In this week’s Thought Sparks Podcast episode, Rita McGrath, a Columbia University Business School Professor, C-Suite strategist, business founder and best-selling author, speaks with Vivienne Ming, theoretical neuroscientist and artificial intelligence expert, named one of “10 Women to Watch in Tech” by Inc. Magazine and one of the BBC’s 100 Women in 2017, and author of the new book “Robot-Proof: When Machines Have all the Answers, Build Better People”. 

00:45: Introductions 

3:44: Vivienne's Personal Background – From the Farm to the Academy 

13:45: Vivienne's Work Today – From Hiring Science to the Human Trust 

18:30: What Actually Predicts Long-Term Life Success 

23:04: How AI Is Changing Teams, Trust, and Cognition 

28:01: The Core Distinction Between Well-Posed vs. Ill-Posed Problems  

32:38: Deprofessionalization and the "Right" Questions About AI and Jobs 

36:52: Three Types of Human-AI Collaborators : Automators, Validators, and Cyborgs 

43:59: The Utopia/Dystopia Debate and What's Actually Worth Worrying About 

51:29: Teaching in the Age of AI and The Case for Productive Friction 

1:00:13: What You Still Need to Learn And Why Human Qualities Are Developable 

1:05:44: Closing and Where to Learn More 

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