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Eye on AI

Craig S. Smith

Biweekly interviews putting AI advances in broader technological and societal context, hosted by a former New York Times correspondent.

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E377In 5 to 10 Years, Using Weapons Without AI Will Be Considered Unethical | Yaroslav Azhnyuk, The Fourth LawA Ukrainian entrepreneur who spent 14 years building cameras for pets pivoted to building cameras that down Shaheds, and is now building the autonomy software that could define how wars are fought for the next generation. Yaroslav Azhnyuk, Aug 31 · 53 min
E376Inside Ukraine's Azov Drone R&D: The Engineer Building AI Weapons 18 km From the Front Line | Alexander PalamarchukThe most consequential arms race in the world right now isn't nuclear, it's software. Craig Smith speaks with Alexander Palamarchuk, an engineer in the R&D department of Ukraine's Azov Brigade, calling in from approximately 18 kilometers frAug 27 · 42 min
E37595% of AI Agent Projects Fail to Reach Production. Here's Why | Manoj Saxena, TrustWiseIt takes a few hours to build an AI agent. It takes six to seven months to get it into production. Manoj Saxena - the executive who commercialized IBM Watson - built TrustWise around one thesis: intelligence without control is not deployablAug 24 · 1h 2m
E374From Zero to 150 Robots in Just 20 Months | Mike LeBlanc, Foundation Future IndustriesMost humanoid robot companies are still running curated demos in replica environments. Foundation Future Industries is running 150 robots on real automotive production lines in Georgia, and heading to Ukraine this year to deploy on the battAug 19 · 1h 6m
E373Why People Are Paying 10x More for AI - and What That Means for the Chip Market | Sid Sheth, d-MatrixThe AI chip market looks monolithic from the outside - NVIDIA dominates, and everyone else is fighting for scraps. But d-Matrix's CEO Sid Sheth argues that the market is quietly splitting into two distinct tiers, and the one that's explodinAug 17 · 51 min
E372American Companies Have 36 Months to Go AI-Native or Get Left Behind | Drew Cukor, TWG AIThe same tools that slowed the U.S. military down in Afghanistan (PowerPoint, Excel, email, and Word) are now slowing American businesses down in the AI race. Drew Cukor spent 30 years as a Marine intelligence officer, helped build Project Aug 13 · 59 min
E371In 5 Years, 90% of What You Use AI For Will Run on Your Smartphone | Paolo Ardoino, TetherHundreds of billions of dollars are flowing into AI data centers right now, and Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether - the company behind the world's most widely used stablecoin with 573 million users - thinks that investment is going to age very bAug 10 · 59 min
—Why People Are Paying 10x More for AI | Sid Sheth, d-MatrixThe AI chip market looks monolithic from the outside - NVIDIA dominates, and everyone else is fighting for scraps. But d-Matrix's CEO Sid Sheth argues that the market is quietly splitting into two distinct tiers, and the one that's explodinAug 6 · 51 min
E370AI Agents Fixing Your IT Before You Even Know Something Broke | Erhan Giral & Ryan Manning, BMC HelixMost enterprise IT teams spend the majority of their time fighting the same fires repeatedly. BMC Helix is building the AI system that handles those fires automatically, detecting anomalies, tracing root cause through millions of asset relaAug 3 · 59 min
E369Real AI Transformation Costs HALF of Everyone's Salary for 2 Years | Chris Blackburn, LiatrioMost companies think they're transforming with AI. They're not, and the gap between what they believe and what's actually happening on the ground is costing them far more than they realize. In this episode, Craig Smith sits down with Chris Jul 30 · 1h 6m
E368"According to NASA's Definition of Life, I'm Not Alive" - Why Nobody Can Define Life | Dr. Kate AdamalaNobody has ever built a cell from scratch - assembled entirely from purified molecules on a shelf - that can feed itself, grow, and split into daughter cells through its own genetic activity. Until now. Dr. Kate Adamala, a synthetic biologiJul 29 · 46 min
E367Video Is About to Stop Being One-Way (and That Changes Everything) | Victor Riparbelli, SynthesiaEvery company is creating content that nobody reads, nobody watches, and nobody remembers, and the CEO of the AI platform that 90% of Fortune 100 companies use to fix that just explained what comes next. In this episode, Craig Smith sits doJul 28 · 40 min
E3666 in 10 Enterprises Can't Find the Root Cause When Their AI Workloads Fail | Paul Appleby, VirtanaCompanies are spending billions building AI factories, but most of them can't tell you why their AI workloads are failing, whether their GPUs are actually being used, or what their infrastructure is going to cost them when agents start runnJul 15 · 45 min
E365Inside the Enterprise Browser Rebuilding Security for the AI Era | Bradon Rogers, IslandAI is moving faster than enterprise security systems were designed to handle. In this episode of Eye on A.I., Craig Smith speaks with Bradon Rogers, Chief Customer Officer at Island, Island about how companies are struggling to govern the rJul 13 · 56 min
E364What Industrial AI Actually Looks Like | Kriti Sharma, Nexus BlackMost AI is built for people sitting at desks. Kriti Sharma builds it for the people who work in refineries, aircraft hangars, and utility networks responding to wildfires at 4 a.m. and she spends weekends on-site with them to make sure whatJul 10 · 23 min
E363The Biggest AI Security Problem Isn't the Model. It's This. | Devvret RishiWhat is an AI agent, really? Strip away the hype, and it's a model with access - to tools, APIs, databases, email, anything that lets it take real action instead of just generating text. That access is exactly where the risk lives, and DevvJul 7 · 48 min
E362Big Pharma Fails 50% of the Time in Phase Three. AI Can Fix That | Vin Singh, BullFrog AIIt costs up to $2 billion and fifteen years to develop a drug, and big pharma still fails half the time at the final stage. BullFrog AI founder, Chairman, and CEO Vin Singh joins Craig Smith with a clear diagnosis of why: the industry keepsJul 5 · 50 min
E361AI Agents Are Failing and It's Almost Never the Model's Fault | Alberto Pan, DenodoAfter two years of AI pilots, enterprises are finally diagnosing what went wrong, and the answer keeps coming back to data. Alberto Pan, CTO of Denodo, joins Craig Smith to walk through the findings of the company's AI Trust Gap Report: a sJul 2 · 42 min
E360How Modern Science Got Consciousness Wrong From the Start | Philip GoffWhat if consciousness isn't a byproduct of complex brains, but a fundamental feature of reality itself, present, in some rudimentary form, all the way down to electrons and quarks? Philip Goff, a philosopher at Durham University and one of Jun 29 · 1h 1m
E359AI Is Reading 15 Million X-Rays a Year With No Human in the Loop | Prashant Warier, Qure.aiEighty percent of lung cancer cases are diagnosed too late, not because the signals aren't there, but because nobody was looking at the right moment. Prashant Warier, co-founder and CEO of Qure.ai, joins Craig Smith to explain how his compaJun 20 · 42 min
E358Only 12% of Companies Generate Value From AI. Here's What They're Doing | Sanjeev Vohra, GenpactGenpact surveyed 500 senior executives to understand why companies are investing in AI but not seeing the value, and what they found was both clarifying and uncomfortable. Sanjeev Vohra, Genpact's Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, joJun 18 · 59 min
E357India Is Becoming an Architect of the Global AI Order | Ivana Bartoletti of WiproThe Global AI Summit just happened in New Delhi, and the message from India was clear: this country is no longer just writing code for the rest of the world. It's becoming an architect of the global AI order. Ivana Bartoletti, Chief PrivacyJun 16 · 56 min
E356The New BRAIN Of the Enterprise | Ryan GavinOne company now has more AI agents deployed in its organization than it has human employees. Slack's CMO Ryan Gavin dropped that stat into a conversation with Craig Smith, and then immediately identified the secondary problem it creates: whJun 13 · 53 min
E355AI Is Already Resolving 90% of Customer Service Tickets - and It's Getting Smarter | Shashi Upadhyay, ZendeskZendesk went private two weeks before ChatGPT launched, and the moment it came out, it was obvious that customer service would never be the same again. Shashi Upadhyay, head of product, engineering, and AI at Zendesk, joins Craig Smith to eJun 12 · 57 min
E354Every Enterprise Is About to Have a 100,000 Agent Problem | Oren Michaels of Barndoor AIAI agents can now connect to every tool your employees use. The problem is that connecting them and trusting them are two completely different things, and most enterprises have figured out the first without solving the second. Oren MichaelsJun 6 · 60 min
E353More Customers Chose the AI Agent Than Anyone Expected | Tom Chen, AircallEvery time you hit a phone tree or a chatbot with canned answers, you're experiencing the gap between what AI can already do and what most companies are still delivering. Craig Smith sits down with Tom Chen, Chief Product Officer at AircallJun 4 · 57 min
E352Why the Future of AI Isn't Just Bigger Models. It's Models That Evolve | Risto Miikkulainen of CognizantMost AI systems follow a gradient, a mathematical slope that tells them exactly how to improve, step by step, toward a known goal. Neuroevolution doesn't follow any gradient. Instead, it runs hundreds or thousands of competing solutions simJun 2 · 1h 4m
E351How AI Is Reinventing Elder Care | Chia-Lin Simmons of LogicMarkOne in four people over 65 will experience a fall, and for most of them, the technology designed to help is a device that hasn't meaningfully changed since the 1980s. Chia-Lin Simmons, CEO of LogicMark, joined Craig Smith to make the case tJun 1 · 53 min
E350The App of the Future Is Voice — Not a Screen. Mitel's CTO Luiz Domingos Explains Why.Luiz Domingos has spent 25 years watching enterprise communications evolve, from IP telephony to cloud to AI, and his assessment of where things stand now is unusually concrete. Companies have moved past the strategy deck phase. AI is beingMay 28 · 55 min
E349Is ChatGPT Conscious? A Pioneer of AI Explains | Dr. Terry SejnowskiA fly with 100,000 neurons can fly, find food, and reproduce. A $100 million supercomputer cannot. Dr. Terry Sejnowski used that observation to silence a room full of MIT AI researchers in the 1980s, and it remains just as sharp today. SejnMay 28 · 57 min
E348Your Child's Data Profile Starts Before They're Born | Eamonn Maguire of ProtonYour child's data profile doesn't start when they get their first phone. It starts before they're born, the moment a parent emails a gynecologist or visits a fertility clinic website. That's the core argument behind Born Private, Proton's nMay 28 · 56 min
E347Training AI Models Without a Billion-Dollar Data Center | Steffen Cruz of MacrocosmosTraining a frontier AI model today requires hundreds of thousands of GPUs, months of compute time, and a budget that only a handful of companies on earth can afford. Steffen Cruz, co-founder and CTO of Macrocosmos, thinks that model is abouMay 25 · 47 min
E346The Single Biggest Barrier to AI Adoption Isn't the Technology — It's This | Errol Gardner of EYErrol Gardner has spent 35 years advising the world's largest organizations through major technology transitions, and his assessment of where enterprise agentic AI actually stands is one of the most grounded you'll hear anywhere. His numberMay 22 · 55 min
E345Oliver Dial of IBM: Quantum Advantage Is Happening This YearIBM's VP of Quantum Systems, Oliver Dial, has spent his career building quantum computers from the ground up, and he's unusually direct about what they can and can't do. In this conversation with Craig Smith, Oliver Dial walks through whereMay 19 · 51 min
E344Why Agentic-First Startups Won't Disrupt Enterprises as Fast as Everyone Thinks | Kris LovejoyKris Lovejoy, Global Strategy Leader at Kyndryl, has spent her career at the intersection of IT infrastructure and security. Right now, she's one of the people enterprises call when they want to move from AI experimentation to real deploymeMay 15 · 57 min
E343Loris Degioanni: Why AI Is Breaking Cybersecurity, and What Comes NextAI has fundamentally changed the cybersecurity threat landscape, not by inventing new attack types, but by collapsing the timeline. The same tools that make software developers more productive are now being used by attackers to move from vuMay 6 · 51 min
E342#342 Andrew Thangaraj: The $5,000 IIT Degree: Can India Fix Its Broken Education System?What if the most competitive exam in the world is also the most destructive? In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Professor Andrew Thangaraj, faculty at the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras, to explore May 1 · 49 min
E341#341 Celia Merzbacher: Beyond the Buzzword: The Real State of Quantum Computing, Sensing, and AI in 2025What does the quantum industry actually look like right now, beneath all the hype? In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Celia Merzbacher, Executive Director of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C), to breaApr 30 · 45 min
E340#340 Steffen Cruz: Training AI Without Data CentresWhat if you could train a frontier AI model without building a single data centre? In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Steffen Cruz, co-founder and CTO of Macrocosmos, to explore a radical alternative to the way AI modeApr 29 · 46 min
E339#339 Eamonn Maguire: Your Child Has a Data Profile Before They're BornWhat if your child already has a data profile, and they haven't even been born yet? In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Eamonn Maguire, Director of Engineering for AI and ML at Proton, to explore one of the most urgent Apr 28 · 46 min
E338#338 Amith Singhee: Can India Catch Up in AI? IBM's Amith Singhee on What It Will TakeWhat if the country that trains the world's engineers finally built the infrastructure to match its talent? In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Amith Singhee, Director of IBM Research India and CTO of IBM India and SoutApr 24 · 47 min
E337#337 Debdas Sen: Why AI Without ROI Will Die (Again)What does it actually take to prove that AI delivers real value in the industries that keep the world running? In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Debdas Sen, CEO of TCG Digital and Joint Managing Director of Lummus DigApr 23 · 51 min
E336#336 Professor Mausam: Why India Is Losing the AI Race and What It Will Take to Catch UpWhat if the country that produces the world's top AI talent finally figured out how to keep it? In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Professor Mausam, one of India's leading AI researchers, AAAI Fellow, and founding headApr 20 · 1h
E335#335 Sriram Raghavan: Why IBM Is Betting Everything on Small AI ModelsWhy IBM Is Betting Everything on Small AI Models In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Sriram Raghavan, Vice President of AI at IBM Research, to explore one of the most important debates in enterprise AI right now. Do youApr 19 · 1h
E334#334 Abhishek Singh: The $1.2 Billion Plan to Turn India Into an AI SuperpowerWhat if the country that trained the world's engineers finally decided to keep them? In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Abhishek, the civil servant leading India's $1.2 billion national AI Mission, to explore how one oApr 16 · 35 min
E332#333 Adi Kuruganti: Why Your AI Pilot Is Failing and What It Takes to Reach ProductionMost enterprises are excited about agentic AI. But very few are actually deploying it in production. In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Adi Kuruganti, Chief AI and Development Officer at Automation Anywhere, to break dApr 15 · 58 min
E332#332 Dan Faulkner: The Code Is Clean. The App Is Broken. Why AI Development Has an Integrity ProblemWhat happens when AI writes code faster than anyone can test it? In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Dan Faulkner, CEO of SmartBear, to explore one of the most underappreciated risks of the AI coding boom. As tools likeApr 14 · 55 min
E331#331 Sergey Levine: The Robot Revolution Nobody Is Talking AboutThis episode is sponsored by Modulate. Most voice AI focuses on transcription. Velma takes it further by actually understanding conversations, analyzing tone, timing, stress, and intent using its Ensemble Listening Model architecture. ExploApr 12 · 59 min
E330#330 Sebastian Risi: Why AI Should Be Grown, Not TrainedAI has been trained like software. But what if it should be grown like life? In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Sebastian Risi, professor and leading researcher in neuroevolution and artificial life, to explore a fundaApr 6 · 1h 1m
E329#329 Izhar Medalsy: How AI Solves Quantum Computing's Biggest ProblemQuantum computing has been "5 years away" for decades. So what's actually holding it back? In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Izhar Medalsy, Co-founder & CEO of Quantum Elements, to break down the real bottleneck in quMar 31 · 1h 1m

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