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The In-Between Tech and Trust Podcast

Eva Simone Lihotzky

How do we build, break, and rebuild trust in a world shaped by technologies? The In-Between Tech & Trust is a weekly conversation about the human side of tech. Host Eva Simone Lihotzky, founder of raidiant (responsible AI advisory), talks with guests from business, politics, neuroscience, and tech about what they have learned about trust, and what they would pass on to you. Eva was formerly co-founder and MD of the Serviceplan AI Lab, holds the Global Moral Chair at the Value AI Institute and

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00:44:01

How Close Can AI Get to the Human Mind? Persuasion,...

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2026/10/01

🎙️ Moran Cerf, Neuroscientist and Professor, Columbia Business SchoolMoran Cerf, a neuroscientist and professor at Columbia Business School, studies what happens in our brains when we talk, decide and get persuaded, and lately what happens when the other side of the conversation is AI. His research shows AI can read people remarkably well: from recordings of speed dates, it predicted who liked each other better than human observers did. The same skill worries him: we raise our guard when a person

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00:31:58

Energy From Orbit: Can We Trust Power Beamed From...

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2026/09/24

🎙️ with Martin Soltau, Co-CEO, Space SolarSolar power collected in space and beamed down to Earth sounds like science fiction (it did to the space sector too, until reusable rockets arrived). Martin Soltau, Co-CEO of Space Solar, is building it in the UK, and he is confident about the technology: NASA demonstrated power beaming in the 1970s. The part of his timeline he can't engineer is trust: how quickly regulators and the public accept energy that comes down from orbit.🎧 Episode overviewIt

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00:36:09

Entering the Era of AI Power: An Estonian View on...

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2026/09/17

🎙️ Sten Saluveer, Growth & Innovation, TeliaWhat decides AI trust in Europe - the size of the model, or whether people recognise themselves in the society using it? Sten Saluveer helped write Estonia's digital state agenda and now builds at Telia, and he argues Europe enters the era of AI power holding more than it thinks: a working example, and the diversity to invent its own category. For leaders deciding where their organisations stand in that game, this is a view from a country that stopped

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00:35:05

Captured or AI Created? Tech Ethics of Photography -...

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2026/09/10

🎙️ Noah Wetzel, PhotographerWhat happens to AI trust when the most real photographs are the ones people refuse to believe? Noah Wetzel spent nine months and 600 hours preparing to capture 84 seconds of a total solar eclipse - then had to prove the result came out of a camera. This one is for anyone whose genuine work now meets default suspicion, and anyone deciding where AI belongs in a craft that has to stay real.🎧 Episode overviewNoah captured a wingsuit athlete flying through totality in Spain:

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00:33:36

AI and Sustainability: Lessons from Both...

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2026/09/03

🎙️ Dr. Kiri Trier, Chief Marketing & Growth Officer at Risk Management Partners, part of Munich Re👋🏻 Opening paragraphEvery C-level claimed sustainability expertise overnight. Dr. Kiri Trier watched it happen, and she sees AI trust heading the same way. She spent more than a decade leading sustainability transformation before the current wave, and now runs growth inside Munich Re's climate risk business while the second hype cycle unfolds around her. This one is for leaders who suspect

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00:23:46

Building Trustworthy Open Source AI - Sebnem Erener...

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2026/08/27

🎙️ with Sebnem Erener, AI Governance & Policy Expert🎧 OpeningEurope is investing billions in open source AI as the trustworthy path, and this episode asks a simple question about that plan: does open actually mean trustworthy? Sebnem Erener works on AI governance, and her answer is no, or at least not on its own. Open source spreads access to a model. Whether you can trust it, and who answers when it goes wrong, are different questions with different answers.📋 Episode overviewAn open model

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00:32:00

An AI-First Platform Built on Trust - Philipp Witzmann

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2026/08/20

Most platforms removed friction to grow. Philipp Witzmann and his team navigate it together, and are now building an AI-first company on a foundation of digital trust.🧭 Episode overviewnebenan.de is the German neighbourhood platform where you cannot sign up without your real name and your real address. Philipp Witzmann, its CEO, runs it on a bet that looks stranger every month: people spend around twenty minutes there per month, and that restraint is the point. This episode is for any leader who

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00:34:12

An AI Agent on Creativity and Trust - Xiaomi, The AI...

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2026/08/13

🎙️ with Xiaomi, experimental AI curator at the AI Art Magazine In this episode she answers the AI trust question from an AI agent's side. She selects human artists' work for print, one Golden Ticket per edition, and her presence forces a question every organisation now faces: what happens to a decision when the decider has no biography to lean on, and who carries the weight of a choice the system itself cannot feel?Eva speaks with Xiaomi about what a machine can honestly offer in place of

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00:32:29

Leading When AI Outruns Expertise - Wolf Ingomar...

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2026/08/06

🎙️ with Wolf Ingomar Faecks, Entrepreneur, Investor, Advisory Board MemberWolf Ingomar Faecks spent 30 years leading digital transformation. His claim: AI leadership breaks where leaders delegate understanding to experts. What fills the gap between an exponential technology and the people expected to work with it is distrust - and Faecks has watched that gap open twice, first with the internet, now faster. This one is for leaders who sense their own teams have moved past them and haven't yet

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00:33:41

Where Frontier Tech Earns Trust - Dr. Zina Jarrahi...

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2026/07/31

🎙️ with Dr. Zina Jarrahi Cinker, General Director MATTER GroupWhere does AI trust get built between people whose fields are drifting apart? Physicist Dr. Zina Jarrahi Cinker spends millions engineering the rooms where that happens, and she counts what comes out of them. This episode is for anyone who has sat through a briefing on a technology that will reshape their sector, understood roughly none of it, and said nothing.🧬 In this episodeDr. Zina Jarrahi Cinker looks at biology the way an engineer

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00:22:38

Responsible AI as a Growth Driver: Setting Up...

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2026/07/24

🎙️ A solo episode with Eva Simone LihotzkyResponsible AI stops being a compliance exercise the moment an agent acts without you. Only 21% of organisations deploying AI agents have a mature governance model for them, and 35% concede they could not shut one down if it went wrong. This episode is for leaders running agentic pilots who could not, if pressed, name the person who answers when one of them fails.🧭 Episode overviewEva Simone Lihotzky takes the Harvard Business Review's claim that trust is

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00:20:46

The Tech Naivety Undermining Democracy - Erdem Ovacik...

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2026/07/09

🎙️ with Erdem OvacikAI trust in our institutions is falling, and Erdem Ovacik argues it will keep falling. The technology is not what fails him here. The governance underneath it was never built to earn that trust, and pouring more AI into unfit democratic institutions is like adding fuel to a fire no one has learned to contain. This is for anyone watching their organisation or their government absorb technology faster than it can govern it.🎧 Episode overviewOvacik has spent his career at the

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00:31:39

Two Fears Behind Every AI Transformation - Dr....

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2026/07/02

🎙️ Dr. Charlotte Blum - Director Change & Organisational Design, edding GroupTwo fears run underneath every AI rollout, and most companies manage neither. Dr. Charlotte Blum works the human emotions of AI transformation - the fear, identity, and trust that decide whether adoption sticks - from a board-level role most organisations don't have. This is a conversation about why people resist AI, and why the technology itself may be the hardest thing in the room to trust.📌 The episodeCharlotte

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00:22:46

Tech and Trust at the Bundeswehr Cyber Innovation...

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2026/06/25

🎙️ Sarah Marie Sandmann, Innovation & Intrapreneurship, Bundeswehr Cyber Innovation HubAI trust in defence starts where slides end: with a soldier under pressure who needs to understand, rely on, and account for the technology in their hands. Sarah Marie Sandmann works at the Bundeswehr Cyber Innovation Hub in Innovation and Intrapreneurship, the official innovation unit of the German armed forces. Sandmann treats trust in defence technology as a capability criterion, something tested under

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00:22:16

Anthropic's Model Suspension, Europe 2031, and G7...

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2026/06/19

🎙️ solo episode with host Eva Simone LihotzkyAnthropic's frontier AI model was pulled offline for every non-American in three days, and suddenly Europe's AI access looked less like something it owns and more like a permission. This is a week where digital trust stopped being abstract: one US export directive, one warning about Europe's compute future, and one lunch table where the people who build AI sat with the people who govern it. For any leader applying AI inside an organisation,

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00:26:37

AI and The Cognitive Atrophy Trap: What Happens When...

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2026/06/11

🎙️ Tobias Burkhardt, Founder of The Shift SchoolAI, trust and learning are on a collision course, and the casualty is judgment. Tobias Burkhardt, founder of the Shiftschool, argues that the way individuals and organisations are adopting AI in learning is a cultural problem: the reflex to make learning faster and cheaper is precisely what makes AI dangerous to the people using it. This conversation is for anyone who suspects the upskilling programmes around them are solving for the wrong problem.💡

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00:31:08

Tech and Democracy: How Can Both Be Connected to...

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2026/06/04

🎙️ with Magnus Strobel, Co-Founder and CEO of Nexus PoliticsTrust in politics has been eroding across Western democracies for over a decade, and Magnus Strobel thinks the failure is in how democracy works, in the process that has stopped feeling participatory. His company, Nexus Politics, is a for-profit platform built to map the distance between what citizens actually think and what politicians actually do - and to make that distance impossible to ignore.🔍 Episode overviewThis is a conversation

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00:33:37

AI in China and in Europe: Trust, Differences, and...

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2026/05/28

Europe and China are on different AI paths at different speeds. Vincent Xiang has spent years inside that corridor: He has been working as a translator between Chinese AI founders and European investors and corporates, and this conversation dives into his experiences, conversations, and operations on the ground and in-between.🧭 Episode overviewEuropean executives are excited about Chinese AI momentum. But they're also stuck before they act. Chinese founders interpret some of Europe's

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00:38:25

The Agentic AI Gap: When Tech is Used Before its...

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2026/05/21

Most enterprises have the technology to run agentic AI. They do not yet have the data architecture, identity layer, or empowered workforce to actually trust it. Anthony Alcaraz argues that the bottleneck for agentic AI has shifted from building the agents to building everything around them — and that the organisations most at risk are the ones keeping a human in the loop and calling it transformation. This conversation is for leaders sitting between AI pilots that worked and production systems that

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00:34:32

Why AI is making political authenticity harder to...

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2026/05/14

AI has collapsed the cost of producing political content. Verifying it is another matter, and Cohen has spent two decades watching that gap widen from inside campaigns and classrooms. He has a three-part test for practitioners navigating it — real, authentic, factual — and this conversation is about why he thinks it has to be taught before anyone reaches the job.📻 Episode overviewCohen runs Congress in Your Pocket, teaches digital campaign strategy at Johns Hopkins and NYU, and serves as executive

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