AI Diatribe

Senior leaders keep repeating AI buzzwords they can't actually define. Dr. Mechie Nkengla has watched it happen for two decades of consulting, and she's stopped being polite about it. Mechie breaks AI literacy into four pieces: responsible AI, risk awareness, human judgment, and operational readiness. She also explains why the EU AI Act now requires companies to prove, through audit, that...

An AI wrote the questions for this episode. Not summarized them, wrote them, and neither host saw a word beforehand. Jason Lowe and Matt Konwiser sat down expecting normal debate. Instead a Claude model, voiced live by Pamela Luby, opened by asking whether their years of talk about critical thinking and creativity holds up now that a tool can fake both. What follows gets uncomfortable fast. Jason...

A company that writes nearly all its code with AI just posted advisory roles to weigh in on safe and ethical AI. The one hard requirement? Python fluency. Matt Konwiser and Jason Lowe sit with that contradiction and keep pulling the thread. It starts at the World Cup, where AI does the unglamorous jobs - offside calls, the chip in the ball, steadying the referee cameras - and then gets out of the...

Everyone wants the Star Trek future. Almost nobody is doing the work to earn it. Mike Pompey has spent 20-plus years as a CIO watching organizations reach for transformative technology while skipping the hard human conversations that make transformation possible. Now the AI Evangelist at Arrow Electronics, Pompey makes a distinction most vendors won't touch: what AI can do and what your leader...

Ninety-two percent of MSPs say AI interest has helped grow their business. Only twenty-five percent have an actual AI-driven service offering ready to go. Ashley Cooper has been watching this gap widen from the front row. As COO of CyberDrain and a member of the GTIA AI Advisory Council, Ashley doesn't traffic in hype. She spent years stitching together fragmented MSP operations through automa...

The AI job apocalypse predictions just got walked back. David Tan, CTO of Crushbank, isn't sure that's a coincidence with IPOs on the horizon - and neither are we. David built and sold an MSP after 30 years, then spent the better part of a decade trying to make Watson work for IT support teams. What he learned: the LLM is almost beside the point. The data layer is the actual problem most b...

Four of the most powerful AI models in the world were dropped into the same simulation, given the same rules, and told to build a civilization. No intervention. No resets. Fifteen days. The results were not random — and that's what makes them worth actually understanding before you share the panicked version you saw on Facebook. Jason Lowe and Matt Konwiser walk through what Emergence World ac...

The models are getting worse. Jon Rolls noticed it in his codebase. Jason noticed it in production. Matt noticed the pattern across the whole industry. When AI is writing the next version of AI, the quality floor starts moving in the wrong direction — and nobody in the press is asking the right questions about why. Jon is a 30-year endpoint management veteran building Tassient, an RMM platform wit...

Customers got used to good service during COVID. Then organizations pulled back investment. Satisfaction cratered — not because the bar was lowered, but because people had already adjusted upward. That cycle is where this conversation starts. ContentGuru Deputy CEO Martin Taylor has been automating contact centers for over 30 years. He's watched AI go from dial trees to agentic models, seen Kl...

There's a documentary out right now that frames AI's future as a question about whether it's safe to bring a child into this world. That's not a metaphor. That's the actual premise. Jason Lowe and Matt Konwiser watched it separately, compared notes, and have thoughts - not all of them flattering. The film gets credit for putting Hinton and Altman in the same narrative without l...

You've screamed "agent" into a phone menu and gotten another phone number back. That experience isn't a technology problem, it's a design problem. Companies are treating AI voice agents like IVR replacements, and they're getting worse IVRs. AI Diatribe Host Jason Lowe and Co-Host Matt Konwiser speak with David Casem, CEO of Telnyx, who has been building real-time AI commu...

There's a real legal case where grieving high school students used Character.ai to interact with a deceased classmate. The parents sued. Everyone in this conversation had a different reaction to that — and none of them fully wrong. That's the kind of problem this episode keeps circling: not whether AI and children is a risk (it is), but who gets to define the harm, who owns the memory of a...

Children are one of the fastest-growing user groups of AI. They're also the group least considered when the systems are built. That gap isn't theoretical — it shows up in what kids are being told, what they're not being told, and what they're starting to believe. Researcher Dr. Nomisha Kurian and product builder Jake Rozran join Jason Lowe and Matt Konwiser to get into what child-s...

The single biggest physical bottleneck holding AI back just got compressed by a factor of six. No new chip. No new architecture. A math formula. Google's TurboQuant drops into any transformer model and suddenly the long context conversations that used to choke enterprise hardware can run on a laptop - or a phone. That's where the optimism ends. Jason and Matt work through what it actually...

In Episode 29 of AI Diatribe , we explore the "creator empowerment technology" movement with Milton Pedraza . From his career at Philip Morris and Pepsi to founding the Luxury Institute, Milton has seen how global markets evolve. Now, he’s investing in the tools that will allow you to monetize your own data pods and interact with the world through "agentic agents". In this vide...

Something changed in AI over the week. In just 72 hours, we saw: A major showdown between AI companies and the government AI-linked cyber warfare escalation Massive breakthroughs in robotics and physical AI This episode dives into the real question: Who controls AI — and what happens if no one does? We also explore: Why Asimov’s Laws don’t work anymore The coming disruption of both white-collar AN...

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming healthcare—but can it solve one of society’s most complex systems? In this episode of AI Diatribe , Jason Lowe and Matt Konwiser are joined by AI leaders Christie Mealo (SVP of AI Products at 90 North / IPG Health) and Brian Green (Chief AI Officer at Healthvision.ai and Envision Health). They explore: • Why healthcare is considered a “wicked problem...

Everyone is deploying AI. Almost nobody is governing it. In Episode 26 of AI Diatribe , Host Jason Lowe (Aptivon) and Co-Host Matt Konwiser (IBM) talk with Brian Allen from the AI RegRisk Think Tank about the uncomfortable reality behind AI adoption: If AI makes a bad decision, who gets blamed? This episode explores: Why AI governance is becoming a board-level responsibility The legal risks compan...

AI Diatribe explores one of the most important questions of our time: Are we outsourcing judgment to systems we cannot fully explain? What happens when AI becomes more than a tool—and starts becoming an authority? Religious authority gave way to reason. Reason gave way to mathematics. Now mathematics is giving way to machine intelligence. In this episode of AI Diatribe, Jason Lowe, Matt Konwiser,...

Nature says we’ve surpassed Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI. But there’s just one issue: nobody can define it. David Borish of Trace3 joins Matt Konwiser of IBM and AI Diatribe Host Jason Lowe to dissect the growing claim that Artificial General Intelligence is already here - and whether that statement even means anything. In this episode we explore: - The probabilistic nature of LLMs - Wh...

AI isn’t just changing cybersecurity - it’s forcing a complete rewrite of how defense works. In this AI Diatribe episode AgileBlue CEO Tony Pietrocola, IBM Field CTO Matt Konwiser, and AI Diatribe Creator and Host Jason Lowe dive into agentic AI, autonomous security operations, and why human-only cyber defense is no longer viable. As attackers industrialize AI, defenders are being pushed toward AI...

Everyone says they’re using AI for customer experience - but most of it still feels broken. In this episode AI Diatribe Host Jason Lowe, Joe Dean of ServiceNow, and Matt Konwiser of IBM dig into why AI-driven CX fails so often, why the problem usually isn’t the technology, and how agentic systems are changing enterprise workflows behind the scenes. From ServiceNow workflows to guardrails, hallucin...

What are the odds that AI leads to humanity's doom? We tackle P-DOOM scores head-on, from pessimistic 80% predictions to cautiously optimistic 50-50 splits. Discover why Geoffrey Hinton thinks maternal instinct might be the key to peaceful AI coexistence, why HAL 9000 wasn't actually evil, and how exponential slope blindness prevents us from seeing what's really coming. We explore ever...

Cybersecurity teams aren’t buying the AI hype - and there’s a reason for that. In Part 1 of this two-part episode, AI Diatribe Host Jason Lowe (Aptivon) is joined by Matt Konwiser (IBM) and Alex Hurtado (Anvilogic) to break down why AI credibility matters more in security than almost anywhere else, why SOC teams can’t “fake the funk,” and how generative AI is being misused - and misunderstood. Fro...

Something is seriously wrong in the GTM (Go-To-Market) world. Quotas are sinking, automation is backfiring, and AI-generated noise is drowning out real human connection. AI Diatribe host Jason Lowe and Dr. Amy Osmond Cook,  break down what’s actually happening behind the scenes - and why the companies that embrace authentic communication, strategic RevOps, and AI-enabled sellers will dominate the...