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Artificial Insights: Conversations About AI

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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2:37

Are You Holding Onto a Job AI Should Have? w/ Dave...

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2026/01/30

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 replace you as a human unless you keep trying to do work AI should handle. The path forward is to automate what is routine, and double down on the human work: alignment, confidence, strategy, and helping

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35:12

From Experiments to ROI: Measuring AI Inside Real...

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2026/01/23

"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 growth-stage companies to rebuild their revenue systems for an AI-shaped market.In this conversation, Daniel and Dave get concrete about what “AI-forward GTM” actually requires: a clear theory of the case, a real data

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8:28

Wikipedia's First Real Competitor Is an AI: What is...

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2026/01/16

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 Grokipedia, Elon Musk's AI-generated encyclopedia: why its entries can feel clearer and more complete than Wikipedia, and how that polish can mask weak or missing sources.🎧 Want the bigger picture?In the

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51:02

Who Decides What AI Knows? Wikipedia, Sources, and...

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2026/01/09

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 machines, even as fewer humans read it directly.Daniel is joined by Bill Beutler, founder of Beutler Ink, who works inside Wikipedia’s rules to help organizations correct inaccuracies and navigate notability

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1:55

Artificial Insights Season 5: How AI is Changing...

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2026/01/02

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 hear from builders, operators, researchers, and leaders wrestling with how experience, trust, value, and incentives shift as AI becomes part of the fabric of work.👀 What to expect this season:Conversations

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1:07

Welcome to Artificial Insights

Artificial Insights: Conversations About AI ·

2025/12/26

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. People deploying them inside teams. And people who have already learned where AI helps and where it quietly creates problems.Daniel started Artificial Insights to stand at the gate of businesses using AI,

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18:25

The Great Flip: How AI Changed the Shape of Work in 2025

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2025/12/19

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 isn't disappearing per se... but it is changing. Flipping.Humans are moving upstream. Away from direct execution and toward enabling, guiding, and judging systems that now do the work itself. Execution is

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11:36

Season 4 Wrap Up: How AI Is Making Impossible Work...

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2025/12/12

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 replacement or marginal efficiency gains, AI is removing constraints around memory, time, coordination, and execution.When those constraints fall, entirely new kinds of work become feasible.Daniel reflects on

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6:31

Short: Who Should Be Writing the Rules for AI? w/...

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2025/12/05

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 technical grounding.He contrasts Europe’s tendency to regulate early with the United States’ focus on innovation, liability, and builder responsibility. He points to the “Winning the AI Race” framework as an

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37:54

Building AI That Doesn't Hallucinate w/ David Proulx,...

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2025/11/28

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 feel better. The psychiatrist guides their care. HoloMD adds a daily point of contact that checks in, gathers context, tracks medication adherence, and offers support between visits. Psychiatrists stay fully

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3:33

Short: What is Personalization in an Agentic AI...

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2025/11/21

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 prompts, sentiment, language patterns, and user actions to understand experience level and intent. He compares it to the way great salespeople have always read a person's posture, tone, and energy to meet them

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38:50

Building AI Native Products for the Outdoors w/ Alex...

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2025/11/14

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 been working on a simple idea with complicated stakes: help people decide where to fish or paddle, understand the real conditions on the water, and act on that information without forcing users to dig through

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4:49

Short: Is AI A New Medium? w/ Ahmad Iqbal, AI Product...

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2025/11/07

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 creative medium that could change how people make, share, and experience ideas.Drawing on the work of Marshall McLuhan, the Canadian media theorist who coined "the medium is the message", Ahmad explains how

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33:42

Designing for Accessibility: How AI Lowers the Skill...

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2025/10/31

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 in the age of AI. Ahmad helped launch Canva’s first generative AI features and shares how the company's guiding principle, making creativity accessible to everyone, drives its product, culture, and internal AI

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3:37

Short: What Does It Mean to Steward Data Faithfully...

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2025/10/24

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 “off-the-cloud-at-all-costs” mindset softened as AI made it possible to do genuinely good things with data.The hard part now isn’t the tech. It’s building the habits and structures that keep data private, local, and used for

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38:52

How AI Turned Six Months of Work into 16 Minutes w/...

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2025/10/17

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 result is more time for actual disciple-making and less time in Audacity. They dig into privacy-first analytics in risky contexts, when to choose local models over cloud tools, and why data management is

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1:48

Short: When is the right time to start a company in...

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2025/10/10

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 Jeff Bezos in 1995, who spotted the internet’s growth curve and built Amazon around books, an application that fit the technology’s strengths at the time.🎧 Curious where Adeel takes this next?In the full

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37:02

Embodied AGI: Reimagining AI Through Robotics w/...

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2025/10/03

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. Now, backed by the HF0 residency, his focus is on "Embodied Intelligence" and how foundation models can learn physical tasks, adapt through feedback, and interact with humans in real time.In this conversation,

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2:56

Short: What's the biggest bottleneck to AI adoption?...

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2025/09/26

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, talk about why adoption stalls when people stick to the “old way,” how organizations can carve out space to experiment, and why patience is needed to push through the frustration curve.It’s a candid look at

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42:59

From Tinkerers to Teams: Adopting AI with Aydin...

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2025/09/19

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 only the most organized people were willing to do and make it accessible to everyone. He calls this an AI “chief of staff”, a system that prepares meaningful follow-ups, captures decisions and actions, and

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