AI is rewriting how we work, how we build, who benefits, and who gets left behind in the process. We've been told AI is the great equalizer. The data says otherwise.
Still Human: Real Talk in the Age of AI is the podcast that goes inside the rooms where the future is being built and asks the questions nobody's asking on stage and puts the raw conversations on record.
Host Nadia Koski is a marketing and brand strategist as well as podcast network producer, with over a decade in media, content innovation, and advertising technology. Every other week she sits down with the builders, leaders and thinkers navigating this moment: CEOs and startup founders, data scientists and creative directors, NGO leaders, engineers and entrepreneurs doing remarkable things across every time zone.
The conversations are candid, unscripted and go behind-the-scenes on what we're really doing with AI. Nadia gets under every guest's skin, the mental blocks, the habits, the stories they had to unlearn to get where they are today. The question underneath all of it: what does it actually take to stay human while the world rewrites itself around you?
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AI is being called the great equalizer. It isn't. Men are 22% more likely than women to use AI daily at work. Women's jobs are 3x more likely to be automated. And only 31% of AI professionals are women. If we're not in the rooms where this tech gets built, priced, and regulated — we get left behind. Still Human: Real Talk in the Age of AI is where host Nadia Koski — a global leader in marketing, communications, and digital transformation — gets into the nitty gritty. Real conversations with t...
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