If Your AI Agent Goes Wrong, Whose Name Is On It?
Last year, Harvey Nash’s Digital Leadership Report found a third of firms seeing a return on AI. This year it says two-thirds. David thinks...
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The Truth About 'Good Enough' AI
Eight years ago, Gene Reich was running an MSP and worried about help desk phishing: callers who weren't who they claimed to be, and sensiti...
No Time to Mourn: Building a Tech Career Through a War
One morning, Diana Kocheva learns that the classmate she’d sat beside since she was seven has died. There is no time to mourn. There’s work,...
Are You Assembling the Avengers While the Moment Passes?
For his last documentary, David flew a sound engineer and a TV production crew to a dry lake bed in the Nevada desert, just to record his fo...
Why I Was Grateful When COVID Killed My Business
In 2020, every bar and restaurant shut, and the social media marketing business Tom Shaw had built for them went with them. With no clients...
Why My Investment App Knew I Was on the Phone
Justin Pagano was on a phone call when he opened his investment app, and a banner appeared: we’re not calling you, and we’d never ask for th...
Data in Sport: Can Numbers ever Overrule Gut Feeling?
David grabs Will Morgan, Principal Data Scientist at the Rajasthan Royals, on the floor at Data Decoded in Manchester, the day before they s...
The Ad Is Cringe. 300 Million Views Don’t Care.
You watch an ad and wince. It’s clumsy, it’s cringe, and you can’t imagine it converting anyone. Then it racks up 300 million views and conv...
Is Your Data Lying to Your Board?
What happens when a prediction lands on a board slide and everyone treats it as a fact? Recorded live at Data Decoded, David sits down with...
Do You Know Which of Your Customers Are AI Agents?
A few weeks before this conversation, a global hotel group believed its AI agents were under control: registry, governance, real-time token...
My Job Didn’t Exist When I Started Coding
Eight years ago, Janine Luk was teaching herself to code at night and at weekends while working in marketing. The job she does now didn’t ex...
The Truth About the Paper Behind Global Trade
Somewhere in a port right now, a cargo document is being stamped by hand. By the figures Steve Hemmings has seen, between 60% and 80% of glo...
Should a 16-Year-Old Have to Run His Own Crisis Helpline?
Is AI safety really about existential risk, or about the here-and-now? David Savage reconnects with Gaia Marcus, now Director of the Ada Lov...
You Can’t Move Fast and Break the Grid
What happens when an AI-first mindset meets critical national infrastructure? David is joined by Berian James, a machine learning and AI pro...
Every CEO Is Living Through Y2K Again
Overnight, Neil Fox argues, a developer can become a supervisor of AI agents. That is not a tooling upgrade. It is an identity shift, and mo...
Your Agents Are Junior Staff. Who’s Checking Their Work?
At one point, Jenny Larsson was letting AI do so much of her writing that she felt herself getting worse at it, until the words no longer so...
Is Your AI Pilot Too Snazzy to Survive Production?
What happens when any employee can launch an agent that updates a thousand records before IT even knows it exists? Recorded during Dreamforc...
The Green Premium: Why Climate Tech Has to Wash Its Own Face
David Savage is joined by Matt Bird, CEO and co-founder of Supercritical Solutions, for a candid conversation about what it really takes to...
Is Rewarding AI Spend the Dumbest Idea Ever?
Last year, an IT leader told his C-suite the only thing he could guarantee about their new AI tooling was that they'd change their minds wit...
What are Salesforce Investing Their Cash In?
For years, Nowi Kallen's team searched for the legal software platform an entire industry would standardise on, and never found it. Then AI...