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Send us Fan Mail Today I’m talking about something that sounds like science fiction but is now political reality: Albania has just appointed the world’s first AI government minister. Diella, Albania's first AI Minister is making headlines across the world. She isn’t a person but an AI system, presented as a virtual woman in traditional Albanian dress. Her portfolio? Public procurement. That m...

Send us Fan Mail It’s finally here. AI Playbook, my fourth title, is now in the hands of readers.  AI Playbook kept me grounded most of the year. After-dinner writing was my dessert. I'd wash up, and pull up my seat at my breakfast bar. Three to four hours most evenings since January and on September 12th my fourth book made its appearance. I wrote more personal anecdotes in this book (my fou...

Send us Fan Mail From journalism to policing comms and AI-powered social intelligence, this week's long-listen guest is Christine Townsend.  From Kent in the UK, and now living in Texas, Christine has an impressive communications career. We've known each other for six years, and it just so happened that we were both in Vegas for the 3CMA conference.  Enjoy this conversation and be inspir...

Send us Fan Mail A Letter to Listeners from Las Vegas. It's the city of bright lights and big bets. I've taken a bet on AI Playbook , spent two years writing and researching, practicing and teaching AI before committing to words on a page.  This book is a gift to communications and marketing professionals across the world. If you read this book and put it into practice you will be in the...

Send us Fan Mail I can now say 'I did Las Vegas!' It was a breathtaking experience taking to the stage in the Planet Hollywood Hotel in front of 820 government comms pros at the 37th Annual 3CMA conference.  Delivering the conference keynote, I brought the audience through the teachings in AI Playbook and also sold out the copies I had taken to Vegas, for what I'm calling the '...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is coming to you from Las Vegas, where at 8:30 yesterday morning, 80 government communications professionals turned up to my workshop on Powering Your Social Media with AI. This morning I will present for a second time as the keynote speaker at the 3CMA annual conference attended by over 800 local government communications professionals. This is my biggest stage ever...

Send us Fan Mail Fear, hope and what to do next In the final part of my conversation with Sally Murphy about my new book, AI Playbook , we discuss what plans I have and how the book will be a launchpad for even more important work.  Get your copy of AI Playbook here . Want to go deeper on AI?   📖 Buy AI Playbook 📩 Get my weekly LinkedIn newsletter, Human in the Loop .  🎓 Level up with the CPD A...

Send us Fan Mail Inside Joanne Sweeney’s Call to Arms for Communicators in her new book AI Playbook In conversation with storyteller, coach and founder of Welltold, Sally Murphy, author and AI educator Joanne Sweeney opens up about loss, grit, trust and why communicators must lead in the age of AI. In this episode we talk about the power of storytelling in the AI Age. The book leans on story becau...

Send us Fan Mail This episode flips the script. Instead of asking the questions, I’m answering them, with my good friend and brilliant storyteller Sally Murphy, founder of Welltold taking charge of the mic. It's Part I of Part III Explores the critical role of AI in today’s world, especially in communication and marketing Frames AI as a “golden opportunity” but stresses the need for regulatio...

Send us Fan Mail A Reuters investigation by investigative reporter Jeff Horwitz traces the story of a cognitively impaired man who was invited by a flirty AI chatbot to meet up in New York City.  The investigation has raised critical questions about AI safety, loneliness, and who is responsible when technology crosses a very real, and sometimes deadly, line. Earlier this year, a 76-year-old retire...

Send us Fan Mail A new study from MIT reveals that a staggering 95% of companies investing billions in AI have seen absolutely no measurable return on those investments.   This study, ‘The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025’,  is a reality check that’s raising questions about the so-called AI revolution: Are companies chasing hype instead of results? Why do so many flashy projects fail whi...

Send us Fan Mail Perplexity made headlines last week by making an unsolicited, all-cash offer of $34.5 billion to acquire Google’s Chrome browser. It wasn’t even up for sale, but owning Chrome would supercharge Perplexity’s AI strategy. Keep listening to find out why. Chrome has more than three billion users. That’s about 68% of the global browser market. For comparison, Safari sits at around 20%....

Send us Fan Mail Just as global debates rage about the power of AI and social media, TikTok is rewriting the rulebook: launching new Community Guidelines designed to curb misinformation, crack down on AI abuse, and make sure creators know exactly where the boundaries are drawn.  The new standards, coming into effect September 13, 2025, mark one of TikTok’s strongest pushes yet for trust, transpare...

Send us Fan Mail Geoffrey Hinton’s Warning: AI Needs “Maternal Instincts” to Protect Humanity At the Ai4 conference in Las Vegas on August 12, 2025, Geoffrey Hinton, known as the “godfather of AI,” delivered a stark warning about the future of artificial intelligence and proposed a radical solution for humanity’s survival. The AI pioneer criticised the “tech bro” approach of trying to maintain dom...

Send us Fan Mail Some big corporations are already making AI mandatory at work. Are you ready if this comes into your organisation? In today’s long-listen, I’m answering the question: ‘What if using AI at work wasn’t optional,  but required?’ My new book, AI Playbook , is a great place for you to start. I wrote it to help you progress your communications or marketing career. It’s now available to...

Send us Fan Mail In just 90 minutes, you can go from knowing AI is important… to actually using it with confidence. My new AI Masterclass takes the most actionable ideas from my book and turns them into live, practical steps you can apply to your work immediately. In this special episode because we’re talking about something I’ve been working on behind the scenes for months: my AI Masterclass. It’...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I’m talking about something every leader, manager, and team member should care about: how to get AI skills into your organisation in a way that sticks. The pace of AI change is relentless, new tools, new rules, new use cases almost daily. And the risk is, if you wait until you “have time” to train, you’ll never start. So I’m going to break down a four-step approach...

Send us Fan Mail Multiple industry surveys and authoritative reports indicate that between 60% and 80% of the total time in AI and machine learning projects is spent on data-related tasks, particularly cleaning, organising, and preparing data, rather than on model training.  ​​A CrowdFlower (Figure Eight) survey found data professionals spend about 60% of their time on these preparatory activities...

Send us Fan Mail I’ve just finished delivering and grading the Certificate in AI for Radio in collaboration with the Learning Waves Skillnet, responsible for delivering training to Ireland’s commercial radio sector.  I had journalists, presenters, production staff, sales pros, marketing teams, programming managers, and station managers all in the same room, and here’s the thing… many came in with...

Send us Fan Mail Do you know how much AI knowledge, competency or skill you actually have? Most people don’t. They either underestimate themselves – or they’ve played around with a few tools and overrate their ability to actually use AI in meaningful ways. Hello and welcome back to AI SIX. The podcast that teaches you AI in just six minutes a day, helping you keep up when you already feel left beh...

Send us Fan Mail Are you prepared to clone yourself and create a Digital Twin? If you are a regular listener to this podcast you will know I am prepared to do it, as I’m currently working on AIJ, my Digital Twin. In this week's long-listen I bring you another interview from Digital Download on Good Morning Dublin , I join Michael O’Kane on Dublin City FM to explore the rise of AI Twins , wher...

Send us Fan Mail Illinois has become the first state to officially ban AI therapists, with new legislation making it illegal for artificial intelligence systems to act as standalone providers of mental health therapy, psychotherapy, or to make therapeutic decisions. Governor of Illinois JB Pritzker signed the Wellness and Oversight for Psychological Resources Act (HB 1806) in August 2025. Pritzker...

Send us Fan Mail Why are professionals silencing themselves in the AI game? Today on AI SIX, I want to talk about something I’m hearing more and more from clients, students, and peers. It’s not a technical problem. It’s not about capability. It’s about fear. And, strangely, it’s about shame. I think one of the biggest barriers to AI adoption in the workplace isn’t the technology at all, it is AI s...

Send us Fan Mail OpenAI recently made headlines by announcing a groundbreaking deal to offer its ChatGPT Enterprise platform to U.S. federal agencies for just $1 per agency for the next year. The regular price for ChatGPT Enterprise is around $60 per user per month, meaning government agencies are getting the same package for drastically less.  This move is part of a partnership with the U.S. Gene...

Send us Fan Mail Say hello to Eleven Music. Eleven Labs has entered the music industry in its bid to build the most comprehensive AI audio platform in the world. I’m a huge fan of Eleven Labs, and working with the radio sector, we are seeing some very creative results.  With Eleven Music, businesses, creators, artists, and marketers can generate studio-grade music from natural language prompts, wi...