Cultivating Intelligence

About Cultivating Intelligence

Cultivating Intelligence is a thought-provoking podcast exploring how we create, lead, and adapt in a world shaped by art, nature, and artificial intelligence. Through the lenses of creativity, nature, and AI, each episode unpacks powerful ideas about leadership, systems thinking, innovation, and digital transformation, without the corporate jargon. This podcast challenges conventional thinking around control, growth, failure, and creativity, offering practical insights for leaders, creators, and curious minds navigating complex environments. If you’re interested in AI’s impact on creativity, leadership in uncertain systems, and how real growth happens, Cultivating Intelligence connects the dots in a way that’s both strategic and deeply human.

Publisher

Cultivating Intelligence by Intrinseco Inc

Category

business · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Jun 2026

Latest episode

6 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

39 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Nov 2026

   The Decoy Effect

   More employers now use AI avatars to interview job candidates, and people still smile, pause and thank them as if a person were there. This Episode of Cultivating Intelligence uses the history of decoys to ask what an artificial interviewer really replaces. Christine, host of Cultivating Intelligence from Intrinseco Inc., uses art, nature and AI as lenses for leadership. The essay moves from plastic owls, duck decoys and artificial wasp nests through Zeuxis and Parrhasius, trompe-l'oeil and Magritte's The Treachery of Images to the uncanny valley and a 2023 study of avatar-based interviews. The Episode covers why a decoy doesn't have to convince us it's real to change how we behave; why faster screening doesn't prove an organization is hiring better, and how candidates and AI systems end up optimizing for each other; and how leaders can tell which human interactions add value before replacing them, because, as Christine puts it, the mistake is not choosing an artificial plant but expecting it to grow. Connect with Cultivating Intelligence: Bluesky (http://cultivatingintel.bsky.social/) YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@intrinsecoinc7019) LinkedIn (http://linkedin.com/company/intrinseco-inc./)

2. 

   6 Nov 2026

   The Confidence Gap

   AI lets anyone produce expert-looking work, and that can hide the Dunning-Kruger effect inside organizations: confidence growing faster than competence. This Episode of Cultivating Intelligence asks what leaders lose when polished output is mistaken for understanding. Christine uses art, nature and AI as lenses for leadership. The essay moves from the 1999 research of psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger through animal play, honeybee consensus and Picasso's formal training to the pressures on organizations adopting AI today. The Episode covers why AI output can be "borrowed competence" that conceals the boundary between what a person understands and what the tool can simulate; why workforce planning must ask not only what tasks AI can perform but what knowledge disappears if a role disappears; and how leaders make correction safe, from pilots, premortems and red teams to asking the quiet expert to speak first and saying "I don't know." Connect with Cultivating Intelligence: Bluesky (http://cultivatingintel.bsky.social/) YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@intrinsecoinc7019) LinkedIn (http://linkedin.com/company/intrinseco-inc./)

3. 

   28 Oct 2026

   The Intelligence of Waste

   Somewhere above a highway, a turkey vulture is circling, looking for something the rest of us would rather not see. Nature has always been good at finding value in leftovers, and so have we. We compost, we recycle, and artists have spent generations turning discarded objects into extraordinary work. Now artificial intelligence has handed us a brand new kind of waste, and it already has a name: AI slop. In this episode of Cultivating Intelligence, Christine digs through the digital trash heap to ask whether all of it is really garbage, or whether some of it might be raw material. Christine makes the case that throwaway experiments have always been part of how people learn and create. The bad sketch stays in the sketchbook, and the rejected photo stays on the contact sheet. What AI has changed is how easy it is to skip from practice straight to publishing, and how invisible the cost has become. There's no pile of sawdust beside the keyboard, but every prompt still draws on electricity, water, and physical infrastructure. From the strange risks of AI models learning from their own output to the 20-slide deck that should have been five, she looks at how abundance can quietly turn into pollution, both online and inside our organizations. Drawing on artists like Louise Nevelson, El Anatsui, Vik Muniz, and Thomas Dambo, Christine shows that trash only becomes art when someone makes thoughtful choices about what to keep, what to cut, and what it all means. That same judgment may be the most important human skill in an age of near-unlimited generation. Creating and publishing are two different acts, and while AI has made the first one effortless, the second still belongs to us. This episode is an invitation to think more carefully about what's worth making, what's worth keeping, and what it really costs to create it in the first place. Connect with Cultivating Intelligence: Bluesky (http://cultivatingintel.bsky.social) YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@intrinsecoinc7019) LinkedIn (http://linkedin.com/company/intrinseco-inc./)

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