Greg plays guest on It's All About AI with Danilo McGarry.

Learn what's actually happening inside companies adopting AI and why most leaders are getting it dangerously wrong. Greg shares what he sees on the ground, working with enterprise AI leaders across the US and Europe.

Watch AI Truth Serum on YouTube, @aitruthserum.

Episode Links

1. It's All About AI YouTube channel
2. Danilo's website

AI has the power to completely reshape the tasks we do - and how we approach our work in the first place. Greg taps Ed’s expertise as a custom AI agent developer to understand what leaders should know about what agents can do for us today. How can we convert inference into business value today?

Ed shares the VVV framework he uses as part of his process for automating workflows. Plus, which tech industries might own the future - SaaS, Cloud, AI?

Episode links:

Ed’s LinkedIn

Machine & Partners website

Journalist and author Brian Merchant (Motherboard, LA Times), joins to discuss his book Blood in the Machine, and what the AI revolution should learn from the Luddite movement. Brian’s substack functions as part of Greg’s conscience, and they talk about the current political climate in AI, and why AI companies face a strategy challenge after driving adoption with free services.

When a tech critic and an AI CEO compare notes, where do they find common ground?

Plus, Greg pitches Brian on his vision of future supercompanies. For more on that, see Juliet Bailin’s analysis in Episode 2 - Who’s Going to Win in the AI Economy?

Episode links:

Brian’s newsletter, Blood in the Machine

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cokKQKhBtPw

AI is driving an arms race in classrooms, but what about the tech’s potential to give individualized instruction? What other ways might new technology change how we learn for the better? What’s ahead for the education tech landscape?

Claire Zau, venture partner at GSV Ventures and author of the AI & Education newsletter, specializes in educational technology investment. She joins Greg from New York to discuss what’s next for education.

Episode Links:

Claire's newsletter AI & Education

Claire's Instagram Zauey Talks

GSV Venture's website

It’s been a big year for fake news. So this New Year’s Eve, we look back at the hype, pitches, and rumors about AI we’ve heard in 2025, and Greg shares his predictions for 2026.

And are we in a bubble? There may be a few, but there’s more to the story. If there’s one thing we can count on, it’s another year of AI’s presence growing in our lives.

This episode has presentation visuals on YouTube.

Business strategist and best-selling author Sangeet Paul Choudary joins Greg to discuss why AI is such a big deal for corporate structures and platforms. 

As AI requires organizations to fundamentally rethink how their structures work, it enables savvy competitors to exploit new operating paradigms. And as these tools allow users to cross traditional work boundaries, the impacts of AI to knowledge work promise to be many.

How will new efficiencies change client demands, and how will firms and individuals structure their work? What should we do when the AI bubble bursts? Sangeet shares what he tells execs and heads of state, and discusses ideas from his book Reshuffle.

Episode links:

Sangeet’s LinkedIn

Platform Thinking Labs

Sangeet’s Substack

At a time when AI narratives are being pushed by board rooms and C-suites, how big is the present moment, really? Investor Juliet Bailin, venture partner at Kindred Capital, joins Greg to give a bird's eye view of the changing AI economy.

Are we in a bubble that’s going to burst, or a boom that will carry us forward – and which companies will successfully make the jump to the future? Greg gets some Canadian founder therapy along the way.

Links:

Juliet's LinkedIn

Kindred Capital

Arsenal F.C.

Is AI quietly making us dumber?

Host Greg Shove sits down with cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Sahar Yousef (UC Berkeley Haas lecturer and founder of the Becoming Superhuman Lab) to unpack what happens to our brains when we outsource thinking to AI, on AI Truth Serum.

Sahar breaks down MIT's study showing that heavy ChatGPT users show weaker brain connectivity and memory retention, and introduces her TRV framework (Think, Refine, Verify) for using AI without losing your own cognitive edge. The conversation covers AI addiction by design, what the research means for kids and schools, and whether we're headed toward losing real cognitive agency to a handful of tech companies.

A research-backed guide to using AI without letting it use you.

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Episode links:

Dr. Sahar Yousef's website

MIT/OpenAI study on ChatGPT power users

TechPolicy report on AI addiction

Researchers propose Gen AI Addiction Syndrome

Welcome to AI Truth Serum, your antidote to the hype and doom of AI. Join veteran tech CEO Greg Shove as he speaks with AI experts and industry leaders about the real-world impact of AI on our lives.

Tune in and learn how to thrive in the age of AI. You’ll get practical information about AI’s impact, actionable insights, and honest punchy commentary from the people building the future.

Find AI Truth Serum on YouTube: @AITruthSerum