AI Ready Podcast with Harrison Painter

A new AI model out of Japan, Sakana Fugu, does something we have not really seen before. Instead of answering you itself, it hires a team of the best AI models, gives each one a piece of the job, and merges their work into one answer. Harrison calls it a manager, or a conductor: you ask one question, and behind the scenes it quietly builds a team for you. In this episode, Harrison explains what mo...

Chris Hutchins spent more than 25 years inside some of the largest health systems in the country, including running enterprise analytics at Northwell Health, where he rebuilt the entire data warehouse. Today he advises boards, investors, and CEOs on how to deploy AI that holds up when a regulator, auditor, or attorney asks them to defend it. In this episode, Chris and Harrison Painter get into the...

Anthropic just released Claude Opus 4.8, and the headline improvement is unusual: the model is built to flag its own uncertainty and say "I'm not sure." Anthropic says it's roughly four times less likely to let a flaw pass without catching it. When a company's flagship upgrade is honesty, that tells you something about where we are. Here is the other side of it. Harrison aske...

A new paper from RAND-affiliated complexity researcher Kyle A. Kilian and Future of Life Institute risk analyst Richard Mallah, published May 20 through the Center for AI Risk Management and Alignment (CARMA), gives executives something that has been missing from enterprise AI governance until now: a six-test diagnostic for evaluating whether the AI committee you stood up actually governs, or whet...

On May 25, 2026, the Vatican publicly presented Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas. It is the first papal encyclical in history to address artificial intelligence directly. The Pope signed it on May 15, 2026, the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, the document that founded modern Catholic Social Doctrine on labor and capital. The choice of date is the citation. This is a 135...

Eighty percent of manufacturing leaders say they are behind their peers on AI. The math says that is impossible. So why does almost every CEO walk into a room believing the rest of the industry has already figured this out? Bryce Carpenter , COO at Conexus Indiana , sits on top of the data that explains it. Conexus runs the Advanced Industries Council, the state's primary convening body for th...

Jay Samit has held senior roles at Sony, Universal Studios, EMI, LinkedIn, and Deloitte Digital. He has raised hundreds of millions for startups and been called on by the Pope and the President. His book "Disrupt You!" has been published in 14 languages across 140 countries. His new book, "The Second Act Advantage," comes out May 5th. In this episode, Jay explains why entrepreneurs over 50 are thr...

For the first time ever, AI skills are the hardest to find globally — beating engineering, IT, and everything else. ManpowerGroup's 2026 Talent Shortage Survey of 39,063 employers across 41 countries just made it official. In this episode, Harrison breaks down what the data actually says, what most coverage missed, and what leaders need to do right now. What we cover: Why 72% of employers worldwid...

A robot vacuum just exposed 7,000 homes across 24 countries, and nobody got hacked. One guy with a PS5 controller stumbled into live camera feeds, floor plans, microphone audio, and device locations for complete strangers. All of it wide open. This is a DJI RoMo story, but it's really a story about what happens when a capable company moves too fast into unfamiliar territory. The flaw wasn'...

Sony just built a tool that can look inside any AI-generated song and tell you exactly which artists it borrowed from — down to a percentage. Think outputs like: 30% Beatles. 10% Queen. For any AI-generated track. Most people are reading this as a music story. I'm reading it as a preview of where every creative industry is headed. The same logic that lets Sony fingerprint an AI song is coming...

AI is already inside your brand whether you planned for it or not. Cat Holt has spent 26 years watching brands get this wrong — and she's here to break down exactly what's happening and what leaders need to do about it. Cat is the strategic architect behind the Dr. Rick for Progressive Insurance campaign and the Founder of Coologee, a brand strategy firm helping companies navigate AI, disruption,...

A San Francisco insider just described a city where people leave parties early to check on their AI agents, where the first thing you do in the morning is grade overnight homework your AI did while you slept, and where the new status flex is not what you built but what is working while you are sitting at dinner not working. This is called token anxiety. And it is heading to your industry. In this...

Spotify’s co-CEO Gustav Soderstrom dropped a bombshell during their Q4 2025 earnings call: "Some of our best developers, some of our most senior engineers have not written a single line of code since December. They just prompt." Crazy, right? Check out today's AI for Everyone Daily Brief to learn more. Enjoy! Harrison Painter

This podcast breaks down "The 7 Deadly Patterns of Automation" that can lead to demonetization, even for high-value channels, by triggering AI pattern detection. We'll explore the latest youtube update and how to avoid demonetization by understanding new rules for engagement and youtube guidelines. Learn how to distinguish between allowed AI assistance and disallowed fully automated...

Mrinank Sharma led the Safeguards Research Team at Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI. On February 9th, he posted a resignation letter saying “the world is in peril” and announced he’s leaving to study poetry and “become invisible.”That same day, AI startup founder Matt Shumer published a long essay comparing this moment to February 2020, right before Covid changed everything. He says we’re i...

A new Harvard Business Review study confirms what I’ve been saying for months: AI does not reduce your workload. It increases it. But that’s not the whole story. Researchers from UC Berkeley spent 8 months studying how generative AI changed work habits at a 200-person tech company. Workers didn’t slow down. They sped up. They took on more tasks. They worked through breaks. They multitasked constan...

This week, AI showed up where decisions cannot slow down. The Seattle Seahawks will use Microsoft AI tools during the Super Bowl to analyze plays and adjust strategy in real time. At the same moment, OpenAI released Codex, embedding AI directly into live software development environments. In this episode of AI for Everyone, Harrison Painter connects those two stories and explains why they point to...

This week delivered two signals leaders shouldn’t ignore. First, Anthropic released agentic AI capabilities aimed directly at legal workflows. Not a chatbot. Not a demo. A system designed to apply firm playbooks, review contracts, and generate professional redlines. The market reacted immediately as legal tech incumbents saw sharp stock declines and investors started questioning long-held moats. T...

Remote work didn’t break culture. AI didn’t kill creativity. But together, they’re forcing a reckoning most leaders aren’t ready for. In this episode, Steven Puri and I talk honestly about what’s eroding beneath the surface of modern work: isolation, optimization obsession, loss of ownership, and the slow removal of the human element from art and business. We explore: Why culture resists optimizat...

AI was supposed to make work easier. For many teams, it made things worse. More tools. More noise. More pressure to “use AI” without fixing how work actually gets done. In this episode of the AI for Everyone Podcast, host Harrison Painter sits down with Monica Marquez, former Goldman Sachs, Google, and EY leader, to break down why AI adoption inside organizations often backfires and what leaders n...

AI is fundamentally shifting the landscape of SEO. Are you worried about how to get your website ranked in the age of generative AI?In this breakthrough interview, Stephen Heitz, Chief Innovation Officer at LaVidge, reveals the cutting-edge concept of Predictive SEO. Learn how he’s pioneering the use of AI to forecast content ranking before it's even published using proprietary technology like...

In this episode of AI for Everyone, Harrison sits down with Minyang “MJ” Jiang — Chief Strategy & Revenue Officer at Credibly. MJ’s career spans from human rights work to Ford Motor Company to reshaping fintech with AI.We talk about why AI should augment, not replace; the real risks of bias and black-box systems; why human experts will matter more than ever; and how AI can support but never re...

AI is transforming marketing fast... but what actually works, and where do humans still win? In this AI for Everyone episode, Harrison Painter sits down with AJ Schneider — CEO of Schneider Communication Group, former President of Wheaton Worldwide, and VP of Communications at AMA Indy — to talk about MARCON Indy, the first major marketing conference in Indiana. We cover: • Why MARCON Indy is diff...

Some CEOs brag about using AI to cut jobs. But there’s another way to see it. In this episode, I sit down with Eliman Dambell, co-founder of Savvio.ai and former London finance director turned crypto analyst. He brings a unique perspective on why “AI should be a copilot, not a replacement.” We dig into:• Why the future of AI is about amplification, not replacement• What kinds of jobs are truly at...

Executives know they need an AI strategy, but most don’t know where to start. In this interview, Chris Daigle and Harrison Painter break down how leaders can approach AI without the hype. From simplifying adoption frameworks to real-world case studies in retail and healthcare, you’ll get practical insights designed for executives, not engineers. If you’re a business leader, consultant, or executiv...