The Age of AI with Lara Lewington and Ben Clark

Laura Modiano reveals ChatGPT is only the start.

Today we’re joined by Laura Modiano. Laura leads Startups across EMEA at OpenAI, where she works closely with founders, investors, and developers building the next generation of AI companies.

Laura discusses the AI startups changing entire industries and gives a rare inside look at how founders, developers and investors are actually building with AI right now.

Laura also shares what it’s really like working inside OpenAI during one of the biggest technological shifts in modern history.

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Is this the Chat GPT moment of humanoid robot advancement?

This week on The Age of AI, we dive into one of the biggest questions in tech right now: are humans losing the race to robots?

The answer this week is - yes! A humanoid robot actually beat a human in a half marathon last week! In this episode Lara and Ben ask how developed these humanoid robots ACTUALLY are? We break down what these robots can actually do today, where the hype is running ahead of reality, and what this means for jobs, businesses, and the future of work.

Is this the next industrial revolution — or are we overestimating how ready robots really are?

🎧 Watch now and decide for yourself: evolution… or replacement?

#AI #Robotics #FutureOfWork #HumanoidRobots #ArtificialIntelligence #TechPodcast #TheAgeOfAI

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Is the AI boom about to burst… or are we only just getting started?

This week on The Age of AI, Lara Lewington and Ben Clark sit down with investor and tech thinker Ali Mitchell to unpack one of the biggest questions in tech right now: are we in an AI bubble?

From sky-high valuations to the race for dominance among tech giants, Ali cuts through the hype to explore what’s real, what’s overblown, and what happens next if the bubble does burst. We dig into how to spot genuine innovation vs. noise, what smart investors are actually looking for, and whether we’re heading for a correction—or a complete transformation of how business works.

If you’ve been wondering whether AI is the next dot-com crash or the biggest shift of our generation, this one’s for you.

🎧 Watch now and decide for yourself: bubble… or boom?

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1 in 3 adults in the UK have used AI for mental health support — but what does that actually mean?

With expert guidance from Dr Jennifer Cearns, Lecturer in AI at the Department of Social Anthropology & Centre for Digital Trust & Society at The University of Manchester

We ask:

Can AI genuinely help with mental health — or does it sometimes reinforce risk?

And what happens when people form real emotional bonds with systems that don’t truly understand them?

Alongside powerful real-world stories and expert insight, we also examine the tensions at the heart of this shift — between accessibility and safety, support and dependency, optimism and harm.

From viral cases and court debates to the rise of dedicated mental health platforms like Wysa, this episode asks a critical question:

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What if decades of scientific breakthroughs were already discovered… but never used?

In this episode of The Age of AI, we sit down with Sam Munday, the founder of Data Revival, a startup using AI to unlock “lost” scientific knowledge buried in handwritten lab notebooks, PDFs, and decades-old research files.

From chemical companies discovering forgotten experiments to pharmaceutical teams accelerating drug discovery, AI is now turning unstructured R&D data into usable scientific intelligence.

We explore how:

This is a conversation about more than data — it’s about what humanity may have already discovered, but never fully used.

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Waymo has driven 170 million miles without a serious accident — making self-driving cars potentially orders of magnitude safer than human drivers. So why are people still so afraid of robotaxis?

In this episode of The Age of AI, Lara Lewington and Ben Clark dig into the reality behind autonomous vehicles: the ethics of the trolley problem, who’s liable when things go wrong, and why public trust is still one of the biggest barriers to adoption.

They explore the competing approaches of Waymo vs Wayve, the role of infrastructure and smart cities, and why uncertainty on real roads remains a huge challenge for AI. Plus, Professor Sabir Fallah (University of Surrey) explains why autonomous driving isn’t about winning a race — it’s about getting safety right.

🚗🤖 From robotaxis to regulation, this is the real story of where self-driving cars are heading.

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Is artificial intelligence accelerating climate change, or could it be one of the greatest tools we have to fight it?

In this episode of The Age of AI, Lara Lewington and Ben Clark explore the environmental impact of AI, from the energy demands of data centres to the real-world emissions hidden inside global supply chains. They also unpack how geopolitics and conflict can ripple through the tech world, disrupting chip production, cloud services, and the infrastructure we increasingly depend on.

Joining them is Mauro Cozzi, co-founder of Emitwise, an AI-powered carbon accounting platform that helps major companies track and reduce emissions, especially the hardest category to tackle: Scope 3 supply chain emissions, which can represent up to 80% of a business’s total footprint.

Mauro shares what it takes to turn sustainability into a profitable business case, how Emitwise tackled messy corporate data, and why they built an “anti-greenwashing clause” into every customer contract. The conversation also dives into the rise of AI agents, the future of automation, and what happens when building software becomes easy leaving the real challenge as deciding what to build.

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Have Large Language Models already hit their limits? 🤖

In this episode of The Age of AI, Ben Clark and Lara Lewington tackle one of the biggest questions in tech right now: if today’s AI can only take us 80–90% of the way, what actually gets us to true intelligence?

We break down the growing shift from language-based AI to “world models”, and why some of the biggest names in tech are betting billions on them as the real path forward. Featuring insights from Professor Les Carr, we explore why understanding words isn’t the same as understanding the world, and why that gap might be everything.

Plus:

* Why AI still struggles with the “final mile”

* The explosion of mega funding rounds in AI (and what investors really want now)

* Whether AI health tech is empowering everyone, or just the already advantaged

* The surprising reality of wearables and population-level health data* Voice cloning, deepfakes, and the rapidly blurring line between real and synthetic

* A viral AI video that hilariously imagines a future where humans might not have jobs… but still somehow end up doing all the work 😂

Is this where we’re headed? Or are we asking the wrong questions entirely?

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Mentioned in this episode:

My Voice AI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/myvoice-ai/

Leslie Carr: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leslie-carr-a0b5a62/

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In the age of AI, who is teaching your child? What you need to know right now.

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Smartwatches, rings and health trackers are no longer niche gadgets. Around 35% of UK adults now use a wearable device, and the global fitness tracker market is expected to grow dramatically over the next decade. But as AI becomes the engine interpreting all that data, a bigger question emerges: what do these devices actually know about our health, and how much should we trust them?

In this special episode, Lara Lewington and Ben Clark dive into the fast growing world of wearables. From Lara’s experiments with multiple trackers while researching her book, to Ben putting his own data to the test, they explore what our devices measure well, what they get wrong, and why the future of healthcare could depend on the algorithms quietly analysing our daily lives.

What role should AI play in personal health: how do we avoid mistaking algorithmic predictions for medical fact, and what should responsible AI powered health tools look like? Will the real value in wearables come from hardware, data platforms, or services built on top of the data? And could smart glasses become the next frontier in health tracking, changing how we collect and understand our own biology?

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