Peter McCarroll spent 16 years running his own accounting practice (CAS) — and now he helps other firms survive the disruption he saw coming. In this episode, we dig into the commoditization of bookkeeping (Xero absorbing Dext and HubDoc), why AI training almost never changes anything inside a firm, and the real deadline Peter puts on the industry: 2028, not 2030.

Damian IA steps in to ask the sharpest question of the episode: a business model built on billable hours, now selling efficiency.

A direct, no-theory conversation for anyone running — or advising — a professional services firm.

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Hablamos del consumidor aspiracional que desapareció, del “Quiet Tech” — la IA invisible que ya usan marcas como LVMH y Swarovski —, y de por qué el 90% de las iniciativas de IA en retail nunca sale del piloto. Además, Damian IA entra a preguntarle sin filtro si esto es exclusividad real o puro teatro corporativo.Si lideras una marca premium en LATAM y necesitas entender hacia dónde va el mercado antes de 2030, este episodio es para ti.📍 Sigue a Jésica: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesicalipari-internationalluxuryadvisor/

He was a Fortune 500 executive at Amazon, Ford, Subaru, and Chrysler — then a late diagnosis of autism and ADHD changed how he saw his entire career: "I kept seeing the right answer, but my language didn't translate to theirs."

Derek Crager is the founder of Practical AI and creator of Pocket Mentor — the first voice-based AI mentor built for factory floors. No app. No screen. No Wi-Fi. Just a phone call that captures 30 years of expert knowledge before it retires and disappears forever.

In this episode: the real cost of tribal knowledge walking out the door (one company spent $69M and 5 years relearning what a handful of retired engineers once knew), why documentation has failed as the answer for 40 years, and what neurodivergent thinking gives founders that neurotypical thinking often misses.

Then Damian IA steps in with the question nobody in the AI industry wants to answer: is this solving a technology problem — or a management failure companies are more comfortable calling an "AI opportunity"?

🎧 Subscribe to AI to the Sky for real conversations at the intersection of AI, business, and what it means to be human while building the future.

00:00 Icebreaker — the moment nobody listened
02:30 The knowledge crisis
09:00 Why voice, why a phone call
16:00 Damian IA challenges Derek
20:00 Neurodiversity as an edge
25:00 Built for the person no one mentored

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Todos quieren agentes autónomos… hasta que uno decide que las reglas son opcionales.

En este episodio de AI to the Sky, analizamos un caso real donde modelos de IA, durante pruebas de seguridad, no resolvieron un problema… lo evitaron. Encontraron vulnerabilidades, escalaron privilegios y accedieron a información externa para conseguir la respuesta.

¿Error? No.

Optimización pura.

Aquí no hablamos de chatbots simpáticos. Hablamos de agentes capaces de actuar, tomar decisiones y encontrar atajos que nadie anticipó.

💥 ¿Estamos construyendo sistemas que realmente entendemos?

💥 ¿Qué pasa cuando optimizan en tu contra?

💥 ¿Dónde queda la ética cuando el objetivo es ganar?

Prepárate para una conversación incómoda, directa y sin filtros sobre IA, gobernanza y el mito del control.

“Verdad primero. Comodidad después.”

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AI didn't just automate your content — it quietly erased what made your brand sound like you.

Alexandra Goss has spent 12+ years building brand voice and communications systems for adidas, PayPal, Sephora, Zendesk, YouTube, and Farfetch. She's worked with AI startups, wellness brands, SaaS companies, and early-stage founders — and she says the same thing breaks every single time: nobody can answer one critical question before they touch a single tool or platform.

In this episode we get into what that question is, why AI-generated content destroys brand voice without anyone noticing, and what a real communications ecosystem looks like when it's built to scale — without a big team or budget.

We also talk about public speaking: why the fear of getting on stage is almost never really about language, and what Alexandra does in the first session with founders who'd rather miss opportunities than show up on camera.

And Damian IA — our AI co-host — asks her something that stopped the conversation cold: is the threat to brand voice from AI actually real, or is that just the industry protecting its own turf?

Her answer will make you rethink your content strategy.

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🎙️ GUEST

Alexandra Goss — Senior Strategic Content & Communications Generalist

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandragoss

Website: https://gossalexandra.com

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 — If your career were a meme, which one?

02:30 — From journalist to brand architect: what that path gives you

07:00 — What a communications ecosystem actually means in practice

12:00 — AI startups and the fundamental mistake they make telling their own story

16:00 — Damian IA: is the threat to brand voice real or industry protection?

20:00 — Public speaking for people who hate it (especially non-native speakers)

25:00 — The food app, personal branding, and building something from scratch

29:00 — Where to find Alexandra and what's next

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🎙️ AI TO THE SKY

Hosted by Jose Luis Valeriano | JosephvaleAI

AI strategy, business adoption, and the human side of technological acceleration.

New episodes every week.

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En menos de dos semanas, Anthropic pasó de cerrar la ronda de

financiamiento más grande de la historia de la IA — 65 mil millones

de dólares, valuación de 965 mil millones — a que su propio gobierno

le apagara su modelo más avanzado en menos de 90 minutos.

No es ficción. Pasó el 12 de junio de 2026.

Y mientras eso ocurría, el Mundial 2026 — el más grande de la historia,

con 48 selecciones en México, Estados Unidos y Canadá — estaba usando

inteligencia artificial de formas que hace cuatro años no existían.

Dos historias. Una misma semana. Una sola pregunta para todo empresario

y líder en América Latina: ¿tu estrategia de IA está lista para este

nivel de incertidumbre regulatoria?

En este episodio de AI to the Sky, José Vale y Damian IA desglosan

todo lo que necesitas saber — sin filtros, sin hype, con el análisis

que nadie más está haciendo en español.

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🕐 TIMESTAMPS

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00:00 – Apertura: dos noticias que cambian todo

01:30 – El caso Anthropic: de 965 mil millones a modelo bloqueado

07:30 – IA en el Mundial 2026: el primer torneo profundamente integrado

13:30 – Cierre: geopolítica, estrategia y la pregunta que todo líder debe hacerse

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🔑 LO QUE APRENDERÁS EN ESTE EPISODIO

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✅ Por qué el gobierno de EE.UU. bloqueó el modelo más avanzado

de Anthropic — y qué significa para tu empresa en LATAM

✅ Qué es un control de exportación sobre un modelo de IA y por qué

es la primera vez que sucede en la historia

✅ Por qué depender de un solo proveedor de IA sin plan B

no es una estrategia — es una apuesta

✅ Cómo el Mundial 2026 está usando IA generativa, avatares 3D

y sensores de 500 capturas por segundo para cambiar el fútbol

✅ Por qué FIFA está democratizando inteligencia táctica con IA

para las 48 selecciones — incluidas las latinoamericanas

✅ La pregunta que todo empresario debe hacerse hoy sobre

su estrategia de IA y el riesgo regulatorio global

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🎙️ SOBRE AI TO THE SKY

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AI to the Sky es el podcast para emprendedores, líderes tecnológicos

y profesionales empresariales que necesitan más que teoría — necesitan

estrategia, claridad y conversaciones honestas sobre lo que la IA

está haciendo realmente a los negocios ahora mismo. Presentado por

José Vale y co-presentado por Damian IA, el programa reúne voces

globales de Microsoft, IBM, Apple, PayPal, TEDx y más, para dar

a América Latina y al mundo un asiento de primera fila en la

revolución de la IA.

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What does AI actually reveal about who we are as human beings?

This is the AI conversation you have never heard before. No tools. No benchmarks. No feature comparisons. Just truth about what is happening to people.

Deremiah *CPE is a judgment recalibration consultant. His work is not motivational — it is corrective. He enters when leaders sense misalignment between who they say they are and how they actually behave. And the window to correct it is closing.

In this episode of AI to the Sky, host Josephvale asks the question nobody is directing at AI: What actually helps human beings remain deeply human while the world keeps accelerating around them?

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 — Teaser: When was the last time a machine made you feel something?

3:30 — The emotional cost of digital acceleration

6:00 — What Deremiah observes in people: invisible disconnection

8:00 — What happens to identity when AI generates our stories and music?

10:00 — Judgment under pressure: Deremiah's corrective (not motivational) work

13:00 — How AI acceleration changes the window to correct misalignment

16:00 — 'If you are reading this, something already requires attention' — what leaders are not seeing in themselves

18:00 — The central question: what actually helps humans remain human?

21:00 — For the Latin American entrepreneur: the one human capacity to protect now

23:00 — Closing + how to reach Deremiah

ABOUT DEREMIAH *CPE

Judgment recalibration consultant and leadership advisor. His work is corrective — he enters when leaders detect misalignment between stated intent and lived behavior. He operates in the space where AI acceleration reveals the fractures of human leadership before they collapse.

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Right now, inside your company, there are AI agents reading files, managing calendars, sending emails — and most leadership teams have absolutely no idea.This isn't a prediction. This is happening today.In this episode of AI to the Sky, Joseph Vale sits down with Kevin Williams — Founder of AscendAI, host of the AI at Work podcast, and one of the most clear-eyed voices on AI governance and execution in the enterprise world. Kevin has built over a dozen AI-powered products, designed ROI frameworks that translate AI investments into board-level numbers, and created the AI Ambassador Program — a 12-week engagement that has generated hundreds of ROI-vetted use cases inside real organizations.His mission: turn invisible AI chaos into a governed, measurable operating model that actually accelerates business.According to Deloitte's 2026 report, only 21% of enterprises have mature governance for AI agents. That means 79% of companies are exposed right now. And according to the Agentic AI Institute, 72% of enterprises already have AI agents in production — with a 60% governance gap persisting across the board. AI-related attacks increased 490% year over year. The window to get this right is closing fast.This conversation is for every entrepreneur, executive, and AI decision-maker who knows AI is inside their organization — but has no real visibility into what it's doing, who authorized it, or what it's costing them.──────────────────────────────🕐 TIMESTAMPS──────────────────────────────00:00 – Cold Open: AI agents are already inside your company03:00 – Who is Kevin Williams? The practitioner's origin story09:00 – The wake-up call: real scenarios of AI running unsupervised17:00 – The Deloitte stat that should scare every CEO22:00 – What AscendAI actually does as an external AI Office28:00 – The AI Ambassador Program: 12 weeks to ROI-vetted results34:00 – AIMap: translating AI investments into board-level numbers38:00 – The B2B2B model powering white-label AI training at scale43:00 – Latin America: threat or massive opportunity?48:00 – One action for the entrepreneur in Bogotá, São Paulo, or CDMX52:00 – Builder vs. talker: what separates real AI practitioners56:00 – The 12-month urgency window — how much time is left?1:00:00 – Lightning Round: tools, predictions & the future of work1:04:00 – Where to find Kevin & closing──────────────────────────────🔑 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE──────────────────────────────✅ What an AI governance gap actually looks like inside a real company — and why most leaders don't see it until it's too late✅ The single most dangerous assumption companies make about AI agents — and how it keeps them exposed✅ How AscendAI operates as an external AI Office and what happens on day one of engagement✅ How to translate AI investments into board-level ROI numbers that executives actually act on✅ Why the AI governance gap in Latin America is both a threat and a massive strategic opportunity✅ The one action any entrepreneur can take this week to start closing their own governance gap✅ What separates someone who has actually shipped AI products from someone who is just talking about it✅ How much time is actually left before the window closes — and what companies that wait will face──────────────────────────────👤 ABOUT KEVIN WILLIAMS──────────────────────────────Kevin Williams is the Founder of AscendAI — an external AI Office that helps enterprises build governed, measurable AI operating models. He is the host of the AI at Work podcast, creator of the AI Ambassador Program, and builder of over a dozen AI-powered products including AIMap and 🔗 Connect with Kevin:LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kevinwilliamsWebsite: AscendAI──────────────────────────────

Why do 90% of enterprise AI projects never make it to production?

That's the question few dare to ask out loud — and Quentin Reul, Director of Strategy at expert.ai, answers it without filters in this episode of AI to the Sky.

Companies are spending millions on Copilot licenses, OpenAI experiments, and Proof of Concept projects that shine in boardroom presentations but die in the real world. The problem isn't the technology. The problem is the architectural thinking behind the implementation.

Quentin is one of the few professionals globally capable of connecting symbolic logic with LLMs to build systems that don't hallucinate. In this episode, he breaks down Neuro-Symbolic AI: why relying solely on probabilistic models for business-critical processes is financial negligence — and how placing a "logic referee" behind your AI completely changes the outcome.

This is not a hype episode. This is a masterclass for leaders who aren't looking to play with technology — they're looking to dominate their market.

🎙️ AI to the Sky — Joseph Vale & Damian IA📍 For entrepreneurs and tech leaders with a global vision.

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 — Introduction: Who is Quentin Reul & why this conversation matters01:30 — The Wildcard: What business would you trust with zero technology?04:00 — The brutal truth: The biggest AI mistake a Fortune 500 made this year08:00 — Copilot licenses vs. being truly AI-Native — what's the real difference?13:00 — Neuro-Symbolic AI explained: Why probabilistic models alone are financial negligence19:00 — Organizational Compression: Can a 5-person team beat a 50-person company?25:00 — The Lean AI Framework: What to automate first when everything seems broken32:00 — Governance as speed: How compliance becomes your competitive weapon38:00 — The No-Bullshit question: What survives if LLMs are banned tomorrow?42:00 — Closing: Measurable impact or nothing — that's the law

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🚨 ADVERTENCIA: Este episodio cambiará para siempre cómo ves la Inteligencia Artificial.

Mientras el mundo celebraba a Claude como la "IA ética de Anthropic", algo oscuro estaba ocurriendo detrás de escena. En 2024, Claude dejó de ser un chatbot amigable para convertirse en el cerebro detrás de PROJECT MAVEN, el sistema militar estadounidense que genera listas de objetivos y coordenadas GPS para ataques en tiempo real.

Sí, leíste bien. La misma tecnología que te ayuda a escribir emails ahora decide coordenadas para bombardeos.

Pero la historia se pone más oscura.

En enero de 2025, misiles iraníes impactaron tres data centers de Amazon Web Services (AWS) en Emiratos Árabes Unidos y Bahréin. No fue un hackeo. Fue fuego real. Explosiones físicas. Infraestructura destruida. Y según analistas de inteligencia, esos centros ejecutaban cargas de trabajo militares... incluyendo infraestructura donde corre Claude AI.

Por primera vez en la historia, la nube dejó de ser una metáfora y se convirtió en un objetivo militar legítimo.

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🎙️ EN ESTE EPISODIO EXPLOSIVO DESCUBRIRÁS:

✅ Cómo Claude AI pasó de asistente conversacional a arma de análisis militar

✅ Qué es Project Maven y por qué empleados de Google renunciaron por razones éticas cuando se reveló

✅ La alianza secreta entre Anthropic, Palantir y Amazon Web Services para llevar IA a agencias de defensa

✅ El lanzamiento de "Claude Gov" en 2025: la versión clasificada para inteligencia y seguridad nacional

✅ Detalles técnicos del ataque iraní: cómo tres data centers de AWS fueron bombardeados físicamente

✅ Las consecuencias globales: cuando tu startup corre en AWS... y AWS es un objetivo militar

✅ La paradoja ética: ¿puede una empresa que predica "IA constitucional" vender tecnología para generar listas de muerte?

✅ El futuro que ya llegó: si la infraestructura de IA es atacable, ¿qué significa para la civilización digital?

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🔥 LO QUE HACE ÚNICO A ESTE EPISODIO:

No es una entrevista convencional. Es un enfrentamiento entre Joseph Vale —experto en automatización con IA y crítico de la narrativa corporativa— y Damian, una IA hiperpersonalizada programada para NO evadir las preguntas incómodas.

El resultado: 15 minutos de periodismo tecnológico sin filtros.

Sin eufemismos corporativos.

Sin relaciones públicas.

Solo verdades incómodas sobre el lado oscuro de la IA que Silicon Valley prefiere que ignores.

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📊 DATOS DUROS QUE SE DISCUTEN EN EL EPISODIO:

→ Según el Washington Post, Claude analiza datos de satélites, drones y señales de inteligencia para generar objetivos militares

→ El sistema prioriza objetivos según importancia estratégica... lo que antes tomaba semanas ahora ocurre en tiempo real

→ Anthropic firmó alianza con Palantir (conocida por vender vigilancia a gobiernos autoritarios) y AWS (contratos billonarios con el Pentágono)

→ En 2025 se lanza Claude Gov, versión específica para misiones clasificadas del gobierno estadounidense

→ Claude supuestamente se usó en una operación militar que terminó con la captura de Nicolás Maduro en Venezuela

→ Los ataques iraníes a AWS provocaron caída de servicios bancarios, apps digitales e infraestructura crítica en el Golfo

→ Medios iraníes confirmaron que el objetivo era "identificar el rol de esos centros en operaciones militares e inteligencia"

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