Afleveringen
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Why does AI adoption hit a wall inside large organizations? Brice Challamel joins to unpack what he's learned while leading people-first transformation at orgs like Moderna, and now at OpenAI as Head of AI Strategy and Adoption.
Brice shares his five components for supporting transformation, and what playfulness has to do with making AI stick. Plus: why Brice thinks the AI layoff narrative is wrong, and his case for a Nintendo as a super organization.
Watch this episode on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/fA80GvnAxCk
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Brice's LinkedIn
Power of Why newsletter
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AI is in the workplace. As companies adopt new workflows, new conversations are happening and new concerns are arising. How do AI leaders meet the moment and work with their teams to create clarity?
Taylor Malmsheimer, Section co-founder and COO, joins to share what she's learned speaking with hundreds of execs about their AI adoption efforts. Taylor walks Greg through the main types of questions that arise, and how leaders can empower their managers and employees to navigate these transformational moments.
10 Tough Questions Deck
Supercompanies.ai
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Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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How does a legacy tech veteran pivot to AI? Sid Sheth joins to share how Claude Code changed everything at d-Matrix almost overnight, what happens when your engineers are generating more code than they can validate, and why Sid appointed his co-founder as company AI czar. Plus: why Sid tells every new grad to ditch the generalist playbook, and how he's using AI in his personal life.
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Sid's LinkedIn
d-Matrix
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After just five days on the job as Head of AI at Section, Michael Domanic joins Greg for their first one-on-one together. He shares about his experience as VP of Generative Business strategy at User Testing, and how they measured the ROI on AI adoption in the office. Plus, how many agents per employee are we likely to have in the future?
Do you have questions about AI or adoption challenges at work? Drop us a line at podcast at sectionai dot com.
Supercompanies is on YouTube too: youtube.com/@supercompaniespod.
Michael's website
Michael's LinkedIn
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How does a 45-year-old hardware company like Logitech go all-in on AI? Eric Porres, Chief AI Officer at Logitech, has been inside that transformation from the start. After his company was acquired, he personally trained over 800 employees and built the playbook that's now scaling across a 7,000-person global organization.
Greg and Eric go deep on what it actually takes to move a large incumbent from AI-curious to AI-fluent: why AI labs and centers of excellence are a trap, why you can't outsource transformation to consultants, and how AI champions â not headcount â are the real force multiplier.
Eric says the most valuable employees will build the best team of AI primes to work for them. Hear how he approaches codifying your mental models and deploying them as agents.
Links:
Eric's Website
Eric's LinkedIn
Logitech
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Latent Supercompanies are among us. In this conversation with Greg Shove, Wade Foster, co-founder and CEO of Zapier, shares how heâs found massive success integrating AI internally and with customers.
Zapier was already a success story. Three friends co-founded the automation company in college and built it into a $5B company by working nimbly and embracing remote work early on. Now, Wade is fully embracing wide AI adoption. Learn how Zapier was able to drive 50% employee adoption in just a week, and the strategies that have been key to Zapierâs continued success.
Links:
Zapier.com
Wade's website
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AI can be your most powerful productivity tool⊠or a shortcut to cognitive decline. Neuroscientist Dr. Sahar Yousef joins Greg on stage at SXSW to debate whether AI allows us to borrow 30 IQ points, or ultimately makes us dumber?â Dr. Yousef shares new, unpublished UC Berkeley data about cognitive offloading, and outlines how to leverage AI without losing your mind.
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Some of the challenges with developing better AI have already been faced by other new technologies - like autonomous vehicles. Whether building human-in-the-loop systems or emergent scaling issues, AV companies like Waymore and Zoox are pioneering real-world solutions. What should the broader industry be learning from them?
Tech and policy reporter Tim Lee (Understanding AI, Ars Technica, Washington Post)) joins to discuss his and Gregâs shared appreciation for autonomous vehicles. Tim has covered AVs for years, and breaks down what a company like Waymo can show us about whatâs ahead for AI at large.
Links:
Understanding AI newsletter
Timâs Twitter
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Greg plays guest on It's All About AI with Danilo McGarry.
Learn what's actually happening inside companies adopting AI and why most leaders are getting it dangerously wrong. Greg shares what he sees on the ground, working with enterprise AI leaders across the US and Europe.
Watch AI Truth Serum on YouTube, @aitruthserum.
Episode Links
It's All About AI YouTube channelDanilo's website
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AI has the power to completely reshape the tasks we do - and how we approach our work in the first place. Greg taps Edâs expertise as a custom AI agent developer to understand what leaders should know about what agents can do for us today. How can we convert inference into business value today?
Ed shares the VVV framework he uses as part of his process for automating workflows. Plus, which tech industries might own the future - SaaS, Cloud, AI?
Episode links:
Edâs LinkedIn
Machine & Partners website
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Journalist and author Brian Merchant (Motherboard, LA Times), joins to discuss his book Blood in the Machine, and what the AI revolution should learn from the Luddite movement. Brianâs substack functions as part of Gregâs conscience, and they talk about the current political climate in AI, and why AI companies face a strategy challenge after driving adoption with free services.
When a tech critic and an AI CEO compare notes, where do they find common ground?
Plus, Greg pitches Brian on his vision of future supercompanies. For more on that, see Juliet Bailinâs analysis in Episode 2 - Whoâs Going to Win in the AI Economy?
Episode links:
Brianâs newsletter, Blood in the Machine
Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cokKQKhBtPw
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AI is driving an arms race in classrooms, but what about the techâs potential to give individualized instruction? What other ways might new technology change how we learn for the better? Whatâs ahead for the education tech landscape?
Claire Zau, venture partner at GSV Ventures and author of the AI & Education newsletter, specializes in educational technology investment. She joins Greg from New York to discuss whatâs next for education.
Episode Links:
Claire's newsletter AI & Education
Claire's Instagram Zauey Talks
GSV Venture's website
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Itâs been a big year for fake news. So this New Yearâs Eve, we look back at the hype, pitches, and rumors about AI weâve heard in 2025, and Greg shares his predictions for 2026.
And are we in a bubble? There may be a few, but thereâs more to the story. If thereâs one thing we can count on, itâs another year of AIâs presence growing in our lives.
This episode has presentation visuals on YouTube.
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Business strategist and best-selling author Sangeet Paul Choudary joins Greg to discuss why AI is such a big deal for corporate structures and platforms.
As AI requires organizations to fundamentally rethink how their structures work, it enables savvy competitors to exploit new operating paradigms. And as these tools allow users to cross traditional work boundaries, the impacts of AI to knowledge work promise to be many.
How will new efficiencies change client demands, and how will firms and individuals structure their work? What should we do when the AI bubble bursts? Sangeet shares what he tells execs and heads of state, and discusses ideas from his book Reshuffle.
Episode links:
Sangeetâs LinkedIn
Platform Thinking Labs
Sangeetâs Substack
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At a time when AI narratives are being pushed by board rooms and C-suites, how big is the present moment, really? Investor Juliet Bailin, venture partner at Kindred Capital, joins Greg to give a bird's eye view of the changing AI economy.
Are we in a bubble thatâs going to burst, or a boom that will carry us forward â and which companies will successfully make the jump to the future? Greg gets some Canadian founder therapy along the way.
Links:
Juliet's LinkedIn
Kindred Capital
Arsenal F.C.
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Are we going to lose our minds to artificial intelligence? Cognitive offloading is the biggest bogeyman in AI right now. And with good reason - it took us 10 years to realize what social media had done to our brains, and by then it was too late.
New studies from MIT say ChatGPT power users have decreased brainwave activity â and are showing signs of dependence. So can we use AI without giving up our cognitive skills? How do we âborrow 30 points of IQâ from AI without losing our minds completely?
Greg speaks with Dr. Sahar Yousef, cognitive neuroscientist and lecturer at UC Berkeleyâs Haas School of Business, and one of the worldâs leading experts on cognitive training and the science of productivity. Sahar shares what we can learn from the research, what's she's seeing in the lab, and how she's handling AI with her students. How can we use AI for our benefit, and what's on the line?
Episode links:
Dr. Sahar Yousef's website
MIT/OpenAI study on ChatGPT power users
TechPolicy report on AI addiction
Researchers propose Gen AI Addiction Syndrome
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Welcome to AI Truth Serum, your antidote to the hype and doom of AI. Join veteran tech CEO Greg Shove as he speaks with AI experts and industry leaders about the real-world impact of AI on our lives.
Tune in and learn how to thrive in the age of AI. Youâll get practical information about AIâs impact, actionable insights, and honest punchy commentary from the people building the future.
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