Human judgment in the age of AI.
Humans + AI is a measured interview show about augmentation, strategy, governance, and human-centered artificial intelligence. Its conversations move between practical organizational questions and larger arguments about cognition, culture, trust, and agency.
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Humans + AI is a long-form interview show about what happens when artificial intelligence becomes part of human thinking, organizational judgment, and social design. It approaches AI as augmentation first. The conversations are less interested in novelty for its own sake than in the structures that let people use new capabilities well. That makes the show unusually comfortable with both strategy language and philosophical unease. Episodes move from practical frameworks into wider questions about agency, autonomy, culture, accountability, and trust. A discussion of cognitive levers can become a tour of mental models, combinatorial thinking, and software-assisted sense-making. A conversation about artificial humanities can shift the frame from efficiency to archetypes, metaphors, and the stories people use to understand machines. Governance is a recurring center of gravity. The show spends real time on decision architectures, accountability pathways, risk, ethics, and the behavioral work of organizational transformation. Strategy is another steady thread, especially where AI changes foresight, startup evaluation, and the way leaders represent a plan across a company. Hybrid intelligence gives the show its most distinctive shape. Human-AI teams are treated as systems with norms, roles, autonomy, shared objectives, and uneven responsibility, not as simple tool-use stories. The show also explores agentic systems, intelligent delegation, and the need for continuous reassessment when AI agents take on pieces of decision-making. Some episodes broaden further into biophysical data, resilient learning, human evolution, prosocial AI, return on values, and AI for inspired action. The pace is measured. The host questions tend to synthesize before they extend, turning abstract ideas into workable distinctions. Listeners should expect thoughtful guests, long answers, and careful reframing rather than quick headlines. Humans + AI is strongest when it holds two ideas together: AI can expand human capability, and that expansion still needs judgment, oversight, and values.
Made for: For leaders, strategists, researchers, and serious AI watchers who want slower, more reflective conversations about augmentation, governance, foresight, and human-AI collaboration.
What sets it apart: The show connects AI strategy with humanities, systems thinking, neuroscience, ethics, and team design, giving abstract debates a practical organizational frame without reducing them to tool tips.
Exploring and unlocking the potential of AI for individuals, organizations, and humanity
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Concrete conversations turn human-AI collaboration into practical questions about strategy, judgment, accountability, and the changing division of work.
Ross Dawson treats AI as a working question: what changes when software becomes a coach, a sense-making partner, or a member of a strategy team?
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AI as a practical way to surface novelty, context, and useful nearby connections.
Marshall Kirkpatrick treats AI as a set of tools for reading what a person already consumes and sorting out what feels new from what only looks new. The hook is in the sequence: novelty first, then context, then the nearby links that make the material useful.
A clear look at human accountability in AI-assisted teams.
This conversation treats hybrid intelligence as something to work out in practice, not as a slogan. It stays grounded in who does what, how control is kept in human hands, and where AI fits inside a team.
A clear case for using AI as a sharper mirror for thinking.
Ross Dawson and Alexandra Samuel treat AI less as a novelty than as a thinking aid, one that can pull an internal monologue into clearer view.
A grounded look at strategy execution, culture, and AI-assisted consulting.
Lisa Carlin keeps the conversation close to the practical friction of strategy execution. Her point is simple enough to matter: people can work inside a culture and still change it.
A sober look at how AI may reshape work and what it means to be human in the years ahead.
Lee Rainie and Ross Dawson spend the episode thinking through how AI could change work and, in turn, what it leaves in place of the human. The strongest passages come when they move from broad claims to practical ones: jobs read more clearly as bundles of skills, and job…
Cleotilde Gonzalez says human-AI complementarity means a team can outperform AI alone, not merely improve on human-only work.
Jory Des Jardins says AI delegation should decrease as a task requires more human judgment and accountability.
Melissa Clark-Reynolds tells Ross Dawson that boards have bought a productivity story ahead of the productivity, citing layoffs at Klarna, Spotify and Commonwealth Bank that led to rehiring.
A telescope is not better than a microscope.
This episode features an interview with researcher Nina Begus exploring how humanities perspectives can illuminate AI concepts like archetypes, metaphors, and human extension.
This episode features futurist Ross Dawson interviewing Henrik von Scheel about how biophysical data and AI will drive human evolution to make people smarter, wealthier, and healthier by 2030.
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This episode features an interview with Cornelia Walther discussing how AI can be used for inspired action, return on values, prosocial applications, and navigating the hybrid tipping zone between human and AI collaboration.
Explores how humans can effectively delegate decisions to AI-agentic systems, based on recent research papers.
Hybrid intelligence starts with roles.
A podcast exploring the potential of AI to augment humans and humanity, featuring conversations with global leaders on human-centered AI, enterprise AI, and AI strategy.
Ross Dawson interviews Lavinia Ayosab about using AI in leadership and teams to enhance human potential.
Ross Dawson interviews Jeremy Kost about the state of AI adoption in enterprises, based on the Wharton GBK Annual Enterprise AI Adoption Study.
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Ross Dawson opens by framing AI as a force for human augmentation, then speaks with Alexandra Samuel and her AI coach, Viv.
Ross Dawson opens with a practical question.
This episode features an interview with Ganna Pogrebna, a leading expert in behavioral data science, discussing topics like machine bias, digital twins versus digital shadows, and stakeholder simulations in the context of AI's impact on humanity.
Ross Dawson interviews Dr.
A conversation about how AI changes the relationship between management, executive teams, and boards, and the strategic implications.
A conversation with Beth Cantor about using AI to augment nonprofits and individuals.
Ross Dawson interviews Iskandar about human-AI-things relationships and design approaches for AI in physical environments.
Ross Dawson introduces the Humans + AI podcast, discussing AI's impact on cost reduction and headcount, and invites listeners to join the community.
Ross Dawson interviews Tsuranga Nanayakara about augmenting humans with AI, contextual nudging, and cognitive flow.
A conversation with Michael I.
A conversation with Salesforce's Chief Ethical and Humane Use Officer about setting standards for new technologies and AI governance.
A conversation with Vivian Ming about hybrid collective intelligence, building cyborgs, and tapping the unknown.
Ross Dawson interviews Matt Beane about the three Cs of skill development and how to preserve human ability in an age of intelligent machines.
Ross Dawson interviews Tim O'Reilly about the role of groups in AI and the potential of AI to amplify humans and humanity.
Ross Dawson interviews Matt Lewis about augmenting brain capital with AI and its impact on mental health.
Ross Dawson introduces the Humans + AI podcast and interviews Amir Basu about AI and human-intensified strategy.
Ross Dawson interviews Sam Arbisman about the magic of code and how AI can augment human thinking.
A futurist explores the intersection of AI and human consciousness with a tech visionary and Reiki master.
This episode features a conversation with Carl Wocke about cloning human expertise through digital twins, the ethical implications, AI employment agencies, and communities of AI experts.
This episode features an interview with Nisha Talagala about AI literacy and education, covering topics like the four Cs of AI literacy, vibe coding, and teaching AI fundamentals to people of all ages.
This episode features an interview with entrepreneur Kunal Gupta discussing the transformative impact of AI on various aspects of humanity including government, health, learning, and overcoming barriers.
Ross Dawson speaks with Lee Rainey about a report on what it may mean to be human in 2035.