The AI Lyceum

💬 “We must learn not just faster, but better — unlearning the old while emotionally preparing for the new.” — David Wood What can the smartphone revolution teach us about the AI era? David Wood — futurist, author of 12 books, and co-founder of Symbian, the operating system that powered over half the world’s smartphones before iOS and Android — joins Samraj Matharu to explore how humanity can stee...

🙏 What does it take to design AI that earns - and deserves - our trust? “Prompt engineering is a bug” - Claudio Pinhanez In this episode, Samraj Matharu speaks with Claudio Pinhanez, Principal Scientist at IBM Research Brazil, about building AI systems that are transparent, consistent, and human-centred. With 40 years of experience across computer science and design, Claudio shares lessons from t...

🧠 How Can Marketers Use AI — Without Losing the Human Touch? “What I would like to ask for our industry is to stop asking what AI can do and start asking what we can do with AI.” — Antonis Kocheilas In this episode, Samraj Matharu speaks with Antonis Kocheilas, Global Chief Transformation Officer of one of the world’s leading advertising agencies – Ogilvy – to explore how AI is reshaping creativi...

🤖 WHAT WOULD YOU WANT AN AI AGENT TO BUY FOR YOU? In this episode of The AI Lyceum Podcast, Samraj Matharu speaks with James Bentley — Director of AI Strategy at Awin (ex-Adobe ML) — to unpack how autonomous agents, real-time search, and ledger-based attribution could reshape the commercial internet. James shares lessons from two decades in digital advertising, from early ML forecasting at Adobe...

🤖 Can Robots Learn How to Learn? “If we could have infinite intelligence, what would we do with it?” — Prof. Benjamin Rosman In this episode, Samraj Matharu speaks with Prof. Benjamin Rosman – who is one of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in AI 2025, Google-award winning, Professor of Machine Learning & Robotics at the University of Witwatersrand, and Director of the RAIL Lab. Ben...

🌳 How Can AI Be Made More Sustainable? "By 2030, we will be using 2x the energy we use right now.” In this episode, Samraj Matharu speaks with Robert Keus, founder of GreenPT, to explore the vital intersection of AI and environmental sustainability. Robert explains how GreenPT is creating a privacy-friendly, energy-efficient AI ecosystem – from improving data centre efficiency to educating users...

🧠 Is AI Super-Intelligent — and when will it become super-intelligent? “𝗪𝗲 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁-𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴-𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁. 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸, 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗮 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀.” In this episode of The AI Lyceum Podcast , Samraj Matharu speaks with Calum Chace — Oxford-educated philosopher, best-selling A...

👉 20% OFF University of Oxford Executive Programmes @ Theailyceum.com In this episode of The AI Lyceum Podcast , Samraj Matharu speaks with Peter Morgan — Head Tutor on AI executive programmes at the University of Oxford and founder of Deep Learning Partnership — to tackle one of today’s biggest questions: Is AI conscious? ❓ Questions we answer in this episode: What’s the difference between ever...