Inside AsembleAI: DeepTech, AI & Science

Shadow AI is costing organizations $10.3 million a year—more than malicious insider threats combined. Employees are using AI tools nobody approved, on data nobody's tracking, and most leadership teams have no idea it's happening at this scale.

Banning AI doesn't work. You can't solve this with another policy PDF nobody reads. You need real behavioral change.

In this episode, hosts Sam Dey and Mac Goswami sit down with Kate Marshall-founder of TheGrai and author of AI at Work—to expose why most enterprise AI rollouts fail at the most critical layer: getting people to actually adopt and stick with new tools and processes.

What You'll Learn:

🔹 The $10.3M Shadow AI Problem — What that number actually represents and why banning AI just drives it underground

🔹 The Maturity Model Trap — Why organizations get stuck between Level 1 (Awareness) and Level 2 (Shadow AI), with leadership presenting vendor demos while employees silently use unapproved tools

🔹 Why Generic Training Fails — The fatal flaw of all-hands lunch-and-learn sessions and what role-specific, sticky AI training actually looks like in practice

🔹 The Habit Layer™ Framework — Kate's proprietary methodology for turning one-time training into lasting behavior change

🔹 Data Hygiene as the Foundation — Why cleaning up your downloads folder, emails, and redundant files is where AI transformation actually begins

🔹 The Book: AI at Work — Why Kate wrote a 3-chapter workbook for non-technical professionals instead of another theory-heavy guide

Kate's Closing Insight:

Key Takeaway: The gap between knowing about AI and actually using it effectively is the difference between organizations that transform and those that waste millions on failed pilots.

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#ShadowAI #AIAdoption #HabitLayer #AIatWork #ChangeManagement #EnterpriseAI #AsembleAI

"AI native software development" gets thrown around everywhere right now—and almost nobody can define it clearly. Not a chatbot bolted on. Not Copilot autocomplete. We mean production-grade systems where AI agents write, orchestrate, and ship the work end-to-end.

In this episode, hosts Sam Dave and Mac Goswami sit down with Mohamed Faker, Engineering Leader, Financial Services AI at Vanguard Group and co-founder/CTO of Hirin, a fractional leadership hiring platform built almost entirely by orchestrating specialized AI agents.

Key Insights:

The Horse-and-Carriage Analogy — Entire industries can disappear in 15 years, but the people who adapted earned more by managing the new technology rather than resisting it.

Mohamed's takeaway: "The future is you managing a subset of AI agents. Think about it-you're going to have multiple versions of yourself working together."

Connect with Mohamed Faker: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohamed-faker/

Check out Hyern: https://hyern.com/

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#AINative #MultiAgentAI #SoftwareDevelopment #AIAdoption #ProductManagement #AsembleAI

97% false positives. Millions of alerts daily. Security tools that can't keep up. The threat landscape has outpaced traditional security operations—and Agentic AI is the answer.

In this episode, hosts Mac Goswami and Sam Dey sit down with Ramya Ganesh, Top 50 Women Cybersecurity Leads in the US and AI leader at Cisco, to break down how autonomous AI agents are transforming cybersecurity from detection to response.

Key Insights:

Multi-Agent Systems Beat Single Models — Like a hospital with specialists, multiple focused agents outperform one generalist AI. Modular, scalable, explainable, resilient.

The Future SOC — Not humans vs. AI, but humans supervising teams of AI agents handling continuous telemetry while analysts focus on strategic decisions.

Agentic AI vs. AI-Assisted Tools — Speed, autonomy, and cross-system correlation distinguish today's agentic platforms from yesterday's alert dashboards.

POC to Production — Most AI initiatives fail because they start with technology, not business problems. Success requires measurable metrics and governance discipline before deployment.

For Women in Tech — Stay curious, experiment, share what you build publicly. Imposter syndrome is real but community and visibility accelerate growth.

Ramya's takeaway: "The companies seeing the greatest AI success aren't those with the most advanced models—they're the ones with the strongest discipline around AI adoption."

Connect with Ramya: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramya-ganesh-082bb231/

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What does it take to call out billion-dollar healthcare AI companies when the system is rigged against whistleblowers?

In this episode of Inside Assemble AI, hosts Sam Day and Mac welcome Sergei Polevikov, PhD-trained data scientist, AI entrepreneur, author of the widely-read Substack newsletter AI Health Uncut, and co-host of Digital Health Inside Out. Sergei has spent years investigating irregularities in healthcare AI, from inflated product claims and misleading adoption reports to the structural VC incentives that allow fraud to fester.

This is one of our most candid conversations yet — covering the 10 patterns that predict healthcare AI failure, why the real AI adoption rate in healthcare is nowhere near what industry reports claim, and why human-in-the-loop remains an essential safeguard regardless of how capable foundation models become.

TOPICS COVERED:

→ How Sergei went from healthcare AI founder (WellAI / Chart2Chart) to fraud investigator — and why transparency, not scandal, drives his mission.

→ His 10 healthcare tech failure patterns, including: the Chinese wall between management and teams, investors-as-customers conflicts of interest, smoke-and-mirrors technology, champagne-and-cocaine financial mismanagement, toxic code of silence, founder extortion, and celebrity protection schemes.

→ Why surveys from firms like Menlo Ventures and McKinsey dramatically overstate AI adoption — and what US Census Bureau data covering 30,000+ smaller healthcare organisations actually shows.

→ The structural reason why incumbents like Epic, Optum, and Cigna are disincentivised to build genuinely innovative AI products — and why startups like Abridge are winning despite the odds.

→ What's genuinely working in healthcare AI right now: AI scribes (done well), drug discovery, genomics, and protein structure modelling.

→ His advice for founders entering the healthcare or pharma space: protect your mission when VC money arrives, read every clause in your operating agreement, and choose partners who care about patients — not just their LPs.

RESOURCES & LINKS:

2. Advancing AI in Healthcare: A Comprehensive Review of Best Practices: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0009898123003212

3. "Digital Health Inside Out" podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@DigitalHealthInsideOut

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Keywords: healthcare AI, AI fraud, digital health, VC pump and dump, Babylon Health, Olive AI, Theranos patterns, AI scribes, Epic health, healthcare startup, AI adoption, human in the loop, AI compliance, healthcare innovation

68.5 billion euros in EPL betting annually. 1.4 million data points per match. Soccer sits at the absolute center of the AI revolution, and it's transforming the world's most popular sport from officiating to tactical analysis.

In Episode 2 of our "AI in Sports Analytics" series, hosts Sam Dave and Mac Goswami explore how AI fundamentally changed soccer from 2020-2025.

Semi-Automated Offside Detection (EPL 2024-25): Calibrated cameras + AI algorithms measure player positions with centimeter-level precision. Pioneered at 2022 Qatar World Cup, now standard across elite leagues. Processes data faster than humans, eliminating decades of controversial calls.

Player Tracking: Optical systems track each player 25x/second, detecting invisible tactical patterns. Game-changer: Standard TV footage now generates tracking data previously requiring expensive dedicated cameras. Smaller-budget teams access insights once reserved for Barcelona, Manchester City, Bayern Munich.

Match Prediction: 69-78% accuracy with ensemble models. Challenge: Soccer is harder to predict than basketball/baseball due to lower scoring and higher randomness. One lucky deflection can decide a match despite dominating possession.

Tactical Analysis (March 2025 study): Real-time computer vision tracks all players, ball, formations simultaneously. Coaches see which tactical adjustments opponents made in the 67th minute three weeks ago and how they affected passing networks.

Large Events Model (2024): Deep learning framework simulates games from any state. Test tactical approaches against AI-simulated opponents before stepping onto the pitch.

Economic Impact: Sports analytics market: $1.03B (2024) → $2.61B (2030). AI-powered betting analytics provide sophisticated predictions.

AI reveals tactical sophistication fans never saw. That perfect through ball required reading three defenders' positioning, understanding striker's running profile, executing with millimeter precision. AI helps us see genius, not replace it.

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1.4 million data points per game. NBA teams now track every player movement, defensive rotation, and shot attempt with AI-powered analytics—and it's transforming professional basketball in real-time.

In this first episode of our "AI in Sports Analytics" series, hosts Sam Dey and Mac Goswami explore how the NBA and WNBA embraced AI more aggressively than any other league.

SportVU Tracking System captures 29 data points per player, tracking all 22 players 10x/second and the ball 25x/second. Second Spectrum uses computer vision to extract data directly from broadcast video—no specialized cameras needed.

NBA-AWS Partnership (Oct 2025): "Inside the Game" platform turns billions of data points into compelling insights, introducing AI-powered stats measuring performance never quantified before.

Game Prediction: 87% accuracy with ensemble machine learning models (up from 65-70% five years ago). Models now weight three-point efficiency and spacing metrics heavily since the game evolved post-2015.

Boston Celtics (2024-25): AI models refined defensive schemes using spatiotemporal data, contributing directly to playoff success.

Golden State Warriors: Physical AI robots assist practice—rebounding, passing drills, simulating defensive plays. Steph Curry: "Robots provide consistent data-driven feedback humans can't match."

Philadelphia 76ers: Large language models now participate as "a vote in any decision"—draft picks to game strategies.

Broadcast Revolution: AWS Play Finder analyzes thousands of games, retrieving similar plays in milliseconds. Expected Field Goal models account for defender positioning, pressure, fatigue—not just distance.

AI predicts trends exceptionally well, but human elements—leadership, clutch performance, chemistry—resist quantification. 87% accuracy doesn't eliminate competitive balance when base-level data is universally available.

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Next: Soccer/Football AI revolution

#NBAnalytics #AIBasketball #SportsAnalytics #NBAtech #AsembleAI

143% growth for AI Engineers. 136% for Prompt Engineers. 135% for AI Content Creators. These aren't niches—they're fundamental new careers that couldn't exist before AI.

In this final "Who Survives the AI Shift" episode, Sam Dey and Mac Goswami reveal 16 brand-new job titles from 2025: Knowledge Architect, Orchestration Engineer, Conversation Designer, Human-AI Collaboration Leader.

Prompt Engineer ($123K avg, top $200K+) - Building systematic AI outputs at scale. 40% fewer hallucinations, 60% better brand alignment.

AI Model Trainer - Fine-tune algorithms. Requires technical skills + deep industry knowledge.

AI Ethics Officer & Safety Analyst - Critical for governance in regulated industries. Assess biases, develop risk protocols.

Data Curator - Most accessible entry point. Domain expertise matters more than degrees.

Conversation Designer/NLP Engineer - Build chatbots, virtual assistants, translation systems.

AI Product Manager - Bridge technology and business with deep AI understanding.

AI Program/Project Manager - Handle AI implementation, operations, budgets. Huge growth projected.

Big Tech (Google, Microsoft, Amazon), AI-Native (OpenAI, Anthropic), Traditional Enterprises (JPMorgan, hospitals, retail)

New collar jobs exist at AI capability + human necessity intersection. Better AI needs MORE human oversight, not less. Consulting and freelancing booming—work that took days now takes hours.

The future belongs to those treating AI as collaborative tool, not competitive threat.

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50% of employees need reskilling by 2026-RIGHT NOW. Are you ready, or already falling behind?

In this critical episode of "Who Survives the AI Shift," hosts Sam Dave and Mac Goswami expose the brutal reality: only 49% of employees feel equipped for their roles (down from 59% in 2024). Gen Z confidence crashed 20 points to 39%. The gap between awareness and action is where careers die.

The Training Disconnect:

Skills That Matter for 2030:

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Can AI amplify filmmaking creativity without killing the craft? Season 4 guest Sam Joos—20-year filmmaker, founder of AI Ad Studio and AI Film Society - shows how generative AI is transforming commercial production from $500K budgets to bedroom studios.

The Breakthrough Moment: "Once I started prompting AI like I'd talk to a crew member on set, the cheat code unlocked." Sam went from AI skeptic to teaching 50+ filmmakers how to adapt.

The Economics Shift:

Quality vs. "AI Slop": What separates great AI work? Traditional filmmaking fundamentals-lighting, framing, camera movement, lens choice. "Hand a cinema camera to someone untrained—it'll look horrible. Same with AI tools."

Democratizing Film: Breaking Hollywood's gatekeeping: Midwest creators can now visualize ideas without industry connections, red carpets, or million-dollar budgets.

Your First Steps:

Connect with Sam Joos:

🎬 AI Ad Studio

The Verdict: AI doesn't replace filmmakers, it creates AI-enhanced creators who blend craft with technology.

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Which jobs are AI eliminating right now—not in five years, but today? In this hard-hitting episode of Inside AsembleAI, hosts Sam Dave and Mac Goswami examine the roles facing immediate AI displacement, backed by 2025 data showing actual job losses happening across industries. This is the episode nobody wants to hear but everyone needs to understand.

Customer Service: The First Major Casualty

Data Entry: 7.5 Million Jobs on the Line

Entry-Level White Collar Jobs: The Vanishing Career Ladder

The Timeline Is NOW—Not Later:

Critical Risk Factors for Your Job: ✓ Routine, predictable tasks ✓ Primarily data processing or pattern recognition ✓ Structured environments with consistent rules ✓ Cost savings dramatically outweigh human value-add

Who Bears the Biggest Risk:

What You Should Do RIGHT NOW: Mac and Sam's urgent action plan:

The Brutal Truth: If your tasks can be described in a detailed manual that someone could follow without judgment calls, AI can and likely will replace you. This isn't about being good at your job—it's about whether your job's fundamental nature aligns with AI's strengths.

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