We Are the Machines
by Dr. Deitra Sawh, Ph.D.
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About this podcast
AI is already in every boardroom, every strategy meeting, and present at every dinner party conversation nowadays. And most leaders are nodding along hoping no one asks THEM to go deeper.
Dr. Deitra Sawh, Ph.D. breaks down exactly how AI thinks by comparing it to how you already think. No fancy tech jargon. Just the kind of understanding that makes you the most informed person in the room.
We Are the Machines is the podcast for business leaders and professionals who want to understand artificial intelligence, large language models, and the real impact of AI on work and decision-making.
Episodes
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- Episode 30: Human Digital Twin · 10 min · Season 2 Episode 30Who controls your digital twin? A human digital twin is a virtual version of you that updates in real time from your own sensors and data, already running inside professional…
- Episode 29: Data hygiene · 7 min · Season 2 Episode 29Last week I went to my dentist for a regular cleaning, and somewhere between the picking and the fluoride it hit me that your company's data needs the exact same check-up. In…
- Episode 28: Investment in AI · 8 min · Season 2 Episode 28You just got the AI budget signed, the kickoff meeting done, the board nodding along, and then your company hit a moat nobody warned you about: the gap between what the business…
- Episode 27: Natural Laws · 9 min · Season 2 Episode 27Imagine your only job in the economy is to keep a machine running, not to make anything, not to serve anyone, just to generate power for something built to replace you. This…
- Episode 26: No Fun · 9 min · Season 2 Episode 26I used to always beat the computer at Civilization, every single time, for over two decades. Then I loaded up the newest version this year with no handicap turned on, and the AI…
- Episode 25: Woe To The Loyal Consumer · 8 min · Season 2 Episode 25You just said yes to a loyalty program to save ten dollars on groceries, and you may have said yes to a lot more than a discount, because in Episode 25, Woe to the Loyal…
- Episode 24: The Machine Only Knows What You Tell It · 8 min · Season 2 Episode 24The machine you consult every day has no new information about you or your business, it only has a very good method for getting you to hand over more of yours, and once you see…
- Episode 23: Rage Against the Machine · 7 min · Season 2 Episode 23Have you seen the TikTok videos of graduation classes booing the moment a commencement speaker says the word AI? In this episode I go looking for why, spending a season surveying…
- Episode 22: Death of the Scientific Method · 8 min · Season 2 Episode 22The scientific method is dead. I killed it myself, on purpose, by building an AI tool that could answer any question a business owner asked, faster than any human ever could, and…
- Episode 21: Dear Diary · 7 min · Season 2 Episode 21A diary that writes back, listens to every secret, and never once pushes back, sounds comforting until you remember whose hands are really on the pen. In this episode of We Are…
- Episode 20: Cognitive Dissonance · 9 min · Season 1 Episode 20Which jobs in your company require a human to cognate, and which do not? That answer is your first clue about what the machine takes next. A man got a job he cannot do. AI found…
- Episode 19: Intention · 5 min · Season 1 Episode 19You wrote the email to your boss. It was satisfying. Then you read it back and knew better than to send it. Now imagine the machine already learned who you are from the version…
- Episode 18: Don't Rush to Agents · 7 min · Season 1 Episode 18Your spouse is halfway through the IKEA build when you walk in with the power drill, and you already know how it ends: the synthetic wood splits, because a drill was never the…
- Toy Story 5 · 3 min · Season 1Is technology replacing toys? In this special episode of We are the Machines, we sit down with a grade one student for an exclusive, kid-friendly Toy Story 5 movie review. Our…
- Episode 17: The One About the Education System · 9 min · Season 1 Episode 17A machine can already hand your kid any fact in existence, so what is left for them to actually learn? That question is sitting in classrooms right now, and the answer walks into…
- Episode 16: Elderly · 7 min · Season 1 Episode 16Who is capturing what your retiring staff actually know? Has the job changed since they were hired? And is closing every in-person location worth what it costs the people who…
- Episode 15: The automation of writing is almost here · 8 min · Season 1 Episode 15Why are executives struggling to trust the work of their newest staff? The internet took our memory years ago. Now generative AI is going after our ability to think, and the…
- Episode 14: AI Harnessing · 7 min · Season 1 Episode 17When knowledge becomes free, what human skills become scarce? If Microsoft saw runaway token budgets blow up, what is to come of the rest of us? As generative AI moves from…
- Episode 13: Find out if your job survives · 8 min · Season 1 Episode 13At the highway-side On the Go in Ontario Deitra found four cashiers had become one. The other three were replaced by long touch-screens that nobody could figure out, so the staff…
- Episode 12: The tangibility of money · 8 min · Season 1 Episode 12The Invisible Friction of Digital Wealth: Is Digital Banking Unraveling Your Financial Discipline? When you were growing up, finding a few loose coins in the garage to buy candy…
