101 Stories to cement your AI Leadership

For most of us, the most dangerous thing we’ll do today is drive a car, hurtling a ton of metal at high speed down the road, surrounded by dozens of strangers doing the same, but somehow, most of the time, it ends without incident. That’s not because we’re great drivers, but rather because traffic is instead built assuming the exact opposite: that we all make mistakes constantly. Behind the everyd...

Everybody knows plenty of laws restricting the use of their car, but can you name some laws that actually encourage the use of cars? There are some, and some were actually designed by the very people selling cars - and if you want to stimulate AI use in your company, you better take a page from their playbook! This week: don't limit your AI governance to compliance with regulations alone, it...

Maybe there was a time when new technologies were a barrier for broad participation, but modern digital technologies are quite the reverse. In this episode, we'll see what that meant for tv chefs - and what it will mean for the risks AI pose... Music: Theme song - Halloween, by Dmitry Taras Miss You Love - Patiño Nebula - The Grey Room _ Density & Time Foggy - Nat Keefe Slapstick Sports J...

AI Agents are all the hype, and to understand exactly why they matter so much to businesses, I take you back to the very origins of automation - the Ford Motor Company of 1913. Music: Theme song - Halloween, by Dmitry Taras Backwood - Saidbysed Broken Drum Machine - Godmode Mario Bava Sleeps In a Little Later Than He Expected To - Chris Zabriskie The Life and Death of a Certain K. Zabriskie, Patri...

AI is exploding into our business landscape, and many have argued that its speed of evolution far exceeds that of previous technologies. And while that probably is correct, I can think of at least one monumental technological watershed moment that unfolded in mere weeks, and changed the world forever. The early days of “the war to end all wars” teach us about the problems leaders face when digesti...

The option of self-learning AI is misunderstood by many people, and is a risky option for which any AI leader better gets their story straight

In this fourth episode, I find the reasons why both humans and AI sometimes show inappropriate behaviour overlap.

In this third episode, I'll look at where AI sits in its development as a new technology. This may shed some light on why organizations struggle to apply AI, and why regulation might not provide the stable environment we should be hoping for.

In this second episode I try to explain that there is much more to AI than just the Generative AI that everyone is talking about these days - and that the differences are quite fundamental and need to be kept in mind when discussing AI in an organization. Music Theme is Halloween, by Dmitir Taras Other music: On the rocks - TrackTribe Coma-Media Trudging Along - Godmode Helium - TrackTribe

In this first episode, we’ll explore the smart computer systems our organizations build and use: are AI systems that don’t lead to action as powerful as they could be? Music The podcast's theme music is Halloween, by Dmitry Taras This episode further uses: Cafe Music - Music_for_Videos Tiptoe - Nat Keefe

I need to start somewhere with this podcast, so why not just by telling you what it is about?