Humans of AI

In this episode of Humans of AI, I chat with Erika Anderson the founder of Building Humane Technology and co-creator of HumaneBench — an open-source benchmark that asks the question most of the AI industry isn't: not whether AI can perform, but whether it treats you like a person. As a former UN press correspondent and writing professor, Erika combines technical rigor and humanistic grounding to t...

In this episode of Humans of AI, I sit down with my friend Eric Zhu to unpack what are the frameworks and architectures powering modern AI products today. From our times building Semantic Kernel, Autogen, and GraphRAG at Microsoft , we offer a retrospective on the evolution of this space and where we think it'll go in 2026 and beyond. We dive into how AI systems are actually being built today,...

After a long break, the Humans of AI Podcast is back for Season 2! With a new look, new format, new cohosts, and guests, this season will be one you won't want to miss. This week my cohost Tula Masterman and I recap the saga that was OpenClaw — the open-source agentic project that took the internet by storm, spawned an AI social network where agents allegedly conspired to create their own language...

After a long break, the Humans of AI Podcast is back for Season 2! With a new look, new format, new cohosts, and guests, this season will be one you won't want to miss. This week my cohost Tula Masterman and I recap the saga that was OpenClaw — the open-source agentic project that took the internet by storm, spawned an AI social network where agents allegedly conspired to create their own language...

Jeremy Toeman is the founder of AugXLabs, an AI video technology startup, helping creators make compelling videos at a fraction of the time & effort. Jeremy's had a storied career in the media industry leading product and innovation at places like WarnerMedia, CBS Interactive and more and is now directing his energies towards building a new venture in the era of generative AI. Check out AugXLa...

Charles Packer is a current 5th-year PhD student at UC Berkeley and author of MemGPT an open-source project teaching large language models to manage their own memory for unbounded context! Charles is also a core member of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab and Real-Time Intelligent Secure Explainable Systems (RISE) Lab where his work has spanned reinforcement learning and aut...

Amanda Bickerstaff is the co-founder and CEO of AI for Education, an organization aiming to help teachers and schools unlock their full potential through AI by providing workshops, trainings, tools and resources to educators and policymakers. Find Amanda on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-bickerstaff-edu/ If you would like to be a guest or sponsor the podcast, send me a note at alex@h...

Sudip Chakrabarti is an early-stage investor and partner at Decibel where he focuses on enterprise and infrastructure companies. Before becoming an investor, Sudip was an entrepreneur and an engineer, starting his first company when he was at Georgia Tech, and his second while in business school at Wharton. He's been in venture ever-since with a particular focus on enterprise and open-source compa...

Josh Fechter is the CEO and founder of Squibler, a startup seeking to be your AI Copywriter and Storyteller. Josh is a growth hacking expert, a builder of communities and has written several books on software tech writing and copywriting for personal brands. Find Josh on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-fechter/ And check out Squibler: https://www.squibler.io/ If you would like to be a...

Aayush Mudgal is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest, currently leading the efforts around Privacy Aware Conversion Modelling. Ayush has expertise in large-scale recommendation systems, personalization, and ads marketplaces. and in the past has conducted research on intelligent tutoring systems, developing data-driven feedback to aid students in learning computer programming. Find Aayu...

Adam Steinle is the cofounder and CEO of hona.ai . Adam started out as a biomedical engineer, and after stints at Goldman Sachs and Facebook, he returned to his roots to help medical systems communicate so that providers can learn about their patients more effectively. Find Adam on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamsteinle/ And on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@adam_steinle And to read...

Shishir Patil is currently a 5th year PhD student at UC Berkeley and inventor of the large language model called Gorilla. Shishir's work broadly covers ML-Systems, LLMs, Edge-ML, and Sky computing. Find Shishir on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shishir-patil/ And on Twitter: https://twitter.com/shishirpatil_ To read more about Gorilla, check out the project page: https://gorilla.cs.berkeley...

Chun Jiang is the founder of Monterey AI, an AI startup looking to be your copilot for product insights. Coming from a background of urban design and architecture, Chun has built design-centric AI products across industries like self-driving cars and geospatial data platforms. Find Chun on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chunonline And on Twitter: https://twitter.com/chunonline For the book...

Tara Walker, a principal software engineer, currently working on open-source and vector databases in Microsoft's Developer Division. Passionate about building software at scale and the intersection of AI and robotics, Tara has served as a tech evangelist and mentor for underrepresented minorities and the next generation of computer scientists. Find Tara on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/i...

Evan Mays is the founder of Rootbeer Computer, where he is building Zero, a prototyping tool for generating mock data. Previously, he worked as a software engineer at Meta, where he built products to help content creators make a living. Find Evan on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/evanon0ping And see the submission that won the Scale AI hackathon from Evan and his teammates: https://github.com/R...

Meryem Arik, an Oxford-trained physicist, is the co-founder of TitanML, working to significantly simplifies the deployment of large language models. Outside her professional life, Meryem dedicates her time to mentoring underrepresented groups in STEM and watching Rugby. Check out Meryem's startup TitanML: https://www.titanml.co/ Meryem's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meryemarik/ For the bo...

Govind Kamtamneni is deeply passionate about the transformative potential of technologies that are at the frontier when they're rapidly adopted and experimented with. He currently works with strategic customers in the Azure Global Black Team, helping to drive clarity on the capabilities of Microsoft's Copilot and cloud-native stack. He is now fostering the wider adoption of AI for intelligent apps...

Cassandra Ansara, known as MadameArchitect on Discord, is the founder of AI Empower and is a highly skilled IT Solutions Architect who also focuses on ethical AI practices. AI Empower: https://aiempower.org/cassandra-ansara/ Cassandra's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cassandraansara/ If you would like to be a guest, send me a note at alex@humansofai.xyz And follow me on other platforms so y...