Welcome to Season 5 of Artificial Insights: Where We Talk About How AI is Changing Us
If you're new here, this is the post to read!
𼜠Hey friends, Arianne here. Your slightly frozen editor and producer of Artificial Insights, the podcast.
(Itâs the dead of winter here in Canada. Itâs cold. And snowy.)
Welcome! This is TL;DL where I write about what stood out to me in each episode, share some food for thought, and do a roundup of what happened and whatâs next for those of us who prefer to read.
As we get ready to release the next season of Artificial Insights, I wanted to spend a bit of time to talk about the thesis of this new season.
This time, weâre not spending time on models, benchmarks, or demos. Those conversations matter⌠but theyâre no longer the hardest questions to answer.
This season is about what happens after the tools start working well.
When systems can remember, act, and carry context across time, the center of gravity shifts. Less effort goes into recall and routine execution. More weight lands on judgment, coordination, and trust.
đď¸ This Seasonâs Focus
Across the next set of conversations, we are paying attention to how AI changes the shape of work, not just its speed. In particular, weâll be investigating how AI is changing the landscape of economics and⌠maybe most importantly, how itâs changing us as people and as a society.
We will hear from builders, operators, researchers, and leaders who are wrestling with questions like:
What does good judgment look like when context is automated?
How does trust change when machines act on our behalf?
Where does human value live when execution becomes cheap?
Weâll be looking at these questions and moving them out of the abstract, looking at how they show up in pricing decisions, org design, product scope, and how teams relate to the systems they depend on.
đ§ Start Here!
If you are new to Artificial Insights, or want a few entry points that capture the showâs core questions, these past bonus episodes are good places to begin. Theyâre shortsâso, shorter than full episodes đâand, usually, talk about a specific idea or topic we care about.
⨠Foundational Conversations
How Is AI Anxiety Changing the World? with Jennifer Moss
Why the AI Revolution Feels Different with Mike Kirkup
What Happens to Jobs When AI Scales Output 35x? with Nicolas Tobis
đ§ Product & Founder Perspectives
After 0â1: I Built a Product, Now What? with Alexander Millar
Is AI a New Medium? with Ahmad Iqbal
When Is the Right Time to Start a Company in AI? with Adeel Zaman
Each of these shorts touches a different angle of the same underlying question: how do we make wise decisions when the tools change faster than our institutions?
⨠What Weâre Trying to Do Here
This podcast exists to stand at the gate of businesses using AI, separating hype from lasting impact.
As AI systems get better, they remove certain kinds of effort from the equation. While that can often feel like relief, it can also feel very destabilizing.
But, whatâs important to remember is that what remains is not nothingâitâs actually judgment.
Knowing when to trust a system.
Knowing when to slow it down.
Knowing how to price work that looks effortless from the outside.
And, these are all human skills. They are harder to automate, and more important than ever.
đ Have a guest in mind or a story worth sharing? Please reach out to Daniel at daniel@manary.haus!
As always, thanks for listening. đ
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