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Artificial Insights: Conversations About AI
by Daniel Manary
Candid conversations and real-world stories about how AI is changing work, life, and us. Every other Friday, host Daniel Manary talks with CEOs, CTOs, CAIOs, product managers, researchers, and founders about bringing AI ideas to market, separating hype from lasting impact. He explores the How's, What's, and Why's of Artificial Intelligence and digs into how this technology is changing the landscape of modern work and life, and more importantly, us.
Episodes
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Student Spring Special: Using AI the Right Way w/ Vaani & Daniel Manary
Students are already finding their own ways to use AI. Can schools do a better job of showing them how to use it well? In part 1 of our student special, Aasha argued that schools need more AI literacy and less fear. In part 2, Keya described the tension students feel when AI is helpful and...
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Spring Student Special: The AI Dilemma w/ Maizah & Daniel Manary
What happens when AI is everywhere in a student’s life, but school mostly talks about it as something to avoid? In part 1 of our student special, Aasha called for AI literacy instead of fear. In part 2, Keya described what it feels like when trust breaks down around student work. In part 3 of 4,...
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Spring Student Special: Students Learning With AI w/ Keya & Daniel Manary
Students are already building AI into how they learn—are schools can help them use it well? In part 1 of our student special on AI and education, Aasha raised the question of what schools are actually preparing students for. In part 2 of 4 of our student special on AI and education, Daniel speaks...
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Spring Student Special: The Fear Around AI in School w/ Aasha & Daniel Manary
What happens when schools focus so hard on detecting AI that students start reshaping their own writing just to avoid suspicion? In part 1 of 4 of our student special on AI and education, Daniel speaks with Aasha, a Grade 12 student from Waterloo, founder of Youth Tech Labs, and a young leader...
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Spring Student Special: Are Schools Preparing Students for an AI Future? w/ Patrick Belliveau & Daniel Manary
Schools are trying to figure out AI in real time, but students are already living with the results. In this special repost episode, Daniel brings back a short conversation with Pat Belliveau to open our student series on AI and education. Pat raises a hard question: if AI is already part of the...
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How Do You Start an AI Consultancy From Scratch? w/ Patrick Belliveau, Managing Partner @ Gambit Co
What would you do if you had to start an AI consultancy from scratch today? In this bonus clip, Daniel asks Pat Belliveau of Gambit Co exactly that. And Pat does what he does so well: he shares practical advice without posturing: Start with someone in your network. Solve one real problem. Do it...
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Inside the Messy Middle of Shipping AI w/ Patrick Belliveau, Managing Partner @ Gambit Co
AI feels easy right up until a team tries to ship it. Patrick Belliveau of Gambit Co joins Daniel to talk about the messy middle between a promising prototype and something a business can actually trust. In this candid conversation, Daniel and Pat reflect on what changed between year one and year...
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Will AI Replace Humans in Lending? w/ Sharmeen Aqeel, Founder & CEO @ Lyyvora
AI can automate matching and readiness checks in lending. It cannot automate trust. In this bonus clip, Daniel asks Sharmeen Aqeel how Lyyvora will scale as borrower volume grows. Sharmeen’s answer is simple: at an early-stage fintech, one broken interaction can damage credibility. Even if AI...
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Fintech Without the Jargon: Making Healthcare Lending Accessible with AI w/ Sharmeen Aqeel, Founder & CEO @ Lyyvora
Clinics get stuck in lending for a frustratingly simple reason: the process is hard to navigate. The information exists, lenders are willing, and qualified borrowers do get funded. But the path is not accessible, especially when you're running a clinic and don't have time to decode criteria…
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Who Pays When AI Uses Your Work? w/ Julie Trelstad, Head of US Publishing @ Amlet.ai
AI licensing can sound like a moral argument until you look at the product constraints. If the best material is behind paywalls and contracts, “just scrape it” stops working. In this bonus clip, Daniel pressures the obvious skeptical question: if big AI companies can afford lawsuits, why bother...
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AI Training Data Meets Copyright: How Publishing Can License Content at Scale w/ Julie Trelstad, Head of US Publishing @ Amlet.ai
AI has been trained on the world’s writing. Now, we have to figure out how creators prove ownership, set permissions, and get paid when their work is used. Julie Trelstad has spent 30 years inside publishing’s biggest technology shifts, from desktop publishing to eBooks to print-on-demand to...
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Are You Holding Onto a Job AI Should Have? w/ Dave Boyce, Executive Chair @ Winning By Design
When AI threatens your job, the real risk is clinging to the parts of work that are already predictable. In this bonus short, Daniel Manary and Dave Boyce (Winning by Design, author of Freemium) talk about the fear many people feel right now: AI is coming for my job. Dave argues that AI doesn't...
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From Experiments to ROI: Measuring AI Inside Real Go-To-Market Systems w/ Dave Boyce, Executive Chair @ Winning By Design
"Run experiments" is easy advice. Measuring them inside a real customer journey is the hard part. Dave Boyce has lived through multiple SaaS eras, from $1.2M ACV enterprise deals to $1,200 self-serve motions. Now, as Product lead and Executive Chair at Winning by Design, he works with…
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Wikipedia's First Real Competitor Is an AI: What is Grokipedia? w/ Bill Beutler, Founder @ Beutler Ink & TheNotability.co
An AI-written encyclopedia can sound coherent and still be wrong and that gap matters more than it first appears. In this bonus short, Daniel Manary and William Beutler of Beutler Ink and The Notability Company look at the first real challenger to Wikipedia's long-standing dominance. They discuss...
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Who Decides What AI Knows? Wikipedia, Sources, and Trust w/ Bill Beutler, Founder @ Beutler Ink & TheNotability.co
Wikipedia has become one of the quiet foundations of modern AI. In this episode, Daniel explores why large language models rely so heavily on Wikipedia, both as training data and as a real-time citation source. Its concise structure, dense linking, and topic-first writing make it ideal for...
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Artificial Insights Season 5: How AI is Changing Economics and Work, and How We Are Changing With It
This season, we’re not talking about models, benchmarks, or demos. We’re talking about how AI is reshaping how humans work, coordinate, and judge as tools get better at remembering, acting, and contextualizing. With context increasingly automated, wisdom and judgment matter more, not less. We’ll...
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Welcome to Artificial Insights: How AI is Changing Economics and Work
Artificial Insights is a podcast about how AI is changing economics and work, and what happens once the technology moves beyond demos and into real organizations. The podcast features conversations with founders, operators, and thinkers who are close to the work. People building AI products.…
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The Great Flip: How AI Changed the Shape of Work in 2025
This special Christmas and New Year bonus episode is a pause. We're looking back at 2025 and thinking about what surfaced across a year of conversations with builders, executives, philosophers, and operators working close to AI. Across industries and roles, the same shift kept appearing. Work…
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Season 4 Wrap Up: How AI Is Making Impossible Work Practical
Across healthcare, nonprofits, construction, and creative tools, the same shift kept appearing. AI is moving work from impossible to practical. This special wrap up episode closes out Season 4 by revisiting a handful of moments that captured that shift most clearly. Rather than focusing on...
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Short: Who Should Be Writing the Rules for AI? w/ David Proulx, CAIO & Co-Founder @ HoloMD
Regulation and innovation rarely move at the same speed. In this bonus clip, Daniel Manary and David Proulx talk about who should shape the future of AI. David argues that the people building modern systems understand both the risks and the capabilities far better than policymakers who lack...
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Building AI That Doesn't Hallucinate w/ David Proulx, CAIO & Co-Founder @ HoloMD
One of the things David Proulx is most proud of is building an AI agent that has handled more than 100,000 mental health conversations without a single hallucination. David is the Chief AI Officer at HoloMD, where an AI agent becomes a third party in the Therapeutic Alliance. The patient wants to...
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Short: What is Personalization in an Agentic AI World? w/ Alex Maier, President @ onWater
Most AI conversations describe personalization as if it were new. In this bonus clip, Alex Maier explains why the real shift is not personalization itself, but how agentic systems read context and respond to a person's actual state the moment they ask a question. Alex describes how onWater uses...
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Building AI Native Products for the Outdoors w/ Alex Maier, President @ onWater
Most companies stop at “ask the bot a question”. onWater wants to go further, building an app that can answer “Should I go today?” and then quietly handle everything that comes after yes. In this episode of Artificial Insights, Daniel talks with Alex Maier, now President of onWater. His team has...
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Short: Is AI A New Medium? w/ Ahmad Iqbal, AI Product & Head of MENAP @ Canva
AI is currently in a transitional moment: a new tool being used to make old kinds of content. But, what if AI can do more than just help us create the same old things faster and better? In this bonus clip, Daniel Manary and Ahmad Iqbal step back from product and design to explore how AI is a new...
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Designing for Accessibility: How AI Lowers the Skill Floor w/ Ahmad Iqbal, AI Product & Head of MENAP @ Canva
What if "designing well" no longer requires years of training, and the real work becomes choosing the story to tell? In this episode of Artificial Insights, host Daniel Manary interviews Ahmad Iqbal, product lead and Head of MENAP at Canva, about what it really means to design for accessibility…
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Short: What Does It Mean to Steward Data Faithfully with AI? w/ Josh Müller, Director @ Waha
Most people talk about "data privacy" like it’s a legal checkbox. For Josh Müller, it’s part of faithful stewardship. In this bonus episode, Josh and Daniel pick up on a single idea from their main conversation: data management as Kingdom stewardship. Josh shares how his once...
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How AI Turned Six Months of Work into 16 Minutes w/ Josh Müller, Director @ Waha
What if a six-month production bottleneck became a 16-minute job? Josh Müller, director at tech nonprofit Waha, tells Daniel how forced alignment and smart automation turned a tedious audio-editing gauntlet into a repeatable pipeline that ships Bible study content across dozens of languages. The...
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Short: When is the right time to start a company in AI? w/ Adeel Zaman, Founder in Stealth out of HF0, previously CTO & Co-Founder of DOZR
When is the right time to start a company in AI? Adeel Zaman argues it comes down to breakthroughs. In this bonus clip, Adeel explains why "why now" matters more than ever in AI. Without a recent step forward, most ideas have already been tried and blocked by the same old limits. He points to…
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Embodied AGI: Reimagining AI Through Robotics w/ Adeel Zaman, Founder in Stealth out of HF0, previously CTO & Co-Founder of DOZR
What happens when AI doesn’t just live in text and screens, but begins to reason and act in the physical world? Adeel Zaman, CTO and Co-Founder of DOZR, has spent his career moving from deep learning research to startups, scaling companies and tackling cold-start problems with machine learning....
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Short: What's the biggest bottleneck to AI adoption? w/ Aydin Mirzaee, Co-Founder & CEO @ Fellow.ai
Most people aren’t natural tinkerers. That simple fact shapes how AI adoption actually plays out inside companies. It’s not enough to drop a new tool into the workflow. Deadlines and old habits keep teams from trying new approaches. In this bonus episode, Daniel and Aydin Mirzaee, CEO of Fellow,...
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From Tinkerers to Teams: Adopting AI with Aydin Mirzaee, Co-Founder & CEO @ Fellow.ai
Adopting AI inside an organization is rarely smooth. Most people are not natural tinkerers, and it takes more than enthusiasm to change how teams prepare, run, and follow up on meetings. For Aydin Mirzaee, CEO and co-founder of Fellow, the turning point was realizing that AI could take the work...
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Season 4 of Artificial Insights: The Big Questions Behind Doing AI Right
Welcome to Artificial Insights where we talk to leaders and thinkers in AI about how to do AI right. On this podcast, we sit down every other Friday with people who build things with, and write things about, AI, and talk to them about what they do and why they do it. We've been doing this for…
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AI Ethics Conversations That Shape How We Build: Artificial Insights Season 3 Recap
From ethics to student builders, this past summer season of Artificial Insights dug into how AI shapes what it means to be human and how the next generation is already learning to use it. Guests shared warnings about convenience, reflections on human worth, and hands-on lessons from shipping…
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Back to School Special: When Schools Ban AI but the Job Market Demands It w/ Aasha Khan, Grade 12 Student at Cameron Heights Collegiate Institute, Founder of Youth Tech Labs
What happens when students are told not to use AI, but also told they’ll need it for their careers? For Aasha Khan, a Grade 12 student at Cameron Heights and founder of Youth Tech Labs, that tension defined her first encounters with AI. At school, the message was clear: avoid AI or risk…
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Back to School Special: Why the Next Generation Is Asking What AI Should Do w/ Aleks Santari, Student @ Johns Hopkins University, Founder, & Philosopher
The next generation of builders isn’t just asking what AI can do, but what it should do. For Johns Hopkins student Aleks Santari, the most striking change AI brings is the commoditisation of intelligence. When capabilities once reserved for experts become widely available, it reshapes education,...
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Back to School Special: From Quantum Physics to Personalized AI w/ Dvir Zagury-Grynbaum, Physics Undergrad @ University of Waterloo
How do you bridge worlds as different as quantum research and AI product building? For Dvir Zagury-Grynbaum, the answer lies in curiosity. Still an undergraduate in physics at the University of Waterloo, Dvir has already worked at the Perimeter Institute, led AI design teams, and built tools that...
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The Tyranny of Convenience and the Wisdom Gap in AI w/ Dr. K, Bioethicist, AI Theologian @ FaithTech, & Former U.S. Intelligence Officer
What happens when the technology you rely on gets better every day while your own capacity remains the same? For Dr. K, theologian, bioethicist, and former U.S. intelligence officer, this is a deeply human question. With two decades in applied ethics, 14 books, and a career spanning hospital...
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Infinite Efficiency and Human Value w/ Dr. Christopher Watkin, ARC Future Fellow & Associate Professor @ Monash University
What happens when the work you’ve built your identity around can be done faster, and sometimes better, by AI? For Dr. Christopher Watkin, philosopher, theologian, and associate professor at Monash University, AI’s greatest impact may be the questions it forces us to ask: What is work for? Where…
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Before and After ChatGPT: Using AI Without Losing Ourselves w/ Sheldon Fernandez, Former CEO @ DarwinAI
Before ChatGPT, Sheldon Fernandez knew what it was to wrestle with a sentence until it worked. As an AI ethics speaker, former AI CEO, and theologian, he’s seen what’s gained, and what’s lost, when the work of critical thinking is just a click away. Now, as his children grow up in a world where…
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Artificial Insights Trailer: How To Do AI Right w/ Daniel Manary
This is Artificial Insights, where we talk to leaders and thinkers in AI about what it means to do AI right. Welcome to Season 3. This season is a special “summer break” for the month of August. We’re moving from our usual focus on AI products to explore AI ethics. We’ll be examining the…
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Doing AI Right: Lessons from 11 Leaders Who’ve Seen What Works (and What Doesn’t) w/ Daniel Manary
AI is everywhere but not every implementation works. In this Season 2 recap of Artificial Insights, Daniel revisits the most powerful moments from conversations with eleven leaders building AI in the real world. These guests have seen what happens when AI is rushed, misused, or built without...
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Bonus Short: What Happens to Jobs When AI Scales Output 35x? w/ Nicolas Tobis, VP Data & Generative AI @ Relias
AI is reshaping work in ways that are more complex than the headlines suggest. Nicolas Tobis has seen both sides: some roles shrink, others expand, and entirely new ones appear. At one education company, AI cut the content team by 80% while output soared to 35 times its previous level. In this...
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Using AI to Train Doctors, Build Empathy, and Rethink SaaS w/ Nicolas Tobis, VP Data & Generative AI @ Relias
AI is now being used to teach and measure something most people think of as deeply human: empathy. In healthcare, where conversations can be as critical as treatments, Nicolas Tobis, VP of Data and AI at Relias, and his team have been building AI training simulations for nurses and doctors. These...
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Bonus Short: The Best AI Users Are Always Women w/ Jonathan Green, AI Digital Transformation Expert
Some people try to engineer perfect prompts. Others just talk and get better results. Jonathan Green has seen how a conversational, almost playful approach to AI changes the results you get. The people he calls master prompters name their AI, treat it like a collaborator, and, often without...
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Let the AI Ask the Questions w/ Jonathan Green, AI Digital Transformation Expert
“The best AI users are always women, and they’re always super high creative types.” Jonathan Green has seen what many AI builders overlook: the most effective AI users aren’t technical experts: they’re creative communicators who treat AI like a teammate. They name their agents, talk to them...
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Bonus Short: How Can an AI Business Build a Moat? w/ Carlos Almeida, Founder & CEO @ Optave
Investors often ask Carlos Almeida the same question: if your AI is built on someone else’s model, what’s your moat? For him, the answer starts with building what the model can’t: controls that keep AI aligned with a company’s goals, interfaces that let humans guide its decisions, and ways to...
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Earning the Right to Automate w/ Carlos Almeida, Founder & CEO @ Optave
AI customer support can improve service without replacing people, and Carlos Almeida believes that starting with automation is the wrong approach. At Optave, the company he co-founded, the focus is on AI copilots that help enterprise customer support agents work more effectively, with automation...
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Bonus Short: Why the AI Revolution Feels Different w/ Mike Kirkup, Founder of Arlo, CTO @ EnPowered
AI hype cycles come and go, but the difference with this AI wave is how widely it touches every corner of business and work. Mike Kirkup has seen big shifts before, from the rise of smartphones at BlackBerry to the explosion of web apps, but he says AI feels different because “everybody’s working...
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Building Goal-Oriented AI w/ Mike Kirkup, Founder of Arlo, CTO @ EnPowered
AI is changing the way lenders and brokers process deals, and it’s not by replacing people, but by rethinking how the work gets done. Mike Kirkup didn’t set out to build a product for the finance industry. As CTO at EnPowered, he spent too much time on the repetitive work of gathering and…
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Bonus Short: What Electricity Can Teach Us About The Future of AI w/ Chyngyz Dzhumanazarov, Co-Founder & CEO @ Kodif
Electricity didn’t just replace coal, it also created television, film, and entire industries no one predicted. What surprising roles might AI play in our lives? In this bonus episode, Daniel and Chyngyz Dzhumanazarov explore the future of human–AI connection. They talk about AI as coach,...
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Candid conversations and real-world stories about how AI is changing work, life, and us.
Every other Friday, host Daniel Manary talks with CEOs, CTOs, CAIOs, product managers, researchers, and founders about bringing AI ideas to market, separating hype from lasting impact. He explores the How's, What's, and Why's of Artificial Intelligence and digs into how this technology is changing the landscape of modern work and life, and more importantly, us.
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