Sharing AI Mistakes: Partnership on AI’s Rebecca Finlay
The nonprofit’s CEO makes a case for more openness around organizations’ AI missteps.
Me, Myself, and AI: A Podcast on Artificial Intelligence in Business
Why do only 10% of companies succeed with AI? For four years, BCG and MIT SMR have studied corporate adoption of artificial intelligence. The most recent research has found that 90% of organizations do not realize significant financial benefit from the technology. So, what are the other 10% doing right? Each episode of Me, Myself, and AI features a discussion with a leading practitioner helping his or her organization gain measurable value from AI.
Whether they work at a born-digital organization or (more often) a legacy company, our guests all have actionable insights to share. The series covers strategy, deployment, human-and-machine collaboration, and scaling. We also explore what first interested these leaders in AI, how they got to where they are today, and what keeps them excited about their field.
Season Ten
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The Risks of Too Much AI: Fortune’s Jeremy Kahn
Fortune journalist and author of "Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future" Jeremy Kahn discusses the risks of an overreliance on AI technologies. -
Never Too Much AI: Upwork’s Andrew Rabinovich
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Meet Your New Teammate, AI: Asana’s Saket Srivastava
Saket Srivastava, CIO of work management platform Asana, joins hosts Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh on this episode of the Me, Myself, and AI podcast. Srivastava describes how artificial intelligence can function more as a teammate than just a task optimization tool when it assists with project management activities. He also shares his perspective on the evolution of the CIO role. -
Ethically Sourced Creativity: Shutterstock’s Alessandra Sala
Alessandra Sala, senior director of data science and AI at Shutterstock, shares how the company has evolved from a stock photo service to a leading provider of ethical AI training data, with 825 million curated assets. Sala emphasizes Shutterstock’s commitment to fairness and transparency, highlighting its innovative royalty model that encourages diverse content and sets a new standard for responsible AI practices.
Season Nine
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Building Connections Through Open Research: Meta’s Joelle Pineau
Joelle Pineau, vice president of AI research at Meta and a professor at McGill University, explains how her interest in robotics led her to a career in technology research and describes some of the AI initiatives Meta has underway. -
Authoring Creativity With AI: Researcher Patrick Hebron
Patrick Hebron, author of Machine Learning for Designers, has led technology product development teams at Adobe and Nvidia Omniverse. He describes some of the technical challenges in building generative AI solutions for creative pursuits, as well as their vast potential. -
If 10% of the World Were Developers: GitHub’s Mario Rodriguez
Mario Rodriguez, senior vice president of product at GitHub, explains how the company’s AI assistant, GitHub Copilot, keeps developers engaged in their work as they develop software solutions with the help of artificial intelligence. -
AI Hype and Skepticism: Economist Paul Romer
Paul Romer, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and director of Boston College’s Center for the Economics of Ideas, debunks some myths about the hype around AI and predicts that the most promising future for the technology is in education.
Season Eight
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Punk Rock, the Peace Movement, and Open-Source AI: The Mozilla Foundation’s Mark Surman
Mark Surman, president of the Mozilla Foundation, introduces Mozilla’s recent investments beyond the Firefox browser — including its Mozilla.ai R&D lab and its Mozilla Ventures fund — and explains how they work to create foundational technology for more trustworthy artificial intelligence.
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Making Magic With Gen AI: Capital One’s Prem Natarajan
On this episode of Me, Myself, and AI, Prem Natarajan, chief scientist and head of enterprise AI at Capital One, describes trends he’s seeing in the artificial intelligence space and discusses the financial services company’s approach to generative AI.
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AI on Mars: NASA’s Vandi Verma
On this episode, Vandi Verma, a principal engineer and the deputy section manager for the Mobility & Robotics section at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, discusses NASA’s use of artificial intelligence in robotics, autonomous driving, and digital twin simulations.
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Operational Safety With AI: Chevron’s Ellen Nielsen
On this episode of Me, Myself, and AI, Ellen Nielsen, Chevron’s first chief data officer, outlines how the integrated energy company uses AI and machine learning technologies in the interest of enhancing worker and environmental safety as well as production efficiency.
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Micro Utility With Gen AI: Shopify’s Miqdad Jaffer
On this episode of Me, Myself, and AI, Miqdad Jaffer, chief product officer at Shopify, describes how the company launched its first generative AI-driven product offerings for the merchants it serves to help them start, run, and grow their businesses.
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Marketing With Generative AI: Harvard Business School’s Ayelet Israeli
Ayelet Israeli, the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, discusses the promise and limitations of using genAI to represent human participants in marketing studies, the subject of a paper Israeli co-wrote with two Microsoft researchers.
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Entrepreneurial AI in the Enterprise: LG Nova’s Shilpa Prasad
Shilpa Prasad—entrepreneur in residence at LG Electronics’ innovation incubator, LG Nova—explains her role in identifying promising startups, supporting entrepreneurs, and scoping out new business opportunities for LG, and why artificial intelligence is at the forefront of this work.
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Fueling Interdisciplinary Innovation With AI: Volvo’s Anders Sjögren
Anders Sjögren, senior technical leader at Volvo Cars, discusses how the automaker applies data, analytics, and artificial intelligence to support innovative automotive engineering in areas like driver and passenger safety and sustainable vehicle design.
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Season Seven
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Protecting Society From AI Harms (Part 2)
Amnesty International’s Matt Mahmoudi and Damini Satija continue their conversation on the role of regulations in mitigating the risk of artificial intelligence.
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Protecting Society From AI Harms (Part 1)
Amnesty International’s Matt Mahmoudi and Damini Satija discuss the impact of AI tools and machine learning on human rights.
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Images and Inspiration With AI
Jeremy King, senior vice president and head of engineering at Pinterest, discusses recent advances Pinterest has made in the image-recognition space.
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Learning From and With AI
Zan Gilani, principal product manager for Duolingo, explains how the company relies on large language models to offer customers a product that is predictive, motivating, and personalized.
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Detecting the Good and the Bad With AI
Naba Banerjee, Airbnb’s head of trust product and operations, explains how implementing AI and machine learning has resulted in better experiences for the platform’s guests and hosts alike.
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Regulating AI Innovation
David Hardoon, CEO of Aboitiz Data Innovation, shares some of the technology conglomerate’s creative applications of artificial intelligence.
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The Social Science of AI
The semiconductor manufacturer’s social scientists are helping technicians learn how artificial intelligence can enhance — not take over — complex assembly work.
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Making Investments in AI
Hina Dixit, an investor with Samsung Next, shares her criteria for evaluating investments in AI startups and other tech businesses.
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Season Six
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Continuous Learning with AI
What soft skills do data scientists and engineers need to bring to a field like insurance? On this episode, Shelia Anderson, Aflac’s senior vice president and CIO, discusses tech hiring and the insurer’s use of artificial intelligence.
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Trust and Fraud Detection at Scale
Stephanie Moyerman, Instagram’s data science director for well-being, discusses about how artificial intelligence can facilitate trust and fairness for social media users.
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Partnerships in AI Drive Conservation Efforts
The World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) data and technology lead scientist Dave Thau discusses how artificial intelligence aids nature conservation efforts.
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Making 600 Billion Decisions With AI
Expedia Product & Technology CTO and president Rathi Murthy discusses the company’s use of AI to provide a range of travel services, and its goal of helping to modernize the entire travel industry through technology.
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A One-Stop Data Shop
Anders Butzbach Christensen, Lego’s head of data engineering, explains how his product teams are deploying advanced approaches to data use and management.
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A Third Path to Talent Development
Delta Air Lines is upskilling front-line workers though its Analytics Academy program, teaching students about analytics, coding, and machine learning.
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Out of the Lab and Into a Product
Eric Boyd, Microsoft’s corporate vice president, AI platform discusses the company’s Azure products and services and what recent advances like ChatGPT mean for the democratization of AI.
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Helping Doctors Make Better Decisions with Data
Dr. Ziad Obermeyer, an entrepreneur and assistant professor at UC Berkeley, conducts research on the use of predictive analytics in health care.
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Season Five
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Digital First, Physical Second
Wayfair’s CTO joins the podcast to discuss how the e-commerce retailer uses AI and machine learning to help customers narrow down their purchasing selections.
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Investing in the Last Mile
Senior director of data science at PayPal, Khatereh Khodavirdi, joins this episode to discuss PayPal’s AI strategy, the challenges of integrating data platforms, and her approach to creating effective teams.
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Keeping Humans in the (Feedback) Loop
Orangetheory's chief data and AI officer, Ameen Kazerouni, joins the podcast to explain how his company leverages member data and in-studio coaches to make an impact.
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The Three Roles of the Chief Data Officer
As ADP’s chief data officer, Jack Berkowitz has three primary responsibilities: data strategy, building data products, and overseeing the use of AI. In this episode, he discusses how ADP uses AI and their AI ethics board.
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From Data to Wisdom
Tonia Sideri, who leads Novo Nordisk’s AI and Analytics Center of Excellence, shares how her team partners with other business units to rapidly test new ideas before committing to technology projects.
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Big Data in Agriculture
How can descriptive analytics and AI help farmers improve crop production? Teddy Bekele, SVP and CTO of the agricultural cooperative Land O’Lakes, shares his experience.
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Inventing the Beauty of the Future
Stéphane Lannuzel, director of the Beauty Tech program at L’Oréal, discusses how artificial intelligence technology enables innovation in the cosmetics industry.
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Precision Medicine in Pharma
Frank Nestle, CSO and global head of research, explains how Sanofi uses AI to discover and develop targeted therapies.
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Season Four
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The Beauty of AI
Sowmya Gottipati describes how Estée Lauder uses AI to offer better product recommendations to customers.
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AI in Aerospace
As Boeing China’s regional director of airspace and airport programs, Helen Lee is striving for innovative ways to improve operational efficiency on the ground and in the skies.
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Transforming Transactions With Technology
Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov, eBay's chief artificial intelligence officer, explains how the e-commerce platform uses AI to help both buyers and sellers.
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The Collaboration Muscle
LinkedIn’s Ya Xu discusses leading the site’s team of data scientists—and how they deliver value to consumers.
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Turning Sound Into Information
Warner Music Group’s Kobi Abayomi shares how AI helps customers discover new music, and his approach to hiring data scientists.
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From Journalism to Jeans
Katia Walsh, senior vice president and chief global strategy and AI officer of Levi Straus & Co., explains how the clothing company’s machine learning boot camp is expanding employee skills and driving innovation.
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AI in Your Living Room
Sanjay Nichani, vice president of artificial intelligence and computer vision at Peloton Interactive, describes one compelling use case in the at-home fitness space.
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Extreme Innovation With AI
Mark Maybury, chief technology officer at Stanley Black & Decker, shares what it’s like being the champion of extreme innovation across the company and the importance of managing risk and rooting out bias in AI systems.
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Season Three
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Choreographing Human-Machine Collaboration
Spotify's global head of intelligent automation explains how technology helps employees make use of vast amounts of customer data, and how AI frees up workers to focus on more value-added, creative tasks.
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Imagining Furniture (and the Future) with AI
Discover how Ikea's digital transformation is a natural extension of its collaborative culture.
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Transforming a Technology Organization for the Future
Learn why AI was essential to Starbucks's digital transformation on the Me, Myself, and AI podcast.
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AI in the Supply Chain
This transportation and logistics company relies on AI to deliver COVID-19 vaccines safely and efficiently.
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Technology as a Force for Good
Salesforce’s Paula Goldman discusses how the tech company produces value-creating solutions with ethics in mind.
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Predicting Volatility and Risk: Nasdaq’s Doug Hamilton
Douglas Hamilton, an associate vice president and the head of AI research at Nasdaq, describes how his team predicts market performance and mitigates risk by using AI.
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Developing an Appetite for AI
Sarah Karthigan, an AI operations manager with ExxonMobil, explains how her team communicates the value of artificial intelligence to executives in order to obtain buy-in for a variety of technology initiatives.
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Democratizing Data in Hollywood
Kartik Hosanagar is the founder of Jumpcut, a venture-funded startup that aims to uncover new voices in TV and film. In this episode, he discusses how Jumpcut uses artificial intelligence to discover diverse talent that might otherwise be overlooked.
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Season Two
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AI and the COVID-19 Vaccine
In this episode of the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, Moderna’s chief data and artificial intelligence officer Dave Johnson explains how AI helped the pharma company develop a COVID-19 vaccine in record time.
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Starting Now On Technology Ethics
Elizabeth Renieris, founding director of the Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab, discusses the risks of bias in AI and the importance of developing the right incentives and regulations for companies using the technology.
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No Need for AI Unicorns
Colin Lenaghan of PepsiCo talks dealing with cultural change, the types of AI skills and competencies organizations should cultivate, and the digital transformation projects that keep him learning every day.
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DIY With AI
Huiming Qu, senior director of data science at The Home Depot, discusses the reward mechanisms that motivate development teams, the importance of iteration to solve large problems, and how machine learning and artificial intelligence help customers execute their home improvement projects.
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Prototypes, Pilots, and Polymers
Chris Couch, senior vice president and CTO at Cooper Standard, describes the company’s open innovation initiatives and commitment to employee engagement as it deploys and scales its AI solutions.
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Designing for a Better Future
JoAnn Stonier, chief data officer at Mastercard, discusses how design thinking enables better AI implementation.
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Learning, Engagement, and Empowerment
Amit Shah, president of 1-800-Flowers, describes the platform business’ approach to problem-solving with technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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Games, Teams, and Moonshots
Will Grannis of Google Cloud describes how he brings cross-functional teams together with customers to drive innovation in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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Less Algorithm, More Application
Craig Martell, vice president of machine learning at Lyft, kicksoff season two with a discussion about bias, education, and the importance of cross-functional awareness throughout technology initiatives.
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Season One
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Tech and Ethics
“Companies want to go in doing the right thing”: Kay Firth-Butterfield, head of AI and machine learning at the World Economic Forum, discusses the balance of power and ethics in technology.
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Fashion Forecasting
“It’s a combination of the human and machine, the gut feeling and the data”: Arti Zeighami, H&M’s chief data and analytics officer, talks about implementing AI at a global retailer.
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Better Together
In this week’s episode, Mattias Ulbrich, CIO of Porsche and CEO of Porsche Digital, talks about how AI can drive change in business, engineering, and society.
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The First Day Is the Worst Day
Gina Chung, vice president of innovation at DHL, explains how AI enhances front-line operations, and the importance of human collaboration and buy-in on AI implementations.
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Advancing Health Care With AI
Slawek Kierner, senior vice president digital health and analytics at Humana, talks about using data simulations to predict real outcomes.
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This Crazy Wave We’re Riding
In this episode, Prakhar Mehrotra of Walmart shares the ups and downs of leading AI teams and workstreams for the $500 billion retailer.
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