Working Humans

AI leadership means guiding all employees through change—supporting early adopters hungry to innovate, while engaging resistors who fear being left behind. Success depends on direct, human-centered leadership: one-on-one conversations, trust-building, and practical support, not just training programs or re-orgs.

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Working Humans is a bi-monthly podcast focusing on the AI and Human connection at work. Available on Apple and Spotify.

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Fiona Passantino is a professional speaker, trainer and coach, helping leaders and teams understand and integrate AI. The goal is to empower and equip the non-technical professional with knowledge and tools for the transformation ahead. Fiona is the award-winning author of ⁠⁠Comic Books for Executives⁠⁠ and the author of the book “AI-Powered Professional”. Visit ⁠Working-Humans.com⁠ to learn more.

Throughout history, artists have borrowed and built on existing ideas, aesthetics and events and created new works of art. Never in a vacuum; writers, musicians have always been inspired and influenced by one another, each one adding to the collective Human culture at large. Now AI is here, the ultimate appropriator, generating unique content by remixing vast datasets. With AI-created works increasingly indistinguishable from Human-made ones, traditional copyright laws cannot keep up.

As AI reshapes creativity, the article suggests we may eventually need to rethink or even abandon the notion of intellectual property altogether.

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Fiona Passantino is a professional speaker, trainer and coach, helping leaders and teams understand and integrate AI. The goal is to empower and equip the non-technical professional with knowledge and tools for the transformation ahead. Fiona is the award-winning author of ⁠⁠Comic Books for Executives⁠⁠ and the author of the book “AI-Powered Professional”. Visit ⁠Working-Humans.com⁠ to learn more.

Joined today by speaker, facilitator, podcaster and creative thinking expert David Chislett. Encourages us to Rebel, Reject, Create! That’s his podcast, where he explores how creativity can make this world a better place. His many books include “Unblock Writers’ Block” and poetry collections “B-Sides”, “With All of You” and more. If the only constant in life is change, how we deal with change is critical. David was born in Britain, raised in South Africa, resident in The Netherlands. Nowhere and Everywhere are home.

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Fiona Passantino is a professional speaker, trainer and coach, helping leaders and teams understand and integrate AI. The goal is to empower and equip the non-technical professional with knowledge and tools for the transformation ahead. Fiona is the award-winning author of ⁠⁠Comic Books for Executives⁠⁠ and the author of the book “AI-Powered Professional”. Visit ⁠Working-Humans.com⁠ to learn more.

In the AI-Powered workflow, your “stack” is the selection of AI you use together to meet all your varied needs. There’s no time to road test every single one of these and still carry on with your full-time job. And, most of them carry a monthly subscription. What tools do you need, and what can you live without?

READ the article: https://www.working-humans.com/ai/stack/ 

The robots are here! We examine the rapid advancements in humanoid robots and their AI-powered brains. Figure 02, Atlas and Optimus as well as the exploding Chinese market. Why now? And what does all this have to do with AI? A lot; and it’s not slowing down.

The societal impacts of embodied AI, the future of work and the ethical considerations as we share our homes, factories and offices with a new kind of worker.

READ the article: https://www.working-humans.com/ai/embodied-ai/ 

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Fiona Passantino is a professional speaker, trainer and coach, helping leaders and teams understand and integrate AI. The goal is to empower and equip the non-technical professional with knowledge and tools for the transformation ahead. Fiona is the award-winning author of ⁠⁠Comic Books for Executives⁠⁠ and the author of the book “AI-Powered Professional”. Visit ⁠Working-Humans.com⁠ to learn more.

As a leader of an organization, team or department, getting serious about AI adoption is the ultimate change management challenge. Successful AI integration isn't just about learning to use the latest tools and training your staff; it's about aligning your entire organization to undergo a process of intensive learning, adaptation and the hardest thing we Humans do: change. A few tips for taking the first steps.

READ the full article: https://www.working-humans.com/ai/ai-leadership/ 

Working Humans is a bi-monthly podcast focusing on the AI and Human connection at work. 

Thank you for listening. Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe and share.

Fiona Passantino is a professional speaker, trainer and coach, helping leaders and teams understand and integrate AI. The goal is to empower and equip the non-technical professional with knowledge and tools for the transformation ahead. Fiona is the award-winning author of ⁠⁠Comic Books for Executives⁠⁠ and the author of the book “AI-Powered Professional”.

Visit ⁠Working-Humans.com⁠ to learn more.

The Voice-Activated Workflow works differently; both the AI and Human leverage the strengths of their own brain-type. But this style of working is not for everyone. It might speak to younger portions of our working community and help make us old people seem more innovative than we actually are. A quick overview of what it is and how it works.

READ the article: https://www.working-humans.com/ai/voice-activated/ 

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Fiona Passantino is a professional speaker, trainer and coach, helping leaders and teams understand and integrate AI. The goal is to empower and equip the non-technical professional with knowledge and tools for the transformation ahead. Fiona is the award-winning author of ⁠⁠Comic Books for Executives⁠⁠ and the author of the book “AI-Powered Professional”. Visit ⁠Working-Humans.com⁠ to learn more.

AI’s Insatiable Energy Demand

The rapid growth of AI is driving a significant increase in global energy demand. The technology simply requires far more power than traditional computation. As companies shift from CPUs to energy-intensive GPUs for AI development, the need for massive upgrades to data center infrastructure, including energy management and cooling, is growing. This poses challenges for meeting climate goals; there are no clear solutions yet on how to sustainably power the AI revolution.

READ the full article: https://www.working-humans.com/ai/energy/ 

Thank you for listening to Working Humans! Don't forget to rate, review and share. Your engagement is greatly appreciated. Working Humans is a bi-monthly podcast focusing on the AI and Human connection at work. 

Fiona Passantino is a professional speaker, trainer and coach, helping leaders and teams understand and integrate AI. The goal is to empower and equip the non-technical professional with knowledge and tools for the transformation ahead. Fiona is the award-winning author of ⁠⁠Comic Books for Executives⁠⁠ and the author of the book “AI-Powered Professional”. Visit ⁠Working-Humans.com⁠ to learn more.

We all intuitively identify with the “Left-Brain, Right-Brain” model; some of us were better at math while others were linguists. Today’s AI algorithms use a "Mixture of Experts" structure that allows for narrow efficiencies in intelligence types. More than just our “logical friend”, AI is highly competent in understanding and generating emotional-relational content. It can help us in all the areas where we are less adept.

The AI-powered leader is called to understand their team's thinking strengths and consider using AI to augment and enhance abilities.

READ the full article: https://www.working-humans.com/ai/left-right 

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Fiona Passantino is a professional speaker, trainer and coach, helping leaders and teams understand and integrate AI. The goal is to empower and equip the non-technical professional with knowledge and tools for the transformation ahead. Fiona is the award-winning author of ⁠⁠Comic Books for Executives⁠⁠ and the author of the book “AI-Powered Professional”. Visit ⁠Working-Humans.com⁠ to learn more.

Working Humans is a bi-monthly podcast focusing on the AI and Human connection at work. 

RAG AI - short for Retrieval-Augmented Generation - has redefined how we interact with AI by blending web searches with generative responses. With answers enriched by live data and backed by real-time sources, RAG AI may well change our traditional view of search engine like Google or Meta. We look at what RAG is, how to use it best and what upstart companies such as Perplexity can do for our workflows.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE: https://www.working-humans.com/ai/rag  

Thank you for listening to Working Humans! Don't forget to rate, review and share. Your engagement is greatly appreciated.

Fiona Passantino is a professional speaker, trainer and coach, helping leaders and teams understand and integrate AI. The goal is to empower and equip the non-technical professional with knowledge and tools for the transformation ahead. Fiona is the award-winning author of ⁠Comic Books for Executives⁠ and the author of the book “AI-Powered”. Visit Working-Humans.com to learn more.