Rendered - Exploring the Future of AI and Creativity

What happens when AI stops writing emails and starts building houses? Most AI conversations focus on digital work: writing, coding, productivity. This episode of Rendered is about the other shift... AI moving into the physical world. We sit down with Kunal Thadani, product and growth leader at Houzz, to unpack how AI is reshaping the physical economy — the home building, remodeling, design, real e...

Curious how AI has actually evolved over the last 10 years? We have the perfect guest. In this episode of Rendered, Praniti sits down with Rosedel Davies-Adewebi, AI & Digital Transformation Leader at Morgan Stanley and former Head of Innovation at the UN Global Compact, for a wide-ranging conversation about how AI has evolved, what we got wrong, and where it's headed next. Rosedel had a...

How do we know if an AI is truly feeling, or just predicting the next word?  We spent decades assuming animals lacked consciousness, an assumption that led to industrial factory farming and deep moral regrets. Today, as AI models increasingly simulate (or possibly experience?) emotion and aversion, we’re confronting a parallel question with digital minds. In this episode, Praniti sits down with Je...

AI isn’t just changing what we can build, it’s changing how we communicate, make decisions, and experience daily life. In this episode of Rendered, Marco Casalaina (VP of Core AI & Futurist Products at Microsoft) joins for a wide-ranging conversation on what the future of AI actually feels like. From breakthrough computer-use agents, to designing products for humans and AI, to the subtle ways...

Imagine podcasts not just powered by AI, but hosted by it. In this episode of Rendered , Praniti steps into the future where half the "people" on the planet are AI, with the founding team of Inception Point AI. CEO Jeanine Wright (former COO of Wondery and co-founder of Simplecast), CTO William Corbin (media tech innovator), and Chief Content Officer Katie Brown (longtime TV personality...

How to build fast, bold, and purposefully with AI, without losing your humanity? In this special in-person episode of Rendered , we explore what it means to build like a human with two guests whose work stretches from international rescue missions to AI-powered comic books. Vicki Mayo , founder, CEO, technologist, and humanitarian, who helped rescue 147 Afghan girls Don Pingaro , CMO of Fulcrum Di...

In this episode of Rendered , we explore the future of cybersecurity through the lens of Tim Roemer , a former CIA officer, Director of Homeland Security and Chief Information Security Officer for Arizona, and now CEO of GMI (the largest woman- and minority-owned tech company in Arizona). With over a decade in national security and intelligence, Tim has seen how emerging technologies like AI are c...

We’ve seen AI write code, compose music, even generate art, but will it truly ever be more creative than a human ? In this premiere episode of Rendered , we explore that question with two guests who approach creativity from entirely different angles: Babak Hodjat , the inventor of the technology behind Siri and now CTO of AI at Cognizant Rohan (@rohan.jpg) , a 3D visual artist and music producer b...