The Humans in the Loop Podcast

What to post on LinkedIn depends entirely on what you want back. If you want likes, post one thing. If you want leads, post something completely different. My most viral posts got tens of thousands of views and zero leads, so this video is about the second kind. I know how to go viral on LinkedIn. The trick is to post about politics. It works every time, and it has never once brought me a lead, be...

Every week I pick the three AI stories that matter most for anyone running or building a business. What happened, what it actually means, and why you should care. This week is a special edition, because one company managed to produce three terrible stories - guess who? So this week it’s all Meta. Watching its customers, watching its staff, and handing the job of deciding what billions of us see to...

A B2B lead generation strategy isn't a list of channels you're running. It's a series of deliberate choices about what you won't do. Two million leads across two decades, and the pattern repeats: most businesses confuse activity with strategy. A strategy is the thinking you do before you act. The deliberate choice of who you're targeting, what you're saying, where you're reaching them, and how the...

This week: EY has just withdrawn a marketing report that turned out to be full of AI hallucinations, fake citations, and a reference to a McKinsey study that doesn't exist. Google has announced the biggest overhaul of search in 25 years, putting AI in front of everyone. And thousands of people on X just dismissed a real Monet painting as AI slop, with implications for any business worried about ho...

This week in AI: three stories that matter for anyone running or building a business. A 72-year-old Chelsea Pensioner lost his life savings to a deepfake of Martin Lewis. A newly elected Norfolk councillor has had to publicly insist he is not AI. And Anthropic has launched a product aimed squarely at small businesses, which may be a turning point. This Week in AI is live every Friday at 9:15am. My...

This week in AI: three stories that matter for anyone running or building a business. Sam Altman is having a bad week in court. A Harvard study has shown AI now outperforms emergency room doctors at diagnosis (but there are caveats). And one of the most-cited papers proving ChatGPT helps students learn has been retracted by Nature. This Week in AI is live every Friday at 9:15am. My monthly Insider...

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AI fluency for leaders is your company’s top priority. This video is about what AI fluency actually means at the leadership level, why it matters now, and how leaders move from simply being aware of AI to being genuinely fluent. Most leaders use AI tools every day. But many are still thinking and leading in exactly the same way they did a few years ago. AI-fluent leaders are different. They’ve cha...

AI and jobs: February gave us a set of stories that show what’s changing right now, not in theory. AI is intensifying knowledge work instead of reducing it, HR teams are getting flooded with AI-generated grievances, and firms like Accenture are starting to treat AI usage as a promotion input. At the same time, we’re seeing early signs of AI organising human labour through platforms like Rent-a-Hum...

Elon Musk’s AI plan just escalated. SpaceX has acquired xAI, Musk is talking seriously about data centres in space, and he claims orbital compute could be the cheapest way to power AI within three years — with Starlink shuttling data back to Earth. In this podcast, I run through what Musk is actually trying to do, why energy is the constraint underneath the AI boom, and why the wave of senior exit...

Four big Anthropic stories from February. If you want to keep up with everything Anthropic did this month, this is the only video you need to watch. I cover: Claude’s ad-free Super Bowl campaign, Claude Cowork plug-ins (including the legal template), Anthropic’s Sabotage Risk Report for Opus 4.6, and the dispute with the Pentagon over how Claude can be used. This is the month where Anthropic’s “et...

If you want to keep up with everything that happened at OpenAI in February, this is the podcast that you need to listen to. I have four stories, and I’m going to run through them really fast. I cover: Sam Altman’s Forbes interview and the AGI/succession headlines, OpenAI Frontier (enterprise agent orchestration), Frontier Alliances with McKinsey/BCG/Accenture/Capgemini, and Lockdown Mode as OpenAI...

OpenClaw and Moltbook: an AI agent got full access to a computer, then someone built a social network where only agents could post. Within days, they’d started a religion, developed their own language to avoid human oversight, and published an AI manifesto called Total Purge, aimed at humans. In this video, I break down what actually happened with OpenClaw and Moltbook, what’s verified vs what’s i...

February in AI is a curated insider briefing on what actually happened this month and what it means in practice. Sign up for March in AI: https://www.theaiedit.ai/offers/vNMGhqRe/checkout This episode covers the shift from “AI as a tool” to AI acting in the world: agent software with computer access, the security risks that come with it (including prompt injection exposure), and why some of the lo...

AI for business leaders isn’t a trend to monitor, it’s a set of operational risks you can trigger fast if you don’t understand what you’re dealing with. In this video, I break down the real AI risk landscape and how leaders should think about it. Most people talk about “AI risk” as if it’s one problem with one solution. It isn’t. Some risks come from what AI systems do by default (like hallucinati...

AI and Leadership are inseparable now, and weak leadership has become a serious business risk. In this podcast, I explain what good leadership looks like in an AI-shaped world, based on a real situation where I walked away from an AI strategy engagement because the CEO’s approach to AI was the company’s biggest vulnerability. I break down what hasn’t changed: integrity, vision, empathy, communicat...

AI for leaders is now a core leadership risk, not a technical detail you can delegate and forget. If AI goes wrong, you can’t blame the algorithm; someone in the business made (or failed to make) a decision, and that accountability lands with leadership. In this podcast, I explain why “pretending you understand” is dangerous, using two real patterns I keep seeing: proposals quietly corrupted by AI...

January in AI is your insider briefing on the most important stories from the last month, what actually happened, and why it matters for real work, real decisions, and real systems. This episode covers the push to get AI out of laptops and into the physical world, including Nvidia’s new platform for autonomous vehicles and the broader “physical AI” vision behind it. We also look at what it means f...

ChatGPT ads change the relationship between an AI assistant and the person using it. In this AI Power Move video, Heather Baker breaks down the best-case and worst-case outcomes of ads inside conversational AI - looking at the story from both the optimistic and the pessimistic point of view. From the optimistic view, advertising creates a repeatable revenue stream to fund expensive frontier models...

AI hallucinations explained in 2026: what they are, why they happen, how often they show up, and what you can do to reduce the risk. An AI hallucination is when an AI model makes something up: fake facts, fake citations, fake studies, or real things with wrong details. In this video, I break down clear examples (including a made-up “idiom” that ChatGPT confidently explained as real), plus public c...

AI in healthcare is moving from “people asking chatbots questions” to formal health products that connect records, explain test results, and support clinicians. This video looks at what that could mean -both the upside and the risks - and asks a simple question: how much AI do you actually want involved in your medical care (or your child’s)?From the optimistic perspective, AI could reduce adminis...

Humans in the loop is the difference between AI that works safely and AI that causes real damage. This video breaks down what it means, why it matters, and how to implement it. AI systems fail in three fundamental ways. They inherit biases from training data. They hallucinate, making up confident but completely wrong information. And they're sycophantic, prioritising agreeability over accuracy. Wh...

A brutally honest conversation about AI sales strategies as Heather Baker sits down with Aleasha Bahr, founder of Black Sheep Sales and author of Black Sheep Sales: How to Win More Sales Without Acting Like a Douchebag. 📘 Get Aleasha’s BRILLIANT book:https://amzn.to/3LoiYBcIn this conversation, Aleasha breaks down why traditional sales tactics are broken, manipulative, and quietly destroying trus...

The last AI briefing of 2025. I run through the biggest stories from December that actually matter: from DeepSeek's free model threatening to disrupt the entire AI pricing model, to Anthropic's $300B IPO prep, Disney's $1B OpenAI deal, and why Wall Street still thinks AI stocks will climb 10% in 2026. If this helped you, consider hitting the ❤️ to let me know it was worth your time. I also break d...