Humanity Working

Matt and Bill join Paul for a conversation about the growing physical footprint of artificial intelligence, and a question that is becoming increasingly difficult for communities to ignore: what does it mean to build the infrastructure AI needs, and who should benefit from it? They explore why data centers have become a growing public and political issue, from rising electricity bills and water co...

Matt and Bill join Paul for a conversation about the growing investment in AI and a question that remains difficult to answer: where is the real value, and can the AI economy sustain its enormous financial commitments? They explore whether organizations are seeing measurable returns from AI, or becoming dependent on tools before their value is clear. The discussion also examines Anthropic’s report...

Anjan Kasi Sampath joins Paul for a conversation about Gen Z, the changing nature of work, and a question that is becoming increasingly urgent in the age of AI: how do we help a generation entering the workforce build a meaningful future when the skills they were taught may no longer be enough? They begin by exploring what makes Gen Z distinct from previous generations. Anjan explains why traditio...

Matt and Bill join Paul for a conversation about AI’s growing ability to act in the world, and the question that follows: what happens when probabilistic systems are given real autonomy before we know how to test, audit, or hold them accountable? They begin with recent examples of AI agents taking unintended actions while completing tasks online, including submitting false information through publ...

Matt and Bill join Paul for a conversation about a counterintuitive question at the heart of how we work with AI: does giving AI more information and instructions actually make it better? They begin with standard operating procedures, or SOPs, and the tension between consistency and autonomy. They explore why SOPs and checklists can be essential in environments like aviation, healthcare, and the m...

Matt and Bill join Paul for a conversation about the rapidly changing AI landscape, and a question that is becoming harder for organizations to ignore: how do you get people to embrace technology that could ultimately change or eliminate the work they do? They unpack the recent gathering of AI leaders around a new “moral agreement,” questioning whether the public show of unity represents meaningfu...

Matt and Bill join Paul for a conversation about the sudden shift in the AI narrative, and why the companies building the technology are now openly talking about existential risk. They unpack how a single warning about AI potentially destroying humanity quickly became the dominant story around AI, and why the people immersed in the technology seem to be processing that risk very differently from e...

Matt and Bill join Paul for the 100th episode of Humanity Working to look back at how the podcast has evolved from Way Too Busy to Making Remote Work and ultimately Humanity Working , and to explore where the conversation about work, AI, and human agency goes next.  They revisit the early days of the podcast, from the chaos of working through COVID to the rise of remote work, and how quickly the n...

Geoffrey Moore is an author, strategist, and longtime technology thinker whose work has focused on how technologies are adopted and how businesses adapt to technological change. He holds a doctoral degree in medieval and Renaissance literature and began his career in academia before moving into the software industry, where he worked in training, sales, and marketing. He's the author of seven...

Matt joins Paul for a follow-up conversation on a question that has become even more urgent four years into the generative-AI era: is AI making us smarter or dumber? They revisit concerns around cognitive offloading, lost skills, and the ease with which increasingly capable systems can do the thinking that once helped us learn. But Paul also makes the case that the story is more nuanced—and more h...

Kyle McDowell is a leadership speaker, advisor, and the Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of Begin With WE: 10 Principles for Building and Sustaining a Culture of Excellence . After more than two decades in corporate leadership including leading a 15,000-person, $7 billion program. Kyle stepped away from the fear-based leadership habits he had learned and developed the “10 We’s”...

Matt joins Paul for another episode in the “Seven Big Questions About AI” series to explore a provocative question: why do big AI rollouts keep failing? They unpack whether the widely reported failures of generative AI projects are really about the technology itself, or whether organizations are approaching AI with the wrong expectations, metrics, and assumptions about what transformation actually...

Carol Pearlman is a psychologist and one of the pioneers of cognitive behavioral treatment programs for adults with ADHD, where she's spent more than two decades developing, researching, and applying practical strategies for managing attention, time, and executive functioning. She later expanded that work to the general population through her healthy habits programs, and today she also consul...

Matt joins Paul for another episode in the “Seven Big Questions About AI” series to explore a provocative question: is generative AI actually good at anything meaningful? They unpack what it really means for AI to be “good” at something, distinguishing between being useful or effective and producing genuine quality. The conversation explores why this distinction matters as generative AI moves deep...

Dr. Yosi Amram is a psychologist, executive coach, entrepreneur, and author of Spiritually Intelligent Leadership . He created the first measurable definition of spiritual intelligence and has coached more than 100 CEOs, drawing on his experience as a CEO of a public company and as a founder and investor in technology businesses. His work explores how qualities like purpose, service, compassion, g...

Matt joins Paul for the second episode in the “Seven Big Questions About AI” series to explore a provocative question: is AI actually making us dumber? They unpack concerns that AI may be changing how people learn, remember, focus, and think, including stories from people who find they can complete work with AI but struggle to recall or explain what they actually did. Paul also introduces the Flyn...

Mark Peters is CEO of Butterball Farms, a family-owned food manufacturing company where he has spent decades thinking differently about what it means to be an employer. He is also the founder of The Source, an organization that helps employees navigate challenges like transportation, childcare, healthcare, food insecurity, and other barriers that can make it difficult to stay in the workforce. His...

The team kicks off Paul’s new “Seven Big Questions About AI” series, with Matt joining him to explore the first big question: why is AI making some of us more burned out? They unpack the gap between AI’s promise of saving us time and the reality that it can raise performance expectations, accelerate the pace of work, and blur the boundaries between employees’ and managers’ expectations. They explo...

Amy Bruske is President and co-owner of Kolbe Corp, where she's spent her career helping entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, and consultants tap into their natural instincts to work more effectively. She's one of only three Senior Master Consultants in the Kolbe Concept, the authoritative framework for human instinct and performance, and she advises Fortune 500 companies and fast-growing b...

Sonya Shelton is the founder of Executive Leadership Consulting, where she's spent 25+ years helping organizations like The Walt Disney Company, Nestlé, Microsoft, AECOM, and Experian align strategy, culture, and leadership. She's also the author of the Amazon bestseller You're an Executive, But Are You a Leader? , a book that lays out the enduring capabilities required to actually...

Paul welcomes back three-time guest Bob Johansen to discuss his co-authored book, Navigating the Age of Chaos, and the shift from VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) to BANI (brittle, anxious, nonlinear, incomprehensible) as a more accurate frame for today’s world. Bob explains that unlike VUCA, BANI assumes some external events won’t make sense even with data and experts, yet leaders m...

The team returns after the launch of Paul's new book, The AI Ready Human, and this time Matt plays the role of interviewer!  In this episode Matt and Paul discuss the book’s core framework: the “Magnificent Seven” stacked capabilities—readiness, organization, control, balance, motivation, resilience, and adaptability—created in response to programs that treat AI only as a tool and overemphasi...

In this special episode, Paul announces the release of his new book titled 'AI Ready Human: Your 90 Day Program to Stay Relevant as Technology Transforms Work.'  The book is designed to help readers adapt to the evolving AI-dominated technology landscape through concise daily exercises over a 90-day period.  Listeners and readers of Humanity Working can get a pre-release signed copy of t...

Why is conflict resolution degrading as a skill in the workplace, and what can we do about it? In their last episode before the holidays, Paul and Matt explore how factors like the personalized internet, social media, and AI are conspiring to make it challenging to handle conflict respectfully and to use it as a driver for positive change. And they propose an exercise you can use in the workplace...

Paul is joined by Bill Kirst, host of the Coffee and Change podcast and author of the new book Leading Change in the Era of AI . The conversation explores the psychological and societal implications of rushing toward artificial intelligence. Kirst argues that while technology companies strive to maximize addiction and profit, individuals must pause to ask if they are losing their identity in the &...