Prompted: AI, People and the Creative Spark

What happens when the person asking the tough questions about AI has to answer them himself? In this episode, veteran tech journalist and Big Technology founder Alex Kantrowitz joins Cameron Adams in New York City to pull back the curtain on what it really means to cover the AI revolution. Alex traces his unconventional path from sports radio producer to ad-tech salesman to one of tech's most inci...

What happens when you stop seeing data as numbers and start seeing it as memory? In this episode, pioneering AI artist Refik Anadol joins Cameron to explore what it looks like to build at the intersection of machine intelligence, nature, and human creativity — and why the most important question we can ask of AI isn't what it can do, but what it can help us feel. Refik traces his journey from watc...

Sherif Mansour has spent over 16 years at Atlassian helping shape products like Jira and Confluence. Now Head of AI at Atlassian, he’s focused on a bigger shift: how AI changes not just what we build, but how teams work together. In this episode, Sherif and Cameron unpack why many organizations remain in “single-player mode” with AI, and why transformation happens when AI becomes part of collabora...

AI isn’t just changing what products can do, it’s transforming how products get built. In this episode, Superhuman CPO Noam Lovinsky joins Cameron Adams to unpack the shift to AI-first product organizations. From Grammarly’s transformation into Superhuman to the rise of agent-driven development, Noam explains why product teams are collapsing traditional roles and moving faster than ever. They expl...

AI isn’t just changing how we create content. It’s changing how we communicate and who gets to create in the first place. In this episode, HeyGen CTO Rong Yan joins Cameron to explore how AI-generated video is reshaping the way individuals and organizations share ideas. From marketers and sales teams to everyday knowledge workers, Rong explains how tools like avatars and video agents are making it...

AI isn’t just changing how we create content. It’s changing who gets to create, and what creation even looks like. In this episode, Runway Chief Innovation Officer Alejandro Matamala Ortiz joins Cameron to explore how AI video is unlocking a new era of storytelling. From a surgeon making short films to the rise of interactive, explorable worlds, Alejandro shares how tools once reserved for Hollywo...

The AI landscape is shifting every week. Startups are racing to challenge the status quo, and investors are closely watching the space.  Peter Deng, a visionary product leader turned investor, joins the podcast. Peter helped shape Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and ChatGPT, driving major launches like ChatGPT Enterprise, voice, and memory at OpenAI.  He is now a General Partner at Felicis, where h...

Allie K. Miller has a rare superpower: she makes the cutting edge of AI feel clear, practical, and genuinely fun. Recently named to TIME’s list of the most influential people in AI, Allie has become one of the internet’s most trusted guides—breaking down new models, tools, and workflows for millions, from curious beginners to seasoned builders. In this episode, she joins Cameron Adams to unpack wh...

Natalie Piucco, Field CTO at Google Cloud, joins Cameron Adams for a wide-ranging conversation on AI, innovation, and what it really takes to lead through constant change. From her childhood on a banana farm to launching AI-powered products at Google, Natalie shares how creativity, trust, and learning shape high-performing teams. They explore why AI is a fundamentally creative technology, how psyc...

How does one of the world’s fastest-growing companies approach international scale? How is localizing AI different than localizing any other product?  Managing Director of OpenAI International, Oliver Jay, joins Cameron to answer these questions and give us a window into  what it takes to deploy AI models globally. Drawing on his experience at Dropbox, Asana, and now OpenAI, Oliver explains why AI...

Nic Scoble-Williams, Deloitte’s Global Future of Work and Agentic Workforce Leader, joins Cam to share how AI is reshaping creativity, leadership, and the way we design work. She breaks down what it means to be a futurist, how to ask better questions, and why human imagination is the new competitive advantage. She also dives into different cultural approaches to AI-use around the world, and what w...

Anthropic’s Head of Product Design Joel Lewenstein joins Cam Adams to explore the evolving relationship between humans and AI—how we build it, test it, and trust it. Joel unpacks how his team designs Claude’s character and behaviors to earn users’ trust, and why the best AI products feel less like tools and more like collaborators. He shares how friction can fuel creativity, how Anthropic’s “AI ve...

OpenAI Head of Revenue Ashley Kramer joins Cam Adams to discuss how her revenue team is using AI to get ahead. She unpacks how her team bridges research and real-world results, turning powerful models into tools that transform how people work. Ashley also explains how the most boring AI use cases can spark the most valuable“aha” moments, and how OpenAI customers are scaling AI adoption from the to...

Box Cofounder and CEO Aaron Levie joins Cameron Adams to explore how AI is transforming creativity, scale, and ambition inside organizations. Aaron shares how teams can turn data into a superpower, reinvent their ways of working, and unlock new opportunities to multiply their impact, all while keeping human creativity and judgment at the center. He also discusses how startups can now compete at sc...

HubSpot Cofounder and CTO, Dharmesh Shah, joins Cameron Adams to explore how AI agents are reshaping work, leadership, and creativity. From culture-as-a-product to tech-powered parenting, Dharmesh shares insights into why he’s still betting on humans, even in the age of powerful AI tools. From building culture as a product to tech-powered parenting, Dharmesh shares insights into why he’s still bet...

Designer, illustrator, and creative entrepreneur Pablo Stanley joins Cameron Adams, to explore how AI is transforming creativity. From vibe coding and cultivating taste to the rise of hyper-personalized content, they dive into how AI is reshaping the creative process. Pablo shares his thoughts on the role of taste, the importance of friction and how he uses vibe coding to bring prototypes to life....

As AI evolves from just a tool to a trusted collaborator, the creative process is being rewritten. Prompted: AI, People and the Creative Spark is a show about this new era, when human inspiration meets artificial intelligence, and new forms of creativity, leadership, and invention take shape. Hosted by Canva’s Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Cameron Adams, each episode brings you insight and...