AI and the Future of Work: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace, Business, Ethics, HR, and IT for AI Enthusiasts, Leaders

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  405: Nick Mehta, Former CEO of Gainsight, on Agentic Overload, Machine Consciousness, and Leading with Radical Humility 14.09.2026 52min

  Send us Fan Mail Nick Mehta is a serial entrepreneur, executive leader, and the former longtime CEO of Gainsight, where he helped define and scale the multi-billion-dollar category of modern Customer Success. Widely revered across the technology ecosystem as a beloved mentor and a CEO's role model, Nick pairs sharp business instincts with an infectious, human-first leadership style and an insatiable curiosity for philosophy, mathematics, and cognitive science. In this highly ant...
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  404: Ilan Peleg, CEO of Lightrun, on Shifting Observability Left, and Why He Keeps AI Agents Read-Only in Production 07.09.2026 41min

  Send us Fan Mail Ilan Peleg is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lightrun, the autonomous remediation platform built to debug and fix software problems before they ever reach a customer. Lightrun is one of the fastest growing companies in the AI observability space, having raised $110 million from elite venture firms including Accel, Insight Partners, and Sorenson Capital. Its technology now runs inside mission critical systems at Salesforce, Citibank, and the New York Stock Exchange. Before founding...
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  403: Nancy Wang, CTO at 1Password, on Why Identity Is the Tech Problem of the Decade 31.08.2026 45min

  Send us Fan Mail Nancy Wang is the Chief Technology Officer at 1Password, where she leads the global engineering team securing the digital safety and identities of millions of prosumers, families, and enterprise workloads. An expert in building highly scalable systems and data protection platforms, she holds seven patents in cloud infrastructure and serves on the boards of early-stage cybersecurity leaders, including Observo AI, which was recently acquired by SentinelOne to power the d...
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  402: Russ Fradin, CEO of Larridin, on the AI Power User Gap and Why Change Management Is the Real Bottleneck 24.08.2026 49min

  Send us Fan Mail Russ Fradin is the co-founder and CEO of Larridin, the enterprise AI measurement platform that raised $17 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Bloomberg Beta and Gradient Ventures. Larridin sells to CIOs and CFOs, and answers a question most companies still cannot answer for themselves: which AI tools are being used, by whom, at what level of proficiency, and where they are actually driving productivity. A veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur with three dec...
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  SE 27: AI and the Next Generation: What We Can Learn from Them (International Youth Day Special Episode) 20.08.2026 25min

  Send us Fan Mail Every August 12, the world observes International Youth Day, and this past July 15 marked World Youth Skills Day. Both are good moments to remember what we owe the people entering the workforce: paths, tools, and advice that inspire them, not warnings that scare them. In this special August compilation episode of AI and the Future of Work, we bring back four former guests whose conversations point to the same idea: AI is not a threat. It is an opportunity, and the people star...
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  Dr. Ben Goertzel, SingularityNET CEO and BGI Labs Founder, on Why Stacking Tools Around an LLM Won't Get Us to AGI 17.08.2026 54min

  Send us Fan Mail Dr. Ben Goertzel is the researcher most often credited with popularizing the term "Artificial General Intelligence," a phrase he helped bring into wide use when he co-published a book under that title in 2005. He is the founder of SingularityNET and the architect behind OpenCog Hyperon, open-source cognitive architectures built on the conviction that large language models alone cannot get humanity to true AGI. His current project, ASI:Chain, is designed to put AGI systems o...
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  401: Theresita Richard, CHRO at Patagonia: AI Won't Fix Your Culture, It Will Expose It 10.08.2026 44min

  Send us Fan Mail Theresita Richard is Chief People and Culture Officer at Patagonia, where she is approaching her third anniversary with the company. Before Patagonia, she built her career across some of the most recognized names in retail, including Home Depot, Target, Starbucks, and Nordstrom, after starting out as an industrial engineer leading a two-year project on how new technology was reshaping manufacturing work. At Patagonia, Theresita carries the responsibility of stewarding a cultu...
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  400: Wade Foster, Zapier CEO: What Happens When Every Knowledge Worker Gets a Coding Engine 03.08.2026 41min

  Send us Fan Mail Wade Foster is the CEO and co-founder of Zapier, the workflow automation and AI orchestration platform used by more than 4 million people to connect over 7,000 work apps. Since launching in the Y Combinator Summer 2012 batch, Zapier has automated more than 81 billion tasks, users have built more than 25 million Zaps, and the company has bootstrapped its way to a valuation north of $5 billion. He holds degrees in industrial engineering and business administration from the Univ...
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  399: Vasant Dhar, NYU Stern Professor, on the New Divide: Superhuman With AI or Dependent on It? 27.07.2026 46min

  Send us Fan Mail Vasant Dhar teaches data science at NYU's Stern School of Business and has spent more than 45 years at the frontier of artificial intelligence. He brought machine learning to Wall Street in the 1990s and founded SCT Capital Management, one of the first machine learning based hedge funds. He hosts the Brave New World podcast, downloaded more than a million times, where he has interviewed Nobel laureates, technologists, and global thinkers on the implications of AI. His work ha...
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  398: Ariel Assaraf, CEO and Co-Founder of Coralogix, on How AI Turns Observability into Business Intelligence 20.07.2026 45min

  Send us Fan Mail Ariel Assaraf is the CEO and co-founder of Coralogix, a leading observability platform that most recently raised $115 million at a unicorn valuation. He started the company in 2014, and today Coralogix serves more than 4,000 customers, monitors more than 500,000 applications, and processes over 3 million events per second. Before co-founding Coralogix, Ariel served in Israel's Elite Intelligence Unit 8200, where the sheer scale and complexity of data he worked with made one t...
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  397: Maryjo Charbonnier, Kyndryl's Former CHRO & Executive Advisor, on Transforming Skills into Visibility with AI 13.07.2026 38min

  Send us Fan Mail Maryjo Charbonnier is the former CHRO and Executive Advisor at Kyndryl, the world's largest provider of IT infrastructure services , with more than 70,000 employees across roughly 60 countries. When Kyndryl was spun out of IBM in 2021 as one of the largest public company spin-offs in history, Maryjo helped build its culture and people strategy from the ground up, which is why she and others have called it the world's largest startup. She has spent nearly two decades as a publ...
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  396: Trond Undheim, Author of The Platinum Workforce, on Why Knowledge Is Becoming Superfluous and System Awareness Is the Skill That Lasts 06.07.2026 56min

  Send us Fan Mail Trond Undheim is a futurist, innovation expert, and research scholar at Stanford University whose work spans governments, startups, and leading academic institutions. His ideas have been featured in outlets including Forbes, The Boston Globe, Fast Company, Fortune, and MIT News, and he previously hosted the Futurized podcast. He holds a PhD in AI and cognition from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and is the author of eight books, including The Platinum Work...
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  395: Lev Gonick, CIO at Arizona State University: Why Higher Education Must Disrupt Itself and the New Definition of AI Literacy 29.06.2026 42min

  Send us Fan Mail Lev Gonick is the CIO at Arizona State University, one of the largest and fastest-growing universities in the United States, with over 200,000 students across campuses in Phoenix, Los Angeles, Washington, and 35 partner institutions around the world. He won an ORBIE Award in 2023 as a top large Enterprise CIO, was named a Top 50 Educational Technology Influencer by EdScoop in 2022, and holds a PhD in International Political Economy from York University. Before joining ASU, he...
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  394: Dr. Muthu Alagappan, CEO of Counsel Health: Democratizing Primary Care with Semi-Autonomous AI 22.06.2026 38min

  Send us Fan Mail Dr. Muthu Alagappan is the Founder and CEO of Counsel Health, the company automating access to high-quality, personalized medical advice from doctors. Counsel recently closed a $25M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures, following an $11M seed round that included A16Z, Asymmetric Capital Partners, Floodgate Fund, and Pear VC. He holds an MD from Stanford Medicine and a B.S. in Biomechanical Engineering from Stanford, and was among the earliest AI researchers...
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  SE 26: Designing AI for Accountability and Harmony with Leaders from Honeycomb, FieldAI, Archetype AI, and Zoom | Live from HumanX 2026 Special Episode 18.06.2026 31min

  Send us Fan Mail In this special compilation episode of AI and the Future of Work, we are bringing you four conversations recorded live on the show floor at HumanX 2026. This is the second and final compilation of our three-part HumanX Live series. Our first compilation explored how AI amplifies the human potential it can never replace. This one turns to the technical side, and to a question that gets harder the more these systems touch our lives: how do you build AI you can actually trust no...
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  XD Huang, CTO at Zoom | Live from HumanX 2026 18.06.2026 23min

  Send us Fan Mail XD Huang is the CTO of Zoom, where he is leading the company's shift from hosting meetings to completing work, a vision he calls conversation to completion. He joined Zoom after 30 years at Microsoft, where he served as Azure AI CTO and a Technical Fellow and helped ship Azure OpenAI Services. A pioneer in speech recognition for four decades, he led the Microsoft team that first reached human parity in transcribing conversational speech. Recorded live from the floor of ...
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  Dr. Jaime Lien, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist of Archetype AI | Live from HumanX 2026 18.06.2026 23min

  Send us Fan Mail Dr. Jaime Lien is the Chief Scientist and a co-founder of Archetype AI, where she is building a foundation model that turns complex sensor data into meaning people can actually act on. A signal processing scientist by training, she earned her PhD working on RF imaging from satellites and later helped develop the first radar embedded in consumer smartphones at Google, before leaving with four colleagues to start Archetype AI. Recorded live from the floor of HumanX 2026, ...
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  Dr. Ali Agha, CEO and Co-Founder of FieldAI | Live from HumanX 2026 18.06.2026 21min

  Send us Fan Mail Dr. Ali Agha is the CEO and co-founder of FieldAI, where he is building general-purpose "brains" for robots across different forms, environments, and tasks. He has spent nearly two decades in AI autonomy, including years at NASA JPL and research roots at MIT, putting software and intelligence on drones, legged robots, and other platforms. Recorded live from the floor of HumanX 2026, this lightning round explores what it takes to bring AI safely into the physical world, ...
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  Christine Yen, CEO and Co-Founder of Honeycomb | Live from HumanX 2026 18.06.2026 19min

  Send us Fan Mail Christine Yen is the CEO and co-founder of Honeycomb, the observability platform that helps engineering teams understand what their software is actually doing. A developer by background, she built products at Facebook before co-founding Honeycomb to bring fast, flexible observability to the rest of the world. Recorded live from the floor of HumanX 2026, this lightning round explores what observability means now that both humans and agents are writing, shipping, and debu...
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  393: Dan Roth, Editor in Chief at LinkedIn, on Career Skills Rewarded in the AI Age 15.06.2026 38min

  Send us Fan Mail Dan Roth is the Editor in Chief and a Vice President at LinkedIn, where he has led the world's largest professional editorial operation since 2011. Business Insider once called him the most powerful business journalist on the internet, and over more than a decade he has helped turn LinkedIn from a networking site into a global media platform, building out its editorial team, top voices, and Influencer Program. He also hosts the popular This Is Working podcast. Over 15 years w...