What happens when technology reshapes how we live and work? I’m Shaun Phillips. I sit down with industry leaders and creatives navigating these changes. We explore what emerging technology means for creativity, for thinking, and for everyday life. Honest conversations about what’s happening and how people decide what matters. Let’s uncover what is better with humans.
Go and look at your own website right now. Is your phone number easy to find, or is it buried under seven menus? My guest this episode is David Levine, founder of I Am Your Virtual Professional and author of Old-School Service, New-School Tools. He spent years in IT and project management, then nearly two decades running a retail business, which means he has watched the tools change from the inside. What stayed with me is how little the human part has moved. Fax machines. Dial-up. Facebook, t...
20 Oct 2026
Safe Superintelligence: Craig Kaplan on AI Values
Every email you send is a parenting decision. You just didn't know you were making it. Dr. Craig A. Kaplan has spent more than four decades building intelligent systems. He studied under Nobel laureate Herbert Simon at Carnegie Mellon, reviewed the back propagation paper before it went public, and now runs superintelligence.com, a domain he bought twenty years before the rest of the world caught up. The line that stopped me was this one. We won't control superintelligence. We'll parent it. Cr...
13 Oct 2026
AI Critical Thinking with Peter Vasey: Ask for Sources
He asked a room full of technical college students how many of them believed what came out of AI was correct. Every single hand went up. My guest this episode is Peter Vasey, a technical consultant and sociotech, and author of A World We Don't Want. That moment with the students stayed with me for days. Not because the students were wrong to trust it, but because nobody had ever told them they could do anything else. We were taught at school to show our working. AI doesn't show its working. I...
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