Erik Brynjolfsson
Stanford Digital Economy Lab, author of The Second Machine Age
Why every real AI success first looks like failure.
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An intellectual sanctuary for senior leaders. Candid, unscripted conversations with people who have faced real complexity and made irreversible choices, increasingly about the human side of AI: what it reshapes in how we work, lead, and think.
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Bryan Reimer
MIT research scientist, AgeLab
The better AI gets, the worse you become. Here is what to do about it.
Jonathan Brill
Futurist, author of Rogue Waves, ex-Global Futurist at HP
Why you are still running your company like it is the 1880s.
Alex M H Smith
Strategist, author of No Bullshit Strategy
What 99% of companies get wrong about strategy, and why nice leaders lose.
Christian Guttmann
Globally recognized AI scientist and professor
The coming tech tsunami, and how leaders should ride it.
Steven D'Souza
Author of Not Knowing, international executive educator
The hidden cost of hiding, and how to lead from your shadow.
Anthony "Tas" Tasgal
Author of The Storytelling Book and The Inspiratorium
How leaders actually win: persuasion through story, not slides.
Johan Andersson
Chairman, Mellby Gård
The investment case for staying calm while everyone else chases AI.
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The Skills That Survived
In which researchers pit AI against senior leaders and the wrong side wins.
The Only Asset AI Can't Build
Your AI strategy is sending your employees a message about what you believe humans are for. Most companies have no idea what it says.
Engineers Went First. You're Not Far Behind.
What software teams learned about AI that every profession will learn the hard way.
The "Human-Centric AI" Lie, and the End of Homo Sapiens
Let me actually define what "human" means in the context of Human-Centric AI.
There Is No Arrival
My wife looked at me one evening and said, "I want to live life NOW."
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