Valley to explore how AI is transforming food, health, and the future of what we eat with our special guest, Aaditi Tamhankar—a venture capitalist deeply focused on the future of food , health tech, and biology-driven innovation. Aaditi explains why some of the most important breakthroughs i...