For most of us, the most dangerous thing we’ll do today is drive a car, hurtling a ton of metal at high speed down the road, surrounded by dozens of strangers doing the same, but somehow, most of the time, it ends without incident. That’s not because we’re great drivers, but rather because traffic is instead built assuming the exact opposite: that we all make mistakes constantly. Behind the everyday act of driving sits a massive system of risk management and safety design, and in this episode, I’ll explore why the future of agentic AI might become a system very much like traffic - and what we can learn from the roads about building safe AI Agent systems.

Everybody knows plenty of laws restricting the use of their car, but can you name some laws that actually encourage the use of cars? There are some, and some were actually designed by the very people selling cars - and if you want to stimulate AI use in your company, you better take a page from their playbook! This week: don't limit your AI governance to compliance with regulations alone, it can be sooo much more valuable!

Maybe there was a time when new technologies were a barrier for broad participation, but modern digital technologies are quite the reverse. In this episode, we'll see what that meant for tv chefs - and what it will mean for the risks AI pose...

Music:
Theme song - Halloween, by Dmitry Taras
Miss You Love - Patiño
Nebula - The Grey Room _ Density & Time
Foggy - Nat Keefe
Slapstick Sports Jam - Joel Cummins
Strange Stuff - Matt Harris
Devious Little Smile - Godmode
Consciousness Rabbit - pATCHES
Beta Love - Coyote Hearing

AI Agents are all the hype, and to understand exactly why they matter so much to businesses, I take you back to the very origins of automation - the Ford Motor Company of 1913.

Music:
Theme song - Halloween, by Dmitry Taras
Backwood - Saidbysed
Broken Drum Machine - Godmode
Mario Bava Sleeps In a Little Later Than He Expected To - Chris Zabriskie
The Life and Death of a Certain K. Zabriskie, Patriarch - Chris Zabriskie
Turn - The Tower of Light

AI is exploding into our business landscape, and many have argued that its speed of evolution far exceeds that of previous technologies. And while that probably is correct, I can think of at least one monumental technological watershed moment that unfolded in mere weeks, and changed the world forever. The early days of “the war to end all wars” teach us about the problems leaders face when digesting new technologies at speed, and in this episode, I argue those problems are not technical issues themselves.

The option of self-learning AI is misunderstood by many people, and is a risky option for which any AI leader better gets their story straight

In this fourth episode, I find the reasons why both humans and AI sometimes show inappropriate behaviour overlap.

In this third episode, I'll look at where AI sits in its development as a new technology. This may shed some light on why organizations struggle to apply AI, and why regulation might not provide the stable environment we should be hoping for.

In this second episode I try to explain that there is much more to AI than just the Generative AI that everyone is talking about these days - and that the differences are quite fundamental and need to be kept in mind when discussing AI in an organization.

Music

Theme is Halloween, by Dmitir Taras

Other music:
On the rocks - TrackTribe
Coma-Media
Trudging Along - Godmode
Helium - TrackTribe

In this first episode, we’ll explore the smart computer systems our organizations build and use: are AI systems that don’t lead to action as powerful as they could be?

Music

The podcast's theme music is Halloween, by Dmitry Taras

This episode further uses:

Cafe Music - Music_for_Videos
Tiptoe - Nat Keefe