AI SIX Podcast

Send us Fan Mail AI promised productivity. But what if it is quietly increasing your workload? In this episode of AI Six, I unpack a major study from University of California Berkeley, featured in Harvard Business Review, which found that when employees were given AI tools, they worked faster, longer and took on more responsibility. Not because they were told to. Because they could. The researcher...

Send us Fan Mail The UK Government built an AI tool that saved £9 million in one year. After delivering a five-day AI and SEO executive programme in London, with guest speakers including Simon Baugh, I’m sharing the five biggest lessons that apply to anyone trying to stay visible when AI is now the middleman between you and your audience. If you care about visibility in the age of AI search, this...

Send us Fan Mail What if your customers are finding answers but never clicking your website?  In today's episode, I’m sharing my interview from Dublin FM’s Good Morning Dublin, where I unpack the rise of zero-click search and what it means for your business.  With Google AI Overviews and tools like ChatGPT delivering answers instantly, search behaviour is changing fast, and 20% of answers are...

Send us Fan Mail Enterprise voice agent deployments are growing fast, 340% year on year, with two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies now running production systems.  In this episode, I break down what AI voice agents are, how they work, and why businesses are using them for both inbound and outbound calls. I explain how the technology listens, thinks, and talks in real time, the practical steps to ge...

Send us Fan Mail A recent study found that more than a third of what employees type into ChatGPT contains sensitive data, and on most personal plans, that information can be used for model training by default.  In this episode, I break down what organisations often miss about ChatGPT’s privacy settings, the difference between consumer and enterprise tiers, and why shadow AI use is becoming one of...

Send us Fan Mail France has made a bold move by signing a military AI deal that keeps its systems, data, and infrastructure under national control.  In this episode, I explain what sovereign AI really means, why President Macron is pushing a European “third way” between the US and China, and how companies like Mistral are being positioned as strategic champions.  I look at the opportunities, the s...

Send us Fan Mail Inspired by a question I was asked during a recent training in Luxembourg, this episode tackles a fear I hear all the time. Are we outsourcing our thinking to AI. I explore why the real risk is not the technology itself but how we use it, how intentional interaction can strengthen judgement, and why critical thinking will only grow in value as AI takes over more execution. With in...

Send us Fan Mail Google has just launched free, full-length SAT practice exams inside its Gemini app, and it could reshape how people learn.  In this episode, I explore how on-demand AI tutoring at global scale could democratise exam prep, disrupt the tutoring industry, and signal what’s coming next for corporate training and workplace learning.  From personalised study plans to big-tech rivalry i...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s long listen episode, I join Michael O'Kane for my regular Thursday digital download on Dublin FM’s Good Morning Dublin to unpack the viral AI sensation that’s shaking up the tech world, OpenClaw.  Unlike tools such as ChatGPT, OpenClaw doesn’t just respond to prompts; it acts.  But here’s the catch: it’s open source, recently hacked, and requires deep access to you...

Send us Fan Mail Citigroup is training 175,000 employees in AI prompt skills across 80 locations, and the program is mandatory.  In this episode, I break down what this means for the workforce, why AI literacy is no longer optional, and how reskilling ties directly into the bank’s broader strategy. I explore the co-pilot narrative, the uncomfortable math of simultaneous AI training and planned job...

Send us Fan Mail Around 70% of hiring managers say they struggle to find entry-level talent in robotics and automation. In this episode, I break down what it really takes to succeed in applied AI in 2026. I cover the technical skills you need, from Python and cloud platforms to LLMs and vector databases. I explain how MLOps keeps AI running in real products, and why governance, compliance, and tru...

Send us Fan Mail The UK Government is investing £115 million in Police. AI, a National Centre for AI in Policing that will test, scale, and deploy AI across every force over the next three years. The goal is to automate administrative work, accelerate investigations, and give frontline officers back millions of hours each year. In this episode, I explore how AI-powered tools will handle CCTV revie...

Send us Fan Mail Over 230 million people worldwide now ask health and wellness questions on ChatGPT every week. OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Health lets users connect their wellness apps and, in the US, medical records, while ChatGPT for Healthcare provides enterprise-grade tools for hospitals. In this episode, I explore how AI is moving directly into consumer healthcare, the infrastructure behind these t...

Send us Fan Mail One year ago today, on St Brigid's Day, I pressed record on the first episode of AI SIX. If you've been with me since Day 1, thank you. If you're new, welcome. You're right on time. 300 episodes. Six minutes a day. Every single day for a year. Today, I reflect on the lessons, shifts, and insights from a year of showing up every single day. From workflows over o...

Send us Fan Mail Are you ready for the AI revolution at work?  In this episode, Joost Postma, a seasoned tech support professional and AI enthusiast, shares his journey from experimenting with AI-generated images to creating AI training frameworks and governance systems for the corporate world.  We dig into the hard truths about job displacement for knowledge workers, the impact of the EU AI Act,...

Send us Fan Mail Ireland is setting out how artificial intelligence should be used in health and social care, and it is asking the public to help shape the rules.  In this episode, I unpack HIQA’s newly launched consultation and its 115-page evidence review on the responsible and safe use of AI in healthcare. I explore why the timing matters as the EU AI Act comes into force, how the Department of...

Send us Fan Mail If your head feels overloaded with ideas, tasks, and half-formed thoughts, this episode is for you. I explore a simple “Braindump with Miro AI” workflow that turns mental clutter into a clear, visual plan you can actually act on. You will learn how to get everything out of your head in minutes, use Miro’s AI tools to organise and cluster ideas, generate mind maps, surface themes,...

Send us Fan Mail New peer-reviewed research published in Science is raising urgent alarms about a powerful new threat to democratic systems.  In this episode, I explore how coordinated “AI swarms” could manipulate online debate, interfere with elections, and erode public trust at an unprecedented scale. Featuring insights from an international team of researchers linked to Harvard, Oxford, Cambrid...

Send us Fan Mail Anthropic has just turned Claude into something very different.  In this episode, I explore Cowork, a new tool that lets Claude work directly on your computer by opening files, organising folders, creating documents, and building presentations on your behalf. I break down what Cowork is, how to access it, what it can actually do, and the real risks Anthropic is openly warning abou...

Send us Fan Mail AI wasn’t just on the agenda at Davos 2026, it was the agenda.  In this episode, I unpack the biggest conversations shaping the future of artificial intelligence, from soaring profits and energy wars to job disruption, worker upskilling, and the growing gap between global winners and losers.  Featuring insights from Yuval Noah Harari, Satya Nadella, Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and mo...

Send us Fan Mail What if a simple app could save precious minutes in an emergency and even prevent medication errors? In this episode, I chat with Declan Watters, a paramedic from Donegal, about the AI-powered medical tool he developed, Medisnap.  Designed for pre-hospital and emergency care, the app uses OCR and AI to quickly identify medications, flag critical interactions, and provide inferred...

Send us Fan Mail Written Parliamentary Questions to UK government departments doubled in 2025. That is according to a Sky News exclusive published on 7 January 2026.  The number rose from 49,125 in 2024 to 90,331 last year. Government sources are now accusing some MPs of using AI to generate questions, diverting civil service resources and wasting public money. But MPs deny the claim and say the r...

Send us Fan Mail Ireland now ranks fourth in the world for AI adoption. That is according to the Microsoft AI Economy Institute's Global AI Diffusion Report published on January 8th 2026.  In the second half of 2025, 44.6% of Ireland’s working-age population used generative AI tools, placing us just behind the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, and Norway. Today, I am looking at the key finding...

Send us Fan Mail Gartner predicts that 40% of enterprise applications will include task-specific AI agents by the end of 2026, up from less than 5% today. If you think the pace of change in the last twenty four months was fast, 2026 will feel like a total shift in the professional landscape.  We are moving away from the era of the curious experimenter and into the era of the agentic architect. The...

Send us Fan Mail The U.S. federal government has set up AI contracts worth up to hundreds of millions of dollars each with four major providers, OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Elon Musk’s xAI.  Through a new agreement, xAI’s Grok chatbot can now be procured by virtually any federal agency, marking a significant moment in how advanced AI is integrated into state institutions. Today, I am looking at...