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  • Is AI Failing Women? A Reality Check with Dr Elise Stephenson
    Episode Summary

    Artificial intelligence is reshaping everything from work to healthcare to the way we interact online, but it’s also exposing deep gender gaps that we can’t afford to ignore. At the eSafety Summit in Canberra, Georgie sits down with award-winning researcher and gender equality expert Dr Elise Stephenson for a live conversation on the uncomfortable truth behind AI’s gender problem.

    Only 22% of the global AI workforce is women.

    Only 2% of Australian startup funding goes to female founders.

    And when generating images of British women, some AI models label them as models or prostitutes 30% of the time.

    In this episode of In The Blink of AI, Georgie and Elise dig into how bias creeps into AI systems, who’s responsible, and what needs to change, from data collection to funding incentives to the way we teach young people about online safety. They also explore the surprising ways women are using AI, why representation matters at every layer of the stack, and what a truly gender-responsive AI future could look like.

    This is one of the most important episodes we’ve made, equal parts confronting and constructive, and a must-listen for anyone who cares about building tech that works for everyone.

    Time Stamps

    00:00 — Intro

    02:31 — What AI actually is (and what it definitely is not)

    04:00 — How AI is showing up in daily life: usage trends among women and men

    06:40 — Physical AI, robotics, and Grace Brown’s loneliness-fighting invention

    08:44 — The hidden gender power imbalances behind AI development

    09:29 — A history lesson: how women were pushed out of computing

    11:19 — Privacy, consent, and the fear of being recorded by your own doctor

    12:35 — Deepfakes, blackmail, and why women are disproportionately targeted

    14:45 — The “ghost workforce”: who actually labels the data AI learns from

    15:26 — How unrepresentative datasets become harmful outcomes

    16:35 — When Google Photos labeled a Black man as a gorilla

    18:04 — The case for optimism: can AI reduce bias if we design it right?

    21:32 — Who’s responsible for gender-safe AI: companies, funders, or users?

    23:30 — The Inclusive Innovation Playbook: how to build fairer AI ecosystems

    25:40 — Why regulating AI is so hard (and why countries disagree wildly)

    27:23 — Dual-use tech, human oversight, and what companies like Unilever get right

    29:03 — AI we should be excited about: healthcare, diagnostics, and robotics

    31:39 — When an AI coworker goes rogue: who’s accountable?

    32:56 — What a gender-responsive AI future actually looks like

    34:08 — Top recommendations: feminist tech diplomacy and moving beyond critique

    36:28 — Where to find Georgie and Elise

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    ✨ Connect with Georgie Healy

    Weekly Substack: https://georgiehealy.substack.com/

    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georginahealy/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georginahealytech/

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    39 min
  • Ethics in AI with Justin Tauber from Salesforce
    Episode Summary

    Justin Tauber has spent nearly a decade inside one of the world’s biggest tech companies, first in strategic innovation, now leading Salesforce’s global work on ethical and human use of AI. With a background in cognitive science and design thinking, he’s become one of Australia’s most insightful voices on how technology and ethics can (and must) evolve together.

    In this episode of In The Blink of AI, Georgie Healy sits down with Justin to unpack what “agentic AI” really means beyond the hype, and how enterprises can adopt it responsibly. Justin shares how scenario planning helps teams prepare for unpredictable futures, why prediction matters less than rehearsal, and how ethical constraints often spark the most original innovations.

    They also dig into the growing problem of “shadow AI” inside companies, the trade-offs between startups and enterprises, and why Australia’s best AI opportunity might not be moving fastest, but safest.

    If you’ve ever wondered what trust, transparency, and technology look like when they collide, this episode is your blueprint.

    Time Stamps

    00:00 - Intro

    05:20 - The rise of multimodal thinking

    08:05 - Scenario planning and future rehearsal in AI

    09:01 - Inside Salesforce: what an ethical AI team actually does

    11:47 - Strategy vs policy: why most “AI strategies” aren’t strategic

    13:00 - Safe hammers, safe chainsaws, and the real meaning of safety

    15:45 - Trust = character + competence

    17:15 - Prediction is less important than rehearsal

    19:39 - Why ethics often drives innovation (bendy straws, accessibility, and more)

    24:50 - Training ethical thinking like a muscle

    26:01 - Shadow AI: the hidden risk inside every company

    28:39 - Where bias really comes from, and how to design around it

    32:12 - When to use generative vs deterministic AI

    36:01 - The privacy paradox: consent, choice, and control

    39:00 - Agentic AI explained through drum machines and creativity

    46:13 - Startups vs enterprises: who’s taking bigger risks with AI

    52:48 - Australia’s AI opportunity: becoming the world’s “safety lab”

    Resources

    🙋🏻‍♂️ Justin Tauber: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tauber/

    In the Blink of AI is made possible by our wonderful partnersDeel

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    Ready to expand your business?

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    ✨ Connect with Georgie Healy

    Weekly Substack: https://georgiehealy.substack.com/

    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georginahealy/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georginahealytech/

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    1 hr 2 min
  • How to Build Cool Stuff With AI (No Code Needed) | Maddie Reese
    Episode Summary

    When Maddie Reese discovered AI tools in June, she’d never written a line of code. Six months later, she’d won multiple hackathons, built viral projects like Startup Obituary and Pet Hero Comics, and quit her job to go full-time as a vibe coder.

    In this episode of In The Blink of AI, Georgie Healy sits down with Maddie to unpack what “vibe coding” actually is, and why joy might be the best productivity hack of all. From debugging API keys with ChatGPT to using Lovable, Cursor, and Replit to build entire web apps in hours, Maddie shares her exact workflow, her biggest “LLM gaslight” moment, and how she’s turning play into a career.

    Expect practical tips for no-coders, hilarious guinea-pig side quests, and a refreshingly real take on the future of AI creativity.

    Time Stamps

    00:00 – Welcome to In The Blink of AI with Georgie Healy

    03:50 – AI Hack of the Week: Poke bot + Suno music app

    08:37 – Maddie’s first project: cloning Google Drive in 4 hours

    14:03 – Startup Obituary: a memorial for your failed startup 💀

    15:35 – Debugging 101: what to do when API keys break everything

    19:15 – Roast My App: Guinea Pig of the Day 🐹

    22:24 – Using ChatGPT + Cursor + Lovable together

    27:06 – Snog / Marry / Avoid: Lovable, Replit & Cursor

    28:36 – Quitting her family business to go full-time in AI

    30:46 – Getting through frustration (and proving ChatGPT wrong)

    33:45 – Why you should hit “Publish” even if it’s not perfect

    37:24 – How to recover when a prompt breaks your build

    38:44 – Which tool to use: Lovable vs Cursor vs GitHub

    39:33 – Is vibe coding dying or hotter than ever?

    41:45 – What happens if vibe coding actually does die?

    42:46 – Hot Takes 🔥 Non-engineers are the future of tech

    49:10 – What’s next for Maddie Reese

    Resources

    🙋‍♀️ Maddie Reese: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maddiedreese

    🪩 Maddie’s Projects: https://maddiedreese.com/

    🐦 Twitter / X: https://x.com/maddiedreese

    💻 YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@maddiedreese

    ✨ Lovable: https://www.lovable.dev

    💬 Cursor: https://cursor.sh

    💡 Replit: https://replit.com

    🎵 Suno Music AI: https://www.suno.ai

    📱 Poke by Interaction: https://poke.com/

    In the Blink of AI is made possible by our wonderful partnersDeel

    Global hiring and payroll can be a headache. Deel brings HR, IT and payroll together in one platform, helping companies including Shopify, Revolut and ElevenLabs scale internationally.

    Ready to expand your business?

    Build your global team with Deel at deel.com/dayone.

    ✨ Connect with Georgie Healy

    Weekly Substack: https://georgiehealy.substack.com/

    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georginahealy/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georginahealytech/

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    51 min
  • How Agentic AI Actually Works (and What’s Still Hype)
    Episode Summary

    Before AI was cool, Dominick Ng was already building it. From a tiny country town in regional NSW to a PhD, a Fulbright Scholarship, and nine years at Google, Dom’s journey is the definition of technical brilliance meets humility. Today, he’s the Director of Engineering at Relevance AI, one of Australia’s fastest-growing agentic AI startups, backed by global investors and reshaping how teams build with large language models.

    In this episode of In The Blink of AI, Georgie Healy sits down with Dom to talk about the real limits of agentic AI, why Australia needs to embrace experimentation, and how to build world-class engineering teams that can move fast without losing soul.

    Dom explains how AI-assisted coding is changing what engineers can do in a weekend, what makes a great AI hire, and why “if you can’t onboard a person, you can’t onboard an agent.” He also breaks down why Meta’s hiring strategy looks so extreme, what China’s AI talent boom really means, and the cringe misconceptions about AI “making us lazy.”

    If you’ve ever wanted to truly understand what’s behind the hype, this conversation will make you smarter (and probably a bit more patient with your next API error).

    Resources

    👨‍💻 Dominick Ng (LinkedIn): https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominickng/

    🏗️ Relevance AI: https://www.relevanceai.com/

    🧠 Vibe Sliding (Relevance AI feature): https://chat.relevanceai.com/

    In the Blink of AI is made possible by our wonderful partnersDeel

    Global hiring and payroll can be a headache. Deel brings HR, IT and payroll together in one platform, helping companies including Shopify, Revolut and ElevenLabs scale internationally.

    Ready to expand your business?

    Build your global team with Deel at deel.com/dayone.

    ✨ Connect with Georgie Healy

    Weekly Substack: https://georgiehealy.substack.com/

    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georginahealy/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georginahealytech/

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    1 hr 7 min
  • Measuring Human Emotion with AI: Harrison Kennedy on Building ReFresh

    Before he was a VC-backed founder, Harrison Kennedy was walking for Louis Vuitton, Saint Laurent, and Tiffany & Co., a teenager from the Gold Coast suddenly living a global modeling career. When COVID hit, that world stopped. What began as a mental health podcast with a friend became Really Mental, a media company backed by Amazon, reaching 25 million people and hundreds of millions of collective followers.

    Now, Harrison’s building ReFresh, an emotional intelligence platform that helps companies detect how their people are feeling. Using AI models that analyse tone, text, and behavioural signals across tools like Slack and Google Workspace, ReFresh helps organisations measure mental wellbeing, burnout risk, and compliance, all while keeping employees anonymous.

    In this episode of In The Blink of AI, Georgie Healy and Harrison talk about the evolution from creator to founder, how AI can be used to understand humans rather than replace them, and what it really means to build a values-driven company. Harrison shares lessons on patience, communication, and curiosity, and why in a world that’s more “connected” than ever, loneliness is still one of tech’s biggest unsolved problems.

    Resources

    🙋‍♂️ Harrison Kennedy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrison-kennedy-81b7171a1/

    💡 ReFresh: https://www.refr-esh.com/

    🎧 Really Mental (Podcast): https://pods.to/reallymental

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    It’s why more than 40,000 fast-growing companies trust Deel to move fast.

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    ✨ Connect with Georgie Healy

    Weekly Substack: https://georgiehealy.substack.com/

    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georginahealy/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georginahealytech/

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    51 min
  • Velocity & Vibes: How Enhance Labs Raised Millions Before Building Anything
    Episode Summary

    When Mike Keating and Haziq Nordin founded Enhance Labs, they raised millions without a product, a pitch deck, or even a bank account. Backed by Blackbird and QIC, they became known for their unfiltered takes, chaotic energy, and refusal to ship something they didn’t believe in, even as the rest of the AI world raced to launch.

    For months, they experimented in the shadows, building, pivoting, and learning why most AI startups were destined to fail. Then came the breakthrough: a way to let every user design their own personal internet, a “living interface” that could reshape how humans interact with software.

    In this episode, Mike and Haziq share why they chose velocity and vibes over hype, how playfulness and curiosity became their competitive edge, and why founders must know when not to finish something. They break down what AI products will collapse by 2026, the open problems that still need a Nobel Prize, and why the next wave of innovation will come from the weird ones, the teams laughing the loudest while everyone else plays safe.

    Resources

    🙋‍♂️ Mike Keating: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikekeating/

    🤖 Haziq Nordin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haziq-nordin-1a6623107/

    🚀 Enhance Labs: https://enhancelabs.ai/

    In the Blink of AI is made possible by our wonderful partnersDeel

    Global hiring and payroll can be a headache. Deel brings HR, IT and payroll together in one platform, helping companies including Shopify, Revolut and ElevenLabs scale internationally.

    Ready to expand your business?

    Build your global team with Deel at deel.com/dayone.

    ✨ Connect with Georgie Healy

    Weekly Substack: https://georgiehealy.substack.com/

    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georginahealy/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georginahealytech/

    The Day One Network

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    1 hr 6 min
  • ANZ Needs AI Deepfake Laws ASAP | Replay Episode with Laura McClure
    Episode Summary

    Laura McClure, Member of Parliament for the ACT Party in New Zealand, joins In the Blink of AI to unpack her viral deepfake experience, her groundbreaking member’s bill, and why tech regulation must protect victims without stifling innovation.

    In a powerful conversation, Laura reveals how she created a deepfake of herself in minutes—and why it’s a wake-up call for policymakers worldwide. She shares insights on balancing tech freedoms with responsible safeguards, why regulation is about behaviour not banning tools, and how New Zealand’s slow policy-making could leave them lagging behind.

    Laura also discusses how ACT’s libertarian values shape her pro-innovation, pro-startup stance and why deepfakes are a threat not just to teenagers, but to democracy itself. From the electricity grid challenges that could stall New Zealand’s AI adoption to the opportunities in agriculture and defence, this is a must-listen for founders, policymakers, and anyone passionate about the future of technology.

    Time Stamps

    02:20 – Meet Laura McClure (ACT Party MP): From accidental politician to tech advocate

    07:25 – Why Laura Entered Politics: Tackling New Zealand’s alarming government debt

    09:13 – AI Hacks of the Week: Game-changing educational tech and viral LinkedIn strategies

    13:24 – Going Viral with a Nude Deepfake: The shocking truth behind Laura’s Parliament demonstration

    23:47 – Why Target Individuals, Not Tech: How Laura’s bill tackles deepfake abuse effectively

    27:16 – Pro-Tech, Not Pro-Regulation: Laura’s vision to accelerate AI adoption in NZ and Australia

    35:01 – The Infrastructure Challenge: What NZ must fix to power an AI-driven future

    39:57 – Skills for the AI Era: Why critical thinking trumps rote learning

    44:50 – Laura’s AI-Powered NZ: Her 5–10 year vision of an AI-enabled economy

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    ✨ Connect with Georgie Healy

    Weekly Substack: https://georgiehealy.substack.com/

    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georginahealy/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georginahealytech/

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    52 min
  • How to Stay Creative in the Age of Average AI | Christina Jones, Canva
    Episode Summary

    There’s a lot of AI slop out there, bland prompts, generic images, boring text that all blends together. But how do you stand out when everything looks the same?

    In this episode of In The Blink of AI, Georgie Healy sits down with Christina Jones (aka CJ), Head of Design for Generative AI at Canva, for an unfiltered conversation about creativity, originality, and why taste is the new moat in AI.

    CJ shares her journey from experimenting with a “cat editor” chatbot called Lemon to leading the design of Canva’s Magic Studio. She explains why AI should be a creative companion, not a micromanager, and how the “Steelman approach” can turn models into your best critic instead of your biggest cheerleader.

    They cover why productivity isn’t the whole story, why creativity is especially essential during a cost-of-living crisis, and why observing the world around you is the fastest way to sharpen your originality. Plus: Georgie’s first ever AI rant, spicy takes on AI boyfriends, and the eternal love for the em-dash.

    If you’ve ever worried that AI is dulling your creative edge, this episode is your permission slip to embrace originality, and maybe get a little emo about it.

    Time Stamps

    00:00 – Welcome + Georgie’s husky “bug not a feature” voice

    03:15 – CJ’s role as Head of Design for GenAI at Canva

    05:10 – Why CJ stopped using AI to edit her writing

    08:29 – AI Hack of the Week: The “Steelman” method

    12:00 – Georgie’s first-ever AI rant: The guinea pig app that never launched

    14:20 – Big picture: how to actually think about AI in your life

    17:00 – How CJ uses AI to audit her calendar

    19:14 – Beyond productivity: where AI really adds value

    23:24 – Why creativity matters in a cost-of-living crisis

    27:23 – Trends in AI art + training your own diffusion models

    32:38 – Is taste the real differentiator in AI?

    34:43 – How to grow original thought + creativity fast

    38:44 – The ethics (and paradox) of AI companions

    43:06 – Spotting “AI slop” in writing

    45:03 – Do you need to be a software engineer to survive the AI era?

    46:47 – Takeaways: observe, get out of your bubble, grow your creative muscle

    Resources

    🙋‍♀️ Christina (CJ) Jones: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisjonesish/

    ✍🏻 Jonesish Substack: https://jonesish.substack.com/about

    🍎 Jonesish Website: https://www.jonesish.com/

    In the Blink of AI is made possible by our wonderful partnersDeel

    Global hiring and payroll can be a headache. Deel brings HR, IT and payroll together in one platform, helping companies including Shopify, Revolut and ElevenLabs scale internationally.

    Ready to expand your business?

    Build your global team with Deel at deel.com/dayone.

    ✨ Connect with Georgie Healy

    Weekly Substack: https://georgiehealy.substack.com/

    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georginahealy/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georginahealytech/

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    50 min
  • Replay Ep - Building AI Support So Good, You’ll Wonder: Is This Really AI? | Steve Hind, Lorikeet
    Episode Summary

    Replay Episode! When this conversation with Lorikeet co-founder Steve Hind first aired, the company had just raised $14M. Fast forward a few short months and they’ve doubled their valuation, become the hottest name in Australian AI, and poached some of the best engineers in the country. With so many new subscribers since then, we’re bringing this one back.

    In this episode, Georgie Healy sits down with Steve to unpack how Lorikeet built Rae, an AI platform powering complex support for banks, healthcare, SaaS, and beyond. Steve explains why Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) isn’t the silver bullet everyone thinks, what “agentic frameworks” really mean (and why it’s mostly marketing), and how starting with the hardest customer problems creates a defensible product.

    They also dive into what makes AI support feel truly human, why empathy matters more than “personality,” and how to balance technical brilliance with marketing clarity. Along the way, Steve shares his favourite AI tools, what he looks for when hiring, and why founders should stop being insecure about not training their own models.

    Whether you’re building in AI, hiring AI talent, or just curious about where the hype ends and real customer value begins—this replay is a masterclass in scaling smart AI support.

    Time Stamps

    01:52 – What makes Lorikeet different from other AI support tools

    02:49 – Why banks and healthcare companies need AI-driven customer support

    09:00 – What is RAG, and why does it matter for AI-powered customer service?

    14:09 – The biggest mistake AI chatbots make in customer support

    16:26 – What does "agentic reasoning" really mean?

    19:12 – The cost of running AI models and why RAG reduces compute power

    27:46 – AI tools Steve uses every day (and his take on Perplexity and Replit)

    30:36 – How to stand out when applying for an AI job

    39:18 – What people get wrong about AGI and AI scaling laws

    In the Blink of AI is made possible by our wonderful partnersDeel

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    Ready to expand your business?

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    ✨ Connect with Georgie Healy

    Weekly Substack: https://georgiehealy.substack.com/

    Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georginahealy/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georginahealytech/

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  • How Stripe Uses AI to Make Global Payments Feel Local
    Episode Summary

    What if the next big unlock in payments wasn’t just faster checkouts, but bots buying on our behalf? In this episode of In the Blink of AI, Georgie Healy sits down with Karl Durrance, Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand at Stripe, to explore how AI is reshaping money movement at a global scale.

    Karl reveals how Stripe is tackling fraud versus scams (and why scams are now the bigger threat), why AI startups are hitting revenue milestones at unprecedented speed, and what agentic commerce could mean for the way we shop. From buy now pay later’s misunderstood role in credit to why stablecoins may be the real future of internet-native money, Karl shares candid insights on where payments are heading next.

    You’ll also hear why global expansion no longer requires a move to San Francisco, how single-use virtual cards could make agentic commerce safe, and why bots might soon handle life’s least joyful purchases, freeing us up for the ones that matter.

    Time Stamps

    02:18 – Karl’s role at Stripe and the $1.4T payments scale

    05:51 – Startups hitting $5M ARR in under a year

    06:57 – AI Hacks: family holiday planning & cutting through bureaucracy

    12:34 – Do Australian founders really need to move to SF?

    17:39 – Explaining agentic commerce (AI buying for you)

    20:34 – Shopping bots, travel assistants, and Amazon’s “Buy for Me”

    22:25 – How Stripe protects against rogue AI agents

    25:14 – Ticket scalpers, bots, and the arms race of fraud prevention

    27:01 – Fraud vs. scams: what’s really costing the economy

    31:51 – Why slowing payments down can actually prevent scams

    37:21 – Spicy takes: BNPL, crypto & stablecoins

    40:43 – BNPL vs. credit card debt — Karl’s contrarian view

    41:24 – Stablecoins: solving volatility and internet money movement

    45:51 – When stablecoins meet agentic commerce (next 5 years?)

    47:41 – Stripe’s Sydney Tour: launches, thought leaders & what’s next

    Resources

    🦘 Stripe Tour Sydney: https://tour.stripeevent.com/sydney?rshow=sydney

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